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I was just approved yesterday for my second Amex card (BCE). Will it just show up in my online account with them? I checked this morning and it is still only showing the Blue Sky card. I like how Chase shows both my accounts with them on the same page. Is that how this will look too? How long does that usually take?
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Ok, so you have to sign up for it to be in your online account? The Blue Sky card just showed up onilne but was not verified until I put the numbers from the actual card in. I thought this might show up before and just sit like that one did. I had an account with Chase and the same day I got approved for my second card with them, it was on the online account pretty fast. It didn't show up alot of information about the card, just that it was the freedom and what the limit was. I was hoping this would be the same. I want to see my first 5k limit with my eyes since I applied over the phone *lol*
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lol, i hate to admit I thought this too
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Posted: January 26, 2012
By Joshua Brown
HARRISONBURG — Area stargazers will be able to get a better look at the celestial scenery beginning Friday at James Madison University, thanks to free "star parties" being organized at the school.
The Physics and Astronomy Department will hold monthly stargazing nights beginning Jan. 27. During the course of the semester, observers will be able to see four planets in detail through the university's high-powered telescopes.
The parties are scheduled for the last Friday or Saturday of each month through April. Viewing stations will be available beginning at 7 p.m. on Jan. 27 and Feb. 25, and at 8 p.m. on Mar. 30 and April 27.
Shanil Virani, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, decided to hold the event monthly because a past star gazing event brought hundreds of amateur astronomers, creating long lines and short viewing times, he said.
"In the past, it was on kind of a random, ad hoc basis," said Virani. "If something exciting was happening in the astronomical world, it would be organized then. To have monthly star parties right now is driven by the fact that the one event we had while I was new here drew a very large crowd."
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You might have noticed a few particularly bright luminaries in the sky as the planets cycle through their orbits. But, the university's telescopes will reveal much more detail than can be seen by the naked eye.
Jupiter will be visible on the January and February dates, while Mars and Saturn will be visible during March and April, Virani said.
Venus, the moon and several "binary stars" — stars that appear as one to the naked eye, but resolve themselves into two separate blazes under the scrutiny of a telescope — will be visible each of the four nights.
"To be able to see Saturn with its majestic rings is really a special thing to see," Virani said. "[Viewers] also will see the four moons of Jupiter that Galileo saw hundreds of years ago."
The event will be held in JMU's Astronomy Park, just outside the physics and chemistry building on the East Campus. Parking can be found in lot D2, located across the street from the building.
"This, for me, is just absolutely exciting," senior Jami Dodenhoff said. An elementary education major and member of the astronomy club, Dodenhoff is volunteering with the star parties. "Being in the planetarium has given us a chance to explore the night sky, but this is a chance to see it as it is."
Junior Caitlin McDermott echoed Dodenhoff's excitement.
"I think this is cool to have this opportunity because not a lot of people have a [high-quality] telescope," said McDermott, also an elementary education major.
If weather conditions prevent easy viewing, the events will be pushed back to the following day at the same time, Virani said. He will post information about cancellations by 4 p.m. the night of the showing at www.jmu.edu/planetarium.
In addition, solar viewings are scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon the last Saturday of the month from January through April at the Harrisonburg Farmer's Market. During those events, the public will be able to observe the sun through a solar telescope and create their own asteroids using ice cream, Virani said.
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A Pennsylvania judge has sentenced three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail. The three, who pled guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery, will remain free on parole for a year, then take an English test. If they fail, then according to Judge Peter Paul Olszewski, Jr., it's go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. And they'll stay in jail for the remaining 20 months of their two-year prison term.
This isn't the first time English has been used as punishment for a crime. In June, 1995, an Amarillo, Texas, judge ordered the mother of a five-year-old to speak only English to her daughter or lose custody of the child. Judge Samuel C. Kiser accused Martha Laureano of child abuse for speaking Spanish to the girl, who was about to enter kindergarten, adding that English was necessary for the youngster to "do good in school." Even worse, the judge added, without English, Laureano's daughter would be condemned to a life as a maid.When the story broke, there was a national outcry against this overreaching and misdirected decision. Judge Kiser, sensing that some fence-mending might be appropriate, apologized to maids. But he held resolutely to his English-only order.While Judge Kiser might have had trouble passing his Pennsylvania colleague's English test, judicial mastery of English grammar is not the issue here. Nor are the obvious free-speech concerns of cases which equate Spanish with child abuse, armed robbery, and other serious felonies.Instead I want to focus on the practice of a very American form of language abuse.For many years, young speakers of Spanish, Navajo, Chinese, and other minority languages in this country were beaten, humiliated, or given detentions if they used their first language in classrooms or on the schoolyard. Such punishments did not accelerate the students' adoption of English. As the average high schooler chafing under a language requirement will attest, you can't make someone speak a "foreign" language. Physical force and corporal punishment do even less to secure linguistic compliance.Nor can you effectively stop someone from speaking a language. After the United States entered World War I, anti-German laws swept the nation. In 1918 Gov. William Harding of Iowa issued a proclamation forbidding the use of any foreign language in public: on trains, on the streets, at meetings, in religious services, even on the telephone, then a more public instrument than it is now.
During the same wave of xenophobia, a teacher in a Lutheran private school in Nebraska was fined twenty-five dollars for having his students sing German hymns during the school day, in violation of a state law forbidding foreign-language instruction before high school. This case led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision Meyer v. Nebraska (1923), overturning a number of state laws that blocked the teaching of foreign languages.
From time to time legislators concerned that not enough English was being spoken in the land have proposed making English the official language of the United States. In 1923 the State of Illinois made "American" its official language (in 1969 the law was quietly amended to make English the official tongue). The state language was symbolic, like the state bird or flower. The Illinois official language law, like Judge Kiser's decree, caused no one to speak English or abandon another language. Judge Olszewski's sentence probably won't do much to prevent recidivism, either.Nonetheless, with time, non-English speakers in this country, both criminal and law-abiding, do switch to English. Social pressure accomplishes what punishment, sanctions, laws and required courses do not: the children of minority-language speakers have typically become bilingual, and in turn their children tend to speak only English. Some pro-English advocates claim that while this may have been true earlier, today's minority-language users are different. Maybe so. But there are also some indications that the familiar three-generation pattern of shifting to English is being abridged. Today many of the children of immigrants are becoming English-only speakers, skipping the bilingual state altogether. In the Amarillo case, Martha Laureano spoke Spanish to her daughter to encourage her to become bilingual. She knew it was inevitable that the child would acquire English; she only hoped the girl would retain some of her Spanish along the way.American minority-language communities have learned over the past two centuries that despite their best efforts to preserve their culture, their children will abandon the parents' language in favor of English. There is a cruel irony here. American society urges immigrants to give up their native tongue and then bemoans the fact that a hopelessly monolingual America cannot compete effectively in the international marketplace. We need to see language as a resource, not impose it as a punishment. Nor should anyone be punished for speaking a language. Surely there is a more efficient and more humane way to deal with the boundless linguistic creativity and flexibility of children than the proclamations of governors and the rulings of judges would allow.


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Last week we dug up some old Karl peony last that previous owner planted right next to the fence. We wanted to move it away from the fence so that it can have more room next spring. The plant is older than I originally thought and the root is ginormous and my husband accidentally broke it in half. The root measured 12 inches in lengthen. At least the one that broke off. We didn't bother digging the other half out feeling that we might harm the plant rather than helping. Strangely, the 12 inches that we got out have only 1 eye. And this is the part that was very bushier side. I replanted it but have a feeling that it's going to be disappoint Spring. Anyone know why there is only 1 eye? |
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If it's been there a really long time it might've needed to be divided before now. Did you have a nice sized plant there last spring or had it started to decline? I wouldn't worry too much about it breaking, I've seen posts from very experienced peony growers here that say they regularly divide peonies from the side by just cutting down through the rootball without digging it out. You'll probably get more new growth from both the transplanted and remaining parts next spring! |
It was a decent size plant last spring. I would say 24x24 but only 3-4 flowers. |
I have never dug an old peony without breaking it. Even when you know is is likely to break in most soils you just can't help it. When you do get a large root out and want to divide it, it is better to just leave it on the top of the ground for a day or two to let it wilt. Once wilted it will not be nearly as brittle and you will be able to unwind the roots without breaking. Al |
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Justin Bieber, guys. He's everywhere — breaking up and then getting back together with Selena Gomez, winning American Music Awards and stuff. And just this weekend, the Biebs met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Haper to receive the Diamond Jubilee Medal, which we can only assume is a gold foil chocolate diamond swimming in maple syrup, because Canada. Bieber decided that meeting a head of state — and especially a Canadian one — required the most formal dress he could muster: a one-strap overall ensemble, replete with backwards cap. Knowing that he was sure to rile the delicate sensibilities of lumberjacks in Saskatchewan (most underrated province if you ask me), Bieber even Tweeted: "I met the Prime Minister in overalls lol. I hope you hate my style." That bitch is crazy!
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Herman Achille Van Rompuy was no household name when he was appointed the
first president of Europe two years ago. A former budget minister and
central bank employee, he had served, reluctantly, as Belgian prime
minister for barely a year. A provocateur once denounced him as having the
"charisma of a damp rag." Two years on, Van Rompuy is still a conundrum to
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economic crisis since World War Two, the unassuming Belgian has been
thrust into one of the most demanding diplomatic missions of recent
decades. While many expected his office to be largely ceremonial, he has
been charged with brokering a grand bargain among those who hold the
bloc's fate in their hands: the 27 countries of the European Union and in
particular the 17 that share the single currency. To his critics, Van
Rompuy is a grey intellectual, lacking in the kind of take-charge dynamism
the moment demands, a symbol of all that is wrong with Europe. To his
admirers, he is reason to hope: a smart and thoughtful leader who grasps
the gravity of the crisis and is perfectly placed to smooth egos and
negotiate a solution. Van Rompuy, 64, said he sees his role as "neither a
spectator, nor a dictator, but a facilitator". To some ears, that may
sound like a parody of eurospeak. But in an institution whose very
existence was built on compromise, his role is crucial. Van Rompuy faces
what is probably his most challenging test this Thursday and Friday,
December 8-9, when EU leaders gather for a summit on the sovereign debt
crisis that in the past two years has consumed Greece, Ireland and
Portugal, cast a shadow over far larger economies and now threatens the
very survival of the currency union. What emerges from interviews with Van
Rompuy and more than a dozen other figures involved in resolving Europe's
problems is a portrait of a man determinedly trying to keep on top of a
crisis whose severity and speed, he admits, took him and his fellow
leaders by surprise. Caught between personalities as forceful as German
Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's frenetic president, Nicolas Sarkozy,
Van Rompuy has tallied a succession of diplomatic breakthroughs -- many of
which have been followed by dizzying setbacks. It has been a
nerve-wracking two years -- "so, so difficult," he said at one point
during an interview. Those difficult moments included what he says was the
worst of all, in May 2010, when a do-or-die deal to prop up Greece nearly
collapsed amid misunderstanding and mistrust between the French and German
leaders. Such moments underline how, to the extent Europe's titular leader
has power, it lies in his ability to cajole and convince. "You have to be
very patient, because you have to respect everybody," Van Rompuy said in
the interview, in which he offered one of the most extensive and intimate
accounts of his tenure in office to date. "Even if he knows he is the
biggest player or the smallest player -- they are all part of the game."
Van Rompuy is known for his fondness for writing Haiku poetry. As the
inaugural president of the European Council, which brings together the
EU's leaders and is meant to hammer out agreements and set the strategic
direction of the union, his main job is to find harmony. He may not be the
most powerful person in the room -- that's Merkel -- nor nearly as
intimidating as the financial markets. But Van Rompuy is the vital
go-between, pushing Germany and France to agree on a way forward and then
working to corral consensus from the other nations. Karel Pinxten, a
former Belgian defense minister and member of Van Rompuy's domestic
political party, has seen how he operates firsthand. "He will know what
his opponent really wants and what that person needs to get from the
negotiating table," Pinxten said. "He is somebody who immediately knows
where he needs to get to but he will never take the shortest route."
"ALMOST A MONK" The role of European Council president was created by the
Lisbon Treaty, Europe's semi-constitution, which came into force at the
end of 2009 following more than eight years of complex and sometimes
desperate negotiations. The treaty was designed to streamline
decision-making, create a stronger and more united Europe, and allow the
world's biggest trading bloc to punch its weight on the international
stage. Van Rompuy's appointment came after weeks of speculation that the
job could go to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Some viewed the
choice as a calculated decision by heads of state reluctant to be
outshone. Others felt it made sense to appoint a decision-maker from the
heart of Europe, someone accustomed to quietly forging consensus. "Europe
has decided to put in place a president of the European Union who can to
some extent be the honest broker among the heads of state," William
Kennard, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union told reporters
recently. "We don't have any illusions that there'll ever be any one phone
number you can call to resolve any issue facing the European Union. But
the Lisbon Treaty has enabled us to have a single permanent interlocutor."
For many years, until his workload became too heavy, Van Rompuy spent a
day or two every year on retreat at Affligem Abbey, an 11th-century
Benedictine monastery northwest of Brussels. There he would read, write
and pray with the monks, 17 of whom still reside inside its imposing
red-brick walls. Brother George, the monk in charge of visitors and the
nearby gift shop, describes Van Rompuy as someone who fit naturally into
the pastoral surroundings, enjoying the calm of the monastery's library
and eating in silence in the austere, vaulted-ceiling refectory. "He's
almost a monk," said Brother George with a shrug. "It's special to have
him, but he is himself. He's a very calm, down-to-earth man." MAKING THE
DIFFERENCE Van Rompuy grew up in Etterbeek, a predominantly
Flemish-speaking neighborhood in largely French-speaking Brussels. That
upbringing perhaps made it easier for him to bridge Belgium's linguistic
and cultural divides and, more recently, Europe's. He attended an elite
high school where he had an intense grounding in Latin, Greek, philosophy
and literature. An education, he said, that shapes his thinking on
critical issues to this day -- including the debt crisis. "For me it's
absolutely crucial," he told Reuters in his offices in the red marble
Justus Lipsius building, the headquarters of the European Council, named
for a 16th-century Belgian humanist. "If you ask me what is helpful in my
political life, it is making the difference, or the distinction, between
what is essential and what is superfluous. It's as simple as that." He
pays careful attention to what's said and what's left unsaid during
negotiations, he said. "And without my Greek and Latin humanities, I would
never have managed this. That's how I live this." Fellow students remember
him showing a remarkable degree of reflection from an early age, as well
as an uncanny ability to parse arguments. Paul De Grauwe, a leading
Belgian economist who was at high school and university with Van Rompuy,
describes him as an intellectual, but one firmly rooted in the real world.
"Given the context in which he has to perform now, it was a very good
background for him," said De Grauwe, a professor at the Catholic
University of Leuven and a former visiting scholar at the International
Monetary Fund and the U.S. Federal Reserve. "He's a very clever
politician, the kind who waits for the others to make a mistake and then
makes his move." That's exactly what happened in late 2008 when the
Belgian government collapsed. Seemingly unbridgeable differences between
the French- and Dutch-speaking communities threatened to split the
country. The Belgian king asked Van Rompuy to try to form a government,
but the politician resisted, telling rivals that he didn't want the job.
The more he told them no, the more each party insisted, until eventually
all of them were asking him to be prime minister. Within a week --
lightning speed in Belgian politics -- he had a consensus and was
installed in office. "He knows that the spotlight under which politicians
stand is artificial light," said Pinxten, the Belgian politician. "I've
seen a party congress where people stood up in fury against him. He dealt
with it stoically. He's a man who doesn't allow himself to be destabilized
quickly. He is a man with a sufficiently long-term view to look through
the madness of the day." OPENING COMPROMISE Van Rompuy's introduction to
his job as Europe's president was tough. Within days of starting on
January 1, 2010, he was briefed on secret talks that had been going on
between civil servants to try to find a solution to Greece's debt
problems. At that point, while well aware of Athens' troubles, he and his
team of advisers had little idea of how they would spread over the
following 18 months. "I entered into an undiscovered country," he said.
"We underestimated at that time what was going to happen further on. We
had to deal with the Greek problem, the necessary contacts with the Greek
government and so on, but it became clear in the weeks and months
afterwards ... that it was what we now call a systemic crisis, and we
discovered the word contagion." Van Rompuy called an emergency summit of
EU leaders. The mid-February meeting was a first test of his negotiating
and consensus-building skills. The chief goal was to get Germany and
France, the two largest economies in the euro zone and the bloc's
political heavyweights, to agree on a way to help Greece. Van Rompuy would
then have to work on getting the other 25 leaders behind the deal. Just
before the summit, he met Sarkozy and Merkel in his offices, where the
walls are hung with works by contemporary Belgian artists, including one
piece depicting a phrase in Flemish that reads: 'What is complete is never
done.' "I saw the French president coming in to this very office, and then
the German chancellor, and they had no solution ... the situation was
completely blocked," Van Rompuy said, recalling the talks which included
then Greek prime minister, George Papandreou. Anticipating a stalemate, he
had prepared a compromise text and presented it to the three of them. "I
put it on the table, and Sarkozy told me right away, 'I agree.' For
Germany, with some slight modifications, it went well, and I had my first
agreement. But then I had to go to the rest of the European Council,
explaining that I had an agreement with two or three players and asking
the rest to agree to it." They did, giving Van Rompuy his first
breakthrough. The relief lasted just days. Beginning a pattern that has
marked the crisis ever since, the last-minute deal -- little more than a
commitment by the euro zone countries to do whatever was necessary to help
Greece, should it ask -- was picked apart by financial markets. Pressure
grew for something more substantial. The problem was that the Greek
government had not formally asked for assistance; until it did, Merkel
insisted, nothing could be done. Athens finally requested aid at the end
of April, 2010, and the euro zone leaders scrambled to get a rescue deal
together. On May 7, after all-night talks, they agreed to create the
European Financial Stability Facility; two days later the euro zone's
finance ministers put a figure on the fund's capacity -- 750 billion
euros. The experience -- three days of intense negotiation including a
race to finalize a deal before financial markets reopened -- included a
debilitating Friday night that Van Rompuy describes as perhaps the
toughest of the job so far. "We started the meeting without a real
agreement between France and Germany and we ended the meeting with the
feeling that this was not the appropriate answer," he said, adding that
there was initially no financial means to help Greece. "That was a very,
very difficult moment." PATIENCE, PATIENCE It has not stopped. In 16
summits over the last two years -- double the number scheduled in normal
times -- the Council led by Van Rompuy has been the focal point of
decision-making, or lack thereof. Greece has received two bailout packages
worth a total of 240 billion euros, and the crisis has enveloped Ireland,
which took a 90 billion euro bailout in November 2010, and Portugal, whose
78 billion euro, three-year program followed six months later. It has also
severely rattled Spain, Italy, France, Belgium and other member states.
Every step has required weeks of intense discussion, and ultimately
agreement among all 17 euro zone leaders and the International Monetary
Fund. There's the constant threat that a wrong decision could cause the
13-year-old single currency to unravel. To outsiders, the endless meetings
and summits and crisis talks have at times become a worrying joke, proof
that the half century-old European project is a badly designed mess. "When
you look at the vast problems Europe is facing, you're crying out for
someone with drive and dynamism to grab the reins. Van Rompuy is not that
man, it's deeply underwhelming," said one British banker who follows
efforts to resolve the debt crisis closely. But one of the keys to his
role, Van Rompuy insists, "is to respect everybody, and to respect
everybody is to listen, and that takes time. You need some patience to
listen very carefully... I don't know whether I wait for the others to
make mistakes, but you have to be patient, and I am so patient that the
other ones become impatient. "When we take a decision as a group, they
have to go back to defend all this, because it's always a compromise.
That's why in some way it lasts longer than it needs to." It goes beyond
that. In the end -- and this has become more and more apparent the longer
the crisis has dragged on -- it is financial markets that need to be
convinced. "We can have political compromises, but if they are not
digested or accepted by the markets, then we have a problem," Van Rompuy
said. Market forces are now helping some leaders confront hard facts: "I
have said in a totally different context that ideology or ideas are not
governing the world, facts are. At a certain moment the facts are so
powerful that you have to give up all your previous positions, ideological
viewpoints, brilliant ideas, because you have to face the facts. We have
to again be patient and the facts will do the work." It helps that Van
Rompuy has a way of using those facts. At a euro zone summit two months
ago, leaders worried about whether Italy could reform fast enough to fix
its finances. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told the meeting it had
always been his dream to make the structural adjustments everyone wanted.
For a decade all he had longed for was to overhaul the economy, he said,
but it had not been possible because the communists and social democrats
had blocked his efforts. After the Italian stopped speaking and the room
fell quiet, Van Rompuy turned to him in front of the others and said:
"Silvio, it's time to make your dreams come true." "IF WE SURVIVE" Van
Rompuy loves Haiku, the three-line Japanese poetic form that aims to
distill a moment in crystalline images. In 2010, he published a collection
of his own Haiku in three languages. He continues to produce at least one
poem a month, often posted on his Facebook page or Twitter account. His
most recent, posted in November, captures the unrest of autumn: "A boy
kicks in A lot of dead leaves. What disturbed the peace." Such erudite
passions are one reason many greeted his appointment with derision. "We
were told that when we had a president, we'd see a giant global political
figure," Britain's Nigel Farage, a right wing, eurosceptic member of the
European Parliament declared in a speech to the chamber in February 2010,
as Van Rompuy sat just across the aisle from him. "The man would be the
political leader for 500 million people," Farage gesticulated dismissively
towards the European Council president. "Well, I'm afraid that all we got
was you. I don't want to be rude, but you know, really, you have the
charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk." Most
MEPs booed him and the Briton was later fined by the president of the
European Parliament for his remarks. But the speech captured the
frustration among some had with Van Rompuy's appointment. When the assault
began, Van Rompuy looked stunned; later he quietly shrugged it off. Nearly
two years on, Farage is still unsettled by Van Rompuy's intense
pro-Europeanism. But he credits him in other ways. "Oh God, he's certainly
bright and he's certainly clever," he told Reuters. "You see him in
meetings and he takes people on face-to-face. But he's a backroom boy.
He's not a man of charisma or presence, and in my mind he will gladly
abolish democracy for this euro-dream." For his part, the Belgian
describes his mind as "compartmentalized". The moment he leaves his
office, he is no longer at work. When he is walking his dog, he is just
walking his dog. At the weekend, when he is with his children and
grandchildren, he does not let the crisis crowd his thoughts. That
ability, he said, helps him stay calm no matter how chaotic the situation.
It's an approach that has quietly earned him support, from heads of state
down. While he works most closely with Berlin and Paris, he also visits as
many leaders as possible ahead of each summit, and did so before he was
appointed European Council president. This methodical approach has won Van
Rompuy praise from diplomats from countries as far removed as Spain and
Sweden, and his initial two-and-a-half year term is expected to be
extended next June, as Europe's leaders seek continuity. When he can, Van
Rompuy likes to think about what sort of Europe will emerge from the
trials of the past two years. "If we survive this, and we will survive
this, it will be considered a very important period because we had to
correct what went wrong from the very start of the euro zone," he said,
referring to the years since the single currency was introduced as
something of a lost decade. "If we survive this, then we will have a
totally different euro zone, and not a totally different European Union,
but at least a different European Union. We have to rebuild all this. And
that, that has made the job so difficult. So difficult."


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I am not thinking about marketing of cricket dude. Cricket is a game which is supposed have some aristocracy and i like it to be that way. I don't like it to be manipulated by businessmen just to make money (the way BCCI and indians are doing right now).
Brother you don't want to market cricket and want development and keep the aristocracy attached to it. Where from the money will come for that development & aristocracy, without marketting it?
I'm afraid, that will turn into, "Goriber Ghora Rogue"
I don't mean that we have to turn into BCCI, how much control should be given to the private sector and how much to keep with BCB, that of course needs careful deliberation. Partial maketing has already began, question is how much more to go? There is no alternative to private paticipation.
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Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Peru
Range Description
Rhinella manu is known only from the type locality, Trocha Union Km 6, situated in the Kosñipata Valley (13 06' 91.2" S, 71 17 00' W, 2700–2800 masl), District of Paucartambo, Province of Paucartambo, Department of Cusco, Peru (Chaparro et al., 2007).
Habitat and Ecology
The species inhabits montane cloud forests. The floristic composition of these primary forests includes the following genera: Clusia (Gittiferae), Miconia (Melastomataceae), Hedyosmum (Chloranthaceae), Schefflera (Araliaceae), Oreocallis (Proteaceae), Piper (Piperaceae), Chusquea (Bambusoideae), and Cyatheacea (tree ferns). Other anuran species in the area of the type locality include Pristimantis rhabdolaemus, P. cf. cruralis, Phrynopus cf. peruvianus, and P. cophites. Individuals are found during and directly following the rainy season. Rhinella manu is likely nocturnal and arboreal as all type specimens were encountered at night, on leaves and branches of arboreal ferns (Cyathea), 50 cm–2 m above the ground. Most individuals have been found in areas without standing water (Chaparro et al., 2007).
This is considered to be a rare species (J.C. Chaparro, pers. comm. 2008).
Population Trend
Major Threats
Although the species is found within the boundaries of Manu National Park, there are areas that are open to tourism, including Trocha Union, where there is a project to develop a camp site at the type locality, which would bring more tourism but also cause more impacts on the area (J.C. Chaparro, pers. comm. 2008).
Conservation Actions
The species' type locality is within the limits of the Manu Biosphere Reserve in southeastern Peru (Chaparro et al., 2007).
Taxonomic Notes
Rhinella manu can be distinguished from all known Rhinella by a unique combination of external and osteological characters as well as by molecular data (Chaparro et al., 2007).
Juan Carlos Chaparro 2008. Rhinella manu. In: IUCN 2014


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Staff perceptions of hospital patient safety differ by department and position
Research Activities, June 2009, No. 346
How health care workers feel about patient safety at their hospital depends on whom you ask and where they work. For example, emergency department personnel have the worst safety climate perceptions, while workers in nonclinical areas hold a more favorable view, finds a new study. Researchers used the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations survey, which includes 38 items capturing important safety climate features, to examine perceptions of the patient safety climate by hospital work area and staff position. A total of 18,361 completed surveys were received from a sample of 92 U.S. hospitals. In addition to sampling 100 percent of senior managers and physicians, the researchers included 10 percent of all other workers.
Overall, 17 percent of responses indicated that a safety climate was absent at the individual's organization. Among emergency department personnel, nurses perceived substantially lower levels of safety climate when compared with personnel in other areas and other emergency department personnel. The researchers also discovered that the patient safety climate was worse in hospital wards, with nurses again having the lowest perceptions. Both emergency department and ward nurses were concerned about the limited engagement by senior management and the lack of sufficient organizational resources.
Overall, nurses were more negative than physicians when it came to perceptions of safety climate. However, physicians were more likely than nurses to report a sense of shame and embarrassment when they made a mistake or asked for help. Status and authority differences between physicians and nurses may result in barriers that have a negative impact on safety culture. Any strategies used to improve safety climates should take into consideration these differences in work areas and disciplines, suggest the researchers. Their study was supported in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS13920).
See "Patient safety climate in 92 US hospitals: Differences by work area and discipline," by Sara J. Singer, M.B.A., Ph.D., David M. Gaba, M.D., Laurence C. Baker, Ph.D., and others, in the January 2009 Medical Care 47(1), pp. 23-31.


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This program is open to children who have read any of the Harry Potter books or seen any of the Harry Potter movies.
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Author and educator Steve Woyce brings his wonderful Turtle Show to the Denville Library on Monday, July 14th at 7:00 pm. Mr. Woyce will show us a variety of turtles and tortoises, teach us some amazing (and fun!) facts about each animal, take questions from the audience, and hand out real turtle shells for everyone to touch. (Because live turtles are fragile and prone to disease, Mr. Woyce will hold all the live animals.)
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A Campus-wide IP Video Network for a State University, Part 1
Jun 8, 2010 12:00 PM
I work on a university campus myself, my day job, and I know that people are being really stretched in the IT departments now because there's a pressure to pack more students in there. That's what keeps the university going, the revenue, and at the same time, they want to maintain the quality and they're not increasing staff, even in the IT departments. Anything that can be just click-and-work is definitely going to have a home there.
And the fact of the matter is, is that in corporate or large enterprise, medical, or the government, it's very easy for them to mandate certain systems configurationsor, let's say, it's more easy for them to do thatbut on the university environment it's the wild wild west. There's no two devices are the same, and it's the most diverse end point environment on the planet really. [Timestamp: 8:06]
Yeah, you've got PCs, Macs, everything you can think of, all over the place. And that always changes, too, I mean semester to semester, that's going to change. The whole layout on that's going to change as new people come in; some of them have their own stuff, some of them are issued computers. So when you talk to the network people about this and you say, "We're going to start sending video out over the network," do they have a tendency to freak out first, or what happens when the concept first comes up?
They understand that they need to do it; they understand what multicast technology is. And for the listeners who don't know, multicast is not a technology that's immediately implemented in every organization; you kind of have to be thinking, "Oh, there's a reason for it. OK, videowe want to ease up on the network resources so let's enable multicast." But the universities are usually very good at that, and they're also very good at bandwidth-planning. That is, if you've had a gigabit backbone, the network traffic caused by the 20 or 30 channels that were launched is not that significant. But what they really really want to do islike you said, they're resource-strappedso they want to make sure whatever vendor comes in, whatever system that they adopt, it's not going to cause them pain. And if you talk to some of the Video Furnace clients, it's really amazing the reaction of the IT staff. The only system where you do not have to have a cookbook for every machine that you want to touch; you provide a video link, the students click on the link, the player comes to the screen and does its job, and when they're finished it goes away. It's really quite magical. And there's another benefit to that, too, is that as technologies evolve and the Furnace has gone through the various transitions of MPEG-4 part two standard-def to MPEG-2 standard def to H.264 and then to high def. And what's amazing is that they don't even have to take any action to update any machine to be able to handle this because every time a user requests the video, the player is deposited. So if they want to upgrade all of the players, it's a central upgradeit's done in a couple of minutesbut as soon as anybody logs on, everybody's upgraded at the same time online in-service. So it's really quite a dream, and we have a lot of feedback that the amount of IT attention paid to the Video Furnace deployment is actually very very minimal. [Timestamp: 10:37]
Of course, they're using this now and it's an ongoing project. Now they're going to start deploying this to the residence halls next?
Yeah, to the residence halls and also freely to people around the campus. And what's also interesting is there is also a number of campuses that areand I don't think NCSU is doing thisbut there is also a number of campuses who are making the Video Furnace available over Wi-Fi. And that's a technology that's real, live, and accessible todaywhich is very dramatic because it's not only for the initial installations. Many initial installations of the Furnace are to replace the cable plant, so they're driving live TV channels into the set-top boxes, right out to the software so people can watch TV in their dorm areas. But then as they get familiar with the power of the system, they start launching course reserve material and course content. And it's very important that the course content is available in all areas of the university, so with that type of system you can very easily say, "OK, the TV channels are going to the dorm room because that's part of the service of the dormitories," but outside of that, these students, should they have access or whatever, can get their course reserve material, and they're not blocked from that so you can very easily segment areas, content, and user types. [Timestamp: 12:02]
And then, of course, for on the computers they've got the InStream players and for the more conventional communal TV viewing experience, they've got the Stingray set-top boxes. How big are those?
Exactly, well, the Stingray, it's a relatively compact set-top box; we have a new model coming out that's quite compact. What's great about the Stingray is before we merged with Video Furnace, it wasn't called the Stingray, but they had the foresight to have the architecture of the system capable of making a transition to H.264 and high def so all of the deployments that have gone on for years were HD H.264-ready. You're absolutely right. The user experience, whether you're at your laptop or at a central location, is pretty much identical. Now there is a certain technology that exists within the Video Furnace that is very interesting, I would like to talk about, that's called Command & Control. And one of the very unique things about InStreamand InStream is the player on the laptop, but InStream also exists within the Stingray set-top box!51;so it's the same architecture, and this is a very unique client server architecture. So the Video Furnace system is cognizant of all of the viewers that are open on the network and can communicate directly with a single viewer or many viewers. And the reason I bring this up in context of the Stingray is that you can deploy Stingray, let's say, to common areas in dorm hall or in the hallways of the school, and you can set it to change channels or to play content from a centralized location so it almost turns into a quasi-controlled signage environment, which is very very compelling for many institutions. [Timestamp: 14:00]
Yeah, especially with all the different types of information that they have to get out, sometimes with very short notice.
Exactly. We also have the ability within all of this technology, whether it's InStream on the desktop or Stingrays behind flatpanels, is with this Command & Control and the ability to communicate between the server and the playersand hopefully I am not getting too deep into the technology. But you can signal from the server to any groups or all players so you can issue messages that will scroll across in front of people and even go so far as to connect that to an emergency alert system. So you can not only satisfy control of the, let's say, flatpanels in the hallways, tune them to a particular channel and push content to them but you can also set up scheduled signalization throughout your campus to all radio viewers whether it's emergency alerts or lunch schedules or class change notifications or whatever. It's a very very powerful system for the administrators. [Timestamp: 15:11]
All right, Peter Maag with Haivision. It's been great having you here for Part 1, Peter, and talking about the NC State installation with Video Furnace. When we get into Part 2, I want to get into some more of the operational details and how it looks to the people actually using it at the control end of it, and we'll talk about Slide Castor and some other things but for now. thanks for being here for Part 1.
Well, thank you very much, Bennett.
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Atheros Driver: License Problems Resolved
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has approved dual licensing of the Atheros chipset driver. In an investigation, SFLC identified and resolved possible issues.
The "Ath5k" driver for the Atheros WLAN chipset originally comes from OpenBSD, but to use the code for the Linux kernel the license had to be changed to reflect the GPL. However, this prevented code changes being given back to the original driver. Of course, the OpenBSD project wasn't all that thrilled with the prospect.
SFLC, which offers non-commercial legal advice to free software projects, analysed the code and the licenses used. Legal experts concluded that any changes made can be given back to the OpenBSD project in two out of three branches. One branch is exclusively GPL'd and this makes it extremely difficult to hand the code back to OpenBSD.
The Madwifi project was extremely happy with the results and thanked SFLC for its time and support. The developers hope that any doubt concerning licensing and the code is now resolved.
To achieve more clarity for similar issues in future, SFLC has published guidelines that will help developers to use BSD-licensed code in GPL'd projects in future.
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Helping Your Dog Have Clean Teeth without Brushing
When it comes to dental care with my Husky-Shepherd mix, Spice, I feel I am fighting a losing battle. My 12-year old "puppy" joined our family when she was 3 years old. We didn't know much about her, other than she was from a bad area. It quickly became apparent Spice used to be an outside dog. Her ability to track and eat flies was spot-on for a 60 lb pup. I tend to think flies and grass were her main source of nutrition during her formative years, as her dental health is extremely poor.
We always thought Spice had dental problems due to the stink that emitted from her mouth. However, the vet said nothing was wrong. Years later, a different vet diagnosed Spice with gingivitis and surgically removed teeth. Now, at the mature age of 12, Spice has less than half her teeth due to surgical removal of bad teeth.
When PetSolutions first had Dr. George's Plaque Blast, I figured Spice would make a good test subject. Her last dental surgery was early 2011, but her breath was already foul again. Not wanting to put my 12-year old pup under anesthesia again for dental surgery, I started Spice on a Plaque Blast regimen on February 7th. Spice lives with my parents, so I only spray Spice's mouth once a day. The day after Spice's first experience with Plaque Blast, her breath was so much better. Now, 20 days into the 30 day treatment, Spice's gums aren't as red, her teeth have lost a lot of the gunk that coated them, and, unfortunately, we are now able to see that she has some cavities. Her teeth are now much cleaner, but still discolored. Spice is also much better about having her mouth messed with, so I'm guessing her gums do not hurt as much.
One of the things I like about Plaque Blast is that the formula is 100% alcohol free and safe for pets. The directions state that heavily soiled teeth should be treated 2 - 3 times per day. However, I am the best at spraying Spice's teeth, so we only do it once a day. Following the directions, I spray her back teeth 2 - 3 times, then her front tooth area 2 - 3 times, and I repeat on the other side of her mouth. Saliva and tongue movement distribute the solution to other areas of her mouth. And, that's it! Her teeth have gone from having a gunky layer covering them to looking clean. The discoloration is starting to fade. Her breath is actually pretty fabulous. I can only imagine what results we would get if we could spray Spice's mouth 3 times a day, but I'll settle with the one time.
Here are a few pictures of Spice's teeth. She hates cameras, so I am lucky to get these shots!
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Whether it's a "moonshot" or not, Google seems to be dedicating considerable resources to its new robotics initiative, both financial and human. Almost three months ago Romain Guy, a highly-visible part of Google's internal Android software engineering team (and a pretty spiffy photographer to boot), announced that he was leaving Android for another internal Google position. He has since confirmed that he's moved to the new Google robotics team, currently headed by ex-Android head honcho Andy Rubin.
When Android founder Andy Rubin announced that he was leaving the Android team back in May of this year, it was a shock to say the least. At the time Mr. Rubin confirmed that he was staying with Google itself, but declined to say what his new role would be. Six months later, a report from the New York Times seems to have the first information on what he's been doing.
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In November of 2007 we announced the Open Handset Alliance with 34 founding members. Today, I'm grateful to the over 85 OHA members who have helped us build Android and drive innovation at such an incredible pace. The Android ecosystem has seen tremendous growth since the launch of the very first Android device in October 2008.
Now that Andy Rubin himself has officially snubbed what were apparently rather strong rumors of Google opening its own retail stores in the US, there's a lot of humdrum floating around about whether or not a Google Store would actually make sense.
On the one hand, with its increasing arsenal of hardware products on the Play Store, Google definitely has a wide enough selection of toys to at least give a standalone brick and mortar location (or two) a shot.
Andy Rubin, you coy devil. I suppose we could ignore those rumors about Google retail stores if you ask nicely and bat your eyes at us. That's what the head of Android would like us to do, anyway, as he spoke at Mobile World Congress stating that "Google has no plans [for a retail store] and we have nothing to announce."
Why not, though? This sure sounds like a good idea to a lot of us in the Android fan world.
Hurricane Sandy is just not letting anyone catch a break. In addition to causing the cancelation of Google's Android event, where we were expecting the company to tell us about a whole bunch of fun stuff, it looks like D: Dive Into Mobile is also being postponed. Among many others, Andy Rubin was scheduled to speak at the event.
As of right now, All Things D has not said when the event will be rescheduled for.
In the last week, many tech-savvy westerners have gotten more familiar than they probably would have ever liked to with a Chinese company by the name of Alibaba. Most of those people still probably aren't aware just quite how huge the Hangzhou-based firm is.
Its net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of $30-$40 billion. It employs over 25,000 people. Its campus is a piece of architecture worth appreciating on its own merits.
Influential tech personality, and sometimes well-meaning rumormonger Robert Scoble kicked up some controversy earlier today when he reported via Google+ that Google's Andy Rubin was preparing to make an exit. Rubin, Scoble claimed, was planning to leave Google to take charge of a new startup called CloudCar. Andy Rubin has always been in charge of Android, so his departure would have cast an undeniable pallor over the upcoming Google I/O.
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SIR ALEX FERGUSON has branded the fall of Rangers a DISGRACE and a DISASTER.
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Barack Obama on 60 Minutes tonight.
"(CNN) – President Barack Obama discussed his frustration with gridlock in Washington, saying his "biggest disappointment" in his nearly four years in office has been the failure to oversee change in the nation's political climate.
"My biggest disappointment is that we haven't changed the tone in Washington as much as I would have liked," Obama said in a CBS News interview that aired Sunday.
Asked if he bears any blame for the stalemate, Obama said the buck stops at his desk.
"I think that, you know, as president I bear responsibility for everything, to some degree," he said on CBS' "60 Minutes."
Wow! Where to start. Well just two days ago at the Univision he took responsibility for nothing, especially when he was asked why he didn't keep his promise on immigration reform.
Well here on immigration he blames the economy, war, the birds, bees and those dastardly Republicans. Which is all crap. He had a bullet proof majority for two years and only worked on a legislation that was opposed by a majority of Americans – ie: Obamacare.
But to the "tone", remember this?
"The top congressional leaders from both parties gathered at the White House for a working discussion over the shape and size of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. The meeting was designed to promote bipartisanship.
But Obama showed that in an ideological debate, he's not averse to using a jab.
Challenged by one Republican senator over the contents of the package, the new president, according to participants, replied: "I won."
The statement was prompted by Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona , who challenged the president and the Democratic leaders over the balance between the package's spending and tax cuts, bringing up the traditional Republican notion that a tax credit for people who do not earn enough to pay income taxes is not a tax cut but a government check.
Obama noted that such workers pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, property taxes and sales taxes. The issue was widely debated during the presidential campaign, when Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, challenged Obama's tax plan as "welfare."
With those two words — "I won" — the Democratic president let the Republicans know that debate has been put to rest Nov. 4 ."
It never abated.
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Following the labor agreement with International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Continental Holdings ( UAL ) has reached another milestone in integrating its workforce by ratifying a new labor agreement involving 15,000 United Airlines flight attendants represented by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA). According to the deal, United's employees will receive a 10% compensation hike and a signing bonus of $5,000. Additionally, this new contract will expedite the process of negotiating a single contract covering flight attendants of both the airlines, United and Continental. United and Continental merged in 2010 to form United Continental Holdings. Currently, AFA-CWA represents both groups of flight attendants, though AFA-CWA administers the contract negotiated and ratified by the Continental Flight Attendants and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) previously. In February last year, the company signed a contract with the flight attendants of Continental Airlines. IAMAW, however, still represent Continental's flight attendants and will continue to do so until a single contract is approved. We believe that the company's effort to integrate its workforce will have positive implications for its operational efficiency and also save costs for the combined entity. Apart from integrating employee groups, the carrier is also contemplating combining passenger services of both the airlines. The integration process remains on track with United Continental Holdings receiving a single operating certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) on November 30, 2011.The company expects to operate a single passenger service system by March this year through the consolidation of its information systems, fleet reallocations, carrier codes, flight schedules, inventory and departure control systems. The merger is expected to generate net annual synergies of $1 billion to $1.2 billion by 2013, with $800 million to $900 million in additional revenue and $200 million to $300 million in cost savings. Approximately 25% of total synergies were realized last year. With the company's sound cash position, industry-leading revenues and competitive cost structure, the merger provides improved access from Continental hubs to United's strong Asia network and from United's hubs to Continental's international network in Latin America and Europe. However, United and Continental are both highly unionized companies like its peer Southwest Airlines ( LUV ). As of December 31, 2011, United Continental had approximately 87,000 employees (United had approximately 47,000 employees and Continental approximately 40,000), of which approximately 72% were represented by various U.S. labor organizations. Thus, union disputes, employee strikes or slowdowns, and other labor related disruptions, along with the integration of United and Continental workforces in connection with the merger may delay expected merger synergies and increase labor costs or labor disputes, which in turn, would hurt the profitability of the company. Currently, we maintain our long-term Neutral recommendation on United Continental Holdings. For the short term (1-3 months), the stock retains a Zacks #3 Rank (Hold). (We are reissuing this article to correct a mistake. The original article, issued earlier today, should no longer be relied upon.)
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I have a few questions...I want your opinions.
I'm not getting married anytime in the real close future, but hopefully within the next two years or so. Anyway, here's what I've always envisioned for my wedding... I want to get married on our "anniversary" (the day we started dating) so it will likely be that it's on a week day. Unless I want to wait about 5 more years for a Saturday. LOL Anyway, I just want something really small with just his family, my family and our very closest friends (it would be about 16 people total). THEN the Saturday after I'd like to have the reception and have EVERYONE come to that. Just a big ol' party. For a long time this is how I've thought my wedding would go, but I just recently got to thinking about it and I wondered how it would go and what people would think. So, here are my questions...
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Hi Tisha, I don't think there is any problem having a wedding of 16 people that include only close family members and friends. This is your wedding and you can do what ever you want. If anyone has a problem with that, that is just tough. My first wedding had 12 people in it. Grandmothers, parents, brothers and sisters, and one good friend were the only people present at my first wedding. Aunts, uncles and cousins were not invited. Neither were any other of our friends. Sure, there were a few people who felt a little left out, but it was explained to them what we wanted and again if they didn't like it, that was too bad. I had an uncle in particular who was really put off, but then I just consider the source. My second wedding was also small and intimate. It was at the houses of my best friend. She had a big house. Another friend of mine married us. It included about 27 people. It also included a small reception. It was a little different though. We timed the wedding to correspond with having our honeymoon include a 75th birthday party of my wife's mother. So as not to burden my wife's family with having to make two trips (one to the family reunion and one to our wedding), we suggested that people not come out to our wedding and make it a 75th birthday party and wedding reception. Nobody who was not invited to the wedding made any comment at all about being left out. People understand that not everyone can be invited to an intimate wedding. The people at the wedding thought it was very nice. I have been to several small weddings. Some of the people had small weddings and a larger reception afterwards. I have been both invited to a wedding and reception afterwards and only invited to the reception afterwards. I never thought anything about it. I also never heard of anybody saying that it was weird. Again, some people will feel that it is their business to voice an opinion and that opinion may not be very pleasant. I believe that one cannot satisfy everyone. No matter how big your wedding is going to be, someone will feel left out. That's just the way it is. As far as invitations work. People invited to the wedding will get wedding invitations and an invitation to the reception. People invited to the reception only get an invitation to the reception. It would not be very kind to to use the same invitation and then say to some people that they were invited to the reception only. A separate invitation should be made for those people. That makes it a little more complicated but that is what I would do. Weddings are for the bride and groom. It is their day. Weddings are stressful enough. It should not be a day where everybody else determines what one should and should not do on their special day. I hope this helps, Larry |
Tisha, I think thats a wonderful idea and I second Larry's advice. Some people will be 'Put Out' by that idea but it's about you and your man! You could do up your invitations for your party "Come celebrate the marrage of Tisha and ________" ....Sorry, I forget his name. The lastest thing now is being Nontraditional when it comes to your wedding. Plus, doing it your way you still get gifts ;) LOL! I'd love to have a wedding like that! However SO has 7 brothers and sisters, all with about 3-4 kids each so even a SMALL wedding would be big. I wanted to do the Vagas thing, but he wouldn't hear of it. I wanted to do the nontraditional thing also, again it was a big fight. He wanted the big Catholic wedding ....I'm not Catholic. So, I've been engaged now for 8 years LOL! Clearly he's not the only stubborn one! C~ |
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Piyali had lodged a missing diary in Kolkata on May 11 and another one on May 12 with Asansol South police station. In the complaints, she alleged that her husband has been abducted. Later, Asansol South Police initiated an abduction case. It may be noted that Arpan Mukherjee (50), son of former Hirapur MLA and Asansol mayor Bamapada Mukherjee, was reportedly killed on May 10. Piyali alleged that her husband had some business links with Arpan.
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Seed grown,apx. 3-4 yrs old blooming size,undetremed mix of colors in 4x4 "deep perennial pots that are getting too crowded and need to go in the gound. Can email picture of ones I planted out last year that are blooming now.
Looking for Lousiana irises other than NOID purple or blue,have those already or other bog plants other than plants that I already have planted in bog:blue La. iris,fillipenula,pink turtlehead,red cardinal flower,variegated petastites,pickrelweed or swamp milkweed. I can not get mail from DG so please copy and paste email addy below email@example.com Peggy |
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Hi here Peggy, I have yellow Louisiana iris. Let me know if you are interested. Sherri |
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they are nice size. I would say 2ft. or so I have lite and dark pink. |
How many of my JI would you need for a trade? They're probaby 3 yrs old in 4 inch by 4 inch deep perennial pots over due for either re-potting or planting out.Since they're seed grown I can't promise you colors. I'll email you picture of ones I planted out last year. I'm trying to get roses growing on my fences so I don't have to look at my neighbors old house trailer/storage building,their letting fall apart right at my back fence...TMI?...LOL |
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