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Wildlife corridors are passageways between two larger expanses of open space. They serve several important functions:
• Allow wide-ranging species to roam and find mates
• Allow plants to reproduce
• Foster genetic diversity
• Provide escape routes for natural disasters (like wildfire)
• Assist repopulation after a disaster
We don't have time to discuss all of these functions today, but let's look more closely at genetic diversity and let's begin with an animal we are most familiar with, the family dog.
This is the week of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and we've seen a variety of breeds of dog strutting their stuff, some as small as a Yorkshire Terrier and others as large as a Siberian Husky. Over the years, dog breeders have used in-breeding, the mating of closely related dogs, to create new breeds and "fix" the traits of the breed. But excessive inbreeding can also cause problems, because it can lead to the spread of harmful genes, reduced litter sizes and higher mortality rates. Yorkies, for example, have a notoriously finicky digestive system and can have more serious problems with their liver.
Now think what would happen to a wide-ranging species such as a coyote, if their habitats were isolated from each other, if there were no wildlife corridors connecting them. Over time, it could lead to more in-breeding and less genetic diversity, resulting in more genetically-based health problems and ultimately fewer coyotes.
When there are fewer coyotes, there a fewer songbirds, because coyotes keep a lid on the population of smaller mammals. And those smaller mammals, such as raccoons, are quite fond of bird eggs.
The more you study nature, the more you realize how interconnected things really are. Reducing the population of one species can upset the ecological balance of an entire habitat.
So the next time you hear about the proposed Las Lomas development in the Newhall Wedge between the I-5 and the SR-14, remember that this area contains the critical wildlife corridor between the San Gabriel Mountains and the Santa Susana Mountains. And consider how wildlife corridors contribute to the ecological health of our local mountains, including something as subtle as the birdsongs we hear while sipping our morning coffee on our patios.
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I need advice. I know nothing about plants. My sister who lives in Canada gave me a pothos. They wouldn't let me bring it across the US Border unless it was certifide, But If I cut the plant from the roots it's ok. So I did that. Now It has rooted in water. I would like to pot it. How would I do that? Help |
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Gwendolyn, You're lucky because pothos are a very easy plant to grow. The biggest mistake people make when repotting is to use too big of a pot. If you have just one stem of pothos, I'd go for a 4 to 5 inch pot, depending on the size of the root system. You can use either terra cotta or plastic, whatever you prefer. Choose a good indoor potting mix. I usually mix my own, but for one plant that isn't practical. I've bought the Miracle Grow Organic indoor potting mix and found it works rather well. A indicator of good potting soil is the weight of the bag. Usually, the lighter the better. Avoid Hyponics soil. It's garbage. When it comes time to move the plant to the pot, be gentle. Put something like a scrap of nylons or window screen in the bottom of the pot so the soil doesn't fall through. Then put in some soil. Place the roots in and fill around the roots. Remember to leave about a half inch of space at the top of the pot so you can water. When the plant is in position go ahead and water. The soil will compress as the air holes are filled with soil. Make sure after you water that there is no water in the bottom saucer. Most plants don't like to sit in water. Water again when the soil is dry about an inch down from the top of the soil. It may take awhile to dry out because your plant doesn't have a very large root system yet and isn't transpiring a great deal. Be patient and water only when necessary. Good luck. Someone will pipe up if I've forgotten anything. |
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good job m taggert. ditto |
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I have eight rooted Pothoses. How many roots per pot? Thank You |
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If they were mine I might pot them up 4 cuttings each in 2 separate 3" plastic pots, no bigger; pots must have drainage holes. This is not a precision drill, need not be as exact as perhaps you're thinking. It's an easy, almost indestructible plant (can only be killed by overwatering, or too much bright, direct sun). Since you've said you know nothing abt plants, you're here now, so you can start reading & learning. There's another thread right near here abt Pothos, that'd be helpful reading for you. You might also look around for basic houseplant books to buy or browse at your local bookstore (or search here for suggested titles). That's a good way to learn basics of plant care, watering, sun, soil, pots, etc. Good luck & enjoy! |
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AU's Lifelong Learning Announces 6 Spring Courses
The spring term for Lifelong Learning Institute at Anderson University offers six courses including poetry, history, a Broadway musical, a writing workshop, and international relations.
Classes meet once a week and are scheduled on several different days, making it possible for participants to take more than one class, All courses meet at AU's Athletic Campus (the old fairgrounds), with a parking lot near the classroom wing. All classes are on ground level.
Harriett Richie's "Reading Poetry for the Joy of It" will meet 2 to 3:30 p. m. on three Mondays, March 18, March 25, and April 1. Mrs. Richie has written fiction and nonfiction for national publications and is a two-time winner of the South Carolina Arts Commission's annual Fiction Project. She has taught Creative Writing for the Anderson School District Five Community Education program and for LLI.
Dr. Bonnie Ledbetter will lead six sessions on "Colonial American Naturalists," Tuesdays, 3 to 4 p.m., beginning March 5 and ending April 16. She will trace 18th century searches for seeds and plants in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. With combined interest in history and science, Dr. Ledbetter has taught at Texas A&M University and Clemson University.
Scott Withrow, who has taught several history-related LLI courses at AU, will teach "Carolina Genesis," studying a mixed ethnic people who migrated from the Carolinas to the Old Southwest. He is a retired public school teacher and a guide at the Cowpens National Battlefield site. The class will meet four Tuesday nights, 7 to 8:30, beginning February 19, with an optional fifth night.
Jan Osburn will lead a workshop for writing fiction and non-fiction on six Wednesday mornings, 10 to 11:15, beginning February 20. Mrs. Osburn holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of the South in Sewanee. Beginning and intermediate writers will submit original manuscripts of not more than 15 pages and provide copies for other members of the workshop. Enrollment will be limited to 15 participants.
Dr. Jim Chisman will conduct five sessions on the historic Broadway and Hollywood musical, "Show Boat," on five Wednesday afternoons, 2 to 4, March 20 through April 17. The class will view several movie versions of the classic based on Edna Ferber's novel. A retired professor of industrial engineering from Clemson University, Dr. Chisman has also done productivity consulting work in the U. S. and abroad. He enjoys performing in musicals, collecting antiques and art, sports and has written seven books so far. He has taught several LLI courses.
Craig Johnson will lead the popular current international issues course, "Great Decisions," on eight Thursdays, 3:45 to 5:15 p.m., from February 21to April 18. He has taught LLI courses for a decade, including his popular audio-visual presentations. Topics include "Future of the euro," "Egypt," "NATO," "Myanmar and Southeast Asia," "Intervention," "Iran," "China in Africa" and "Threat assessment."
Lifelong Learning Institute is a membership program. Costs include an annual $30 membership fee, which entitles members to register for courses, each of which costs $20.
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Begin aligning your saw by removing the table. It's easy to do. Take off the blade, then unscrew and remove the knobs under the trunnions. The table just lifts off.
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Gwynne Dyer: The impact of oil sanctions against Iran
There are cynics among us who would argue that the European Union's oil sanctions against Iran, which went into full effect on July 1, are a double triumph for Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
If you assume that the real reason for his apparent hysteria over the alleged threat of Iranian nuclear weapons is to divert international attention from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, then his strategy has been a spectacular success. The main reason that Israel's allies are imposing these sanctions is to head off an Israeli military strike against Iran that would destabilise the entire region—and in the meantime, nobody is talking about the Palestinians.
In addition, the wily Netanyahu gets a bonus, for these sanctions really are going to hurt Iran economically. Iran is Israel's most dangerous and implacable enemy, and suddenly its oil exports, and with them its hard currency earnings, are going to be cut in half. Not a bad return on an Israeli policy that cost nothing except some threatening rhetoric.
To be fair, not everybody is convinced that Netanyahu's wild talk about attacking Iran is just hot air. A whole parade of senior Israeli military and intelligence officials has gone public to say that there is no imminent threat of Iranian nuclear weapons, and that attacking Iran "pre-emptively" would be deeply stupid. Clearly, they think Netanyahu really is a mad dog—but many others remain unconvinced.
In any case, the question of the moment is not Netanyahu's strategy. It is whether these sanctions will hurt Iran so much that it will have to give up its cherished programme for an independent capacity to enrich nuclear fuel in order to make the pain stop. The answer is: probably not, but they're going to hurt a lot.
The European Union normally takes about one-fifth of Iran's exports. If Iran cannot find new markets elsewhere, the loss of those exports would be serious but not crippling. However, at the same time the United States is imposing punitive measures on countries elsewhere in the world that continue to buy Iranian oil, and Europe has banned its maritime insurance companies from selling cover to ships carrying Iranian oil.
European companies still dominate the global market for maritime insurance, so that matters: South Korea, for example, will stop buying Iranian oil this week. And while the most powerful countries outside Europe can safely defy the American threat of punitive measures, knowing that they can negotiate exemptions for themselves, many weaker countries have no choice but to obey the American demands.
A week ago (June 27), an Iranian official admitted privately that the country's oil exports had already fallen 20 to 30 percent from the normal level of 2.2 million barrels a day. It is estimated that by July 1, the day all the sanctions came formally into effect, lost sales of Iranian oil amounted to more than a million barrels a day—that is to say, about half of the usual total.
This is not a trivial matter for Tehran. Given that the price of oil is also significantly down, and that Iran is now discounting oil sales to its traditional customers heavily to keep them from defecting, its ability to pay for imports is going to be severely constrained—this in a country where the average price of ten basic foods has already risen 70 percent in three months.
And there is another matter as well. Iran is already storing oil offshore in tankers, but that is clearly only a short-term solution to the problem of what to do with the unsold surplus. It is also cutting back on how much oil it pumps: the latest figures from the Organisation of Petroleum-Exporting Countries say that Iranian production is already down by 720,000 barrels per day.
But after a certain point Tehran can no longer deal with the problem by just cutting production at all its wells; it has to start shutting some of them down completely. Restarting production later can be tricky, and some wells will be permanently damaged by the shutdown. The longer the sanctions last, the more difficult it will become for the Iranian regime.
Yet there is almost no chance that Iran will back down. You do not have to assume that the regime really wants to build nuclear weapons to explain its defiance. This is a country that has faced a century of exploitation and humiliation at the hands of the West, and even those Iranians who loathe the regime will close ranks in defence of their nation's right to enrich its own nuclear fuel.
On the other side, President Barack Obama will go on tightening the screws, because he dares not gamble that Netanyahu is only bluffing about attacking Iran at least until he has won re-election this November. There is no sign that other oil-exporting countries are going to show solidarity with Iran, and there is enough oil on the market at the moment that nobody else is going to go short of the stuff because of the embargo.
So it is going to be a long confrontation, and a miserable experience for the average Iranian. But for the rest of the world, it will just be a news story.
- win for Israel & Netanyahoo (yes, I misspelled that deliberately)
- win for Obama - sanctions are slow acting medicine, and he needs time to get past the election before he can do something decisive (if he chooses to)
- win for the oil companies, because this situation can only escalate and that means oil prices will eventually go back up
[sarcasm: on]
The only people who lose are the Iranians and the Palestinians, but who cares about them?
Oh, and the average Israeli in the street loses, too, because eventually the worm will turn (it always does if you wait long enough) and Israel won't be the only regional superpower in the MIddle East and the US won't be the world's only super power.
Oh, and all us average people in Canada, Europe and the US lose, because we'll keep paying more at the pump and our militaries will eventually be called upon to try to keep the peace in the Middle East.
And in the meantime, Mr. Harper keeps tying us closer and closer to Israel, so by the time something serious does happen we'll have a treaty obligation to help defend Israel against the hordes of foaming, mad-dog Arabs - all 100% of whom, I can guarantee you, want nothing more than to drive Israel into the sea, kill all the Jews and then start on us infidels.
[sarcasm: off]
--Pear Harbour.
Dyer neglects to detail a likely end-game the longer this egregious aggression against Iran is allowed to stand. The regime will hurt you back by mining the straits of Hormuz. Keep in mind all that have to do is announce that a "limited number of mines" will be activated per month in the Straits as long as American/Israeli attacks on their economy continue. It could be real or it could be bluff, but watch the insurance rates go through the ceiling and the price for gas soar.
Israel government 'reckless and irresponsible' says ex-Mossad chief
Meir Dagan attacks Binyamin Netanyahu for aggression towards Iran, and for failing to make any progress with the Palestinians
That quote by a man who has protected and still intends to protect Israel pretty much sums it up..
Of course as Iran gets more boxed in it can raise the price of Oil to $200 by simply launching various attacks in the Strait...
That of course will screw us all given the fragile Economic situation worldwide...:) the EU would be fucked the most...ironic..:)
No one mentions Israels 200 working nuclear weapons and its South Africa Apartheid of Palestine, West Bank and Gaza. Why because the US and some Canadian media is compliant with Israel, Christian fanatics and the far right.
Iran's low enriched uranium is being watched by the UN so there is no way Iran could build a nuke, hence the bs.
Like Iraq and Afghanistan the nuts in the USA and worldwide need wars that starve and kill entire populations. Sad.
The economic decline of 'sainted and blameless' Iran seems to be due to a number of factors, some of which Dwyer did not touch upon, such as a general global economic downturn, and an increase in oil production by Iraq and Saudi Arabia. As for the high increases in food items, once again Dwyer fails to mention that the Iranian government subsidized the cost of food, medicine, fuel, etc. for the entire population decades and recently stopped doing so. It is small wonder that the price of everything is increasing. Whether this is economic mismanagement or a cynical attempted by the Iranian theocracy to manipulate the population, remains to be seen.
Being just as cynical as Dwyer, I cannot help but wonder, is Iran, which has been trying to get its hands on nuclear weapons since the days of the Shah, really building a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes?
Being cynical means nothing but telling the truth about Iran's non existent nukes and Israels 200 is key to this story.
and the above post is completely wrong sanctions will only hurt the middle class and even kill innocent poor people. It will do nothing to stop their legal Nuclear program under the NPT. You dont have to like the Iranian leadership but they are not irrational in the slightest.
If you believed the Iraq hype you will believe this. It is a good diversion from the Palestinian issue, the dire straights in Iraq and Afghanistan and the terrible American and EU economies.
The nuts always need a fall guy that really should be Saudi Arabia and that type. But hey Iran for all its bad leadership is a very strong and sophisticated nation, that is self reliant. In todays world that is dangerous.
On the contrary, according to emails leaked by the Syrian opposition and obtained by the UK's Guardian, Syrian President Bashar Assad was advised by Iranian officials to divert attention towards Israel and Palestine to deflect from worldwide condemnation towards him.


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anyone wanna trade one is pink with purple polkadots and the other is kinda a burgundy color im looking for yellows or wasps |
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After owning around 5 meyer lemons and reading these boards for the last year or so,(and with most sources seeming to sell cutting grown meyers) I began to wonder if most of the problems people were experiencing with growing container meyers had to do with them just being more fussy on their own roots.
Last summer I decided to find out if maybe a grafted meyer would do any better for me. Having never tried a meyer in the gritty mix, I decided to purchase two and try a completely non-scientific test. - A larger bushy cutting from ebay.
Both the lemons were treated roughly the same. Water when approaching dry, fertilize with foliage pro every other watering, kept in the same location, ect. Within a month the cutting had leaves that were turning yellow and falling off. It was a constant struggle to keep it from shedding its leaves. It struggled until winter, where it kept trying to flower from stress and killed itself. Meanwhile, The grafted meyer had done absolutely nothing since I bought it. No leaf loss,(I'd hope not, it only had 3 to begin with)no flowering, no growth.. at least not until about 2 months ago. It has since put out 3 new branches of leaves, and after slipping it out of its pot for a quick look, I can see tons of new white roots. So has anyone found similar results to me, or have you experienced trouble with grafted meyers too? |
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Z You don't describe the fate of your previous Meyer lemons, so forgive me if my advice is too basic. First, I don't think you've allowed enough time to reach any conclusions about the grafted tree other than when purchased it was in its dormant phase, and two months ago it emerged out of that phase. If all goes well, you'll probably see another flush of growth later this spring. The cutting-derived tree sounds like it may have experienced some relocation shock or some kind of cultivation-related problem (overly dry air, too much fertilizer, a poor root-to-leaf ratio, dry pockets in the soil, etc.). However, that said, my Meyer Lemon, which may be a grafted tree, though I'm not at all certain, which I've had for 25 years, drops many of its older leaves every fall like clockwork as soon as I bring it inside for the winter (my other trees drop their older leaves too, but the Meyer is more extreme in its behavior). The Meyer lemon also always looks more bedraggled than the other citrus trees: it has a sparser canopy of leaves, and its coarse growth pattern is unsightly compared to the relatively petite branching patterns of my Key Lime, Calamondin, and seed grown orange. The Meyer Lemon is closest to my Ponderosa lemon in its appearance, which I suppose makes sense! You may also want to cut back on the fertilization schedule when the trees are not actively growing. I've grown containerized citrus for over 30 years, and I don't usually fertilize them when they are dormant. When they are flowering and actively growing, I fertilize every two or three weeks at most, and I cut the recommended amount of fertilizer in half (I've used Peters' blend for acid-loving plants, though it is now marketed under the Jack's Classic label). If a tree is struggling, giving it a sizable dose of nitrogen every other watering is probably causing it more stress than less. This is possibly even more so in the case of a rooted cutting, which may not have a root system that is completely up to the task of supporting new growth and flowers. |
Hi, Don. Thanks for the info. What you said about it being dormant makes sense, as a navel orange I bought at the same time is also putting out growth after doing nothing all year. I didn't really post much info about the meyer that died, outside of the basic outline, because I wasn't really looking to save it.(what with it being dead and all, lol) It was the only plant I've lost for unknown reasons this year.(I lost two others as a result of depotting in a windstorm)Every other plant I've overwintered has made it through till now pretty much unchanged. In my mind, it was a meyer being a meyer. But perhaps I did do something to cause it undo stress and kill it. I don't think it was the fert, though. I'm fertilizing every other week w/ foliage pro using the "maintenance" dosage (1/4 a tsp per gallon of water, which is actually suggested to be done every watering) |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (My Page) on Thu, Mar 3, 11 at 13:12
Z, Were both Meyers in the same potting mix? I didn't understand that part, since each were purchased from different sources. All my citrus trees are grafted. Two advantages, grafted trees are less prone to disease and produces, 'fruit' much faster. This might or night not be related to your question. Several years ago, I sowed a lemon seed from a store-bought fruit. (type unknown) I then read 'seedlings' take 14-yrs before flowering or fruiting, opposed to grafted trees that can produce fruit at one-year-old. BTW, this experiment was done before the net, prior to buying grafted citrus trees. I ended up placing the seed-grown citrus in the alley. lol. Junk-men, or whatever their new title is these days, are always looking for unwanted items. I also posted a note saying, Take Me.' lol. It was gone the same day. Are you asking if one type of growth is better than the other? Toni |
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Trouble with the Curve director Robert Lorenz brings out the best in Clint Eastwood
BEVERLY HILLS—There isn't enough attention paid to prostate trouble in American film. Hence, we must congratulate director Robert Lorenz and his young protégé, a groaning Clint Eastwood, for bringing attention to this (almost) silent epidemic right there in the first scene of their new film, Trouble With the Curve (now playing).
For some reason, the director laughs when the Georgia Straight brings this up in a hotel room in Los Angeles, where Lorenz is doing promo work for his debut feature. "I wasn't quite sure how Clint was gonna handle it," he says with a chuckle. "It's a funny way to open a movie, I guess."
It is, but it's important nonetheless, because it establishes that Eastwood's character, Gus Lobel, a scout for baseball's Atlanta Braves, is facing more than a few health issues in his declining years. He could go to Web MD for useless advice like the rest of us do, except that his eyesight is fading and, anyway, he thinks "the interwebs" is for young dorks.
Trouble With the Curve isn't strictly about the horrors of growing old—Amy Adams as Lobel's neurotic daughter and Justin Timberlake as her new flame give breadth to the low-key drama—but it is Eastwood and his various infirmities who dominates the film. "Clint didn't shy away from that aspect," Lorenz comments, appreciatively. "He made something of his age, you know?"
In a market more prone to giving us ultraviolent fascist cops in 3-D (something, ironically, that Eastwood was pioneering in two dimensions back in the '70s), an autumnal family drama starring an 82-year-old crank must be a pretty tough sell.
"With someone like Clint, you have a huge advantage because he's still relevant," Lorenz reasons. "But one of the things that really appealed to me about the story is that it had broad appeal. It had younger people; it had baseball; it had comedy; and I do like the fact that it's not just the traditional father-daughter issues they're having: there's also this role-reversal that's going on where she's now having to think about taking care of her father."
There's a similar dynamic going on behind the camera. Lorenz has been working with Eastwood since the mid-'90s, starting as assistant director and working his way up to the position of producer. At a conference for the movie, Eastwood admitted that directing himself was getting a little exhausting at his age (or "kind of stupid", in his words). Lorenz was an obvious choice for a job like this one, and their relationship—"I know from experience what makes him comfortable so he can do his best," he notes—yields some of the most vulnerable work the actor has ever done.
"I was anxious to get a chance to direct Clint because I think sometimes he sells himself short when he directs himself," Lorenz says. "Certainly, in the editing room, he's a modest guy and he never wants to showcase himself too much. I was anxious to get the opportunity to really show what he can do." Or, going back to that first scene, what he can't, at least without a little extra effort.
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Hello: Just wanted to say that I attended the presentation last Sat at Lewis Ginter (Richmond, VA) and it was fabulous! The Tylers know their stuff! If you have a chance to hear them, by all means, go! Their slides were terrific and I came out enthused (which is how you like to leave plant lectures!). So enthused, in fact, that I made a trip to the Great Big Greenhouse to purchase a beautiful Pine Knot Strain pink hellebore!
It's blooming as well as white with maroon spreckles (already in my garden) and a deep maroon one (ditto). The blooms are so welcome this time of year! |
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Great Big Greenhouse would be Pine Knot's greenhouse? How was it? Are there a lot of things in bloom? |
- Posted by gonegardening 7 VA (My Page) on Tue, Feb 7, 06 at 22:49
No...Great Big Greenhouse is a nursery in Richmond (VA). The Tylers had delivered some the night before the lecture to the GBG. I had hoped they would bring some with them to the lecture...and when I asked, they told me about the delivery. They will be having two open weekends. I think one around the end of Feb and one in early March. Check their website for better info and great pictures! Thanks for your reply! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pine Knot Farms
I heard the Tylers give a talk at Winterthur Garden Days in Delaware last summer. I also purchased some plants at their booth there. Their open garden days this year sound very interesting, and my wife and I have already marked our calendar for them. George |
That does look interesting. |
I plugged it into Mapquest and it would be over 8 hour drive one way. Too bad! |
- Posted by gonegardening 7 VA (My Page) on Tue, Feb 21, 06 at 8:34
Well, hi everyone! Winterthur! Lucky you! Unfortunately, my one trip (so far) that way I missed Winterthur as we discovered it was closed on Sunday...the day we had set aside for it. Oh well. Another time! Do you attend their plant sales? If I am not working (unlikely, I usually work weekends and business will begin to pick up around then), I, too, would like to make the trek to Pine Knot's open weekends. If you go, please take some pictures and post them for us! One of the magazines out now (I forget exactly which one) has an article on Barry Glick of Sunshine Farms in it. Anybody see that? |
Haven't seen the article about Barry, but the latest "Horticulture" has an article on dividing H. X Hybridis (Lenten Rose) plants. George |
Today's the day...wish I was there. |
Did no one go to the Pine Knot openhouse? |
I must not be doing something right. I bought a nice one last year at Winterthur and the nicest lady there gave my wife and I 2 free ones, one for each or our sons. I planted them when we got home. They aren't doing anything and look weak. The two existing ones I have, have only put out like 3 blooms each over the past two years but don't seem to be getting any bigger. |
I am finding that in some spots in my yard the hellebores grow well, and in other spots they "don't do anything and look weak" like you describe. I think it may be the soil ph. I tried adding wood ashes to one area a few times this winter, and it's to early to say ... but I see new growth and I think the plants may be perking up. Maybe you could pot one up, or divide one and pot up part of it, and see how well it grows in good potting soil. |
Yep, I was at 'Pine Knot" the minute they opened on Sat. Feb. 25. Saw many wonderful doubles and others in the gardens in full bloom, and Dick and Judith were wonderful hosts. Bought 10 plants and would have got more but the mad rush got many of the ones I loved before my paws reached them. Aimed for a nice yellow double, but not fast enough, and settled for a very nice, though small, pink one. Got a couple of large yellow singles ,on the creamy side, one spotted and one not, a star shape basically a dark maroon with lighter edge (really ovrlapping dots but gives a reverse picotee effect), and a small flowered one with the most beautiful leaves, very finely toothed and red tinted. Also 2 nice H. foetidus varieties in 4" pots, and 3 from the bargain table, (5" in bloom at $6.00). Took lots of photos, but haven't got them downloaded from the camera yet. My wife, an artist, took about 100 shots of the garden and about 200 more of old tobacco sheds and falling-down log cabins we passed in route. Took 2 hours to get back down to Hwy 85 as we stopped so many times. George |
I figured it would be competitive. Still it must have been a great day and I would love to see your pics. |
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Pinterest Reveals Its First Transparency Report
samzenpus posted about a year ago | from the who-asked-what dept.
23SmartAboutThings writes "There's been a lot of brouhaha surrounding privacy these days, and despite the fact that Pinterest isn't among the most targeted websites when it comes to government data requests, the company, which is said to have near 80 million users, has decided to make public its first ever transparency report. Given the nature of the service and the fact that it is much smaller than Facebook, it was only natural not to expect too many data requests. According to Pinterest's report, from July to December 2013, the company has received only 7 warrants, 5 subpoenas, 1 civil subpoena, and 0 other requests about 13 user accounts. Compare that to Microsoft which has received more than 35,000 requests during the second half of last year while Facebook received somewhere around 15,000."


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McDonald's Tests Order-Ahead App for Those Too Lazy To Use Drive-Through
Ronald McDonald heard that some people are unsatisfied with the speed of their fast food.
Now McDonald's is running more trials of the order-ahead app they began experimenting with last year. The app, now called McD Ordering, will allow customers to place orders from their smartphones and pick them up without having to wait in line or even Read More


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Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at Lively Stone Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Rosedale with Bishop Paul Williams officiating. Burial will follow in Martin Cemetery in Dry Bayou under the direction of T.L. Redmon Funeral Home in Cleveland.
Visitation will be from 3-6 p.m. on Friday, March 7, 2014, at Redmon Funeral Home in Rosedale, and from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Saturday at the church.
She is survived by her sons, Ronald Fortney of Merigold and Ralifo Fortney of Rosedale; daughters, Etosha Davis of Rosedale and Umeka Jackson of Raymond; brothers, Sanders Williams of Cleveland, Alfred Williams and Oscar Williams of Rosedale, Herbert Williams of Memphis, Tenn., and Calvin Williams of North Carolina; sisters, Helen Williams of Rosedale, Rhuebirda Drummer of Houston, Texas and Theresa Banks of Belleville, Mich.; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.


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Golden Age? Sure, But TV Will Always Aspire to Be Film
Boiling Point By Robert Fure on May 28, 2012 | Comments (25)It seems that we are living in a golden age of television. With shows ranging from Mad Men to Game of Thrones or Modern Family to Dexter, Breaking Bad, or anything else garnering epic amounts of hype, one might view Battleship or its ilk and come to the conclusion that TV is better than the movies. James Wolcott at Vanity Fair came to that conclusion, as did the folks at IndieWire (although Cole took a somewhat different stance). Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion, no matter how wrong it is. While there is certainly a lot of great television out there, the theater experience still trumps all. Television will never usurp the cinema just as crude sex robots will never usurp hookers. When someone wants to describe a really great looking television show, they say it "feels like a movie." No one ever describes great films as "being like television." Television aspires to be film and in some instances, comes close. Film, safely perched on its tower, has no desire to be more like TV.
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Porting `iterate` to Ruby
I originally posted this as an email to the Ruby Parley mailing list, but I thought it might have broader appeal.
I've been writing some code that deals with time ranges recently.
I've also been playing with functional languages where list manipulation is common when solving pretty much any problem that can be modeled as list manipulation!
List manipulation is desirable when it results in code that is easier to reason about, does not mutate state, avoids unnecessary looping structures (again, often with mutable state), or keeps the door open for solving the problem in a different way.
While Ruby has Enumerator
and Enumerable
(which are great!), they revolve
around methods that yield. But there's a large variety of methods that
"iterate" (without side effects) but don't yield. For instance, ActiveSupport
provides Time#next_month
, but not Time#each_month
So, I built an enumerator that is modeled after Clojure's
My Iterator
assumes you give it a method (free from side effects) that, well,
class Iterator < Enumerator
def initialize(object, method)
super() do |y|
y << object
loop { y << object = object.__send__(method) }
The code may be a bit dense at first, but Ruby's Enumerator
is doing the
heavy lifting. I find it pretty great that Ruby gives me the tools to build
something like that in a few lines of code.
My original use case was dates and times:
require 'date'
# First 6 months of a given year
Iterator.new(Date.new(2013, 1, 1), :next_month).take(6)
# [#<Date: 2013-01-01>, #<Date: 2013-02-01>, #<Date: 2013-03-01>,
# #<Date: 2013-04-01>, #<Date: 2013-05-01>, #<Date: 2013-06-01>]
# With ActiveSupport, range of the first 3 months of a given year
Iterator.new(Time.new(2013, 1, 1), :next_month).
# => [2013-01-01 00:00:00 -0500..2013-01-31 23:59:59 -0500,
# 2013-02-01 00:00:00 -0500..2013-02-28 23:59:59 -0500,
# 2013-03-01 00:00:00 -0500..2013-03-31 23:59:59 -0400]
also adds an elegant way to generate infinite number sequences which
can often be good substitutes for loops:
# First 10 3-digit "palindrome numbers"
Iterator.new(100, :next).
lazy.select { |n| n.to_s == n.to_s.reverse }.take(10).to_a
# => [101, 111, 121, 131, 141, 151, 161, 171, 181, 191]
If you're a fan of freedom patching, you can add an #iter_for method to Object:
class Object
def iter_for(method)
Iterator.new(self, method)
… then you get:
require 'date'
Date.new(2013, 1, 1).iter_for(:next_month).take(6)
# [#<Date: 2013-01-01>, #<Date: 2013-02-01>, #<Date: 2013-03-01>,
# #<Date: 2013-04-01>, #<Date: 2013-05-01>, #<Date: 2013-06-01>]
If you're interested in seeing #iter_for in Ruby 2.1, please comment on or watch Feature Request #8506.


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Kailyn Lowry is in love with her husband, Javi Marroquin, but before him came Jordan Wenner and before him was baby-daddy Jo Rivera. Some people believe MTV is scripted and a recent report claimed that Kailyn actually had to reenact a sexual scene with her baby-daddy in season two of Teen Mom 2.
When Radar tweeted a link to Kailyn's claim she quickly responded and had a totally different story.
"I never reenacted that hook up!" Kailyn tweeted along with an angry emoji.
The article doesn't specify which hookup, but fans can assume that it was the one that happened during the second season of Teen Mom 2 where Kailyn had to confess the mistake she had made to her boyfriend at the time, Jordan before she attempted to rekindle her relationship with Jo.
Well, hopefully Kailyn is right and that wasn't reenacted because that would be pretty wrong to force someone to do.
If you want more drama, stay tuned to MTV to see the premiere of Teen Mom 2 season five on Jan. 21.


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Does anyone have a back-up generator for your home in case you lose power? I want to look into getting one but have no idea where to start. Any info or links would be appreciated. Thank you! |
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I'm aware of two basic types -- Gasoline-powered, and natural gas-powered. In general: - The gasoline-powered generators are portable, lower power (can't supply power to as many appliances) and are lower cost -- $400-800 or so depending on power. You also need to be able to get gas to run them, so if electricity's out for a long time over a large area, you could run out of luck when you run out of gas. When a prolonged power outage hits, you drag out the generator, fill it with gas, power it up, and plug extension cords into it. In general, they're also noisy and need to be turned off every few hours to cool down. - The natural gas generators I've seen are designed to be whole-house (or nearly whole-house) replacement power sources that get hooked up to the home's natural gas line and come on automatically near-instantaneously with any power outage. They need to be installed and hooked up by a professional, and home power uses are routed through the generator at the whole-circuit level. Unlike gasoline units, natural gas-powered units are quiet, and are supposed to offer an even enough power supply to operate computers without damaging them. I believe they run around $5,000 installed for a whole-house unit, slightly less for a smaller unit, and slightly more for more powerful ones. There was some speculation that natural-gas units might improve a home's resale value, but I'm not betting on it, except in the most hurricane-prone areas. |
- Posted by suburbanmd (My Page) on Thu, May 13, 10 at 19:18
For $5000 you might be able to get a small natural gas generator permanently hooked up to the house, as backup for selected circuits. It won't be a "whole house" generator that powers all circuits in the house, unless it's a very, very small house. Gas generators are powered by internal-combustion engines that happen to burn natural gas, or propane, rather than gasoline. They're still plenty noisy. |
One thing to keep in mind when deciding is that none of the above (or anything else) will restore any level of power for more than e.g. 8 hrs, and are meant to be run intermittently, the way you would run the engine of a car for 10 mins. at a time (to save gas for more 'runs') with long breaks in between, to keep heat going when stuck in the middle of nowhere. You're not going to have infinite power back for any function, but at least you get to use the microwave, warm up the baby's room, have more light than a candle, etc. for specific times. |
- Posted by suburbanmd (My Page) on Thu, May 13, 10 at 22:41
With a continuous source of fuel like natural gas, you can run days at a time, with occasional shutdowns (once a day, maybe) to check the engine oil. |
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I am using Amazon Web Services EC2 EBS (elastic block storage), which just came out. This provides a means of making a permanent file system for a cloud computing server ...
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Using pivot_root and chroot to change the root directory upon bootup
mount /dev/sdi /real_root
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I have tried this but I lose the machine (instance), so far I have been unable to figure out what is going wrong, I would appreciate if anyone has any advice.


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Private services will be held by her family in Kilgore, Texas.
She was born on Feb. 2, 1933 in Enterprise to John Dewey Dority and Doris Avery Dority.
Kimes was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Charles A. Kimes Sr. She was a volunteer and Literacy Coordinator for the Bolivar County Literacy Council from 1986-1996. She was a member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church.
Survivors include her children, Charles A. Kimes Jr. (Pamela) of St. Marys, Ga., Linda Kimes Adams (Ron) of Lake Village, Ark., Toni Kimes Morris (Kevin) of Kilgore, Texas: grandchildren, Jessica Joan Edwards and Kaylee Lynn Morris; brother, John Parker Dority (Celeste) of Sarasota, Fla.; and niece, Parker Hilary Dority of Austin, Texas.
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So my name is Hank, I have a pretty Epic life, and a pretty epic site....in my head....but I can't seem to get it out of my head without looking like some marketed garbage bag of the same ol', same ol' shit that everyone out there is posting when they try to sell stuff. I've done cool things like climbed pyramids in Guatemala, raced the Nurgurgring in Germany, gone to the Running of the Bulls, and built a ton of epic web sites and invented lots of cool shit. I'd like to tell you about all of that, but my stupid brain can't seem to work when I'm designing my own site....just other peoples sites. Funny how that works.
Sitting under the covers of the worlds simplest web page (this one, for the slow folks) is actually a ton of tech waiting to be unleashed. It's hosted on Microsoft's Azure platform, it's got databases and mobile capabilities, and a virtual ass load of potential capability, but I can't think of what to do with it all, so it just sits there humming away. Even this page is composed in MVC4, with Twitter Bootstrap, and jQuery, and SignalR, and the project it's sitting in is all mega, and amped up, and ready to go, but I don't know why I'm making the site, or what I want it to be, or why I'm spending time doing it instead of watching tv.
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As most of you probably don't know (because I'm IN THE KNOW), there's a little movie that's being made, involving some of our favorite Firefly characters, and it just so happens to be one of my favorite Shakespeare plays.
Yea, that really happened. You know, Nathan and I are on a first name Twitter handle basis. We go way back to before Earth That Was got used up.
HERE'S THE NEWS: Much Ado About Nothing starring….all of the actors listed on that site.
The important thing to take from all of this is that NATHAN FILLION and SEAN MAHER will be in a movie. TOGETHER.
Upon hearing the news, I imagined this was all a big promotional scam on Joss Whedon's part. By MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, he really meant: SERENITY 2: WASH IS A REAVER.
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I have been on HRT for approx. 2 years..I am 59 years old.. (prometrium & vivelle dot patch). Last year, I had 2 periods (thought it was odd, but thought it might be altitude related, since I was visiting Colorado both times! ) Now I am having a period in my home state, out of nowhere, lasting more than 5 days w/cramps. Is this normal? My ob/gyn wants to do an ultrasound. Does anyone know what this entails? Is this a non-invasive ultrasound? Has this happened to anyone else? Of course I am scared to death about CANCER. Comments, anyone?
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Hi ginny, I've had several transvaginal ultrasounds, which is what I'm thinking your doc wants you to have. They are easy and not painful. They insert a probe up your vagina, and get good pics of the thickness of the uterus and of the ovaries. Try not to worry about some awful disease. Hormones can do weird things. When is your ultrasound? |
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We love living in the cities and towns in the Greater Boston area and here's another of our 52 reasons why. At Barrett & Company Real Estate, we encourage support and patronage of local businesses and organizations. This includes community, regional and school theatre productions. We want to share some of our favorites with you.
- Our neighbors at The Concord Players in Concord MA are bringing 'Little Women' to life
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell MA is finishing up a successful run of 'Daddy Long Legs'
- Concord-Carlisle High School in Concord MA will be performing 'A Little Night Music'
- Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston in Waltham MA is bringing 'A Little Bit of Ireland' to town
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You Can't Buy Talent, Except Sometimes You Can: The Best Free Agent Values Between 2005 And 2012
Brent Morris
October 31 2012 07:17AM
In July of 2005, the NHL and NHLPA put aside their differences to sign a collective bargaining agreement which would no doubt stand for all time. With that eternal and faultless document came a salary cap, which was to be set at $39 million for the 2005-06 season and would move for subsequent seasons in concert with league revenues. Coming along with the cap was a decreased age for free agency - it was set at 31 for 2005, but would decrease over time to cover all 27 year old players and players who'd accrued 7 NHL seasons.
NHLE Scoring Leaderboard 10/30
Josh L.
October 30 2012 03:24PM
The international scoring race is something to behold. The scoreboards are filling up internationally, and thanks to the work of Gabe Desjardins we can compare the scoring rates across leagues. Using Gabe's NHL equivalencies I've put together the top scorers in all of the hockey world. All Major Junior, AHL, KHL, SEL, DEL, SMLIGA, and Swiss league scorers are considered. The NCAA wasn't included this time due to how few games they've played, but if the lockout drags on they'll be included in the near future.
The current world leading scorer is, you guessed it, Martin Ruzicka. Ok, maybe you didn't guess it. The full top 50 is after the jump.
Number Chains - October 30, 2012 Links
Josh L.
October 30 2012 12:43PM
This new, regular feature on NHLNumbers will share interesting stats-related posts from around the web almost every day.
Welcome to edition number four of the rebooted Number Chains. In this space you will be able to find the best analytical hockey writing from around the internet on a close-to-daily basis. Subject matter will include statistical evaluation, financial analysis, contractual issues, and (sometimes) closely-related tangential works. If you have something you would like to submit for a future edition (your writing or that of someone else) feel free to send it to me via Twitter @JoshL1220 or leave a comment.
Ken Campbell's latest column for The Hockey News delves into an idea ex-NHLPA czar Paul Kelly suggested for bridging the gap between the two sides in the labor struggle. The idea Kelly floated was to expand the league by two teams into fertile markets to grow the pie for everyone.
Not that anybody is asking, since he was kicked to the curb by his own dysfunctional constituents three years ago, but former NHL Players' Association executive director Paul Kelly has some thoughts on what might ease the logjam. And it has to do with expansion, specifically to suburban Toronto (Markham) and Quebec City. As Kelly sees it, making expansion a part of the conversation when it comes to the new collective bargaining agreement could bring both sides closer to realizing their goals.
"If the NHLPA hasn't raised it as a potential part of the solution, then it ought to," Kelly said. "Maybe they've tried and had the door slammed in their face from what we're seeing, but it really makes a great deal of sense."
As Campbell points out in the story, adding two expansion teams would require the NHL and NHLPA to change the definition of Hockey Related Revenue to include expansion fees. It would also require the NHL to annoy the Maple Leafs and Canadiens by putting teams in their backyards, but as Campbell also points out that doesn't seem to be a sticking point with the Islanders moving to the Barclays Center, six miles away from the Rangers. The idea is simple, but also radical at this stage of the negotiations. It's at least interesting to consider.
After the jump the latest from Corey Pronman, Eastern European racists, and even more lockout news.
Under appreciated players - Daniel Winnik, puck-possession forward
Cam Charron
October 30 2012 07:10AM
He's not an All-Star and his team gets out-scored more when he's on the ice than not, but as for third line depth talent the Anaheim Ducks could have done a whole lot worse this summer than when they signed Daniel Winnik.
Winnik's offensive talents are quite limited. In 366 NHL games, he has just 37 goals, but more troubling is that his career shooting percentage after 622 career shots is merely 5.9%. In essence, he's a defenceman. There aren't a lot of forwards who can sustain such long careers despite not lighting the lamp, and many of the forwards who do are hockey's pugilists. Daniel Winnik is not that thing, but he gets good ice-time minutes despite being not particularly effective offensively. Why? Because he's a very good defensive performer.
On Picking Fourth Liners
Kent Wilson
October 29 2012 04:02PM
Justin Bourne recently wrote about the confusing, fuzzy line between players who make the show and others who plumb in relative obscurity forever on its edges. His notes on role perception, attitude, personality and effort as critical issues for guys at the bottom end of the rotation caused me to theorize a bit on the psychological underpinnings of the observed preferences of coaches and GM's for tough guys with team first attitudes.


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The 'Brickset effect' strikes again!
Posted by Huw,It seems that the Harry Potter sets are now out of stock at Tesco Direct. I reckon that means one of two things:
Either, everyone here ordered Tesco's entire stock between bluemoose's annoucement yesterday and today or, more likely, someone at LEGO had a quiet word with Tesco after reading about their early availability here and asked them to stop selling them.
Whatever, I'll be picking up mine from the shop tomorrow and it seems that the 'Brickset effect' strikes again!
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AWW man, I guess were gonna have to wait till October :(
no problem, there is NO WAY I can afford to buy these yet!
I ordered hogwarts yesterday so I am pretty lucky, I will review it on brickset and youtube
when has the brickset effect happened before?
@Darren - It happened with the series 2 minifigs early last week on TRU.com, and I'm sure there have been other cases as well.
@Darren, Re: nandel, it also happened with Amazon.Fr with the early release of 2010 SW. They got shut down a few weeks later. Anyone else recall the effect?
What a shame. I was hoping on buying a few this weekend possibly but that of course is out of the question. Looks like I will have to wait two months [huh].
I went in to store today and ordered The Burrow i'm told I will get it Friday, though I, or we, have so much to build at the moment it might not get opened till Christmas anyway.
If anyone has clubcard vouchers pay attention. Till Friday (I think) £10 worth of voucher can be exchanged for £20 worth of toys(or other Tesco direct products). I used £35 worth of tokens, paid an additional £14.90 something for "The Burrow" and "Plo Kloons Starfighter". Saving £70 (£35 really) seeing as we don't really budget for them. Offer ends 5th September.
I was going to order freeing dobby last night but didnt have the time was going to do it today but well i quess i cant
I contacted The LEGO Company, and they said that the sets were not supposed to be available in stores or on websites before October. So I guess they contacted Tesco about this. EVERYONE WHO MANAGED TO GET SOME SETS: YOU ARE REALLY LUCKY! I'm gonna have to wait another month... :-(
For those who now own the new harry potter sets even if it's just one of them e.g quidditch match you are very lucky.
Does anyone have these sets? If yes please can you take some close up photos especially of the castle? Thanks
I hear they're talking about making the Brickset Effect into a movie with Ashton Kutcher playing the part of Huw. :o)
Ordered all 6 sets from Tesco Direct at 2 AM on the 1st of September after seeing the information on here! Received in the post this morning. Really pleased to have all six sets more than a month early. Happy to post photos or answer questions but I'm not opening the boxes :)
We are photographing now. Give us an hour :)
I would love to open them but I've got so much else to build. Wasn't expecting to get a chance to grab these! Good times.
Box sizes (all in inches):
- 4736 Dobby 8" x 6" x 2"
- 4841 Express 21" x 11" x 3"
- 4840 Burrow 14" x 15" x 3"
- 4737 Quidditch 14" x 7" x 2"
- 4842 Hogwarts 23" x 15" x 3.5"
- 4738 Hagrid 19" x 11" x 2.5"
Thanks so much Natotron1979!
For those of you who have these sets and have already built them, could you please let me know how the Hogwarts Express, Freeing Dobby, and Hagrid's Hut are different from prior versions and what their special features are? The other three sets - Hogwarts Castle, the Burrow, and Quidditch Match all look fantastic in every way! :-)
@anyone who has the castle: Is it worth it?
@yellowcastle - I heard it was Kevin Spacey ;-)
Am I the only one who thinks these are a bit over priced? Like Hagrids Hut?
LEGO? Overpriced?
Unfortunately for me (as a LEGO Star Wars collector) my son has recently become obsessed with Harry Potter. I'm used to the financial kicking that LEGO dishes out so it looks like I'm going back for more punishment.
The prices are scandalous if the Tesco Direct catalogue is anything to go by. £40 for Hagrid's Hut, £10 for Dobby's Release. Scandalous as always but unless we all stop buying these sets then LEGO will charge what we will all keep paying.
Tesco just called! Oh yeah! Now i'm off to get The Burrow and Plo koons thingy. Good old Tescos.
The Brickset effect is definitely influential, but I guess not as much for us American Lego fans :)
well if "lukehankenobi" is any indication TLG reading brickset really needs to pull their head out of the mudd and slap around their distributors. TRU in the US always releases early and it seems other stores (amazon France) are trying to squeeze by and try to not get caught. Lego seriously needs to do more than a slap on the wrist to keep them in line. Its clearly not working with Tesco if 'lukehankenobi' gets those sets. I know staff at Brand Retail stores have to respect release dates and loose constantly to TRU and the like when they release early.
On the other hand when you don't order or buy from Lego you loose out on the vip points and if others aren't running some kind of sale or special its really a worse deal to buy early. IMHO the early gratification is not worth the extra money.
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