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5 Things We Secretly Want Our Men To Do For Us
By amandasmith
It's been a known fact since time immemorial: women are truly hard to read. We could be very expressive, frank, and open one minute and be completely quiet, aloof, and secretive the next. From generations to generations, men have had difficulty in identifying the meaning of a word as simple as "okay" when a woman utters it. Is it "Okay, sure, you can enjoy the night with your friends?" Or does it mean "Okay, go out have fun but don't expect me to talk to you for the next three weeks?" What it truly means we can't really generally tell. It always depends on the situation, because we do look at things objectively. And it also depends on our mood, because, well, we are women.
What's great about our mystery though is the more men exert effort in unraveling it, the more they will be enlightened. While our actions might be suggesting (whether he gets them or not) things that we obviously want from our man, there are still some that we want to keep to ourselves, just to see if he will eventually realize them.
1. Watch chick flicks and romantic comedy with us - Whenever we ask our boyfriend to do this, he refuses. And so we put on a sad little face with puppy eyes, and then he gives in. But sixteen minutes into the movie, he dozes off or become busy with his cell phone, checking out the latest NBA news. We get it, cheesy, mushy films about a clumsy girl who falls in love with a snob, workaholic man just isn't a dude's thing. But it isn't just the gesture of patiently putting up with a shallow story line just to be with us that we want to see in our man. We have a reason why we watch these kind of films and that's because the girls in the movie always end up with the love of their lives—after the guys overcome the traffic jam, talk to her mad friends, and do just about anything to get the girl. We want to believe it can happen to us too. We want a man who will cross the ocean for us. We want to see that kind of man in the person we are with, that would make us feel very lucky and special.
2. Tell us about the exes - Yes, while some think that talking about exes is a taboo, there are few instances when we want to hear about them. Guilty? Was that girl prettier than I am? Was she a better lover? But those are not the only questions we want answered. We tend to be very curious as to why the person we are dating and some girl broke up, especially if it was a long term relationship. This would help us evaluate if there is anything we should watch out for in the guy—like some weird behavior. Also, it allows us to discover the things that might turn him off so we can avoid them.
3. Cry, baby cry - They say boys don't cry but real men do. Well we couldn't agree more. No, we are not sadist, we don't take pleasure from their sorrow. We simply want to see a man shed a tear sometimes. It's quite simple. Seeing someone cry makes us think they are human, and we need to know that our boyfriend or husband is human. But please, these men should never ever do it while watching a movie or reading a book. That's our role.
4. Love letters - Remember that night when your date said he had a wonderful time with you just a few minutes after you parted ways? That was sweet, wasn't it? But you know in your heart that that was something that would eventually be buried in your inbox, since he simply texted it! Love letters will always be something any girl would want to receive.


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Switzerland was the first country I visited outside my home of England when I was just 12 years old. Since then, I have been to this clean, mountain oasis in the centre of Europe many times to visit family, friends and of course, to go skiing.
I'm lucky enough that my father lives in the capital of Switzerland, Bern, which is a beautiful UNESCO world heritage city, in the top ten of cities to live in the world. Bern, along with much of this part of Switzerland is a german speaking city, with excellent parks, gothic style architecture, covered walkways with a wide variety of great shops. Bern has a large Zoo and a bear enclosure, the animal after which the city was named. The river Aare runs through the centre of Bern and has carved a huge gorge into the land. Several bridges cross this chasm with fantastic views over the old part and small waterfall. There is a mountain on the outskirts of Bern, the Gurten, which has a big festival in the summer.
Bern is a great jumping point to visit the rest of Switzerland too, which itself is very small. Switzerland has a first-class railway system SBB, which can take you almost anywhere. Lucern and Interlaken are two great towns situated on lakes, which are just a short trip away from Bern. One of the most famous features of switzerland is the Alps, which run right through the central and southern areas along the borders with France, Italy and Austria. From Interlaken, you are a short trip to Grindlewald and the famous Eiger Mountain. The Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau are probably three of switzerlands most famous mountain, as well as the pointy Matterhorn in the south.

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Papers and lectures presented at various fora
Climate and housing form – a case study of New Dehi – International
conference on "Urban Climate, Planning and Building" 1989,
Kyoto, Japan
Research and practice - Indo-German international workshop on Solar Architecture
– School of
Planning & Architecture, 1995, New Delhi
Solar Passive Design for Himachal – Hudco, Dept. of Science and
Technology, HP State Government – workshop on solar passive design,
Shimla, 1996
Low-cost Energy-efficient Airconditioned Building Design – TCI,
Gurgaon - Seminar on "Energy Conservation & Indoor Air Quality
– Air-conditioning Strategies" India Habitat Centre, New Delhi,
Designing Buildings for Efficient Airconditioning in North India –
Indian Institute of Architects workshop on Energy efficient design, Jaipur,
2002 Education for Professional Trusteeship – A+D Interactive Session,
"Should Architectural Education be Market Driven", School
of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi, 2002
Passive strategy for comfort in modern buildings – workshop on solar
passive architecture, Indore, 2003The Potential of "Sustainability"
for Architectural Practice in India - Roundtable on Architecture and Urbanism
in India, Mumbai, 2003
Professional Collaboration for Affordable Air-conditioning – Refricon Conference, New Delhi, 2004
A Tribute to Geoffrey Bawa – Spectrum & A+D Awards Ceremony,
2004, New Delhi.
Reflections on architectural thinking towards sustainability - International
Workshop on Sustainable Habitats, TERI, New Delhi, 2005Towards and Urban
Level Perspective Plan for Controlling Energy Demand for Buildings –
a Case-study for New Delhi - Indo-Australian Initiative : Sustainable
Synergies – School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi, 2005DA
World Headquarters – a Case-study of Design for Sustainability -
Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, Zurich, 2005Target Issues for
Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction – Holcim Awards 2005:
Asia Pacific, Beijing
Institutional Membership
India International Centre – life member
Indian Institute of Architects – associate member
Indian Society of Lighting Engineers (ISLE)– member
Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings - member Indian Society
of Refrigeration and Airconditioning Engineers (ISHRAE)-memberINTBAU India
Committee of Honour (IICoH)- member
Board Membership
SOS Children's Villages of India
Concerned Action Now
Citizenship Development Society
Public Service
Delhi Urban Art Commission – Convenor, Task Force for North Delhi
Convenor, Task Force for Urban Villages
Convenor, Task Force for Energy and Water
Member, Task Force on Public Spaces, Safety, Design
Member, Advisory Committee and contributor, DUAC Exhibition "Imagining
School of Planning & Architecture,– Member, Board of Studies,
Dept. of Architecture.
New Delhi Member, Phd. Committee
ISI Committee on Energy & Buildings, Nominee of Indian Institute of
Bureau of Indian Standards, Committee on Lighting and Ventilation in Buildings
– nominee, Indian Institute of Architects
Member of Visiting Faculty, TVB School of Habitat Studies
1990 Member of Core Group for establishing TVB School of Habitat Studies
1990-2006 Teaching at TVB School of Habitat Studies
1997-till date Professor, Dean of Studies, TVB School of Habitat Studies
2002-2004 Coordinator For European Union Project Development Of Web-Based
Teaching Package For Low-Energy Architecture.
2004-2005 Member of Committee for Revision of B.Arch. Syllabus for Guru
Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
2002-till date Integration sustainable architecture in architectural curriculum
at TVB
- Geoffrey Bawa
- Education for Professional Trusteeship
- Greening Events and Energy-Efficient Cities
- Refricon
- Sustainable Synergies
- The DNA of Metropolitan Growth and the Prospect of Sustainability – New Delhi an Indian Case Study
- The Potential of "Sustainability" for Architectural Practice in India
- Traditional practices of construction and design
- Urbanisation of Emerging Economies and the Challenge of Sustainability


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Hi, I need some help. We jut bought a house that has carpet on the basement floor and it smells horrible. I want to switch the carpet out for something more hygienic like laminate because it's going to be used mostly as a playroom for my infant kids. I am however worried that the floor will be too cold for them because even with the carpet and heavy padding now, the floor feels very cold.
I had initially considered radiant heating as option but the space is about 550sq ft and the best price i have seen for the electric radiant heating system was going to cost me as much as $4000 for just the heating system not inclusive of the additional installation cost and the cost of the laminate flooring. This option would be too expensive for us. After much research I'm currently considering doing a layer of 1 1/2 or 2-inch thick extruded polystyrene foam placed against the concrete, with a layer of 5/8-inch plywood on top so that i'll have an all-wood subfloor for the laminate to be installed on. I would however like to know if anyone has had any experience with this sort of insulation and if it's effective? I'm also worried the floor will be too cushiony because of all the layers. What do you think? On one of the websites i saw this they suggested securing the plywood to the concrete with Tapcon screws placed into pre-drilled holes in the concrete. Will this solution alleviate the cushiony effect? And how far down do these pre-drilled holes have to be dug? Thanks in advance for all your feedback. |
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The 2" of extruded polystyrene is not too different from the same material used under airport runways. Don't worry that your kids will be bouncing off the ceiling. Two alternative systems without insulation are Dri-Core and Delta FL; both types have competitors with similar systems. The concrete screws are not "dug" into the concrete. They're drilled in. The depth of embedment varies with the diameter of the screws you're using. Follow the instructions on the package. |
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The Discomfort Zone (TDZ) is an online magazine that presents independent, critical, and objective analysis of the politics, policy, and practice of development and issues pertinent to the developing world. It brings together authors with different regional and local experience but a global perspective to encourage an informed debate on the rise of the developing world. TDZ hopes to further that debate by reflecting developing country perspectives. As a critical but neutral voice it will address and question the fundamentals: what is development, what are the tradeoffs, and what are the inter-linkages between development policy, economics, society, and politics?
In addition to regional expertise, authors on TDZ will generally also retain a topical focus matching their area of interest. However, the topics covered on TDZ will together be extremely broad. This diversity is essential to understand the complex nature of development. The fields of economics, politics, and society are not independent. Therefore, any discussion that wishes to present a complete picture of the rise of the developing world must bring together a community of diverse perspectives, and give contributors the freedom to analyze the interrelationships amongst them.
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The Discomfort Zone was started by Dweep as a personal blog in October 2005. For over two years it reflected Dweep's very different experiences while traveling and working in Kenya, Switzerland, and India. It evolved into a blog that asked difficult questions and approached issues with a healthy dose of skepticism (hence the name). However, in February 2008, it became something bigger and better than a reflection of the opinions of a single person.
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Your predictions will not come true.
ur butt will try 2 kill you
The one above you is Evil Cake so that would be Evil Cake's fortune.
Still I wouldn't mind having that type of fortune.
Edit: right about your fortune.
You will be rejected by me who you fall madly inlove with and you'll be married to a guy who you don't love.
You'll keep trying to love him but your heart wouldn't let you.
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Someone will hug you.
mayma, y u changer ur name?
You'll trip over a flying albatros three months from now.


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I am addicted to the smell of SU powder!! I am surprised by how much I love it because I tried the SU fragrance and it was horrible! (But now that I have more experience with LUSH I find that as a general rule their fragrances ruin the scent of the original product by smothering it with alcohol and God knows what else.) ANYway, SU powder is awesome and my only issues with it are 1) the packaging, which is truly terrible and always leads to my spilling powder everywhere, even when I use a puff/brush, 2) the fact that I can't find any perfumes to layer with it because nothing I have smells quite like it. Yes, this is the same fragrance as Alkmaar soap but I don't wash with Alkmaar in the shower so that doesn't help me. Any suggestions appreciated!!
This is the worst smelling thing ever. Like cat pee and drugstore perfumed talcum powder.
I love the container and Lush sure knows how to give a clever name, but I just can't get past the putrid odor of this powder!
I am really not a powder person, but this is excellent!! The feel, smell, yummies :) Defiantly will be switching it into another container with a puff.
HG of body powders. Smells nice and feels great on the skin. I use this religiously during the summer. The packaging is not great, but I solved that by getting a body puff thing that sits in a plastic container. Just sprinkle some in the container, dip the puff and there ya go! Will buy this again and again...
Looooove this. I always bring it with me after swimming and showering. It helps dry off my skin but the cocoa butter bits also leave it moisturised. Plus it smells sooooooo good. I prefer this dusting powder over other because of the cocoa butter bits. It makes the product more functional. Plus the fact that it has no talc. I don't think I'll stop using this until they discontinue it! :)
to me, it smells exactly like alkmaar soap. i love it. smells clean, simple and pretty. pair it together with flying fox body wash, really make my day.
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I love the scent and have purchased this powder again and again. I think I'm on my 8th box!
I solved the "powder going everywhere" problem. I smack the opening on top of the box with a closed lipstick container. I smack it only once and only hard enough for the opening to crack slightly but not to open completely. Then I dial the opening so that it's half hidden by the top of the container. Voila! Perfectly dispensed powder.
Sprinkle it on your sheets for a nice treat when you slip into bed.
I really like the soft smell of this body powder. It rubs into skin easily. Perfect for right after the shower. Keeps skin feeling silky. The only downside is that my husband HATES the smell. He said it was so strong and it gave him a headache. He also said I smelled like an old lady. So because of his comments I was going to return it to the store. But I couldn't get myself to do it. I love it so much I wear put it on when he's not around. I'm hoping he will get used to it and decide he likes the smell after all. We'll see. I don't think the scent is heavy at all. Very light and soft but maybe he's more sensitive to scents than me. Next time I go to the lush store I want to pick up Candy Fluff. If it smells anything like MMM bath melt, then I want it! I wish Lush would come out with more body powders in other scents.
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I really like this, the smell is great (light and sweet) and it feels soft and fine. I find this great for hot weather to keep myself cool and dry. Also it's a pretty neutral scent so it won't compete with your signature fragrance. The best tip I got over on the Lush forums was to get a powder-dispensing brush at Walmart.
A cheap version of those Urban Decay cocktail collection brushes.
First, I'm going to say "yes, I'll buy this again" without really being too sure I will, but I'm leaning in that direction.
I don't usually use powders like this, but a friend recommended it to me. I have to say, for those nights when it starts out cool but gets to warm (usually because my DH is a portable heater) and I end up waking up all sweaty this is great. Dust on the stuff and go right back to sleep! Best of all, it's really not "dry your skin out" type of powder. It feels WONDERFUl after a bath.
The downside is the packaging. It's impossible to put it on without wasting a ton of product, and this stuff isn't cheap! I wish it came in a sifter jar with a powder puff or something. I would LOVE it then.


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Madonna's 10 most underrated songs
''Think of Me'' (Madonna, 1983)
You probably composed more complicated synth lines on your Casio back in 10th grade, but darned if that monotonous bleep-bleep-bleep doesn't provide a rock-solid foundation for young Miss Ciccone's game warble. The song's message of demanding respect in a relationship is just as simple, and equally timeless. But if there's any doubt about the decade Madonna produced this confection, the righteous sax solo near the end is as effective as carbon dating.
''Over and Over'' (Like a Virgin, 1984)
Admittedly, there are as many clichés as there are beats per minute on this unrepentantly sunny number. But, singing with an enthusiasm that borders on scary, Madonna sells the message ''I get up again, over and over'' completely. Spin it liberally...for inspiration.
''More'' (I'm Breathless: Songs From and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy, 1990)
''Nothing's better than more,'' Madonna sings, channeling her Breathless Mahoney character from Dick Tracy. And indeed, when it comes to the movie's soundtrack, nothing really is better than ''More.'' Just when you think Stephen Sondheim's rapid-fire wordplay is about to get away from her, Madonna pushes through, proving she's got a stronger instrument than a lot of critics would like to admit.
''Waiting'' (Erotica, 1992)
Who knew Hip-Hop Madonna was such a complicated gal? Sing-speaking over a spare beat, jingly piano, and sinister bass line, Madonna at first conveys a desperate, aching longing for her no-good lover, but gradually shifts to a mood of icy disdain, culminating in a scathing closing line that's not fit for print on a family website. Wicked, and wickedly good.
''Bedtime Story'' (Bedtime Stories, 1995)
It may be one of Madonna's few singles from the '90s that didn't crack the Top 40 (it peaked at No. 42 on the Billboard charts), but you've got to admire her for foisting a zesty, Björk-penned electronica track onto the airwaves. Coupled with an eye-popping video that had Madge free-falling through the galaxy and popping doves out of her stomach, ''Bedtime Story'' will always be a smash hit, at least in the minds of her loyal fans.
''Buenos Aires'' (Evita, 1996)
Ambitious girl arrives in the big city with even bigger dreams. It's a story Madonna knows all too well, and, not surprisingly, she infuses Andrew Lloyd Webber's frantic show-stopper with a palpable hunger. ''Give me credit, I'll find ways of paying,'' Madonna demands. Far be it from us to make the lady ask twice.
''Drowned World/Substitute for Love'' (Ray of Light, 1998)
Listening to superstars ruminate on the trappings of fame and fortune is usually a pretty tedious exercise, but here, Madonna breathes new life into the idea that ''some things cannot be bought'' by giving one of the most nuanced vocal performances of her career. The submerged soundscape gives the impression she's singing from the bottom of the ocean, but as she crescendos to the climactic mmm-mmm, it's clear Madonna's also singing from the bottom of her heart. ''Drowned World'' may not have been released as a single in the States, but the fact that Madonna chose it as the name of her 2001 tour tells you it's one of her favorites too.
''Shanti/Ashtangi'' (Ray of Light, 1998)
What is Madonna singing about on this hypnotizing little ditty? Beats the heck out of me, but the whirling percussion, layered vocals, and flourishes of flute take me somewhere distant and sublime the Ajanta Caves, perhaps, or maybe the Kabbalah Centre?
''I Deserve It'' (Music, 2000)
Forget about co-producer Mirwais' whirs and whistles: At its heart, ''I Deserve It'' is a soulful acoustic track that, lyrically and melodically, ranks as one of Madonna's loveliest compositions.
''Nobody Knows Me'' (American Life, 2003)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, American Life was too preachy for its own good, and this song was among the primary offenders. (Sample lyric: ''I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, reading magazines.'' Gah!) Still, if you treat Madgebot's vocoder-enhanced instrument as just another space-age effect, the message dissipates into the larger surround-sound spectacle, and you're left with a track that'll give you a workout on the dance floor or the treadmill.
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Besides a fictitious business license, which legalizes your business name, you'll also need to apply for a number of other city or county licenses and permits. First up is a business license. The license fee is nominal and so is the paperwork. Where thing can get sticky is that, once you've applied for the business license, the city checks how you fit into its zoning and parking ordinances.
Which brings us to the all-important issue of zoning. Zoning ordinances vary tremendously from one locale to another, and are typically regulated by the city or county planning commission or planning board. Some municipalities, operating under the quirky assumption that boarding houses and tourist homes are still common, will consider a homestay (a tiny B&B that's used for supplemental income and usually doesn't advertise) or smaller B&B a residential business and let it go at that. Others feel that any bed and breakfast is a commercial enterprise that belongs in a business district. Still others, unfamiliar with the B&B concept, decide on a case-by-case basis.
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- Introduction
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Some municipalities include other issues besides location in their zoning ordinances. Some limit the number of days guests can stay per visit--typically seven or 14 days--as a means of insuring that hey remain short-term guests instead of long-term tenants. Some cities limit the number of guest rooms allowed in a residential neighborhood. Some prohibit cooking facilities in guest rooms, which means no kitchenettes allowed.
If your B&B is located in a business district, you'll probably pass with flying colors. But if your neighborhood isn't zoned for a bed and breakfast, you'll have to apply for a variance or a conditional use permit.
This generally means you appear before the planning commission as a star in your very own courtroom drama. You explain how your business will operate and why it won't change or harm the tenor of the neighborhood. If your town is B&B-oriented, with a number of bed and breakfasts already in operation, you shouldn't meet with much opposition. But if you'll be a pioneer, you may also need to explain how bed and breakfasts actually improve neighborhoods.
Riding shotgun with the question of zoning are parking and signage issues. Most cities stipulate that businesses allow adequate off-street parking for a set number of cars, typically one space for each guest room. They'll also want extras paces for your family vehicles. Depending on your specific location, you may be able to get around this by suggesting that guest can park in nearby public lots or in business parking lots or on the street after hours.
As for signage, you may not be allowed to post any sign at all if you're in a residential area. Which is fine if you'll go the homestay route and/or don't want any walk-in traffic. But if you're planning an inn0sized operation that will attract passersby, you'll have a hard time making your presence known.
Even in business districts, some municipalities can get sticky about signage. They may insist that your sign be placed a set distance back from the curb or be placed only directly on your building. For most B&Bs, which prefer discreet, low-key signage anyway, this isn't a problem. But it is a matter you should check into before you have a sign made.


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It's been a week since we had frost, and I'm gearing up for getting my plants outside in a couple of weeks. Better start hardening off I guess. I'm building a raised bed to house most of my plants, but I'm also doing some in containers. And now I'm browsing for pots. I know a lot of people recommend 5 gallon pots, but I was wondering - what is the required size for the peppers to thrive? 5 gallon pots are fairly expensive, so if I can avoid them and still have good results, I'd prefer that. I'm interested in the pot size required for the plant to grow comfortably, I can more or less disregard wind as I will keep the plants on my porch and take them inside in case of heavy weather. What are your experiences with various pot sizes? |
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you can try 3 gallons I've had success using black 3 gallon pots purchased from the local hydroponic store. They are reusable and not to expensive. |
Thanks. It's not that the individual pots are _that_ expensive, but if I'm potting, say, 15 plants, it quickly adds up. I can get 3.5 gallon buckets at pretty much half the price of 5 gallon ones. Will Hungarian Hot Wax or Poblanos require bigger pots for the roots to thrive than, say, Jalape├▒o or Habanero? |
Some local bakeries will give away five gallon buckets. I've acquired several 5 gallon buckets at the bakery in my local Wal-Mart. I drill holes in the bottom for drainage. |
There's a pretty good thread here from a couple months ago talking about container size. I didn't look for it, but it shouldn't be too hard to find. Bottom line....some of the larger peppers like NuMex/Anaheim types or Poblanos might benefit from 5 gal containers, but, generally, 3 gal is sufficient for most. Beyond that, it's largely preference. |
I agreed with Tsheets. For my Habanero Tree I am planning to use 11.6 gallon because the picture I have seen are very big. I have been told the bigger pots get bigger pods. I also use 6 gallon and 3 gallon containers. 3 gallon are the most convenient for mobile, it is light and fit to my windowsill very well too. Caelian |
My peppers are currently all in 0.5l "pots". Most of them are really root bound. I got some pots today (2l and 7l). I'm potting up some plants tomorrow and will monitor them closely this week. I expect the potted up peppers to outgrow the others. |
I got my hands on some pots. I guess I should drill holes in the bottom for drainage? How many and how big? Should I also fill in some gravel, leca or similar in the bottom to help drainage as we as make the pots more wind resistant? |
5 gallon buckets are probably the most economical way to go. Many times you can get them for free from restaraunts and other businesses as they toss them in the trash usually. But even if you buy them, they are about $2.50 a piece normally. Definitely you will need drain holes. I drill holes around my 5 gal buckets every 1 to 1.5 inches (I suppose about 20 per bucket) and use a drill bit about 3/16". A layer of rock or gravel at the bottom might not be a bad idea, especially for 5 gal buckets as they are taller and skinnier than some other containers. I usually fill my 5 gallon buckets to about 4" from the top so they are probably closer to 4 gallons than 5. Bruce |
Thanks Bruce. By the way, welcome to Norway, where the cheapest 5 gallon pot I can find is ~$8.5 :) Granted, it's not directly comparable due to overall economy etc, but still, just for the 4 tomatoes and 12 peppers I'm putting in pots, I'll be out almost $150. Good thing is that I can use 'em for many years to come. What do you guys do with the medium by the end of season by the way? Save it for later? Compost it? |
Many use their medium twice, as long as it's well amended the second time. But even on the second use you increase your chance of deficiencies, or over-compensating. After the second use it becomes too compacted, and things like PH go out of wack, and then the mystery problems begin. In those small pots you will have to fertilize on a regular schedule, hopefully with something that packs a decent amount of minerals etc etc. I would go lighter on the nitrogen percentage by early-mid season. |
I'm forced to keep some plants in too small containers due to lack of space and terrible fall-like spring weather. Today I snapped a picture that illustrates the effects of being root bound pretty visually. These are two Aji Lemons, sowed on the same day and treated exactly the same, except one was lucky enough to get potted up a couple of weeks back. |
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WASHINGTON, September 19, 2012 – The Washington National Opera opened its fall season at the Kennedy Center Opera House this weekend past with a lavish, intriguing, but occasionally problematic production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena.
More or less following the tragic story arc of British King Henry VIII's unfortunate second wife—who's about to be replaced by her own lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour (the first one)—Donizetti's eponymous heroine owns one of the most strenuous roles in opera. It may have been for that very reason that WNO invited power soprano Sondra Radvanovsky to sing the role here. (She'll eventually be taking it to the Met.)
Ms. Radvanovsky was vigorous and convincing as Anne (Anna in the Italian). She enlarged her character with her sheer presence, making Henry's second wife bigger than life, a woman torn apart by passion and emotional torment and very much aware of her fatal isolation from the rest of the court. Ms. Radvanovsky's instrument is a voice well suited to the big, tragic operas in which she has excelled. Yet paradoxically, it's not out of place here in Donizetti's bel canto world, either.
While this production's remaining principals clearly sing in that traditional style, Ms. Radvanovsky, even adjusting her instrument down a bit, seemingly does not, or at least not in the way we might expect. Her phrasing is elegant. Her diction and intonation are impeccable. And her tone is elegant and nearly always authoritative. Yet her sheer, commanding power makes us think of Puccini's regal, if flawed, Tosca at times rather than the somewhat more fragile heroines from the Age of Donizetti and Bellini.
In other words, Ms. Radvanovsky's Anne is still very much the Queen in this production right up to the end. On opening night, her singing was thrilling, really, and one simply had to adjust a bit to her presence in this kind of opera and enjoy the experience as something entirely new and unexpected.
Also impressive was mezzo-soprano Sonia Ganassi who sang the role of Jane Seymour, Anne's surprise rival for Henry's affections. Ms. Ganassi, too, possesses an impressively big instrument though it's not quite as dominant as is Ms. Radvanovsky's. But Ms. Ganassi's vocal style works well in delineating her violently conflicted character. And it's absolutely perfect when she duels one-on-one with Ms. Radvanovsky in their famous confrontation scene, clearly one of the high points in both this opera as well as Saturday evening's premiere performance here.
The remaining principals were also quite good. Mezzo-soprano Claudia Huckle was convincingly boyish as the comic yet eventually tragic teenage troubadour-page, Smeton. Tenor Shalva Mukeria sang the role of Anne's original lover, Percy.
Bass Owen Gradus was the kind of swaggering, impossibly self-centered King that most of us have imagined Henry VIII to be. He seemed slightly underpowered Saturday evening, however, and suffered from a brief, peculiar vocal malfunction in the second act.
One wonders if there was something in the air this weekend as marvelous soprano Eglise Gutiérrez suffered a similar mishaps over at Lisner on Sunday afternoon as she sang the role of Amina for the Washington Concert Opera in another bel canto classic, Bellini's La Sonnambula.
In any event, back at the Kennedy Center, Mr. Gradus quickly recovered and encountered no further issues Saturday night.
While the singing, as we've indicated, was generally fine in this performance, we had issues with other areas of this production. Take for example the intriguing set originally designed for the Dallas Opera.
Visually, this set is indeed impressive, resembling a towering version of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The set's tiered "seating" areas allowed for creative entrances, exits, and singing by the chorus as well as other characters, creating the impression that what was occurring below was a real-life drama to be watched and commented upon by the spectators.
Meanwhile, down below on ground level, the action was surrounded by various configurations of a series of big wooden panels or doors. Moving, without a great deal of noise, via near-silent wheels; and folding inward and outward by means of integral hinges, these panels efficiently altered space on the stage in a way that suited each scene and minimized downtime. So far, so good.
The problem was that some of these frequent reconfigurations ended up blocking the view of the singers primarily for patrons seated on the right side in both the orchestra and the balcony sections. In fact, we heard more than one patron expressing some irritation at this during the intermission. Why didn't someone—like director Stephen Lawless—correct these sightline issues during rehearsals?
In fact, the direction in this production seemed at times to entirely miss the mark. Especially problematic for us—and particularly so for this reviewer's esteemed spouse—was the insertion, by director Lawless, of the young Princess Elizabeth in several scenes. It's a non-singing, walk-on interpolation that we can find nowhere in Donizetti's libretto.
Young Elizabeth's initial appearance, running about and playing tag in the royal quarters, seemed clever enough, serving as a reminder to us as to how the wheel of fortune can affect the personal and political futures of nearly any individual. But successive appearances by Elizabeth became simply gratuitous and bathetic, calling attention to themselves and ultimately becoming precious. And unnecessary.
A worse problem than that pesky young Elizabeth was the positively weird decision to drop a set of wooden prison bars down over Anne and the other condemned prisoners during the opera's penultimate scene. From where we were seated in the orchestra section, the lights played off on this contraption rather strangely, with the glare transforming the wooden bars into vertical geometry that resembled a shimmering piece of 1960s Op Art. In turn, this optical effect made it nearly impossible to see the character of Anne as she confronted her final moments on Earth.
Just prior to the opera's final scene, these bars were blessedly lifted. But still, they had proved extraordinarily annoying at just the wrong time—during this opera's emotional and musical climax.
One wonders. Perhaps this contraption could be repurposed as kindling for a big outfield bonfire later this month to celebrate the Nats' first National League pennant. Well, it's a thought, anyway.
Also problematic on opening night: the performance by the WNO orchestra under the baton of Antonello Allemandi. The horns made a couple of terrible entrances and botched key moments. Other orchestral entrances were sloppy and off kilter.
Ironically, the orchestra actually played quite well once it past the opening bars of a given section. But the murkiness around the edges seemed inexcusable, particularly given the fine effort put forth by the cast and chorus.
In the end, the buck stops on the conductor's desk. Hopefully, he and the orchestra will work together to improve the level of playing in the remaining performances of Anna Bolena.
Meanwhile, WNO will open its next production of the season—Mozart's immortal Don Giovanni—tonight at the Kennedy Center. We'll be there. Stay tuned.
WNO's Anna Bolena runs through October 6. For tickets and information, visit the Washington National Opera's section of the Kennedy Center's website.
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Published 1 August 09
In the last issue of British Dairying, Chris Walkland looked closely at the implications and results of DairyCo's relocation to Stoneleigh and use of levy payers' money. This month, DairyCo chairman Tim Bennett sets out the facts behind the move, and explains DairyCo's strategy going forward.
Since DairyCo was established in 2008 our first and foremost priority has been to be open and accountable to our levy payers. A vital part of this is that we are challenged on our strategies, and that our use of levy money is scrutinised, so we welcome Mr Walkland's article.
Mr Walkland acknowledges that DairyCo services funded by the levy, including Datum and our various industry reports, make an invaluable contribution to the industry. However, there are two areas where Mr Walkland focuses his scepticism. Firstly, he suggests that in becoming part of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) our financial performance has been weakened and our efficiency reduced, making it of questionable value to you, the levy payer; secondly, he questions the decision by the DairyCo board to increase funding to our MilkBench+ benchmarking service.
To address the first point, the question over the value of the relocation to levy payers is not a new one, but it is one which has been carefully considered in the past. Mr Walkland suggests that the cost of the relocation could be £1.2million. Fortunately this is not correct, DairyCo's actual figure being much lower with an expected maximum of £300,000; the final figure needs to be calculated based on the savings that the six sectors make by sharing back office costs. This figure could eventually be even lower.
The whole relocation has been instigated because the different sectors working together have the potential to deliver significant savings and improve the services offered by working together to best practice. Indeed, we are already seeing our colleagues establish strong working relationships with their counterparts in other sectors which will provide more co-operation and savings as time goes on. And, in a recent interview, the new chief scientist for AHDB stressed the importance of getting value for money for levy payers.
Cost-benefits are already starting to be achieved and other wider operating benefits particularly in front line services will be delivered over the next few years. It is important that these costs and benefits are constantly scrutinised, and the DairyCo board will always be looking closely at these figures to ensure good value for dairy farmers. The other sectors involved will demand good value as well, so we have a shared agenda in achieving a good outcome for levy payers.
Mr Walkland states that DairyCo central costs will increase by 12% per year, but the budget used by Mr Walkland was done before it was possible to quantify the savings to be made, only in next year's budget will we be able to do this accurately.
DairyCo board costs have risen in the last year as Mr Walkland states in his article. In part, this is because more board meetings were held in the first year of DairyCo operation because it was a new organisation. However, in addition to this, board members are now paid a more commercially representative rate of £257 per day (increased from £200), which is standard across the AHDB. Now that DairyCo is well established the number of meetings and time required from board members will decrease and costs are budgeted to fall from now on.
As well as looking at board costs, Mr Walkland has taken a close look at staff costs. The actual spend on staff will not increase significantly from 2009/10 to 2011/12, however in the last year, staff spend has increased due the recruitment of new members for the extension team, the communications team and research and development.
These are key, frontline areas for DairyCo activity, and they provide essential services that interact directly with our levy payers. Not to invest in these areas would be self defeating and would significantly inhibit our ability to get information and knowledge to our levy payers. It is also important to note that the increase in staff costs seems higher than it is because DairyCo income has fallen in line with lower milk production.
Where staff are concerned, it is an unfortunate fact that in the process of relocation you lose good people. Change over of staff inevitably costs an organisation both financially and through the experience lost, however, we are recruiting new, equally good and experienced people, and I believe strongly that the benefits to be brought from having skilled members of staff from across all sectors working together far outweigh the unfortunate losses in the long term.
Mr Walkland also suggests that our reserves are falling badly and that this is due to the reorganisation. I can state categorically that this is not the case. DairyCo's reserves are at a healthy level and will remain so. Any predicted income difference is only due to milk production levels falling.
To come to Mr Walkland's comments about Milkbench+. This is a brand new tool which, to
31 March 2009, has cost DairyCo just under £260,000, not the £1million suggested by Mr Walkland in his article.
2008/9 was the trial period for the system, and during that time we have collected a total of 151 datasets. But the trial revealed that to make it work well you had to give it enough resources. It was decided by the board that more resources should be given to Milkbench+ for the year 2009/10 and beyond, this way we have the resources to make the system reach its potential.
DairyCo is confident that Milkbench+ provides a much more rigorous analysis of a dairy farmer's enterprise than other benchmarking tools in the marketplace and enables dairy farmers to compare themselves against a national standard and also help to compare ourselves internationally.
Our decision was based partly on the fact that Milkbench+ has characteristics over and above those of current commercial tools which are on the market and I would encourage all dairy farmers to investigate it and respond to the feedback it provides.
Milkbench+ will also provide an annual 'state of the nation' report on efficiency within dairy farming production systems. All levy payers will be able to access the report, look at areas of efficiency and compare them with other systems whether their data is on Milkbench+ or not.
Importantly, for farmers to have confidence in using the system confidentially, I would stress that it does not detail individual farmer's costs or average costs of production but concentrates on efficiency and the main areas where improvements can be made.
Finally, it is worth noting that the continued and increased funding of the project was also strongly supported by the farming unions, and this was also a factor that the Board took into consideration.
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A major hurdle to frequently performing mobile computer vision tasks is the high power consumption of image sensing. In this work, we report the first publicly known experimental and analytical characterization of CMOS image sensors. We find that modern image sensors are not energy-proportional: energy per pixel is in fact inversely proportional to frame rate and resolution of image capture, and thus image sensor systems fail to provide an important principle of energy-aware system design: trading quality for energy efficiency.
We reveal two energy-proportional mechanisms, supported by current image sensors but unused by mobile systems: (i) using an optimal clock frequency reduces the power up to 50% or 30% for low-quality single frame (photo) and sequential frame (video) capturing, respectively; (ii) by entering low-power standby mode between frames, an image sensor achieves almost constant energy per pixel for video capture at low frame rates, resulting in an additional 40% power reduction. We also propose architectural modifications to the image sensor that would further improve operational efficiency. Finally, we use computer vision benchmarks to show the performance and efficiency tradeoffs that can be achieved with existing image sensors. For image registration, a key primitive for image mosaicking and depth estimation, we can achieve a 96% success rate at 3 FPS and 0.1 MP resolution. At these quality metrics, an optimal clock frequency reduces image sensor power consumption by 36% and aggressive standby mode reduces power consumption
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Hello again. Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >> The election officials are Łukasz Damentko[1], Jorge Manuel B. S. >> Vicetto[2], and Richard Freeman[3]. The infrastructure team contact >> for the election is Shyam Mani[4]. The election officials have >> published a page[5] with all the information on the election >> including lists of voting members of the Gentoo Foundation. >> >> * [1] - firstname.lastname@example.com >> * [2] - firstname.lastname@example.com >> * [3] - firstname.lastname@example.com >> * [4] - email@example.com >> * [5] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/foundation-200802.xml >> >> The election polls will be open from Wednesday February 13th to >> Wednesday 27th. >> > Just a small update. For logistic reasons we need to push the voting > period 24 hours. Thus, the election will take place from 00H00 UTC > February 14th (Thursday) to 0H00 February 28th (Thursday). > We will send a mail with all the nominees and the list of voters after > the nomination period ends in over one hour. > I made a mistake as the voting period lasts from 00:00.00 UTC February 14th (Thursday) to 23:59.59 UTC February 28th (Thursday), so you can still vote on the 28th. As promised the list of nominees to the trustees election is the following: William Thomson - wltjr Roy Bamford - NeddySeagoon Tom Gall - tgall Patrick Lauer - tgall Joshua Jackson - tsunam Jeffrey Gardner - je_fro Ferris McCormick - fmccor Jakub Moc - jakub The list of voters for this election[6] can be checked through the elections page[5]. * [6] - http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmbsvicetto/trustees-election/voters-sorted To vote on this election, do the following: Eligible current Gentoo devs should login to dev.gentoo.org and run the following commands, in the order specified. * votify --new trustees2008 - This creates a new ballot in your homedir. * Edit the .ballot-trustees2008 file and rank the candidates. * Once you're sure, run votify --verify trustees2008 to check the validity of the ballot. * If that goes through fine, the next and final step is to submit your vote using votify --submit trustees2008 * In case you're stuck, detailed help can be accessed by using votify --help or feel free to drop by #gentoo-elections on IRC. If you think you are eligible to vote, but cannot, please contact one of the officials. * Grab a beer, have fun, sit back and enjoy the show..till we announce the results ;) The remaining Foundation members (ex-devs), should email their ballot to the 3 election officials, signing the mail with their gpg key: * email@example.com * firstname.lastname@example.com * email@example.com Please check the elections page as we've updated it to include all this info. For the election officials, -- Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE -- firstname.lastname@example.com mailing list
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Gates Pledges Lifetime of Service to Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway has had its fair share of bad luck in the past few months (though haven't we all?), but a recent promise from Warren Buffett's longtime friend Bill Gates that he will join Berkshire's board and stay on for the rest of his life seems a testament to the goodwill those in the know have for the company. Gates and Don Keough, formerly of Coca-Cola, have vowed to maintain the ideals of the corporation after the aging Buffett (right), No. 5 on our list, retires.
This news draws attention once again to the burning question: what will happen when the 78-year-old Oracle of Omaha steps down? The legend himself spoke to his mortality in an interview last month with Bloomberg News, saying, "It's the most important issue there is. There's nothing more important. Nobody knows on any given day where I'll be the next day." Look for the topic to be addressed this Saturday at "Capitalists' Woodstock," otherwise known as Berkshire's annual meeting.
No matter who ends up replacing him, Buffett is likely to take solace in the fact that his bridge buddy will be there to carry on his vision. And Gates does owe him a debt of gratitude—who can forget Buffett's extraordinary largesse in 2006 when he pledged 85 percent of his massive fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?


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On May 29, 2013, the Chinese press reported the rescue of a 6-pound, 2.8-ounce newborn boy with placenta still attached that had become stuck in the sewer pipe under a squat toilet. Apart from having a low heart rate and some minor abrasions, the boy, now named Baby No. 59 for the incubator that houses him, is doing well. The case is being investigated as a possible attempted homicide.
Bloody toilet paper in one of the building's rental apartments implicated the mother, 22, who had actually alerted the landlord and stood by watching the entire rescue operation. When confronted she confessed to having given birth to the baby, saying that since she could not afford a child she had hidden the preganancy and ensuing birth, but that she had not intended to flush it. She reportedly said that when she gave birth to the child over the toilet, he slipped into the sewer line. When she could not retrieve the baby, she called the landlord.
Horrified by the story, many Chinese arrived at the hospital with charitable offerings of diapers, baby clothes, powdered milk and requests to adopt the child. It is not known if the mother will be facing any charges.
The video shows the very large toilet, removal of the pipe from a ceiling in the apartment building, and the careful removal of the pipe from around the child at the hospital.
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Like Flame Maple, Quilt Maple provides a unique, curly figured grain pattern creating a vibrant and interesting patttern. When it is finished in transparent finishes, it is nearly impossible to put words too. Generally considered one of the most expensive and desirable top woods, it adds as much tonally as it does in appearance.
Natural Scrape Binding
A gorgeous accent, when the top and body are finished, a natural scrape binding reveals the quality of the wood highlighting the top finish color as well.
Transparent Finish
Transparent finishes are among the most desired in guitars as they allow for both the unique color and the natural grain of the wood to show through. The darker grain provides a dynamic contrast to the lighter grains giving you a 3-Dimensional and unique look.
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Custom engineered by DBZ, the DBZ Stop Tail provides the ultimate in look and performance. The stop tail design has been used by some of the world's most popular and timeless guitars. The DBZ Stop Tail, when used with our Tune-O-Matic bridge provides the ultimate in ease, tone and reliability.
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Co-designed by amp designer Jeff Diamant (Diamond Amps and DBZ/Diamond founder) and Seymour Duncan, the DD-1 DBZ/Diamond Hole-shot pickup is aggressive, high output, but clean and smooth. The DD-5 DBZ/Diamond 4-Stroke neck pickup is classic, round and warm.
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Often considered the world's finest tuning machines, the Grover tuners are a triumph in engineering and style. The housing provides a maximum bearing for worm gear and string post and designed to eliminate backlash and slippage. Countersunk tension tension screw permits players to regulate turning tension to any degree. Gear box has a special lubricant for lifetime, trouble-free service.
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Calluna is a family run business which was established in 2003 in Stenhousemuir, with the aim to create a florist with a different approach and unique environment.
We are committed to offering only the finest floral arrangements and gifts, backed by a service that is friendly and prompt.
Every step of each floral arrangement is important to us, from general enquiries to the creation of individual designs, whether it is for a wedding, valentine day, telling mum she is special or a floral tribute for a funeral.
We will continue to go from strength to strength, building our reputation for offering stylish designs using the very best quality materials.
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Our future plan is to continue what we are doing, pleasing as many people as we possibly can and would like to thank our ever growing clientèle for their support .
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