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Name: Anonymous Status: Other Age: 60s Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: June 2004
Is the rate at which batteries in a portable radio run down affected by the volume at which the radio is played?
In my opinion, ABSOLUTELY. I haven't designed any radio's / demodulators etc... But my guess is that the speaker and final amplifier are the most "power hoggish" elements of the entire unit.
While camping, I use a power inverter to convert 12.6 Vdc to 120Vac (wall current) so we can listen to the stereo and play CD's etc... Well, the inverter has a LED bar graph meter on it that shows power consumption (via an LED bar graph ammeter). The bar graph clearly moves up 1 or sometimes 2 "bar graph notches" when the stereo volume is turned up.
Great question.
Darin Wagner
Difficult to say. A battery has a certain amount of chemical energy stored in it. This energy is dissipated by the volume, but also by other losses (Ohm's law), the type of receiver, etc. It is difficult to say how the various pathways of energy loss will play out.
Vince Calder
Since energy is conserved, the energy in the sound waves must come from somewhere and the only source of energy is the batteries. However, the electronics could change the dependence of the rate of discharge on the volume by converting more electrical energy to heat at low volume than at high volume. This is a function of the detailed design of the electronics. Nonetheless, I would think that in general high volume runs the batteries down faster than low volume.
It would be interesting to know. If you have access to a battery operated radio and have rechargeable batteries and a charger, you could measure the lifetime of the battery charge at minimum and at maximum volume. You might want to repeat the experiment several times to see if the discharge times are consistent. It would be too expensive to do this experiment with normal batteries, I would think. Furthermore, recharging the same batteries in the same charger would, I believe, generate more reproducible results than using different batteries.
If you do this experiment, I would dearly love to see the results. Thank you in advance.
Best, Dick Plano, Professor of Physics emeritus, Rutgers University
Battery drain does depend on the volume. Some of the power from the batteries is used to tune in the radio station, demodulate the signal, and other things. The rest of the power is used to run the loudspeaker. Playing the radio loudly will run the batteries down faster. I measured the power use of my Walkman. With the volume turned down, power use was 30 milliwatts. At modest listening volume, power was 30 milliwatts. At fairly loud listening volume, power was 38 milliwatts. At full volume, which would be too loud for listening, power was 60 milliwatts.
Bob Erck
Yes. High sound volumes usually use up batteries faster. How much faster, depends on the design of the radio's electronic circuitry. The "background" parts of the circuitry draw the same battery current no matter what sound is played. But the final audio amplifier stage converts DC battery current to AC current in the speakers, which can be up to a few watts, very substantial for a battery. Sometimes the effect is only noticeable for the highest 6dB of the radio's sound volume range. Other times the background circuitry could be so efficient, so miserly, that the top 20-30dB matters, and your battery life is determined primarily by how much sound you choose to hear. And that refers to sound actually produced, not to the setting of the volume control knob. Almost all final amplifier circuits these days are good enough to only draw large battery currents when actually driving the speaker with large sound currents. With switching circuits they could do about a factor of 2 better in battery-to-speaker-current conversion efficiency, and in a few years I suspect they will start doing so.
It's also true that a typical alkaline battery run at maximum output power
will give you about 2x fewer amp-hours than the same battery run at 16x lower currents. High currents do not allow "fuels" and "waste products" to redistribute as fast as they are used or generated, so the electric current must to go farther through "battery gel" to reach the electrode, so extra series resistance is experienced. Rechargeable Nicads, NiMH's, and lead-acids do not experience this.
Jim Swenson
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Guilty Plea of Prince George's County Developer Daniel Colton Unsealed Today
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Greenbelt, Maryland - The guilty plea of Prince George's developer Daniel Colton, age 61, a resident of Annapolis, Maryland and Raleigh, North Carolina, was unsealed today. Colton pleaded guilty under seal on September 13, 2010, to conspiracy to commit extortion and to make false statements to the Federal Election Commission.
The unsealing of the guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Special Agent in Charge Rebecca Sparkman of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation, Washington, D.C. Field Office.
According to his guilty plea, Colton was a prominent developer in Prince George's County. Colton and other co-conspirators, including developer Patrick Ricker, had an ownership interest in Greenbelt Metropark, which sought to design, develop and build a mixed-use project near the Greenbelt Metro Station, called Greenbelt Station. Colton, Ricker and their co-conspirators also had an interest in Day Homes, which was incorporated to construct single family homes in Maryland, and was involved in several development projects in the County.
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Colton faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the conspiracy to commit extortion, and false statements to the Federal Election Commission. Co-conspirator Patrick Q. Ricker, age 52, of Bowie, Maryland, pleaded guilty on December 30, 2009 to conspiring to commit honest services fraud and to make false statements to the Federal Election Commission; and to tax evasion. His plea was also entered under seal and was unsealed on May 17, 2011. Ricker faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison on each of those counts. No sentencing dates have been scheduled for Daniel Colton and Patrick Ricker.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised the FBI and IRS-CI for their work in the investigation and thanked the Prince George's County Police Department for its assistance. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorneys James A. Crowell IV, A. David Copperthite and Sujit Raman, who are prosecuting these cases.


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With four months to go in this, America's most expensive presidential campaign, it's still impossible to predict whether President Obama will withstand the determined challenge of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
Come November 6, someone will win, and someone will head for the celebrity golf and lecture circuit. But, as any student of history knows, the results will not necessarily be "historic".
Of course, every president makes history. But only some presidents seem to change the course of the nation's destiny.
For several years now, the American people are in a restless mood. We want a new direction – a new vision. But which candidate, if either, offers the prospect of historic change?
From time to time in American history, a president, confronted with a particularly critical situation, has changed America's destiny by the way he managed that crisis. These presidents resembled skilled whitewater canoeists, negotiating the powerful rapids of a fast-flowing river. Three of them, Washington, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, are ranked among the all-time greats.
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Woodrow Wilson, whose first term was so promising, ended in failure because his ambitious vision of world peace ignored the contemporary realities of European politics. Herbert Hoover, a brilliant administrator in peace and war, was hamstrung by a market ideology which rejected the need for bold government action in a time of unprecedented economic paralysis. Jimmy Carter, idealistic and visionary, could not persuade his fellow citizens to address problems which seemed far in the future.
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Some presidents have found themselves in situations which perfectly suited their personal strengths. Lincoln, with limited administrative experience and only one term in Congress, might easily have failed in peacetime. But his rare combination of stubbornness, strategic flexibility, single-minded focus and genius for communication, all traits of a veteran trial lawyer, were exactly those needed to win the Civil War.
Other presidents, often capable men, have found themselves perplexed by circumstances to which their gifts were not suited. William Howard Taft, a capable administrator, who later distinguished himself as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, lacked the personality and energy to follow the dazzling Teddy Roosevelt. Taft became the only incumbent to finish third in his re-election bid.
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In today's edition of the NH+ INDEPENDENT, our weekly newspaper, we include an article on the Obituaries page (page 6) on the survey by the Post Office on making changes to the operation of both the Pleasant Valley and the Riverton post offices. These changes include cutting back the hours, closing the offices or relocating the offices to a local business. The deadline for receiving the surveys is December 26. The survey as provided by the postal service includes a
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It can be very painful to tear or rip your nail from the nail bed. A nail may separate from the nail bed (detach) for many reasons, including:
After a nail separates from the nail bed for whatever reason, it will not reattach. A new nail will have to grow back in its place. Nails grow back slowly. It takes about 6 months for a fingernail and up to 18 months for a toenail to grow back.
Home treatment often helps relieve pain, promote healing, and prevent infection. Treatment may involve removing the nail, keeping the area dry to prevent infection, and waiting for a new nail to grow. The infection or skin condition that caused the separated nail will also need to be treated.
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I don't have any photos, but I read them on the plane, and for about a week before on my bed right before i sleep.
Inspired by some emails and photos I received from people reading their books in the parks, etc., I was wondering if you have any photos of you or someone in the family reading the book at your resort, in the park, at home, in the car, on the plane, etc.
I've attached just a couple to get you started. The Captain of the Disney Magic with me and his copy in May, 2005; and Sgt. Silva and his platoon with it in Iraq!
Lou Mongello
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Hmmm whats the best way to put this... I read it alot when I am where I do my best thinking. Got it?
I don't think you want a picture.
Ex-Castmember, DVC Member, Animation Expert. . . 100% Disney Maniac!
Next trip : October 2006 / Beach Club Villas.
I actually use my book in a weekly challenge. My whole family is going to WDW in Dec and when I got my book in May I emailed my sister and her husband and kids a trivia question. At first they were thinking May was way too early but now every week they are tuned in and waiting for my email. The kids are really enjoying it. I am trying to pick useful things as well as unknown facts. It is getting everyone excited about our trip not to mention little known facts about the park.
I also keep a copy in the same room turkeyleg reads his
Lou know his place in the great circle of life.
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I'm excited because the end of july will be the 1st time i get to bring it with me to WDW. I'm sure i will have plenty time to read it in those ridiculous summer lines. I was hoping to get volume II before i left but i guess i'll have to wait til i go back in december.
In the hot tub!!!
I would be reading it just about everywhere...if I could find it! Oh well, time to buy a new one...I guess thats the result of reading it everywhere!
Where to start! I read my book everywhere. I have a huge stack of WDW books and I take one of them whenever I leave my house, and trust me, Lou's are definitely at the top. They help me stay in the spirit for WDW every moment of everyday. I've read each of them numerous times, but each time I read them, it seems like I find a new fact that I missed before.
My name is Emily and I am addicted to Walt Disney World. There, I said it and I'm proud.
Louis Mongello, you are my hero!
Moving to St. Petersburg, FL in November!!!
I will be at WDW every two weeks then... I can't wait!
Everyone seems to be doing Sudoku and crosswords before and usually during boring classes around here. Not me! I pull Lou's book out of my tinkerbell book bag and learn interesting facts about my favorite place on earth!
"Well, there's one thing. They can't order me to stop dreaming!"
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I read mine on my train commute here and there, after listening to Mousetunes, of course. Okay fine, I'm obsessed. GUILTY AS CHARGED. I also plan on taking them with me on the plane ride down to WDW this November. It will help pass the time and I bet I get a whole bunch of people interested and shouting out answers!!
To all who come to this happy place; welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past...and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created America...with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
I read them mostly at work when we have down time. It lets me "get away" for a littel while. I also read them to my little girls and my wife trying to get them fired up for our trip to WDW in Nov. 08!!


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The eagle has landed, ladies and gentlemen. We have now lain eyes on working builds of Grand Theft Auto 5, and can confirm that it is a game of considerable promise. For our digested thoughts, check out this GTA 5 video preview. For the most important new developments since we published our original, enormous GTA 5 info overload, scroll down the page. And for pretty pictures, hit up our gallery of the latest GTA 5 screenshots.
1. What it feels like to play
Well, we haven't actually played it yet - we had to watch a Rockstar rep do it. But it's recognisably the same tech that powered GTA 4, and given that it's still got to fit into the ageing Xbox 360 hardware it's unlikely to be dramatically different in how it handles it streams its vast world into your TV. But Rockstar says that it has got more pedestrians onto the streets this time, and the different environments make for craftier tricks with the draw distance.
Parachuting over the countryside shows the world stretching off over the horizon, with distant god rays breaking over the city's skyscrapers and the regimented shape of the military base further along the coast. The engine does a great job of showing the game's vast scale, and while it might be that the tech shows its limitations when you're in one of the newly-added jets, drifting down to earth it looks great.
The biggest difference is up close, in the facial details and animations. They aren't quite LA Noire level, but they're close, and a huge improvement over the slightly wooden expression of Niko Bellic. The movement seems a bit crisper, too - from what we saw, there's no longer the MotoGP-style lean whenever your character runs round a corner.
You'll recognise the vehicles from GTA 4, too. Many of the same models return, joined by new helicopters, trucks and sports cars. The handling doesn't seem all that different, from a casual glance - a quick trip in a high-end convertible, returning a movie star to her home while paparazzi give chase, suggests there's still a weight and heft to vehicles that makes driving them a bit more of a challenge and thus more satisfying than other open-world roller-skates.


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At Opec's latest meeting in March, oil ministers could not have been any clearer as they pledged to comply fully with their promised production cuts of 4.2m barrels per day, agreed last year.
But in the past two days Opec, and the IEA, the 'Opec' of oil-consuming countries, both came to the conclusion that the producers' cartel had not kept its promise.
Instead, Opec compliance slipped by about 230,000 barrels a day, or two percentage points, to 78 per cent.
That's still an impressive number…until you look at how that compliance is spread among members.
Ironically, Opec's current president, Angola, and its most fervent supporter of ever deeper cuts, Iran, are its biggest cheats. Angola even wants to make its free-riding official, having written a letter to the secretariat to exempt it from current quotas on hardship grounds because of its 30-year civil war (which ended a while ago) and the economic recession (which affects everyone).
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, Opec's biggest member by far, is still holding back more oil than its quota dictates (though it did pump more than everyone else when prices hovered around $147 a barrel last summer). But even the kingdom decided it didn't have to do any more in the past two months.
The reason? Success.
Oil prices have risen from the $32-low in February – a very scary number for any oil producer – to $60 today. That makes cheating more attractive as an extra barrel pumped today brings in almost double what it did three months ago.
Simple game theory suggests such free-riding will eventually completely unravel Opec's resolve as more and more members jump from being good soldiers to trouble-makers. The result: Oil supply increases and prices fall.
Game theory also says communication could improve Opec's chances of success.
The cartel's next opportunity for communication comes on May 28.
If the group wants to maintain its discipline, the topic of communication needs to focus on the dismal outlook for demand. The IEA today suggested demand in 2009 would contract more than it has in any given year since 1981, and Opec yesterday warned that the oil price rise had little to do with oil market fundamentals.
One look at inventories suggests they are right. If Opec wants to draw down those stocks it needs to maintain its current compliance level. But even that will only make things better for the cartel very slowly, the IEA says.
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Maintenance Night Peace of Mind
If you work with the WCI Portal suite for any length of time, then I'm willing to bet that at some point you've run into the following situation: You deploy a change to your Development environment and everything looks great. The customer takes a look, is excited, and approves the change to go to production. During your next maintenance window, you deploy the shiny new change to production, test that it works and call it a night. The next morning, things don't look so rosy. The change you made is working great (that's the good news). The bad news? The other half of the website is broken!
Testing a change in your Development environment is definitely better than "winging" it by deploying to production untested. But, as we all know, keeping a Development environment in sync with the Production environment is challenging, time consuming, and is pretty much always neglected. So, how can we ensure new changes introduced into production work as intended. And, perhaps more importantly, how can we ensure that nothing else broke as a result?
As you may already know, here at F1, we created a product called Watcher to tackle the problem of monitoring the health of your WCI services. Watcher will notify system admins by email whenever a back-end service (like automation, publisher, tomcat, iis, etc) has crashed or recovered. See here for more info about Watcher.
After using Watcher on my project for the past year, it would be very difficult to transition to a project without it. Once you have a comprehensive rule set defined for your environment, Watcher will notify you of most of the problems in your environment before they are even problems! For example, last week, Watcher helpfully notified us that the hard disk on our file server was 90% full and that a service related to oracle database backups was failing. Thanks to Watcher, these two issues were resolved in a day, before any end users noticed. Without watcher, these 2 events might very likely have gone unnoticed and might have caused a pretty significant portal outage and/or loss of valuable data.
Click the following link to view a screencast that shows how to create a simple Selenium Test Case:
Simple Selenium Test Case - Log into WCI Portal
As demonstrated, it took less than 2 minutes to create a selenium script, fix a small bug with the script and then replay the script to ensure that portal login is functioning as expected! And that's really just scraping the surface of what Selenium is capable of! The Selenium IDE offers dozens of commands you can use to record, test and replay actions inside a web browser session. If you require more advanced scripts, then the Selenium Test Cases can be exported out of Selenium IDE and into source code (ruby, java, c#, perl, php, groovy, and more). The source code can then be executed to run the test cases (simulate user actions inside a browser) outside of the Selenium IDE. Once you have a selenium test case exported as source code, the sky's the limit on what you can test!
On my current project, all team members are encouraged to record a new Selenium Test Case whenever they make any kind of change to the system (updates to portlet source code, installing new servers, custom UI changes, etc). We have Maintenance Windows scheduled periodically so that we can take systems offline to deploy our changes. Maintenance Windows are typically scheduled off hours and sometimes we find ourselves working late at night deploying new changes to production. It's really helpful to run the automated selenium tests before and after the changes are applied. When the tests run successful we can be confident that the latest changes are working as expected and that nothing else broke in the process.
If you think that's cool, take a look at the Selenium Grid Project. Selenium Grid adds the ability to run your selenium scripts in parellel, from multiple clients, and from multiple types of browsers! When your selenium test suite grows to dozens of tests, it can be time consuming to run each test case back to back to back. Selenium Grid can help speed up the process by running several tests simultaneously. And for even more peace of mind, you might set up Selenium Grid to run each test in a different browser.
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Shane's Rib Shack in Cleveland Towne Center is donating 10 percent of all proceeds Wednesday, from 4 to 8 p.m. to the Dustin Ledford Live Wide Open Scholarship Foundation.
Heartstrings will provide live entertainment.
The annual scholarship to graduating seniors is based on athletics, the impact of drunk driving on their lives and a written essay on the dangers of drinking and driving.
Dustin Ledford, 24, the son of Danny and Kim Ledford, was killed July 10, 2010, in a head-on crash on APD 40 shortly after 911 dispatchers issued a "Be On the Lookout" for a vehicle traveling north in the southbound lane.
His parents, Danny and Kim Ledford, established the legacy fund in 2011.
According to reports, Tiffany Levi Isaza, 29, drove a 2002 Ford Taurus in the wrong direction along APD 40. Her car struck Ledford's 1990 Toyota Camry head-on as he drove home from Walmart.
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Our pool has been dug, plumbed, re-barred, and electrician work started. Waiting on the city to come in and do their inspection. I have a couple of things I'm unsure of. Hoping someone can help me here. First off, the pool company came in yesterday and put sand down on all the new PVC. Seems to be two leaks, one in the main area of the floor cleaning unit (where all the pvc comes together, a bit away from the pool) and also the filter seems to be leaking. The filter leak seems to be from one of the fittings in the front. It's a Sta-rite S7M400. I called the pool company owner this morning and he said he was unaware of the situation and he will call the plumber immediately. It won't pass until these are fixed, correct? Seems we have no build supervisor or anyone that is coming by to check the work. I'm at work all day so it's hard to keep tabs on them. Also, my plans are for a bench around the entire inside of the spa, however when I go over and take a look, the re-bar is only going a bit less than half way around. So, it looks like only 1/2 the spa will have a bench. I questioned my pool designer and he said "don't worry, the re-bar is deceiving, there will be a bench all the way around". I just can't see it happening unless there is re-bar there to support it. Am I missing something? Any advice sincerely appreciated.
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Yes. Most cities require the plumbing to be under pressure at least 35p.s.i. for 15 minutes. Spa benches and steps are not typically formed with rebar. They are considered non structural and do not require rebar. it's basically just a big chunk of concrete. |
- Posted by barnyard78 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 21, 12 at 17:08
The bench should def have rebar. Everytime. |
barnyard78, What is the bench supporting that you need rebar in it in a spa? |
- Posted by durango118 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 21, 12 at 23:56
The two leaks that I was worried about have been attended to, simple adjustments needed. Inspections have passed. The pool and spa have been done (shotcrete)...and the bench in the spa is indeed going all the way around. The part that didn't have the rebar looks absolutely no different than the part that did. It was exactly how the pool builder said it would be. Looking forward to the tile & decking. |
Our 8 foot round spa had rebar supporting the outside circumference of the spa, but the "bench" and step out were shot and formed without rebar. |
- Posted by durango118 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 26, 12 at 12:13
Oh that's beautiful ! Ours is an 8ft spa also. Looks huge right now but it's still just the concrete. Waiting on tile. Ours came out exactly like the pool designer said it would and the bench goes all the way around ! Can I ask what type of plaster you have and the color? It's really nice. Thanks for the photos.. |
It was a 3M Quartz product, green/blue blend, that has since been discontinued. Supposedly PebbleFina Bella Blue is a close match to this. |
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OK. You've probably already heard of this one, but it was new to me and I thought to myself, "Why didn't I think of that years ago??!!!"
I always put the Christmas decorations away like this: This is the box for the lights and this is the box for the placemats and this is the box for the ornaments and this is the box for the Christmas mugs and this is the box for the faux evergreens and this is the box for the ......., etc. etc. But a friend of mine says she does it this way, and it makes so much more sense to me. She puts all the decorations that she uses in the living room in the same box or boxes, all the decorations she puts in the guest bathroom in another box, and all the decorations she puts in the family room in another........ and so on and so on.
Hope this helps someone. I'm certainly going to give it a try when I go to put it all away in January. |
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That is a good idea. I am not much of decorator for holidays so it's pretty easy for me. It's ALL the living room box. :) Gloria |
- Posted by Talley_Sue_NYC (My Page) on Wed, Oct 12, 05 at 10:09
I'll have to consider this--I do end up w/ all kinds of boxes out at once. But it's all the living-room box, too.Mostly it's just that tree stuff is in 3 boxes. I'll have to think about this--how to get the lights in w/ the ornaments. Fewer ornaments, probably. I do take my stuff out at Christmas with an eye toward putting it away. I weed out stuff (and again when I do put it away), but I also think about whether I want to put it away in a certain order or grouping, and what I'll need to do it. |
- Posted by Julie_MI_Z5 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 12, 05 at 16:16
We have an artificial tree, so the lights go in that box. Works for us because that way we can put up and light the tree, then decorate it another day when we have more time. |
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Despite the singer being in jail, his new music video has premiered online.
Despite Chris Brown currently being in jail, his brand new video for Loyal has premiered.
The track, which features Lil Wayne and Tyga is reportedly taken from Brown's forthcoming album X.
The four-minute visual sees Chris and his crew hanging out and having fun at Universal CityWalk in Hollywood. In addition to Brown's excellent dance moves, the video also features cameos from Usher and Trey Songz.
Chris Brown is due to remain in jail until April 23rd after being kicked out of rehab.
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I've been perusing some spring catalogues, and the dahlias look stunning. I've never grown them ( except a small one that had floppy blooms) and I would like to know if they really do grow 8-10" blooms, and if so, how on earth do you keep them from breaking in the slightest breeze? Do they grow similar to peonies? Are they easy to grow? Bloom the first year? |
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My dad grew dahlias in Vancouver they were hardy there but I think like gladiolas you would need to dig them and store them in the winter in our zones. His were about 6 in flowers and he had them along a fence they didn't get much wind there. |
- Posted by paininthepetunia 3 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 12, 13 at 22:52
I am in zone 3 and dig up my dahlia tubers in the fall. Wait until the first frost has blackened the foliage, then cut them about 6" from the ground. Clean off the dirt, cut out the main tuber (will be spent), leave them dry a few days and store them like you would any other tuber/bulb. I plant mine in full sun, in a protected area of the garden. I use a peony cage or small tomato cage to help support. I sometimes when my blooms get over 6-8" I drive a stake into the ground and attach it to my Dahlia. Dahlia will produce three flower buds per stem, I pinch off the outer two and the centre one gets huge. I would definitely give them a go, big pay off for a little bit of work:) Happy gardening:) |
Good question, Lynn. I need to know how to get the darn things to bloom! |
I have grown dahlias for a few years now and find they do best in a sunny, semi sheltered location in the garden or pot. Start early inside and expect August bloom in zone 3. Ditto paininthepetunia. :) I also have found that they seem to bloom well with tomato fert. or fish fert. Unbeatable cut flowers as they last a long time in a vase. :) Ginny |
I don't have any problem growing them, it's storing the tubers over winter that I can't do. |
- Posted by nutsaboutflowers 2b/3a (My Page) on Sat, Mar 16, 13 at 12:52
Ginny, do they really get as big as they say? I picture them similar to a peony in size, and having to use a peony ring to hold them up (???) |
There are different sized dahlias. Some are little and cute and others are big and showy. None of them will bloom for me. >:( |
The ones I bought one year were supposed to be the small yellow ones, instead they turned out to be the huge dinner plate variety. Boy, were those stems thick! Everyone in the neighbourhood used to say they could see my dahlias a block away. We lived in the city then and it was somewhat sheltered. I've thought about trying them here tho and see what happens. I'll try once more to overwinter the tubers. |
Definately bigger than a peony, Lynn, but I've never had any reach the size of a Corningware dinner plate. More like a salad plate., :) They have very strong, thick stems like sunflowers. Best dahlias in Canada, IMO, are from Ferncliffe. Huge selection and quality tubers although I have purchased them from Vesey's, T&T, and McFayden's in the past as well. :) I've also grown the smaller ones and novelties from seed and overwintered the tubers. Ginny |
- Posted by nutsaboutflowers 2b/3a (My Page) on Sat, Mar 16, 13 at 19:18
Ginny, the ones I saw were from Botanus, and the prices seem lower than when I looked up Ferncliff. But, maybe the size and/or type are different? Are dahlias relatively pest and disease free? I wonder why Marcia can't get them to bloom.......I certainly want blooms :) |
Botanus too! Yes, they have some beauties this year.. :) Nadia Ruth is one I've never grown. A few years ago, I grew Night Butterfly, Blue Bayou, and another collarette that I can't remember. They were simply stunning in the back of the garden. Very rich looking blooms! :) Ginny |
I have nothing to add of my own info but found this thread that may be helpful |
Here is a link that might be useful: Dahlia's won't bloom
I've been buying some for the past few years now. I get them in pots with flower buds on them already though. I get the smaller sized ones. They bloom great for me, even in part shade. I've never grown them from just the tuber, I suspect you might have to start them rather early. |
- Posted by Donna.in.Sask 2b (My Page) on Wed, Mar 20, 13 at 18:26
If you don't want to spend a lot of money, Costco has bags of Spring bulbs in their warehouse right now; you can get a big bag of dahlia tubers for around $13. Check the back of the bag to find out what kind of dahlias they are, the dinnerplate ones are the largest flowering, both in flower and plant size. In my garden, the best spot for dahlias is next to the house, in a protected site with afternoon sun, and light friable soil. The larger ones definitely need staking - nothing more disappointing than a fully grown plant toppled over by wind. As mentioned above, to store for the winter, just dig them up after the first frost, let them cure a bit to dry out the ends. Sprinkle them with some fungicide or garden sulphur. I wrap the tubers up in newspaper and then into paper bags or boxes and store in a cool dark location. I just checked mine and most of them are still nice and healthy. Some of the smaller ones dry up, but then that's a good excuse to buy more. :) Make sure you label them unless you like surprises. |
- Posted by paininthepetunia 3 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 20, 13 at 18:34
Honalee, how early do you start yours indoors? |
I usually start them as soon as they arrive, like early to mid April. I don't put them out around here until the second week in May and usually only then to the back deck where they are protected a bit until putting them in the garden. Many times they are huge! I have, however, potted directly out in early May and planted directly in the garden. They like lots of water and food. Last year I even got some at the dollar store just out of curiousity. They grew just fine. :) Ginny |
I have grown dailias for years and they do get very big but have to be started in pots indoors up here. I even started them early indoors in southern Ont, just to get blooms earlier in the summer. They are late bloomers but will bloom until the frost takes them, so earlier planting gives you a lot more blooms. They do need support. It's not like a peony bush at all. Mine were 4' tall and all stems had to be tied up. if you have an unheated space (basement,garage) that does not freeze, you can keep them there. Otherwise keep them in the fridge if you have room or a spare fridge. You can also start them from cuttings. |
- Posted by roxy_grower 6 (My Page) on Mon, Sep 22, 14 at 17:39
Hello, I live in zone 6 and wonder if anyone has had experience leaving dinner plate dahlias in the ground over the winter ? I dug up last yr and they disintegrated ,,Not sure what happenend...so thought if I mulched well they might survive..anyone out there have experience..they are in a somewhat protected area .. Thanks ! |
- Posted by northspruce z3a MB CDA (My Page) on Tue, Sep 23, 14 at 9:24
Our forum members are zones 1-3, but I'm pretty confident that you need to dig them up. Last year my dahlias were in big pots, and the frost got to them before I did, and the tubers were all mushy slime. I don't think they can handle any freezing at all. |
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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsThe Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Educationby Diane Ravitch
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American School System is a radical change of heart from one of America's best-known education experts. Diane Ravitch—former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum—examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today's most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the feckless multiplication of charter schools. She shows conclusively why the business model is not an appropriate way to improve schools. Using examples from major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and San Diego, Ravitch makes the case that public education today is in peril. Ravitch includes clear prescriptions for improving America's schools:
The Death and Life of the Great American School System is more than just an analysis of the state of play of the American education system. It is a must-read for any stakeholder in the future of American schooling. Book News Annotation:Ravitch (a professor of education at New York U. and a former Assistant Secretary of Education and member of the National Assessment Board) reverses her previous support of educational policies of testing, accountability, choice, charter schools, and markets as panaceas for the failures of the American educational system. Addressing a general audience, she reviews the recent experience with these policies at various levels, from the national on down, and details their failures, often echoing the arguments of longstanding critics of such policies. In her conclusion, she argues that the most important area of schooling that requires attention is the improvement of curricula, pointing to Japan and Finland as examples of excellence in this area (she remains critical of what she sees as left-wing and right-wing attempts to limit curricula for political reasons). Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The Missions Ministry at Calvary Chapel Chino Valley exists to fulfill the Great Commission given to the Church to, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19). It is our desire to provide the Body of Christ with a variety of opportunities to experience God while using them to reach the world around them, locally, nationally and internationally.
The Missions Ministry includes opportunities to minister at local outreaches, day trips, weekend trips, short term missions trips, times of fellowship and discipleship. Additionally, we will pray for and encourage individuals and families who hear the call to "Go."
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Join us every month as the Missions Ministry meets in Pomona to minister to and serve those less fortunate. We get the blessed opportunity to evangelize, feed and clothe the homeless, as we share the love of Jesus with the people of Pomona. Set this time aside to love and bring hope to our neighboring community.
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11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands-- | 11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)-- |
12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. | 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. |
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ. | 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. |
14 For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, | 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, |
15 by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, | 15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, |
16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end. | 16 and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. |
17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; | 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. |
18 for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. | 18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. |
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Developing countries face huge challenges in accessing up-to-date information about aid, development and humanitarian flows – information that they need to plan and manage those resources effectively. Similarly, citizens in developing countries and in donor countries lack the information they need to hold their governments to account for the use of those resources. IATI aims to address these challenges by making information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand.
IATI is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to improve the transparency of aid, development and humanitarian resources in order to increase their effectiveness in tackling poverty. IATI brings together donor and recipient countries, civil society organisations and other experts in aid information who share the aspirations of the original IATI Accra Statement and are committed to working together to increase the transparency of aid.
IATI began its work by consulting developing country stakeholders about their information needs, and discussing with donors the most efficient and effective way of meeting these. On the basis of these consultations, IATI developed and agreed a common, open, standard for the publication of aid information – the IATI Standard. Organisations implement IATI by publishing their aid information in IATI's agreed electronic format (XML) – usually on their website – with a link to the IATI Registry, The Registry acts as an online repository or index of links for all of the raw data published to the IATI Standard.
In developing the Standard, IATI has been careful not to duplicate the work already being done by other organisations such as the OECD-Development Assistance Committee (DAC), who produce statistics about past aid flows. Instead, the IATI standard builds on – and goes beyond – the standards and definitions that have already been agreed by the DAC Creditor Reporting System (CRS).
Progress on IATI
IATI has grown significantly since its launch and its membership includes many donors, partner country endorsers, foundations and civil society organisations. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) became the first signatory to publish to IATI in January 2011. Since then, over 290 organisations have published data to the IATI Registry, including donor governments and multilaterals, NGOs, foundations and private sector companies.
The IATI Secretariat convened a group to define the common standard together with representatives from IATI's Steering Committee and the OECD DAC's Working Party on Statistics and the leaders of the Busan Building Block on Transparency.
Detailed negotiations led to an agreement that was endorsed by the final meeting of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP-EFF) in June 2012. This confirmed that the common standard will combine three complementary systems: the DAC Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and Forward Spending Survey (FSS), and IATI.
A key aspiration is using IATI compliant data at country level. IATI, with Development Gateway, has successfully piloted automated data exchange between donors' IATI data feeds and the national aid management system in DRC, the Plateforme de Gestion de l'Aide et des Investissements (PGAI). PGAI is now using live IATI data from DFID, The Global Fund and GAVI, with plans to roll this out to other donors including Canada, EC, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and UNDP in the coming months. Similar work in aligning IATI data with national aid information management systems and country budgets is planned in Rwanda and Nepal, while IATI is exploring the scope for integrating data from NGOs and South-South Cooperation providers in aid management systems in Colombia.
IATI's History
IATI was launched at the third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in 2008 and was specifically designed to support donors in meeting their Accra commitments on transparency as set out in the Accra Agenda for Action as follows:
- Donors will publicly disclose regular, detailed and timely information on volume, allocation and, when available, results of development expenditure to enable more accurate budget, accounting and audit by developing countries.
- Donors and developing countries will regularly make public all conditions linked to disbursements.
- Donors will provide full and timely information on annual commitments and actual disbursements so that developing countries are in a position to accurately record all aid flows in their budget estimates and their accounting systems.
- Donors will provide developing countries with regular and timely information on their rolling three- to five-year forward expenditure and/or implementation plans, with at least indicative resource allocations resource allocations where possible so that developing countries can integrate them into their medium term planning and macroeconomic frameworks. Donors will address any constraints to providing such information.
Between the Accra and Busan High Level Forums, IATI contributed to the ongoing work of the OECD Development Assistance Committee's Working Party on Aid Effectiveness on Transparent and Responsible Aid. In the run up to the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, IATI contributed to the Building Block on Transparency. The Busan outcome document, the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, was released on 1st December 2011 and includes a specific reference to IATI, committing all those who endorsed it to:
"Implement a common, open standard for electronic publication of timely, comprehensive and forward looking information on resources provided through development cooperation, taking into account the statistical reporting of the OECD DAC and the complementary efforts of the International Aid Transparency Initiative and others. This standard must meet the needs of developing countries and non-state actors, consistent with national requirements. We will agree on this standard, and publish our respective schedules to implement it by December 2012, with the aim of implementing it full by December 2015".


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A friend gave me a box of Burpee seed packets from this year. I would love to trade some for different seeds. I am not looking for anything specific except varieties of veggies, fruits, and herbs that I don't already have.
I'll send you equal +1 of seed packets if you send me a SASE with your seeds. Here's the list with how many packets of each I have: Amount Type Name
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- Posted by domesticdiana 8 (My Page) on Sat, Nov 24, 12 at 4:13
Please have a look at my tradelist and hopefully something will interest you. I am interested in the following (I put the number of packets in front of the type of seed): 1 columbine harlequin Just in case, I will also email you this. Thanks and looking forward to trading/sase. |
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Hi, I am interested in your: Carrots danvers half long Lettuce black seeded simpson Painted daisy Pumpkin triple treat Foxglove foxy mix I have heirloom tomatoes and cucumbers to trade. |
- Posted by lovemeflowers 7 (My Page) on Sat, Nov 24, 12 at 11:36
Hello I would like to trade for: cucumber bush green beans sringless hollyhock winter squash butterbush columbine harliqiunn mix and onions evergreen bunching. Would you please take a look at my list and see if i have anyting you might like |
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I'd be interested in these: Tenderpick beans, stringless green pod, kitchen king beans, Danver half long carrott, cantaloupe sweet and early, cucumber bush champion, straight eight, pickler hybrid, sweet burpless hybrid, common sage and sweet corn early and often. Want to look at my seed list and see if anything tempts you? Thanks very much. |
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columbine harlequin mix cucumber bush champion cucumber straight eight 1 cucumber burpee pickler hybrid 1 cucumber sweet burpless hybrid foxglove foxy mix 1 Gaillardia goblin 1 garden bean tenderpick 1 garden bean burpee's stingless green pod 1 garden bean kitchen king hollyhock fordhook giants mix onion evergreen long white bunching 1 oriental poppy brilliant red painted daisy giant mixed colors parsley single italian plain-leafed 1 sage common Summer Squash Fordhook Zucchini sweet basil ocimum basilicum 1 sweet pepper red majesty hybrid 1 sweet pepper big dipper 1 sweet pepper 4-way hybrid 1 swiss chard fordhook giant 1 tomato burpee's supersteak hybrid 1 tomato super beefsteak winter squash burpee's butterbush |
- Posted by journey149 9aFL (My Page) on Thu, Dec 13, 12 at 21:58
No sir i don't have any seeds I am sorry, I thought you were doing sase. |
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