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Hi! I'm new here but very happy to have found this site. I need to visually break up a long wall and I'm hoping you can help. We don't want to break the space up structurally, just visually.
I don't see an option to upload pics but some sample pics from the model home can be found here. The top-right picture is standing near the entrance to the kitchen looking in. The wall on the left with the windows is the wall in question. The bottom-left picture is a similar position but looking behind at the living room. If it helps with scale, the floorplan can be seen here. It is mirrored from the pictures. Starting at the archway entry into the kitchen, and ending at the door/cabinets, that wall is (guessing) 30 feet, longer than it looks in the pictures. It really bugs me! But I think that putting something in the space between the windows will impede the flow of traffic around the table (ours is also round and in a similar position). Thank you so much! |
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Having a large window there already breaks up the wall. I had a long wall in my old living room with no window. What I did was start in the middle of the wall and put a large group of pictures. Then I was able to put a picture or two at the end of the wall by themselves. It balanced it out and I was able to put furniture anywhere along the wall. That's a beautiful home! |
- Posted by justgotabme (My Page) on Mon, Jul 13, 09 at 16:00
- Posted by justgotabme (My Page) on Mon, Jul 13, 09 at 16:02
PS. I forgot to say how much I love the looks of your future home. It's beautiful inside and out. The layout is wonderful too! |
Beautiful home! How about a larger door to the deck, if possible? A six foot slider that looks like a french door would allow better access to the deck, especially when carrying food or beverages outside. And if it were me, I think I'd extend that deck all across the back and put another double door/slider on the other side of the window. Not that you asked - just typing out loud. : ) |
- Posted by squirrelheaven (My Page) on Mon, Jul 13, 09 at 19:49
I think the table is way too small for that space. A round like that feels dwarfed. A substantial and long rectangular would fill the area, I think. You could then just decorate the wall between the windows without feeling the need for more furniture. |
- Posted by justgotabme (My Page) on Mon, Jul 13, 09 at 19:51
Squirrel I'm pretty sure that's model homes pictures in the link. Not the OPs. |
- Posted by squirrelheaven (My Page) on Mon, Jul 13, 09 at 20:57
Yes, thanks, GottaBe. She did say she was using a similar table, though. Something oblong or rectangular would fill the area out more, I think. Just a consideration. The floorplan isn't showing where the arch hits, and the picture is so distorted and doesn't show the second set of windows. |
- Posted by justgotabme (My Page) on Mon, Jul 13, 09 at 21:14
Yeah, I never thought about the arch. If you look back and forth between the pictures and floorplan it doesn't make sense at all. Hopefully avesmor will come back and help us out there. Oh and I assumed her table would have a leaf. My hubby tells me I assume too many things. And he's right. I do. |
- Posted by squirrelheaven (My Page) on Mon, Jul 13, 09 at 21:35
ok, it looks like the arched wall extends out from the office wall. |
- Posted by squirrelheaven (My Page) on Mon, Jul 13, 09 at 21:57
This looks to be what's set up in the ad: |
- Posted by squirrelheaven (My Page) on Mon, Jul 13, 09 at 22:27
Moving the table to the window would be less redundant with the island and very enjoyable. And allows for a hutch. The table they are showing still seems under-scale for the space. Here's showing a larger one, also. |
I think it looks like a place for a tall plant, looks like there would be plenty of light. I have a 'tall' plant in a bare corner. Didn't want a tree or palm. I used an outdoor obelisk and have a grapevine ivy (indoor plant) Very easy to care for. I use a large outdoor pot the obelisk would fit into and ut the plant in a plastic pot and hide the dirt with some moss I tried to paste am image of one, you could probably find a nicer looking one at a garden store, you do need on with 'cross bracing for the vines to climb up. At least this is an idea for some height, no building changes |
- Posted by desertsteph (My Page) on Tue, Jul 14, 09 at 9:32
if there is a 'corner' area to the left of the view in the pic (and left of the window) - how about a slender corner cab? might be a good place for a small tv if you like to watch the news / ? while eating/having coffee. a shelf for a plant and one for a few cookbooks? |
- Posted by bronwynsmom (My Page) on Tue, Jul 14, 09 at 11:46
I am concerned about leaving enough clearance between the chairs and the window wall in a couple of the schemes above. Have you considered building a banquette under the windows nearest to the kitchen? You could then fit a rectangular table in front of it, and have chairs only on the room side, to make most use of the space. Here are two examples, in very different styles: (I didin't know how to make them any bigger...) |
Thank you for the replies! I had some unexpected travel for work and had to disappear for a bit, but I'm so glad to read all of your thoughts. Yes, if you stand at the projecting wall from the pocket office, at the edge of the living room, you are under the arch. Likewise, if you stand with your back to the range hood, you have a straight shot to the fireplace through the arch. Right now we're assuming that we will use our existing furniture (at least for a while, until we get a feel for what we want, and our 8 month old outgrows her high chair). We have a 4-seat circular table, no expansion. Actually in storage I also have a 6 seat rectangular table, solid slab style. We considered an expandable pub table with wings, especially since I'm 5'11 and hubby is 6'4 and we like the seat height, but -- in my mind, it's awkward with the tall island (pictures don't show it, but the island is about 6" taller than counters). Should the table sit lower than, or equal to the island? Or does that not really matter? I wonder how different it will look once we hung window treatments - how much that might help break things up. As for a banquette - we had not considered that. There is a recess on the opposite wall, designated as a place for a buffet in the model pics. We have been looking at different house models and floorplans for a few years and this is by far our favorite, with the exception of the kitchen! My husband loves it, but to me it feels like I'm in a "rectangle" of kitchen, and it just feels off to me. Hard to describe. And unfortunately I have very limited pictures. The model pictured above sold, and the next one won't be finished with construction until September so I have no way of taking some better pictures. We aren't likely to begin building ours until spring, but I'm trying to figure out if this room/arrangement will bug me indefinitely, or if there's a way to "fix" it! As for changes - yes, we are planning on a larger deck with a second level that will extend toward the other side of the house and provide cover for the walkout family room (in the bottom level which isn't shown on the floorplan). We are adding a floating garage, and that whole floor will provide the family room, my husband's home theater room, another bathroom, small storm room (we live in the midwest - tornado central) and a lot of space that is yet undefined. We will add a pass-thru between the garage and pantry. We will likely use the pocket office for something else (possibly our recycling station and vacuum/broom/mop/etc. depot) since we need a much larger office space - we've considered turning the formal dining into the office since we'd never use a formal dining, and it's separated from the kitchen. We're also going to add bull-nosed corners, and are up in the air about stain vs. painted trim. I like woodgrain and tend to think that painted trim is a fad, but then again - we have stained trim now and I hate it. Whew! Sorry for the novel. :) Anything that I didn't answer? |
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Ready for another steamy My Alternative GF edition? Well, we are always jampacked with all sorts of photos of scene babes that you will all enjoy. Get a load of our hot amateur GFs who wasted no time being their alternative hotness selves and spent hours being vain as they selfshoot, produce as many kinky pictures as possible, like nobody's watching. All they got to do is to look like those hot porn stars on films that they watch often, those who like emphasizing their emo nature by holding on to at least one Hello Kitty item (something these kinky bitches got from the wild Japanese chicks) and I still can't see the fucking point in this but it makes them look more mysterious in a way and yummy of course. Maybe, in a way, it's like trying to look some girlies who'd like sucking on lollipops while they sit on the ground with their legs apart and short balloon skirts (the shortest it could go!). This photo gallery will show typical naughty wild and hot alternative honeys with dark makeups on, painted nails, and wear just about any outfit that they think are cool and different. Typical but never less hot and wanted by our MyAlternativeGF.com fans. Check out the full picture collection here and enjoy all these sexy emo tease.
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Hot amateur scene girlfriends selfshooting
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Hot emo honey camwhoring
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012It always amazes me when amateur babes do everything they can to come up with a full set of photos that will fill up all the spaces in a page of My Alternative GF just so we'd recognize their hotness instantly. These babes do their best to look really fucking sexy and delicious, you'll wonder if there would be anyone out there stupid enough to 'not notice'. Well, all I can say is that this particular amateur hottie didn't even have to try so hard coz she's this package of pure delight. which anyone would glady take home. Our scene GF for today will show you just how much she is worth every second of your time. She's a hot fuck with this totally sexy body that you'd absolutely fantasize over for hours and hours. She's got a perfect set of round tits and her nice toned belly just right for our tight steady grip for that shower sex that they all love. Hmmm… I can almost taste those juicy melons under the running water. This new picture gallery will surely be a hit to all who click on MyAlternativeGF.com, searching for hot and sexy emo goodness. A fan of our site or just a new visitor will definitely love this amateur babe. Yes, I'd say you're a fuckin' loser if you let this one pass. So, anyway, visit the full photo collection right here to enjoy this sexy scene honey the way she wanted you to.
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
A whole new set of steamy punk babes for you today. My Alternative GF compiled this hot photo gallery of two kinky scene girlfriends showing off their hot funky punk selves. This is one of their favorite sets and they have a lot more to show but since they do have great taste of what pervy people like us want, these pictures go well with our throbbing cocks that need some serious emo shit loving. MyAlternativeGF.com has got to be one of the hottest sites we all have seen, having all these amateur alternative honeys putting on a face that would most likely pass for some kind of a Halloween parade or a fetish club of a sort, it's just priceless. These photos of sexy and wild amateur chicks being all different and wanted to stand out above the rest will surely make up for all your boring, typical days. We got various of photos of emo GFs who dress like a rock star or a gothic babe, some simply love the fact that they can take so much pain to gain the beauty that is a thousand and one piercings on their pretty faces and sexy bodies. Yes, am a bit exaggerated but these girlfriends surely know how what they are made off and where they fit best. Being those emo chicks have its perks and they get all kinds of attention as well since they are deliciously different, which gives us more wild fantasies to ponder on. Check out the full photo gallery here and enjoy.
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Yes, we're back here in My Alternative GF bringing you once again an entire photo collection of yet another amateur alternative chick who will please you in ways you wanted. This is one hot gallery of a sexy Goth GF who's got a thing for facial and body piercings and she's quite proud of them that she has to show 'em off in her pictures. But that's not the only thing that she wanted to display of course because as you can see, these photos just gave you a sizzling sneak peek of what's inside today's hot feature. Our amateur honey right here is just one of the countless scene chicks out there who loves anything weird or mysterious and she's not afraid to let it show. She almost always puts on her heavy makeup, dark clothes (mostly blacks and pussy reds), and some accessories that only emo chicks like her can bear. She's glad that one of her Goth friends showed her the world of MyAlternativeGF.com because she's been glued to this site eversince she tried going over tons and tons of scene chicks in this part of the dark hot world of odd and sexy amateurs. In this photo collection, she proudly exposed her sexy body, her hot pierced lips and nipples, those nice perky tits, and her tight firm ass. Well, not really in this order and you will just have to find all of these right in this picture album. She's into blacks and striped knee-high socks and pearls and anything Gothic (at least to her very own definition of the term). View all her picture right here and don't forget to keep checking back for more hot and wild scene girlfriends.
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011Another one of our favorites, an amateur alternative chick selfshooting. Yes, and you will only get the finest and the hottest here on MyAlternativeGF.com. Today's feature is on this sizzling GF who is, like most sexy emo teens out there, simply likes to take photos of herself (and tons!). Well, we'll be seeing just a couple of those really nice sexy pictures of hers but I assure you that you will love every piece of it. This amateur emo hottie likes to show off her breasts and, oh, don't forget her new piercings and some fresh tats too. What's an alternative chick without these, huh? Yeah, aside from her makeup which almost always make any scene chick look mysterious and dangerous, they got to have a few holes punched in their sexy bodies or face and get inked with whatever "meaningful" Chinese or Japanese character that they think would look cute on them. This new My Alternative GF find has been eyeing a spot here in out site and we're sure glad she came across our photo gallery coz she kinda caught my fancy for this flavor of the week's chosen one. Lame, right? But, yeah, that's what I call some of the picks I have in my own personal list and I make sure to keep them right there coz I get horny most of the time and I need a bit of help getting off when I want it fast and hard and this sexy amateur emo babe will do anytime. Click here to view all of her hot pictures and do check back every now and then for more updates on our sexy and naughty alternative chicks.
Naked punk chick camwhoring in the tub
Thursday, September 1st, 2011Welcome back to another steamy My Alternative GF edition and we feature this nice amateur scene babe today who likes, more than anything else, to selfshoot every chance she got. She's an average hot teen with the knacks for being vain and everything in between, yes, that includes getting all naked and shooting photos of herself or at times get someone to do the photo works for her so she could freely pose about, any way she likes. See these photos right here? Well, obviously there's no one else around to take the pictures for her but she did a great job getting all naughty, showing her fine perky juggs while she's inside the bath tub, wet and slippery from all the suds, looking very delicious (I felt the need to add that coz she's fucking yummy!). Who doesn't want a wild horny tease like her who'd go naked for you (and for the rest of the perverted people of this planet) and act like she's the only one you'd want to fuck around with, right? You've clicked MyAlternativeGF.com coz you've probably fell into the trap of all our sleazy scene girlfriends here and you're in luck coz we're bringing you another hottie today. Yes, I am talking about this naked rocker babe in the bath tub, with her round tits sticking out from all the soap bubbles, making its presence known to all of us who wanted to take a better look. She's quite generous showing her stuff and I can only wish she'd show us more next time coz am wondering how her pussy would look like getting all wet from the soapy water too. Hmmm… Check out all her pictures right here. Enjoy and be sure to come back for a whole lot more of slutty amateur alternative babes.
Hot emo babe shows her tits and shaven cunt
Thursday, August 4th, 2011Another steamy My Alternative GF edition for all of our fans out there. We have collected this amateur scene chick's photos to feature today and I know you will get horny and jerk off in no time. I haven't seen much of these emo sluts who are into much facial piercing and you're lucky to meet this sexy amateur babe if you yourself likes getting all those holes punched on your face. Just don't get too close to each other as you might find yourselves locked together coz of those "nuts and bolts" on your noses and lips. Anyway, this punk chick knows what suits her and all these emo must-haves totally rock on her. She's like one of 'em hotties sitting on the floor, cross-legged, smoking a joint perhaps, while watching people pass by through her thick and dark makeup. All these emo babes like to appear as mysterious as possible and look pleasurably deadly most of the time. Well, all I can say is that she did a great job posing naked in these pictures. Now there will be more and more people who'd visit MyAlternativeGF.com and wait for her next contribution and maybe hope for some hot fucking action with a wild dude or two. I'd like to give those perky tits a squeeze and fuck them 'til I cum on this chick's face. I would want to lick and suck on those erect nipples as well, make her moan, while I finger-fuck her shaven pussy. Check out all the photos here and you make your own fantasies with this sexy emo hottie.
Cocksucking emo bitch
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011My Alternative GF got this steamy collection of photos from an amateur scene chick who loves to give a hot blowjob. She's a tattooed bitch who fancies piercings as well and these things, she said, make her feel more like she "belongs" with her group of emo girlfriends. Well, she did pass as one emo honey that's why we featured her today, to give justice to her sleaziness. We really don't want to put it to waste, now, do we? So anyway, as you can see in these pictures, she's one hell of a slut, really, sucking a cock like there's no tomorrow. She could bite that one off if she ain't careful. Ha! But this looks so much fun and I bet they both got so pleased with themselves that this ain't the only thing that they did after this photo shoot. But before your mind could wander off elsewhere, be sure to enjoy all these hot photos first. Savor those nice pair of juggs, this chick's hot pussy, and imagine that it's your boner that she's got inside that warm mouth of hers. Hmmm… now that's more we like it, eh? Watch that mouth wrapped around this dude's woody, she holds the shaft so tight that I think I could go off sooner that expected if she were to do this to me. I like it when a wild amateur cocksucking babe gets a bit rough handling my tool coz I get more pleasure that way. Click here to see the entire photo set of this emo fuck. Check back here at MyAletrnativeGF.com often for more fresh updates on horny amateur scene chicks who will drive you mad.
Scene chick camwhoring in her bedroom
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
MyAlternativeGF.com is back with this steamy picture collection of an amateur scene babe doing all she can to show off her, well, kinkiness, by posing for her camera. Some of her pictures are way hotter than the rest since she shows her naked body, exposing her perky tits and nice smooth-shaven pussy. Who wouldn't want to see one hot mysterious-looking punk babe selfshooting like this, eh? She said she likes giving off the look of someone desperate for attention and so she sports this emo facade and do her thing, you know, like working on that spell that lured you here on My Alternative GF. She enjoys dressing up like some rocker babe or simply an emo girlfriend with tons of cakey makeup on, body or facial piercings, tats, and just about anything and everything that can please us and our cravings for all things eccentric, like this amateur emo honey. It looks like we'll be seeing more of her since it seems that she's so into displaying herself, spreading her legs to make us want her more. Check all the photos here and enjoy!
Thursday, March 24th, 2011A fresh new batch of sexy and burning hot chicks await you here on MyAlternativeGF.com. We got this set of photos showing you different GFs posing in their naughty emo or punk rocker look. And, as always, they never fail to make us horny by just being the hot eccentric bitches that they are. Some of them feel pretty wearing their hair like electrocuted rockstars, getting emo and shit using tons of goo on their faces, while some stick to some plain "alternative transformations" like getting facial piercing and writing emo slash loser codes on their bodies just so they'd catch all kinds of attention. Well, they are quite successful with that because you are here now, browsing through all sorts of amateur emo babes who do nothing but share their nice pictures and making avid fans of My Alternative GF themselves. They like to show off their sizzling hot sexy bodies, those yummy cleavage where we can always dream of fucking to our heart's content, and their "uniqueness" wanting to look anything but normal are all signs that we will have a grand sexual encounter with bitches like them. Click here to see more.

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Lead STOVL Test Pilot, Peter 'Wizzer' Wilson, says the F-35B Lightning II is an 'absolute pleasure to fly,' thanks to its advanced propulsion technology.
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In the fighter aircraft world, this capability is known as Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL), and it is prized for allowing aircraft to operate from short-deck ships or austere, forward-operating bases devoid of lengthy, permanent runways.
Rolls-Royce is the only company in the world to produce the advanced technology that enables the F-35B aircraft to perform with STOVL capability. In May 2012, the company received a US$315 million contract to supply the LiftSystem for 17 F-35B Lightning II aircraft. Last month, the UK also confirmed its decision to go ahead with the acquisition of the F-35B variant.
The stunning complexity and remarkable technology required for STOVL capability is belied by the ease in which the system is initiated – a single button on the left side of the F-35 cockpit.
Peter 'Wizzer' Wilson, the Lead STOVL Test Pilot for the F-35 Lightning II programme, describes the mid-flight operation this way: 'I press the button and all this magic stuff starts happening behind me.'
That's when the STOVL doors on the fuselage open, then the Rolls-Royce clutch engages, connecting the LiftFan™ just behind the cockpit via a shaft to the 40,000lb thrust Pratt & Whitney F135 engine. The 3-Bearing Swivel Module at the rear of the aircraft twists downward, and Roll Posts on the wingtips provide stabilising air thrust. The LiftFan spools up in about five seconds, which Wilson says sounds like 'a big humming mosquito kind of noise.
'Fifteen seconds after pressing the button, I'm in STOVL mode. Fantastic – it is so simple and reliable. Every single time, we come back with a smile on our faces.
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Lockheed Martin is the lead integrator on the F-35 programme, with an industry team that includes Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems and Pratt & Whitney. Rolls-Royce provides the LiftSystem as a subcontractor to Pratt & Whitney.
Wilson, who works for BAE Systems, is a former fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force, and flew Sea Harriers for the Royal Navy. Since his flying career began in 1982, he has amassed more than 1,200 hours of flight time, and logged 500 landings at sea.
'The difference between flying Harriers and the F-35B is remarkable,' he says. 'They are worlds apart. It's like night and day.'
The Harrier, powered by a Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine, is also a STOVL aircraft, but provides all its downward thrust via heated exhaust from the engine, requiring full power as well as absolute full attention from the pilot.
'The workload of the pilot is high on the Harrier, especially at slow speeds,' he explains. In the F-35B aircraft, the LiftFan provides approximately half of the vertical thrust. It uses ambient air drawn in and blown downward through a separate ducting system from the engine. The operation is guided almost entirely by computer software and monitored by the pilot.
'The aeroplane is designed to be a low workload for the pilot. The aeroplane does all the hard work,' Wilson says.
The pilot, therefore, can concentrate on the mission, while the aircraft and its onboard computers, literally, do all the heavy lifting in STOVL mode. A slight nudge to the control stick is all that's required from the pilot. 'It makes it an absolute pleasure to fly. If I want to move forward 12 inches, I can do that. I can go right 12 inches, and stop there. That's how "inch-perfect" you can fly the jet. It's phenomenal.'
Wilson says that means ease of operation and enhanced safety. 'There will be no unpredictability like we had in the legacy plane. There's nothing difficult about it.'
The current test flight efforts are designed to expand the operational envelope for the aircraft, focusing particularly on integration of the propulsion system and the flight controls.
'We really do try to push the propulsion system right to its limits. We'd like it to be a carefree aeroplane. We're close to carefree.'
That ease of operation was reinforced during the ship-board trials involving the USS Wasp last October. 'The ship trials were a huge success, by anyone's standards. The very first landing went like clockwork, with the wind directly into the bow of the ship. Gradually, we expanded the wind envelope to stronger and weaker headwinds, then crosswinds. The propulsion system performed flawlessly throughout.' Wilson and three US Marine Corps pilots flew a total of 72 take-offs and 72 landings aboard the Wasp.
'By the end of three weeks at sea, we had opened up a flight envelope that was bigger than the Harrier ever achieved, despite its years in service.'
Wilson praises the overall Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce propulsion system, calling it 'robust and reliable and bringing a level of capability to the aeroplane we haven't been able to do before.'
'It's very smooth when the LiftFan kicks in. It's well-designed and well-balanced. Safety is absolutely paramount to the system, and it's in there. You guys have put it in there,' he concludes.


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I purchased this as a root 1 year ago. The first season, it only produced a small mound of floiage and no blooms. It is huge, healthy and blooming like crazy this year. |
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I want one of these soooo bad..Where did you get it?..I thought I had a trade of one and it fell through....Judy |
I know that this is going to sound strange, but I now have 4 Splish Splash plants, none of which were planned. I purchased a pack of "Hardy Geranium Seeds" from Seeds of Distinction at my local nursery last year. I believe I paid $5.00 for 10 seeds (OUCH) I planted the seedlings in planters which I usually reserve for annuals, so I could baby them. I was thrilled that I actually succeeded growing my favorite perennial from seed. Little did I know that i would end up with 4 of 'em They grew like crazy and bloomed the first year, but the flowers had NO petals...just the reproductive parts. At that time, i was very disappointed, thinking I had a bunch of undesirable seedlings that would never have petals. Near the end of the season, I planted them in the garden with the rest of my geraniums, so they get morning sun/afternoon shade. This year it appears I have 4 Splish Splash and 1 similar to a Johnson's Blue. If I recall correctly, the package listed a few seed varieties which included pratense. It also said it may contain "a few surprises", but NEVER mentioned Splish Splash. 2 years ago, I purchased a Splish Splash "root" from Von Bourgondien Bulbs (spelling?), and as of this writing, I havent seen anything but dandelions where that root was planted. I didn't realize these could be seed grown, but since they are blooming now, I will keep my eyes open for seeds, in the hopes of sharing my luck with fellow geranium nuts. I will notify you by email if I am able to collect any seed and i will be happy to send you some |
Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.seedsofdistinction.com/
BTW my posting in Hortiplex is incorrect! I erroneously listed these as being grown from a "root", but when I checked my notes, I actually planted the root on the other side of the yard from where I planted these seedlings. The picture is DEFINITELY seed grown, not root grown! |
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Motion picture exhibition.
Various locations.
Exterior shots of rather grand building; which would have originally been a theatre or music hall; probably now converted into a picture palace / cinema.
Signs advertise a benefit cinema performance for ambulances or some other medical cause. MS people posing outside. Pan across 'Victoria Hall', another cinema. MS another one with people outside, the 'Yorkshire Observer' is advertised on window.


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April 4, 2014: Mark King In conversation with Amanda Coulson (Director of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas/ Artistic Director -Volta/ Curator/ Art Critic), artists Blue Curry and Heino Schmid during Transforming Spaces 2014 in Nassau, Bahamas.
Liquid Courage Gallery: After The Flood
part of Transforming Spaces
April 3-6, 2014 Nassau, Bahamas
Montem Magazine Issue 2 - Japan (Feature)
The Huffington Post (article)
Slashstroke Magazine (in conversation with curator Mariam Zulfiqar)
ARC Magazine (interview)
MOSSLESS Magazine (interview)
american photo mag (interview)
Caribbean Beat Magazine Nov/Dec 2012, Changing The Game: 7 Rising Talents in Barbados's Contemporary Art
Portraits by me!
wonderful machine (interview)
ARC magazine
the citrus report (interview)
live fast magazine (interview)
I'm showing a piece from my on-going Plastic series at this year's
African & African Caribbean Design Diaspora
Team Wonderful Machine
Vice UK
LPV Magazine (interview)
Tiny Vices
Two For the Road
The Cheaper Show No. 10 - Artist Announcement from The Cheaper Show on Vimeo.
Selected for The Cheaper Show No. 10 Vancouver, Canada June 25, 2011
Cheaper Show No. 9 Vancouver, Canada
dazed and confused (interview)
the black harbor
beautiful decay
7000 words
poncz magazine (cover photo not by me)
FAQ magazine (cover photo not by me)
hamburger eyes
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Disney decided to start landscape the Dwarf Coaster, there are now a handful of very large Christmas trees poking out on top of the coaster construction.
[QUOTE=HauntedGabe;1031875]Well the the Tangled restrooms missed their target date but so close. The last of the skyway building came down in June 2011. So almost 2 years later......:faint:
There are some very nice pictures of Fantasyland in this report, it has 3 parts of photo's.
And the most anticipated potties have their Grand Opening this morning! Only guests Christening! :mickeykid
the most hyped restrooms in theme park history... wow... isnt it odd that we have all been following this since it began how long ago now...?
Well, restrooms are important. It's always good to know where to go when you gotta go
Yep, June 2011. Sadly, when there is so little being built unlike the 90's and early 2000's, Potties are very pretty big nothing and yet ya can't look away.
I have some real good pictures of Transformers, the Simpson expansion, Harry Potter 2.0 but they don't fit into the thread very well so potties it is.
True... But with New Fantasyland, Test Track... RFIDs and such still potties...? I'm just kidding but it is comical...
Well, the project got behind, which makes it fodder for the whiners.
This site should be renamed HauntedGabe's Complaint Corner since that is essentially all that is left of it.
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Its latest effort, American Rag, was rolled out in juniors' and young men's departments at 120 doors this month, another 30 to 40 doors might be added next spring and additional categories and products are on the drawing boards for that label and others in Federated's private brand stable.
"American Rag will be a very big brand for us, not just in young men's and juniors'," stated Janet Grove, chairman and chief executive officer of Federated Merchandising Group and vice chairman of Federated Department Stores. "We will be expanding to other categories next year. Kids' is a natural extension and that's getting close to being a definite."
Men's and women's accessories, including handbags and jewelry, also are being planned, boxer shorts will be added later this fall and home products and direct mail are possibilities cited by executives. Once there's an array of categories in place, the label could account for $100 million in sales, according to officials working on the program.
American Rag is part of Federated's goal to raise the percentage of private brands to 23 to 25 percent of its total volume, from the current 17 to 18 percent. Even now, Federated's percentage of private brand merchandise is twice that of most of its competitors. The company also sells roughly $200 million worth of products bought in the market and sold exclusively at its stores.
But Federated will have to keep working hard to maintain its lead, because in the world of big-box department, discount and chain stores, there's a growing hunger for exclusive products so stores can differentiate assortments, obtain better margins and increase sales productivity. Stores see how far Federated has come, and they want to share in some of that success. So they're also buying small brands with a cachet that could be converted to mass appeal, and shopping for products from designers, celebrities and manufacturers who will agree to give exclusives.
There seems to be no shortage of opportunities. In the past year, J.C. Penney launched exclusive Bisou Bisou and Parallel collections to build a contemporary business, Kmart launched Thalía to cater to the Latino market, Wal-Mart continues to roll out its George apparel collection from the U.K., and Target added Isaac Mizrahi merchandise. May Co. basically overhauled its private label business, attempting to be more youthful and trend right and introduced two labels, Ideology [formerly called be] and i.e.


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Welcome to the Official Web Site of Luther Kent
Luther AVAILABLE NOW at .. www.CDBaby.com Blues and soul man Luther Kent hasn't made a CD in four years, the news on this one is that it includes some of the last sessions by the great producer Wardell Quezergue (who died in fall of 2011). Trouble is that the jumbled CD credits don't tell you which those are, nor do they say which of the many players (including notables like keyboardist David Torkanowsky, the late drummer Herman "Roscoe" Ernest and the Bonerama horns) play on which tracks. The disc was clearly recorded at different sessions over a few years and it sounds that way; but a little diversity never hurts. The Bobby Bland Songbook www.CDBaby.com |
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The simplest way to regard Neil Simon's endearingly funny "45 Seconds From Broadway" is as a work of archeology. On the simplest level, it's a tribute to the Polish Tea Room, the nickname the theater community has given to the thoroughly unpretentious coffee shop of the Hotel Edison on W. 47th St. Long ago, when Hollywood powerbrokers commanded tables at the Russian Tea Room, theater personalities patronized the Edison, partly because it was so convenient. It would be inaccurate to describe the play as a true portrait of the restaurant, except for its affectionate depiction of the owners, a Jewish husband and wife who survived the camps and have created an oasis of borscht and blintzes in the Theater District. (They are touchingly played by Louis Zorich and Rebecca Shull.) The more crucial archeological aspect of Simon's play is its excavation of the sources of his humor. The characters are not really a cross-section of those who patronize the Edison. Rather, they are a set of running gags who reflect the range of Simon's comic sensibility. The central character is Mickey Fox, a hilarious sendup of Jackie Mason, the personification of Borscht Belt humor. As Fox, brilliantly played by Lewis J. Stadlen, declares, "A comic never leaves life alone. He pushes it, he nudges it to squeeze a laugh out of it."
Over the years, Simon has avoided Catskills cliché humor, but Yiddish inflections have underscored practically everything he has written. Certainly, he has understood the comic's desperation to find jokes in even the most painful moments. Fox has a confrontation with his hapless brother (played by David Margulies with a consummate understanding of Jewish aggressive self-humiliation) that is a veritable lexicon of how the body can mock one's most serious intentions and pretensions. Another of Simon's running gags is a pair of suburban yentas desperate to be "insiders."
Their unconsciously inane style is a kind of yin to Fox's all-too-knowing yang, as essential to Jewish humor as sour cream is to its cuisine. Their addled, adenoidal prating is performed deliciously by musical-comedy veterans Judy Blazer and Alix Korey. The most extravagant of Simon's creations is a delusional woman and her seemingly mute, long-suffering husband, both of whom evoke the grand theater of yesteryear. Divine is the only way to describe Marian Seldes in this role. Bill Moor, who plays the husband, provides a breathtaking counterpoint to her with his deeply grim expressions. Kevin Carroll has a marvelous sweetness as a South African playwright. Lynda Gravatt, Dennis Creaghan and Julie Lund handle less well fleshed-out roles capably. Given that there is no real plot, only the running gags, director Jerry Zaks has brought the play to life extremely well. John Lee Beatty's set re-creates the place itself perfectly. William Ivey Long's costumes, particularly a delirious coat for Seldes, are, as usual, perfect. This may not really be a play, but its understanding of the styles of Jewish humor is rich enough to make it an extremely funny evening.
There have been plenty of perfectly good plays about nothing in particular. Unhappily Neil Simon's "45 Seconds From Broadway," which opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre last night, is not one of them.
It is, to put it kindly, a genre piece placed in that venerable café at the Hotel Edison, known to some of its showbiz habitues as the Polish Tea Room.
The designer John Lee Beatty has provided a tastefully accurate but somewhat glamorized version of the café - rather in the way that New York always looks brighter and cleaner in movies than in life.
This handsome setting strikes an instant note of realism, especially when through the plate-glass windows of the cafe we see a real yellow cab pull up outside in a rainstorm.
That yellow cab may have the best part of the show.
Neil Simon seems at his best when his plays are firmly rooted in his own experience.
Now, "45 Seconds From Broadway" is based on no one's experience. It has no focus. The wisecracks crack in the empty air. Characters are caricatures gasping for the breath of life.
The play does have loosely connected threads running through it, but none is particularly interesting and few are especially credible.
The hero, or at least the principal character, is a Jewish comedian called Mickey Fox (Lewis J. Stadlen), so closely based on Jackie Mason that the role seems situated somewhere between homage and identity theft.
Mickey, who has his own one-man show on Broadway, is being wooed to appear in London by an easily amused British producer (Dennis Creaghan). That's Thread No. 1.
Thread No. 2 is about the lovable old owner of the joint, Bernie (Louis Zorich), who wishes to sell the place and go to Florida, because his lovable old wife, Zelda (Rebecca Schull), who hates Florida, has been working too hard.
Thread No. 3 concerns an aspiring young out-of-town actress who becomes a waitress (Julie Lund), and a young black South African playwright (Kevin Carroll) who becomes a waiter.
In among the threads are thrown the cameos - two matinee ladies (Alix Korey and Judith Blazer) who discuss theater, a grande dame swathed in eccentric furs (Marian Seldes at her grandest damest) plus a mute attendant husband (Bill Moor) and finally a black actress (Lynda Gravatt) who wanders through the play understandably on her way to Hollywood.
The only time the play registers those home truths that represent Simon at his considerable best are the scenes Mickey has with his elder brother, Harry (David Margulies), which suggest authentic sibling feelings.
There are a few jokes along the way - by my rough count, at least four were very funny - but jokes make a joke book, not a play. And, anyway, Jackie Mason himself does that kind of thing better.
So here we are left, apart from all the initial throat-clearing and set-up, with a box of theatrical tricks that don't work very well in the first place, and which we are not engaged by in the second.
The director, the admirable Jerry Zaks, has done his best to make the play pay off, but he resembles one of those ladies at the fruit machines, pulling levers with glacial jollity, winning one or two lucky plunges, but coming out behind at the end.
The performances were excellent - they usually are on Broadway.
Stadlen, who once in "Minnie's Boys" gave a lively impersonation of Groucho Marx, here does the same for Jackie Mason, neatly catching the clenched shoulders and the clotted diction.
As for Seldes, she is magnificently crazy as an imperious nutcase full of foibles and pretense, while Moor makes an admirably impassive foil as her slowly turning worm of a husband.
And as for Zorich and Schull - what is there not to like?
Probably the best performance comes from Margulies as the dogged underdog brother suggesting a whole family history with a single shrug.
Of course, he did have the only well-conceived role in the entire play. This does give him a certain advantage.
They're such thoughtful folks, the old couple who run the coffee shop in the sentimental new comedy ''45 Seconds From Broadway,'' that you would have expected them to put one of those signs in their window. You know, the kind that help visitors from foreign places orient themselves when they're feeling lost in big cities. The sign, in this instance, would declare the following useful information: ''Neil Simon spoken here.''
Neil Simon is indeed the lingua franca for the diverse souls who wander into the happy little eating spot that is the setting for the sketch of a show that opened last night at the Richard Rodgers Theater. Even if you don't speak Neil Simon, you'll recognize its sound: that unmistakable rhythm of quips and counter-quips, of the friendly patter of jokes that so openly predict their punch lines that you're tempted to finish them yourself.
Mr. Simon has plied this language to create a remarkable variety of effects in a long, lucrative career spanning some 30 plays. Sometimes it has been used as ammunition for battling friends (''The Odd Couple,'' ''The Sunshine Boys''). On other occasions it is plied by family members to avoid direct confrontation (the autobiographical ''Brighton Beach'' trilogy). And it is often employed to camouflage and then unveil seriously wounded hearts (''The Gingerbread Lady,'' ''Chapter Two'').
In ''45 Seconds From Broadway,'' however, Mr. Simon is caustic only to be kind. The play may have the rat-a-tat pace of a Marx Brothers movie, but it exists not to create Groucho-like anarchy but to weave fractured lives into healing harmony.
Every tough wisecrack in this sincere but paper-thin valentine to New York has a heart as soft as melting butter. And a town that is usually portrayed as tense and aggressive -- and more recently as noble, tense and aggressive -- starts to look like the capital of Niceland.
You may have already heard that ''45 Seconds,'' which is directed by Jerry Zaks, is inspired by a restaurant that is roughly 45 seconds from the Richard Rodgers Theater: that's the Cafe Edison, also known as the Polish Tea Room, and a favorite hangout for Broadway theater folk, which has been run for close to 30 years by Frances and Harry Edelstein.
John Lee Beatty's meticulously detailed set for the play goes to some lengths to recreate the cafe's atmosphere. And the play includes two characters based on the Edelsteins, here named Bernie (Louis Zorich) and Zelda (Rebecca Schull).
But as perceived through the idealizing vision of Mr. Simon, squinting across the country at Manhattan from his home in California, the coffee shop is transformed into a hazy, feel-good equivalent to the bar in William Saroyan's ''Time of Your Life.'' It's an abstract place where cuddly eccentrics gather to share philosophies and discuss their problems.
The essential difference from ''Time'' is that when disillusionment rears its sour head in ''Seconds,'' it is promptly decapitated. Scratch the surface of a curmudgeon, and there's an angel beneath.
It's as if the play had been written by the dewy, life-affirming young bride of Mr. Simon's early Broadway hit, ''Barefoot in the Park,'' for whom all Manhattan was an enchanted playground.
It says much about the evening that though Jackie Mason, the standard-bearer for equal opportunity offensiveness in stand-up comedy, is clearly the model for the play's central character, he has been laundered, pressed and starched into squeaky-clean decency. Renamed Mickey Fox, he is played by Lewis Stadlen with a twinkle and a seraphic smile that take the sting out of zingers.
The closest Mickey comes to provocative racial humor is when he greets Bessie James (Lynda Gravatt), a black actress, asking, ''Where's Porgy?'' He quickly amends: ''My whole act is racist. If you want to stamp it out, you first bring it out in the open.'' Not surprisingly, Mickey is also a benign dispenser of life-changing advice to fledgling playwrights and performers.
Even more than Bernie and Zelda, who shuffle on and off while gruffly performing acts of generosity to struggling actors and playwrights, Mickey is the solar center of ''45 Seconds,'' and his cascade of one-liners infects the way everybody talks. Enter the Polish Tea Room, and you are immediately Mickey's straight man, or he winds up being yours.
Bessie to Mickey: ''Read the good book.'' Mickey: ''I'm waiting for the paperback.'' Andrew Duncan (Dennis Creaghan), an English theater producer, to Mickey: ''You absolutely kill me.'' Mickey: ''Well, maybe later. We'll see how it goes.''
The play is mostly a series of such two-handed exchanges, with the others onstage either freezing into poses of silent conversation or acting as an appreciative audience. The beneficiaries of Mickey's wit and wisdom cover a range of familiar archetypes.
There are Megan Woods (Julie Lund, in a thankless part), the wide-eyed aspiring actress fresh off the bus from Ohio (yes, Ohio, as in ''Wonderful Town''), and Solomon Mantutu (Kevin Carroll), a South African playwright of great pride and little money. (Both Megan and Solomon of course wind up working for the altruistic Bernie.)
Then there's Rayleen (inevitably played by Marian Seldes, with the requisite flourishes), the grand and flamboyant madwoman whose patchwork fur coat is the object of the evening's funniest jokes. Rayleen is accompanied by an ostensibly mute gentleman named Charles W. Browning III (Bill Moor), whose rigid air of eternal affront strikes the evening's most poignant notes.
Also on hand are two classic kibitzers (incisively and amusingly played by Alix Korey and Judith Blazer), matinee ladies from the suburbs in faux Chanel who voice familiar objections about the state of Broadway today.
And making a late entrance is Harry Fox (the excellent David Margulies), Mickey's older brother who arrives hunched beneath a burden of resentment and affection.
The attendant sibling conflict introduces a few flashes of emotional sobriety to the evening. So, less successfully, do the revelations about the mysterious relationship between Rayleen and Charles and an improbable subplot concerning Bernie's impulsive selling of the coffee shop. Mr. Simon takes radical short cuts to tie these elements together in a resolution that rights all wrongs.
Plot, however, is secondary in a play that is basically an affectionate if threadbare exercise in a show-biz language descended directly from vaudeville. Mr. Zaks's staging is accordingly more about comic cadence than character. The performers are generally creditable, although Mr. Moor comes off best, possibly because he says the least.
At one point Arleen, the matinee addict, reviews the play she's just seen: ''It wasn't a play. It was two people talking. He said something, she said something, and at the end, nobody said anything.''
There may be more than two people in ''45 Seconds,'' but the overall effect is pretty much the same. Whether you want to sit in on the conversation depends on how devoted you are to Mr. Simon's particular style of thrust-and-parry dialogue. Because frankly, that's about all the show has to offer.
Imagine borscht without beets, matzo ball soup without the matzo ball, and you've got a clear picture of the watery broth that is Neil Simon's new comedy. The play is a warm-spirited tribute to the coffee shop in the Edison Hotel that's a refreshingly unglamorous hangout for legit insiders big and small. It's also a theatrical valentine to the restaurant's proprietors, husband-and-wife Polish emigres still dispensing blintzes and coffee even as their fictional counterparts are dishing out shtick onstage a block away.
But good intentions don't count for much in showbiz, and well-meant though it is, this sadly underdeveloped and flimsy play unfolds like a few episodes of a not-so-good '70s sitcom stitched together. It seems broadly intended as a comic elegy for a vanishing era on Broadway (a legit variation on Simon's far funnier "Laughter on the 23rd Floor"), but it doesn't make much of a case for what's being lost.
Simon's loyal audience, it must be reported, doesn't seem to care. They laugh so affectionately at the strained one-liners and often limp broadsides at the state of Broadway that watching the play is like being at a TV taping where everyone else is dutifully obeying "Laughter!" signs you can't see.
John Lee Beatty's impressively realistic set, which replicates many of the details of the actual "Polish Tea Room," as the coffee shop is known in legit parlance, crisply sets the sitcommy tone. At three generic tables surrounded by standard-issue hotel chairs, an array of strenuously colorful characters assemble over the course of four scenes taking place across four seasons.
Center stage whenever he's around is Mickey Fox (Lewis J. Stadlen), the hit comic headlining next door who is so blatantly based on Broadway kvetchmeister Jackie Mason that Mason may want to sue for royalties. (Kidding, Mr. Mason -- I'm kidding!) Stadlen does a fine Mason, but after a while -- and true to the original -- his endless helpings of shtick are enough to give you a touch of indigestion.
While Mickey keeps a visiting London producer in stitches and extols the glories of the coffee shop and its food over British variants ("I don't want a trifle, I want a substantial…"), the cafe's owner, Bernie (Louis Zorich), dispenses free coffee cake and gruff warmth to a penniless South African playwright, who soon dons an apron and starts taking orders.
Meanwhile (or rather, next: The play's awkward structure requires one set of characters to fall self-consciously silent while another takes over dialogue duties), fresh off the plane from the hinterlands is beaming wannabe actress Megan Woods (Julie Lund). Megan's mom told her how nice Bernie and his wife, Zelda (Rebecca Schull), were to her back when she was a beaming wannabe actress, so here she is.
Also popping in regularly are a pair of gauchely dolled-up Jewish housewives from the suburbs, dishing their latest matinee over coffee, and a worldly-wise black actress named Bessie James. (Simon really should steer clear of black characters: Bessie's name cues a flagrantly cheap joke, as does that of the patronizingly depicted young playwright, one Solomon Mantutu.)
The most peculiar visitors are an elderly couple: a virtually silent man (Bill Moor) and a flamboyantly eccentric woman played by -- who else? -- Marian Seldes, looking in her mad, fluorescent makeup and fur-collared coat like a refugee not from 46th Street but an Expressionist painting. Rayleen, as she is called, imagines the coffee shop is a swanky establishment and treats her husband like a mute dimwit, which indeed he appears to be -- until, in a strange and sour second-act miracle, he wakes up and proceeds to humiliate Rayleen in front of the rest of the coffee shop's understandably bewildered patrons.
Bewildering, indeed, are Simon's jerrybuilt dramaturgy, which yokes his various subplots together preposterously at the finale, and his slipshod characterizations. Even the playwright's stock in trade -- zingy one-liners -- are pretty thin on the ground, with some of the better ones coming from the delectably funny Alix Korey and Judith Blazer as those bridge-and-tunnel visitors.
Director Jerry Zaks elicits some subtle work from Schull and Zorich, as well as David Margulies as Mickey's self-pitying brother Harry, while Seldes soldiers on less subtly, working hard to earn solid laughs for material that is not particularly funny.
But the play is not much of a showcase even for its able cast. Early on, Mickey celebrates Bernie and Zelda's restaurant as "the last bastion of what used to be the greatness of the Broadway theater!" He ain't kiddin': The sad irony is that there's probably better theater unfolding hourly in the Cafe Edison itself, where it can be had for the price of a bagel and a cup of coffee -- quite a bit less than what the producers are charging at the Richard Rodgers.


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A gross but true statistic. My DD's pediatrician calls them cesspools for that reason added to the fact that few pools have the correct level of chlorine to kill the bacterias and viruses. Nasty, but we all still swim in them huh?
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A gross but true statistic. My DD's pediatrician calls them cesspools for that reason added to the fact that few pools have the correct level of chlorine to kill the bacterias and viruses. Nasty, but we all still swim in them huh?
P.U.S.H.-A mantra MOST will not understand.
Disney rocks, Walt was a genius.
While gross, on the plus side, I believe WDW takes excellent care of their pools.
i think except for the alligators, piranna and mines I think Disney pools are pretty safe...
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why wouldnt they be safe?
worrying can be a bad bad thing.
Im willing to bet that the chlorine at wdw pools are as good or better than anywhere else.
Even if they arent, we have never had an issue ussng them, no illneses.
People have been urinating in pools since the dawn of time. That's why PH levels in the pools are always measured to ensure the right amount of chlorine is in there in order to kill the bacteria. It's really not as bad as you might think, since the chlorine kills the germs, it's just a common thing when it comes to swimming. As far as overall safety, the lifeguards watch the pools like hawks, and the water isn't all that deep. As far as the urine, nothing you can do about it anyways so it's not even worth thinking about it.
I understand the concerns of swimming in public pools - anywhere. I was really glad to get back to our own pool after swimming in the resort pool at our timeshare in Utah. Ugh!
mini-V What will you celebrate?
Adult daycare for the kid inside you.
While it is gross, I have several nurse friends who all assure me that urine is sterile so I'm guessing it's not going to make anyone sick.
Seriously though. I've been swimming in public pools all my life and I don't ever remember getting ill afterwards. Anyone else?
Meh, I keep hearing that everything is discusting. Everything from elevator buttons to door handles to lemons at restaurants to microwaves, everything seems to be the next thing that will kill us all. But none of them have, probably because we all have immune systems - that's what they're there for. If I was worried about it, then I'd walk around in a plastic bubble.
I've never had a problem as a result of swimming in a public pool. With people from all over the world visiting WDW, your exposure to new germs is probably off of the charts. When you consider how many people have touched the safety bars and handrails before you, it could be rather frightening. I just make sure to wash my hands before each meal. It's a great way to build up my immunity, lol.
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If the industry decides to move forward with transgenic trees, change won't happen overnight.
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He expects the first trees to be planted in the next two to four years.
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He says it's not possible today to estimate what the cost of a disease-resistant tree will be for growers, since it's not known what the total cost of development will be. But he acknowledged that, "if the cost of a disease-resistant tree is prohibitive to the grower, replanting may not be a good business decision."
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William Dawson, a plant pathologist at the UF Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred, also is looking into GMOs and citrus.
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Dawson says he and other researchers also have produced transgenic plants.
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Bill (and others) have suggested using B-1 in addition to Superthrive to stimulate root growth and prevent transplant shock. Unfortunately I can't find it at any of the local nurseries. Is the B-1 for plants the same thing as vitamin B-1 (thiamin) that people take? If so (although that would make my life too easy. lol) how is it mixed for plants? I know that vitamin B-1 for human consumption is water soluable. If it's a different kind of B-1 does anyone know of a good online store that has fast delivery?
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Hi Karyn I totally agree with Bill etc. I use b 1 for all my plants from day 1. Ihave planted hundreds of plants and never lost one. I have a green thumb to begin with but I feel it is absolutely a necessary thing for me to do. I cannot believe there is no B 1 in the garden nurseries that's shocking in Calif. it's a staple sold in all nurseries. I don't think it is the same as vitamin B 1 because it comes in a lg. bottle and it's cheap like $1.98. Vit.B 1 in a vitamin would be more than that. I know if they don't sell B 1 where you live there is something else on the market that they sell at the nurseries infact I used it. I'm trying to remember what it is called. I can find out for you but there must be an equivelent where you live. I think I just got it I think it's called Start-Up there may be more to the name if you don't find it I'll try to get info. for you. Plumie |
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Thanks. I have to buy Superthrive online too. Everyone says that the Walmarts and HD carry it where they live. Not even the nurseries around here have it. Strange because most everyone gardens, oh well. They sell seedling starters but it's nothing more than a regular fertilizer. Karyn |
- Posted by plumeriastix (My Page) on Mon, Sep 11, 06 at 1:11
Karyn, I got my B-1 at K-Mart. Couldn't find it at Walmart though. Alot of the big stores are already doing away with the majority of their garden sections and putting up Halloween stuff, this actually strated a couple of weeks ago in my area! Try K-Mart if you have one (to avoid shipping charges). Mine is a yellow bottle with green cap. Jerri |
Hi Karyn, B-1 is in a bottle, stinks....ha can be found at most any nursery and super thrive, both good products to use on plumies. Karen B. |
Karyn, you might ask the nursery if they have a starter solution which it is sometimes called. I found this link where B-1 is $3 a quart. That gives you a five year supply since you only use a tsp per gallon. I do not know the vendor but it seems legit. Bill |
Here is a link that might be useful: B-1
Thanks for all the replies. For some reason the nurseries and hardware stores (HD & Lowes) don't carry B-1, Superthrive or many other supplies. Since Kensington Orchids (a big orchid nursery) closed a few years ago I have to get many of my supplies online. I don't know why it's so hard to find certain things here. Gardening and home greenhouses are popular and it's not like I'm in the middle of nowhere, I'm 20 minutes outside of DC. Go figure. Karyn |
Karyn, if you check the link in the last post you can get it cheaply. It is crazy that your stores do not carry it. B-1 is as essential as antiseptics are to people with children. Every time you put a plant into the ground or into a larger pot, B-1 stops the plant from experiencing shock from exposed roots. When you root a cutting it is the best solution to use because it does not encourage fungus growth. If you root prune your larger pots, you flush with B-1 to stimulate the new growth and to prevent any shock; To me, it is the most important solution in my supplies even more important than rootone. By all means, make every effort to add this to your garden supplies. If you cannot find any e-mail me and I will send you some. It is a must have in the plumie world. Bill |
Thanks Bill. I will order some. I've read about many people using it in addition to ST. I'm sure it will take a week minimum to get here. Will it still benefit my uprooted plumeria? It was pulled out of it's pot almost a week ago. For now I've brought it inside and have it on a heat mat under grow lights. I did water it in with ST and am misting it with ST also. I just think it's surprising that the nurseries in this area carry so little beyond the basics. Even the places that carry speciality products don't carry ST or B-1. I've also had a hard time finding the potting mix (Fafard 3B) that I prefer to use for my container plants. |
B-1 is ideal for your uprooted plant. ST is an excellent product of hormones which is used to compliment fertilizing, but it does have a small amount of B-1 in it so it helps in reviving plants (.09%) |
Ok, I had to order some, too, and it just arrived today. My question is - how do you use it? I think what I'm asking is, what order do the different goodies get used in (RooTone, Superthrive, and B-1)? Pretend I have a cutting that I want to root and I know absolutely nothing (pretty close to the truth!), so how would I go about it? |
Mix a teaspoon of B-1 and a about the same superthrive in a gallon of water. Soak your cutting in about two inches of the solution for about 10-15 minutes then dip the end into rootone and shake off the excess. Plant in your fast draining soil mix and soak with the water mixture. Set on hot concrete or on a heat mat and forget until you see leaves. Use a one gallon black pot unless the cutting is very large and top heavy. When transplanting, root pruning or for a rooted plant that has fallen or been knocked over, use the same solution and soak the soil every 7-10 days for about three to four doses. This reduces shock and stimulates new root growth. |
Thanks so much - that's just what I needed to know! I'm hoping to make it to the pruning demo on Sunday - it would be nice to meet you all! |
- Posted by fredclifford 7 (My Page) on Fri, Jan 26, 07 at 18:22
I live in DC and found three locations that sell superthrive. One is in Pasadena, MD the other is in Laurel, MD (called "Maryland Hydroponics") the third is in Springfield , VA ("Inside out garden supply"). If you need more details let me know. I searched for hydroponic supplies and these three stores popped up. I called them and they have the product. I am going to get some myself as I have three cuttings to pot this weekend! |
I've had trouble finding those big black plastic pots that I see so many Plummies planted in. I've checked at a nursery, and at Home Depot and Lowes with no luck. Where can I get those? Thanks, Lauri |
- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (email@example.com) on Tue, Jan 30, 07 at 13:38
Lauri check at a local nursery, not the big hardware stores. We end up with hundreds (maybe thousands) of extra plug trays and various sized nursery pots every season. We stack up what we can outside of the greenhouse and dispose of the rest. I've had a few people from GW that live near me pick some up. I'm sure they'd give them to you. I'd rather do that then have them end up in a landfill. Karyn |
Thanks Karyn, I'll check more of the local nurseries around here. I had just checked one sort of small one, and of course HD and Lowes. Lauri |
Here are some from Charley's Greenhouse mail order catalogue. It is funny to note that our Home Depot sells a ton of black plastic pots from 1 gal up to 15 gal. You might ask the store manager if they can get some since they have them in stock out here. Bill |
Here is a link that might be useful: black plastic pots
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This may sound like a very basic question, but you have to learn somewhere. It seems like I've read it is advisable to clear grass away from the base of shrubs, small trees etc.
Despite having good mulch around some crepe myrtles, boxwoods and a couple of little trees, the bermuda was getting pretty thick. I've cleared about a foot around these, a feel it has greatly helped with deep watering. Anything else I should know about this practice? Any need to do it around more mature trees? How often should I water in this extreme heat? More than 1 deep watering a week? |
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We have both young and mature fruit trees and keep a mulch on both. Burmuda grass is a pain. You cannot put enough mulch around trees or shrubs to keep it out. We don't like to use Roundup, but resort to it for this purpose. It is critical to keep it off the shrubs and trees, tho. We handle this by having two people do the job. DH handles the sprayer set to a narrow stream so it doesn't overspray much and I hold a large piece of thin plywood or heavy cardboard next to the wanted plant to protect it. We water deeply once a week except blueberries and they have such shallow roots that we water twice a week. We also rigged up shade for our blueberry plants, using old almost worn out sheets and a support system that allows for plenty of air flow under them. Ft feet off the ground. |
It is too hot for me to do yard work so consider what you are able to do. Yes it is good to clear the grass away from shrubs and trees. I use round up if it is a tree with bark to protect it and no leaves close to the ground. I sometimes put round up in a little cup and use a small foam brush to paint just what I want to kill. If you haven't used it before use a little very carefully and gradually get more bold with it. I walk around my yard every day to look for things in trouble. Plants with drooping leaves in the morning need more water. Look at the plants after you water and see how they look when they are happy. Then you may notice when they look droopy. |
My suggestion is to keep any grass or weeds 3' from the young tree. Research at OSU and my personal experience confirms that the growth (of pecans at least) can be about doubled by having no competition. This is for situations where there is plenty of water, so the results should be even better when you can't water as well. Mulching adds even more benefits. At some point, at least for wider trees, the bermuda will eventually not be able to grow under the trees because of shading, and at that time the herbicide area is not as important IMO. |
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