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How can I tell when a blueberry is ripe enough to pick? On my bush, some blueberries turned ripe over 13 days ago, some are still green. Just randomly sampling the blue ones, most are still not ripe. Clearly the green ones aren't ripe. But how can I tell which of the blue ones are ripe?
What would happen if I waited say a week after the last blueberry turned blue? I have the bush under a net so birds aren't an issue. Thanks. |
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Hi Isoh, What kind of Blueberries?Some flavor is better if left on longer and it could depend on variety.Where is your location? Brady |
I think there's some rule of thumb for how many days/weeks after turning blue. Don't know what it is though. Of course, the surest way is to regularly sample. You'll become an expert. |
This variety is Duke. I live in Northern Ohio, zone 5. |
- Posted by blazeaglory 10 SZ22 OC Ca (My Page) on Thu, Jun 14, 12 at 1:15
Foolproof rule of thumb. Blueberries would have been ripe the day AFTER the birds got them. |
I have some young Duke's.From what I've read they are fairly mild flavored but are suppose to be the most popular planted variety in the area where I live,the Pacific Northwest. Brady |
It usually takes a few days after they turn blue to fully expand and ripen. And you can't expect to harvest in one session as blueberries ripen in succession. One way to tell if they are ripe is how easily they fall off. Most varieties will allow ripe blueberries to come off by a slight tickle of the berry. If you have to pull or twist them off, they aren't ready, even if they are blue. |
Don't know if this is true, but based on my (first) harvest this year, it seems to be. I read somewhere that the berries are ripe after they turn from light blue to dark blue. In other words look for a darker shade of blue and pick those berries. The light blue ones will soon turn dark blue, and the "white" ones will soon turn light blue. |
Some varieties though take on a deeper blue when fully ripe.Usually the taste will be better if left on the bush after the last color change.Experience will be your best helper. Brady |
- Posted by olympia_gardener 5 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 10:20
I always look under the berry at where the stem attach to see if there is any reddish shade. If no reddish color and easily fall of then I will pick them; if it still has little red shade , them I will let it stay for few days. BTW, I think calliope's answer hits the target. |
- Posted by blazeaglory 10 SZ22 OC Ca (My Page) on Sun, Jun 17, 12 at 1:29
Hold the berry and tell it to turn its head and cough...Lol |
- Posted by maplerbirch 4 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 17, 12 at 7:31
When the bottom of the berry turns to the same color/shade of blue as the top of the berry. Makes them difficult to pick. :) |
Some articles I have read say only pick once a week and 2 times at the most, if it is hot. My question is: If I pick on a Monday and not again until, say Sunday, each day of the week more berries will have changed color so that by Sunday I don't know which ones turned blue on Tuesday, or just turned blue on Saturday. I guess it is a percentage where I will at least get a small amount that are truly ripe and a lot will be the same as if I picked every other day. I guess I was happier when I didn't think about it!! |
- Posted by bamboo_rabbit 9A Inverness FL (My Page) on Tue, Jul 9, 13 at 14:31
I wait till half the berries on a given bush are ripe before picking them then pick all that are solid blue. The next picking I wait till half what is left is solid blue and pick and third pick is the last pick. Doing that you will get about 60% that are dead ripe and the remaining berries will be not quite to not very ripe. I rather like eating the not so ripe ones and dead ripe together as it gives a nice balance. If you pick every day or two you will get more berries and the birds less but there is no quality. |
I consider mine ripe when they are sweetest. I leave them on as long as possible. They seem to continue swelling and get sweeter the longer they are left on. I'm willing to sacrifice firmness for sweetness. |
I pick when they are fully blue (no purple) but some turn almost black, others keep a blue frosted look so also feel. If it "gives" a little it's ready, if hard it's not, and if it squishes you waited too long :-) But have to get them before the birds do. |
- Posted by myfamilysfarm 5b (My Page) on Wed, Jul 10, 13 at 12:01
Keep in mind, each blueberry variety has it's own taste/sweetness and it can change somewhat each year, depending on the heat/moisture. |
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Photo of Egg Template. Print from Link - The foam paper we used had an adhesive back so we used the sticky side to attach the colored cotton balls. If you aren't using that, apply glue or double sided tape to the first egg.
Adhesive back on our foam sheet revealed. Use double sided
tape or glue if you are using a different item.Attach colored cotton balls in any way you like! Ahh! Beautiful, Soft, & Fun to Touch! - Attach the colored cotton to the egg.
- Let dry completely, if necessary.
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- The foam paper we used had an adhesive back so we used the sticky side to attach the buttons. If you aren't using that, apply glue or double sided tape to the second egg.
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The Black & Blue salvia that I have does not seem to produce seeds. I checked the flower-producing parts right after the flowers fall off and I also checked them after the flowers dried up, there were no seeds or anything that looked like seeds. Is that normal? |
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That is pretty normal. Bumblebees usually chew holes at the base of the flower which prevents seed formation - watch and you will see. In a decade or so of growing B&B I've seen less than a dozen ripe seeds. Another person at this site, Penny, has successfully collected and propagated seeds, so it can be done. |
- Posted by nuthatch_mo Z-6 MO (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 07 at 18:47
My B&B makes seeds, but only when it first flowers in the spring and again late in the fall. It is hard to get the seeds because they fall out very easy so you have to check them every day. My B&B get so many flowers that the bees don't get them all. Everyone said that the plants would not come true from seeds, but I planted about 10 seeds that I collected last year, 8 of them germinated and they all turned into regular B&B plants. I was wishing to get an interesting cross, so that might be why they all came true. LOL |
- Posted by hummersteve Indy (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 07 at 19:41
Yes, they do seed but they fall out so quickly its had recover the seeds . I had a few seeds last year that I had tried to germinate but failed . So I will most likely just replace what doesnt live thru the winter and come back in the spring. |
- Posted by dallasgarden z8 Dallas (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 07 at 22:18
I can never collect seed, but mine have seeded out and I now have small seedlings growing around the original base plant. One, only 10 inches tall has a bloom on it already! |
- Posted by rich_dufresne z7 NC (My Page) on Tue, Oct 30, 07 at 0:42
Are you sure these are seedlings and not one of many stolons (runners) that have popped up? You can find the runner by gently digging in between the sprout and the main plant. |
My Black & Blue is planted in a pot and it is sitting on the brick patio. So if the seeds fell, I would not be able to find them. I am going to plant it in the ground next year. Since I found seeds in greggii, I thought I could do the same on the Black & Blue but so far no luck. When I look inside where the flower fell off, there are white things that shape like seeds but they are not black or brown and they are soft. Maybe I am not looking for them at the right time. I will keep looking as long as there are flowers.... |
kal2002, you may have seeds that haven't ripened yet. I had quite a few seeds last year on my B&Bs but many of them didn't get ripe before the plant froze. I had the same experience as nuthatch with my seedlings - all of them came true. My germination percentage was lower, though. That might have been because I was trying to harvest seeds before the plant froze and some of them weren't quite ripe. Becky |
Hi Becky, if that is the case, will the flower stalks still be around in freezing temperatures for seed collecting? I looked at my Hot Lips this morning and it is doing the same thing. No seeds, just some white parts that look like they may be seeds some day. I did get some seeds from Wild Watermelon and a no name greggii last weekend. So I guess some plants produce seeds more readily than others. |
- Posted by hummersteve Indy (My Page) on Sat, Nov 3, 07 at 23:14
Of the seeds Ive collected most of them are brown or dark brown , but a few were a lighter color but I think some of those are darkening too. |
- Posted by rich_dufresne z7 NC (My Page) on Sun, Nov 4, 07 at 0:12
Seeds that have started to ripen (taking on a tan to brown color) are likely to survive a freeze. Those that are still white and no shrunken (dehydrating) will probably turn to mush. See the link-free web page on seeds for more info. I've also uploaded a link-free web page on Salvia flower structures http://www.eclectasy.com/gallery_of_salvias/flower3.htm |
Here is a link that might be useful: Working with seeds
- Posted by hummersteve Indy (My Page) on Wed, Nov 7, 07 at 15:49
Rich-- Thanks for posting the seed info. I would like to find some kind of bag containers for my seeds collected. I made a homemade container that resembles a coin holder out of printing paper, seems to work ok. |
Good news! I found ONE seed on my Black and Blue this morning. Looks like I may have another 2 if all goes well. |
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I've got a few oak seedlings, and this one is the furthest along (part because I put it in the greenhouse). It *may* be from seed I picked up in N Wisconsin (Hayward area) a couple years ago, but it also may be from a local oak (that I picked while hiking)...I really need to keep better records!
Thanks for the help... It looks to be from polyembryonic seed...do I just cut off the smaller of the two? I also will be going up a size in the pot or planting in the ground shortly... It looks like it may need a hit of nitrogen. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 17, 12 at 18:35
considering my oaks havent even leafed out yet near ann arbor MI .. your presumption of a fert need over slow cold growth might be a bit premature ... that said.. lets call it bob.. and bobs your uncle.. and be done with it.. lol ken |
- Posted by franktank232 z5 WI (My Page) on Tue, Apr 17, 12 at 21:11
Yeah.. I cheat with the greenhouse. Plants just love that hot/humid environment. |
In the red oak group - 'tis all that can be determined. It sometimes takes two to three years to determine the leaning of the seedling. "Leaning" being what it could become... hortster |
The taller one looks like a Howard to me. The shorter one looks like a George. ;-) |
- Posted by sanctified Zone 5 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 17, 12 at 22:11
What size is that pot and is it just a regular nursery pot? How long has it been going? Just this year? Thanks, I just planted some acorns in my raised beds and am going to plant more when my order of pots comes Friday. |
It kind of looks like a chinkapin oak, but that's a white oak. |
Definitely Quercus michauxii ;) |
It's a seedling of a member of the white oak group - no spines on the tips of the leaf lobes. Beyond that, it's a guess - leaves on seedling oaks often look nothing like those of mature specimens of the species. Could be bur oak, could be a hybrid, you'll just have to wait a bit to see. Native range of Q.michauxii does not extend into to WI. |
- Posted by franktank232 z5 WI (My Page) on Wed, Apr 18, 12 at 9:00
This will be the 3rd summer since it sprouted from an acorn. The pot size I think is a 3 gallon (not good for tap roots!). It came from Wisconsin, but it could have been planted. Sounds like I'll have to wait and see. I wish I would have taken pictures of those trees I picked acorns from in Hayward. Its sad that in my neighborhood, very few oaks have been planted (more like none). Mostly maples. Thanks for the help. |
Lucky P - a far outlying population of q michuaxii no doubt ;) Frank, gonna be several more years probably before you have a good feel for the heritage here. Mature bark and acorns will help, although twig ID drawings could be helpful now. With oaks you always want to ID the acorn bearing tree if possible before collecting. This still does not rule out hybrids, but at least you know half the genetics. My guess was a joke (hence the winking smiley), I did not mean for it to be taken seriously. John |
It could also be Q Prinus or Q. Muehlenbergii. I know, it could be a red oak family tree too. Chestnut oak may be too fast growing to be the correct answer if that is a 3 year old seedling. It probably really is a Chinkapin, I think Swamp chestnut (Muehlinbergii) has different looking teeth. Oh, time will tell. |
The Chinkapin oak is the only one in that range with that leave shape. |
- Posted by nutsaboutnuts none (My Page) on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 15:34
Almost looks like English Oak ..... Quercus robur |
Its not Chinkapin oak, which is very uncommon in Northern Wisconsin. Its most likely a seedling swamp oak or Quercus bicolor, which is much more common in those parts. Quercus bicolor is often lumped together with chestnut oaks in the white oak grouping; Hence, the confusion people have regarding this seedling. The main white oaks of wisconsin are; white oak, bur oak, and swamp oak. There is a tiny smattering of chinkapin oak in the extreme southern and western corner of the state. |
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- "DNS Attacks" by Kurt Seifried, Linux Magazine, October 2008: http://www.linux-magazine.com/issues/2008/95/dns_attacks
- Metasploit: http://www.metasploit.com/
- Immunity Canvas: http://www.immunitysec.com/products-canvas.shtml
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Dear Father God in Jesus name i come before you to present you Shyla A and to unite myself with angelmanda2 in prayer,I know that you are the healer of your children,Your love works miracles.Today i ask you to liberate Shyla a. from the slavery and yolke and inffection of addiction.Wash her with the preciuos blood of Jesus and rescue her from being her worst enemy.Turn her Weakness into strenght as only you can.Cancel that generational curse that she has inhereted and forgive those who made her inheretor of this curse.I rebuke in the Powerful name of Jesus all generational curses that have brought addiction into shyla a's life.I ask forgiveness in her name,I thank you for her.I want to praise for her and worship you in her name,Cover her With Your Holy Spirit,the I Am that spoke to Moses in the mountain of Horeb.You are our liberator you are our provider,you are consuming fire, and without you we are lost and without you we accomplish victory. Put over her head the helmet of salvation,give her the sword of your Holy spirit,shield her with the shield of faith,dress her with your armor of justice and righteousness,Take her by the hand and put your hand upon hers and Guide her Father of Glory,into your light,Glority yourself in Jesus name and give her, her miracle of salvation.Give her clarity.separate her from those who provide her with the poison that she is consuming.In Jesus name i declare her free of addiction and restored for you.Thank you Father for your are hearing and are dispatching at this precise moment your blessings.I thank you in Jesus name .Amen. |
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God we ask in Jesus name to bind satan.We know whatever two ask in Jesus name God in heaven will give it to them.Call 1-800-759-0700 they will pray for Shyla.Watch the 700 Club on channel 12.I was watching one day and Pat Robertson said,"Satan take your hands off God's property!"I was delivered from cigarette smoking.Praise God and Jesus!Believe and you shall recieve. |
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On The Poems Of Elizabeth Bishop And Other Songs, Souza performed original songs using the words of the American poet and a jazz quintet. Brazilian Duos, the second in her trilogy, stripped Brazilian standards down to their innate vibrancy, warming them only with voice and lone guitar. This time out, Souza rethinks love songs of various stripes, tossing in a couple of bossa novas for good measure. The result is North And South, a cleanly arranged (for quartet—piano, bass, drums, voice) and expertly performed set that combines the irreverent sexiness of Brazilians and insouciant boldness of Americans. On "All Of Me," Souza reveals a surprising Betty Carter-esque phrasing, working in and out of the instrumental trio, led by pianist Bruce Barth. Scatting with confidence, Souza imbues the samba "Se é Tarde Me Perdoa" with a playful lightness, crystallizing the farcical image of a philandering husband trying desperately to reenter his locked home. Proving herself a commanding leader and arranger, Souza sacrifices a measure of intimacy found on both Poems and Duos, but with North And South she serves notice her musical journeys between are just beginning.


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A burglar in New Zealand may be too traumatized to rob anyone again after discovering a hanging body in a house he broke into.
After coming upon the grisly scene in a vacant Hamilton home, the 26-year-old burglar screamed so loudly that the neighbors thought there was a domestic incident going on and phoned police. The burglar calmed himself down to call police as well.
He was arrested for the break-in, but likely won't be charged. Finding the corpse of a hanging man, police have decided, is punishment enough to deter the burglar from committing future crimes. "Hopefully there will be a positive out of it and that he will decide it's not the thing to do. I would be taking that as pretty bad karma," said Senior Sergeant Freda Grace.
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The cinema of 2007 may eventually be remembered as an endless parade of crappy sequels and depressing Oscar bait featuring beautiful actresses crying over their missing spouses (broken up, occasionally, by outstanding Judd Apatow–produced films, like Superbad). But even if Hollywood has truly run out of ideas for movies, it's not yet run out of ideas for things to kill people with within those movies. Tomorrow, No Country for Old Men opens, and in it Javier Bardem plays an unfortunately coiffed assassin who slays his victims with a captive bolt pistol, an awesomely terrifying device more commonly used to slaughter cattle. But it's only one of a few awe-inspiring cinematic killing implements from 2007 that one day may be as iconic as the lightsaber. After the jump, Vulture's list of the Seven Best Movie Weapons of 2007.
7. Flying police cruiser, Live Free or Die Hard
Let's face it, rocket launchers are expensive and bazookas can be laughably inaccurate (to say the least!), so when you absolutely need to blow up a helicopter, there's really only one practical way to do it — drive a flaming police car into a toll booth in such a way that it flies through the air and hits the helicopter, obviously.
6. Electric ping-pong vests, Balls of Fury
In the movie, Christopher Walken plays Feng, a sadistic criminal mastermind who inflicts great pain on captive ping-pong players with electrified vests that shock them whenever they fail to return a serve. It may be the one thing more torturous than having to sit through Balls of Fury (see trailer above).
5. Reinforced Chevy Nova, Death Proof
It's doubtful that any amount of reinforced steel could make a car assembled in Detroit crash-safe, so the supposedly "death-proof" Chevy Nova that Stuntman Mike uses to mow down young women in Quentin Tarantino's portion of Grindhouse may actually be the single most ridiculous, unrealistic killing implement on this list. Still, it is pretty awesome.
4. Viggo Mortensen's penis, Eastern Promises
In Eastern Promises' infamous bathhouse fight scene, Viggo's member isn't technically itself a weapon — in fact, it stays flaccid for the entire duration of the mêlée — but as a naked Mortensen (playing Russian mobster Nikolai Luzhin) crosses knives with a pair of Chechen hit men, it proves to be a deadly distraction for his opponents. Well, it distracted us anyway.
3. Prosthetic machine-gun leg, Planet Terror
When it comes to movie violence, enormous machine guns are de rigueur, but in his half of Grindhouse, Robert Rodriguez found a way to make an old standby new again by attaching one to the truncated leg of former go-go dancer Cherry Darling (Rose McGowan). It's triggered at her will and never seems to run out of ammo.
2. Towel, The Bourne Ultimatum
Ordinary citizens use towels every day to dry their hands and keep pot smoke inside their dorm rooms, but to rogue superspy Jason Bourne, terrycloth is a deadly weapon and should be treated as such. Watch here as he impressively uses a bath towel to disarm and strangle a CIA assassin.
1. Cattle gun, No Country for Old Men
Anton Chigurh (a ruthlessly detached Javier Bardem) may look like the unfortunate product of an Erik Estrada–Ringo Starr hookup, but he makes up for it with his preferred weaponry, a cattle stun-gun that is used to displace the brain matter of pretty much anyone who crosses his path. It actually gave us nightmares.


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Habitable zone estimations take the climate regulation of the carbon cycle into account. But are we drawing the edges of the habitable zone too wide?
The authors break in the new Gemini Planet Imager with spectroscopy of the well-studied but not yet well-explained exoplanets HR 8799 c and d.
Today's paper proposes a detection method for technologically advanced life that goes beyond the usual SETI signals: looking at exoplanet atmospheres not just for the presence of life in general, but for the chemical signatures of intelligent life.
A simple and elegant (but hard) alternative method for measuring exoplanet masses.
Astronomers love to ignore magnetic fields. But they may strongly affect the pattern of atmospheric circulation in hot Jupiters.
The search for exoplanets in their habitable zones continues. But exomoons could be habitable, too! This paper models hypothetical exomoons in four real systems to determine the habitability of moons around planets that don't necessarily stay in the habitable zone.
A new brown dwarf system has been discovered only 2 parsec away; Gillon et al. analyze its light curve to study clouds on the surfaces of these stars.
The field of exoplanet research is rapidly expanding. Presented here are the results from a recent ground-based study of an exoplanet's atmosphere. We have characterized the atmospheres of less than ten exoplanets. By opening up the frontier for ground-based telescopes to do such ground-breaking research we will be able to characterize the atmospheres of hundreds of exoplanets.
Astronomers don't stop after discovering planets in systems near and far from our own solar system. The next big step is to characterize the planets. We want to understand what they're made of, what their atmospheres look like, whether they have clouds, how massive they are, how old they are, etc. As it turns out characterizing exoplanets is really, really challenging for both observers and modelers. The challenges encountered are well illustrated by the saga of WASP-12b.


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If you can figure out the Phillies, please step forward and explain their thinking to me. The richest starting rotation in baseball left to their own devices in a notorious bandbox as the front office makes a concerted effort to keep any and all power hitters away from the everyday lineup.
With rumors of a Michael Young trade swirling around the team, the Phillies went ahead and found themselves a new center fielder, acquiring Ben Revere from the Minnesota Twins for starter Vance Worley and prospect Trevor May, according to Todd Zolecki of MLB.com.
Ben Revere is a fly catching center fielder of some esteem. Well, little esteem. He can catch the flies and gets on base at a reasonable clip but he takes "no power" to a whole new level.
Ben Revere is first on the list of active players with most career PA without a HR (1,064). The next 25 guys on the list are pitchers.
— Andrew Simon (@HitTheCutoff) December 6, 2012
Zero home runs. None. NOT A ONE. In 1000 career plate appearances. Home runs are not his game, even if they should be the game of anyone playing at Citizens Bank Park. Revere will start in center for the Phillies and probably hit leadoff because he's fast. All the fast.
Meanwhile, the Phillies give up a decent back-end piece of their rotation. Worley missed the final month of 2012 with an elbow injury. He is an extreme oddity for his total inability to induce swinging strikes and still survive. A move to a less-home run prone ballpark can only help the Twins newest hurler. Acquiring Worley helps the Twinkies in their quest to achieve an entire season in which every single pitch they throw is put into play.
The Phillies probably overpaid for a good defender who cannot even hit a little bit. Like, at all. That they included Trevor May, a top 50 prospect in all of baseball, is a little shocking. Maybe the Phillies know something about Worley that we don't, especially in light of his recent injury. Or they're just the Phillies, successful enough for long enough that they are having trouble changing gears.
All is not lost for the Phils, who appear close to acquiring Michael Young from the Rangers because hahahaha sorry I can't even. More age, more statuesque defense, more flimsy power from a platoon player past his prime. THE PHILLIES!
The Rangers will eat considerable amounts of Young's remaining (hilarious) contract and Young might not be the worst caddy for all three members of the Phillies once-great but ageing and injury-prone infield. And Cholly Manuel has no DH spot to hand to Young without considering the grave implications of a designated hitter who can't hit.
Does Ben Revere help the Phillies compete in 2013? He certainly fills a need defensively and might put his hollow OBP to good use ahead of some better hitters. The price just seems steep for a one dimensional ball player with little to no offensive value. Nobody can accuse the Phils of being shy, that is for sure.


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Scorpio Sun .... written by Shirley Eftoda
The Sun travels the Scorpio sky from October 23rd through November 21st. The New Moon is in Scorpio on November 14th. The New Moon is an opportune time to clear out the old in order to make room for the new. Cleaning out, throwing out, or giving away what is no longer needed is a good idea.
Each zodiac sign contains a specific energy that both encourages and assists us on our life journey. Scorpio's territory is the psyche, the unconscious mind and the emotional body.
Scorpio's role is to find out what is going on within its emotional body and then become at peace with it. Scorpio must dive into Pluto's underworld and confront all the demons in its own subconscious hell. This is rather difficult as our culture teaches us to ignore, suppress and repress our emotions. We are taught that our emotions get in the way of our spiritual path. However, our emotions are a critical part of our spiritual path as realistically what gets in our way are the distortions and stories we make up for ourselves about what we think will make us happy and satisfied.
Understanding Scorpio is an emotional and not a mental process. A deep understanding of our emotional traumas is a necessary step in our healing process. Mental explanations can lead us into victimization modes. Emotions are integrated into our consciousness through feeling the sensations in our body which at first are scary and may result in uncomfortable experiences which we tend to avoid at all costs.
When the costs of avoidance are more than we can handle whether it be through mental torment, physical illness, financial ruin, emotional estrangement from others then we submit ourselves to the inevitable journey into the pit of our own psyche. This is the archetype of "the dark night of the soul." This 'dark night' is the first step in helping us get in touch with the fear, sadness and anger that is blocking our light.
Scorpio is driven to get to the root cause of its pain which started when we leaped out of our bodies into our minds, when we started to try to figure things out instead of listening to our intuitive, instinctual guidance. Our pain began when we rejected ourselves and disconnected from own heart and feelings; when we began to look to others for approval, recognition, and permission and to get our needs met.
Healing the emotional body now becomes the mission to seek self-understanding and self-mastery through constant crisis; to feel our feelings, to get in touch with our deepest emotions and in the process become a master rather than an slave of our emotions. If our psychic energy is not released through the expression of our feelings, it will express itself through the physical body and disturbing events (1). Once we realize that whatever misery we have attracted is of our own doing, we are humbled enough to begin the Scorpionic path to liberation.
Scorpio is a water sign. The emotional energy of the water signs lies below the surface of the consciousness in the unconscious. It is elusive and mysterious. Water sign energy teaches us that we need to get in touch with our feeling nature in order to access the instinctual nature of our behaviour as compared to the earth signs which have within themselves the physical energy that can be seen with material objects and results. The path of the water signs is to develop an inner sense of security and safety; Cancer is about nurturing one's self; Scorpio is about nurturing relationships and building teams with the end goal of creating something with others through emotional stability.
Scorpio is a Fixed Sign which is tenacious and does not change easily. Scorpio penetrates to the very core; not only getting to the bottom of matters but exposing the cause. The penetration is to the point where death has already occurred and new creation has not yet begun. Scorpio always insists and begins with a clean slate.
Some Scorpio's live in fear, using their energy selfishly and seek to destroy others. They can use their magnetic energy to attract others into their web so they can use their resources for their own ends. This ends up being self-annihilating to Scorpio. After enough self-inflicted pain they realize they are tormented but do not know why. Uncovering the source of their emotional pain becomes imperative as a slow death due to self-inflicted destruction is even worse.
No sign is meant to suffer forever and the wakeup call for Scorpio arrives when they realize that they are a victim of themselves. Once Scorpio realizes that it is standing in its own way and that it is their unconscious self that is hindering their progress they bring the 'why' into conscious awareness. Now they are able to begin making peace by confronting their controlling fears and sacrificing their lower self to their higher self (2).
In our daily life, Scorpio's territory is money, sex and power. Scorpio teaches us that there is a direct relationship between money and prosperity and emotional generosity. Emotional stinginess, restriction and tightness translate into monetary problems, debts and limitations. Our subconscious projections too often attract us to partners that often reflect and live out our worst fears. Our emotional reactions can ruin our life. As we free up the energy that is being used to sabotage our well being, it is available to live life more fully. This energy can also be used to attract resources and relationships, to heal and enliven us. Then internal power can be accessed which is real power.
Scorpio's territory includes deep, dark secrets, psychic wounds and therapy. One of the goals of therapy is to uncover the reoccurring patterns and underlying belief structures about ourselves, others and the world that lock us into recreating the same dysfunctional scenarios in our lives. These scenarios play themselves out over and over until they get our attention, we realize what we are doing, understand why, and choose to change.
Scorpio is somewhere in everyone's astrological chart. In Scorpio we feel the deepest pain but it is also where we experience the deepest satisfaction. It teaches us that we cannot escape what we deny. The trick is to not be manipulated by our deepest fears.
Each Scorpionic confrontation brings us a treasure. We learn that our tormentor is also our teacher. Our anger, stress and frustration spurs us into action. One journey has ended while another has just begun. In this way Scorpio will continue to be reborn again and again.
1. Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, Liz Green, Samuel Weiser, York Beach, Maine, 1976, p. 17.
2. Soul-Centered Astrology, Alan Oken, The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA, 1990, Oken, p. 208
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"But just like anybody, sometimes you can work with people and you be like, hmm I wonder how he is in the bedroom, you know, and you just try it out… we hung out, we was friends, like playing pool, talking trash and then you know you hear somebody say yeah I'm a beast, I'm this, I'm that, you know how you can be around your friends talking about sex or whatever and then you be thinking like, I wonder is it that good, you know? Let's be realistic, it wasn't me trying to get anything out of the situation. We already had hit records. We already had hits. It wasn't like I was trying to do it to get somewhere. It was just out of curiosity."
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WASHINGTON - The Office of the United States Trade Representative today announced the country-by-country tariff-rate quota allocations of the raw cane sugar, refined sugar, and sugar-containing products for Fiscal Year (FY) 2004. A tariff-rate quota is an import policy that allows countries to ship specified quantities of a product to the United States at a relatively low tariff, but subjects all other imports of that product to a higher tariff.
The Secretary of Agriculture established the in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quota for raw cane sugar for FY 2004 at 1,117,195 metric tons. This is the minimum level to which the United States is committed to under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. The country-by-country allocations are:
These allocations are based on the countries' historical shipments to the United States. The allocations of the raw cane sugar tariff-rate quota to countries that are net importers of sugar are conditioned on receipt of the appropriate verifications of origin.
This allocation includes the following minimum-quota countries: Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Haiti, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, St. Kitts & Nevis, and Uruguay.
The in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quota for refined sugar for FY 2004 has been established by the Secretary of Agriculture at 39,000 metric tons, raw value (42,990 short tons). Of this, the Secretary reserved 18,656 metric tons (20,565 short tons) for specialty sugars. Of the quantity not reserved for specialty sugar, 10,300 metric tons (11,354 short tons) is allocated to Canada and 2,954 metric tons (3,256 short tons) is allocated to Mexico. The remaining 7,090 metric tons (7,815 short tons) of the in-quota quantity may be supplied by any country, subject to any other provision of law, on a first-come, first-served basis. The 18,656 metric tons reserved for specialty sugars may also be supplied by any country, subject to any other provision of law, on a first-come, first-served basis.
With respect to the tariff-rate quota of 64,709 metric tons (71,329 short tons) for certain sugar-containing products maintained under Additional U.S. Note 8 to chapter 17 to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, 59,250 metric tons (65,312 short tons) is being allocated to Canada. The remainder of the sugar-containing products tariff-rate quota is available for other countries on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Here's one of a series of simple recipes to keep your food game on point this season.
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Here's one of a series of simple recipes to keep your food game on point this season.
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When I came back home on Saturday I found a package at my door. It was from Bluster. Inside was SERVE's new book..
An hour later after going through it, I was shaking my head torn between Depression and Pride. The depression was due to the fact that Serve is SO prolific, and has mastered so many styles, that he makes you brutally aware of your own weaknesses. The pride is because Serve and I came up together in the 145th Street train tunnels in the mid 80's, and seeing how far he has come, how he has evolved, and to see this testament to his work makes me proud.
Stylistically, Serve was a son of the One's. His early work reflected his apprenticeship in the style clinic of the FBA masters Kaze & Tack. But then over the years something happened that is hard for most Graffiti artists to do, he EVOLVED. Not only did he absorb and master the styles of Broadway, but he went back into the previous volumes of the elite dynasties in Graffiti, among them TDS, TFP, and TMT. Somehow he managed to take elements from all of these disparate philosophies and methodologies and merge them into something completely his own. This is clear in his book which is like a PHD level master class in New York lettering styles.
The fact that the books smells like Design markers is another stroke of genius. Bruce Lee used to say that he made the animal sounds he used when he fought to confuse and distract his opponents, because when you do battle you need to use EVERY tool at your disposal not just the obvious punches and kicks. Utilizing the sense of smell in this book is brilliant, and reminded me of that philosophy.
For those with visions of grandeur, hoping to do battle with this man, Be Afraid!
© West & 12ozProphet - Tuesday July 02, 2013
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"Sometimes limitations are good"
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Don't miss this important show if you are in the Los Angeles area.
Next Friday, December 14th.
At: Soze Gallery
801 East 4th Place
Los Angeles, CA 90013
For more information call: 323-929-2361
or check out: http://www.graffuturism.com
© West & 12ozProphet - Tuesday December 04, 2012
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This week saw the passing of a good friend, Justin Van Hoy, aka The Dutch Giant. Justin was really tall – maybe 6, 4" with shaggy bright Orangey-Red hair and a Jesus-like beard. He had been engaged in a long fight with Cancer, but died suddenly outside of his home on Wednesday. Justin was an extraordinarily talented designer and illustrator, but more importantly was a selfless lover and promoter of art. He was also a gallery owner and curator for his space This, Los Angeles.
I was introduced to Justin a couple of years ago through a mutual friend, as a potential designer for a book of my work. With no promise from me, Justin jumped in and begin to connect the dots of my own creative history in ways that I myself couldn't see. He saw the links between graffiti, graphic design, creative direction, and fine art very clearly. This was a breath of fresh air to me, and made me see my own life's work differently.
Justin's passing was shock to everyone, because only a little over a week earlier he hosted a book release at the Gagosian gallery for the new book Milk & Honey, Contemporary Art in California which he edited and designed. This weekend friends and family gathered to celebrate Justin's life. The celebration was held in a big loft space in Downtown, LA, and I was really happy to see that there were hundreds of people, standing room only.
Many people spoke about Justin's heart, his talent, his bravery, and his commitment. The one thing that several people spoke about, which I know from experience, was that from the moment you first shook Justin's hand, you knew he was a friend.
To paraphrase a poem that was read on Saturday-
"Death is nothing at all…., All is Well"
You can see some of Justin's work here: http://work.thedutchpress.com
© West & 12ozProphet - Monday November 19, 2012
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I know it's already been posted, but wanted to big-up Sacha Jenkins and Chino for their efforts in putting these books together. Often those defining the Culture are not from the Culture and the end result reflects that. Book publishing in general is not a high profit business, in fact it's often a no-profit business, so i view this as a labor of love on their part, and I'm happy to be included in the documentation of this important part of our history.
© West & 12ozProphet - Tuesday March 13, 2012
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Some Thoughtz to share. These are two of my favorites from Hennessey Youngman, but check out "How to make an Art. Addendum", & "Relational Aesthetics" as well..
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Here is a video shot by my good brother Ben Solomon of a Mural installation done as part of Graffuturism's In Situ project during Art Basel in Miami.
"West One: In Situ" from Ben Solomon on Vimeo.
© West & 12ozProphet - Monday December 12, 2011
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Sometimes a Black Book isn't actually a 'Black Book'. Here are some autographs from one of my favorite books
from a 2002 gathering of people who came to say goodbye to Iz the Wiz who was leaving New York for a warmer climate.
© West & 12ozProphet - Wednesday November 23, 2011
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For all my NY Brothers & Sisters - Don't miss this sonic celebration tomorrow night featuring Sami-T of The Far East Rulers, Mighty Crown, along with NY's own Deadly Dragon Sound.
I've heard through the grapevine that there will some special guests in the house including Screechie Dan, Rankin Joe, and DJ Muro.
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Here is some artwork I recently did for my good brother Sung to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of his innovative footwear brand Clae. This is the third installment of his Five by Five Series where he pairs musical and visual artists together. My at-bat was for the legendary Japanese Reggae sound system Mighty Crown.
Here is a link to the Clae / Mighty Crown mix, as well as links to the two previous mixes - Vol 1: Dam Funk meets Rostarr, and Vol 2: DJ Clark Kent meets Jamil GS.
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Victor Davis Hanson completely dissassembles the Ny Traitor Times call for surrender to Al Qaeda, he concludes:
"We promised General Petraeus a hearing in September; it would be the height of folly to preempt that agreement by giving in to our summer of panic and despair. Critics called for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, a change in command in Iraq and at Centcom, new strategies, and more troops. But now that we have a new secretary, a new command in Iraq and at Centcom, new strategies, and more troops, suddenly we have a renewed demand for withdrawal before the agreed-upon September accounting'Äîsuggesting that the only constant in such harping was the assumption that Iraq was either hopeless or not worth the effort."
The Democrats in the US House of Representitives followed this by repeating their folly of 1975 by voting to pull out and retreat from the fight against Al Qaeda. Make no mistake, that bill will be vetoed and not have enough votes to override, nevertheless, the Democrats just put on paper that they have no confidence in the ability of our men and women to win the war on terror in that region.
Even while our troops were engaged in active combat with those who would kill every Amercan citizen if they could, Democrats decided that their efforts were a failure and that they had absolutely no confidence that they could complete the mission.
Just like they did in 1975 they politicized the blood of our people on the ground and desecrate the memory of those already fallen, declaring that they died in vain. By their vote nothing could be more clearer.
They can prance to the microphones and say all they want about the war or about "what the American people want", but the fact is that yesterday they pinned on badges of dishonor and defeat. In September, a mere two months away General Patraeus would be releasing a report. You'll remember these same cowards and defeatists voted overwhelmingly for him to take on the surge, yet from the beginning they've talked nothing except of losing to Al Qaeda.
As I've said before the American people by and large are not a Nation of pacifists and losers. While they may be weary of the war – made possible not by conditions on the ground but by the constant one-sided negative reporting of our leftist MSM – the fact is that no true American savors defeat, only enemies of freedom do.
UPDATE: Charles Krauthammer on Betraying Petraeus.
1Fifth Column operating openly in the United States House of Representatives, heavily supported by enemy-abetting media.
I would bet every member who voted for the surrender resolution yesterday is spending a lot of time in the House bathroom washing the blood of American soldiers off their hands. Should have thought of that before voting. How do they sleep at night? Answer, they probably don't. Their friends in the media show them the graphics of what they have done, encouraged our enemies to kill more US troops. Beyond shameful. But they now are responsible for the inevitable increase in casualties. Order more soap, but it won't come off.
Adding to the obvious betrayal of the country, they've swindled the voters. When will we wake up and throw the bums out? The white-flag Representatives have handed citizens a prime reason to start recall actions. Start now. Make a difference in your community. Run against them. Remember the 1972 Democratic Convention? The acceptance speeches had to wait until after all the loons nominated Mickey Mouse, Rocky Squirrel, Donald Duck, etc. Maybe they had something there. Donald Duck has more integrity than those voting Aye for surrender yesterday.
2Maybe we'll now see some justice for the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Column:
3Murtha's district needs to recall him. He's a disgrace…shame on him…
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4It was only a matter of making it official, they have been the party of surrender for a long time, officially or not. But it's nice they finally made it official.
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It is a more intriguing and complicated question than it seems, 'why does Michael Bay (and clones like Berg, Verbinski, or Scott) make these movies objects of ridicule while Del Toro gets a pass? Much of what everyone above seems to be saying indicates that part of the root lies in an ostensible lack of jingoism (and yet, white american soldier lands asian butterfly geisha in the end, as usual), a lack of contemporary camera movement, and a self-awareness not seemingly shared by the other filmmakers.
Is it simply execution, or is there something more ideologically zeitgeisty about Bay et. al.'s representations of explosions and militarism that strikes a different cord than does Del Toro's vision? There seems to be something undergirding these divergent narrative and visual thrusts that resonates differently with us than it seems to en mass, and yet the trajectory of recent filmmaking seems to be in favor of the furthered reproduction of the former over the later. The artifice of the merger of the two poles of a Bay/lumpin-vs.-Del Toro/artistic dialectic into the deformed form of Abrams/lindeloff becomes clear in the dissatisfactiory nature of these texts to both audiences.
Favorite Movie of 2012 was really hard to find in a theatre, but if you can find Iron Sky, watch it. A ton of fun and a lot going on structurally undergirding it.
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Sounds interesting.
Gotham always seems to be portrayed less like a city that is a part of a larger country, but than a city-state by itself. As in, the rules that apply to Gotham don't work in Cleveland or Rapid City (the only not-Gotham cities i remember being mentioned in the film). Crime and the rule of law and the police aren't connected to the laws and rules of the larger body politic of the United States in the same integral way that they are in, for example, real-life New York City.
There is something jarring about seeing an armed group assault the stock exchange- the heart of a global interconnected network, not a local one- and then just take off on some dirt-bikes with stockbrokers holding on to the back. Not jarring-as-unsettling, but jarring-as-unrealistic. There is no way that an event like this happens that it doesn't galvanize the nation around the stock-exchange, that politicians in Washington and the everyman, joe truck driver in main street don't nationalistically rally around that space as we've seen in the past.
This narrative improbability is only compounded when it comes time for the Banians to take over the city- something they might be able to accomplish as seen in the film quickly but that would not last long. The financial, cultural, and political capital of the nation that Gotham seems to represent would not be acquiesced by the rest of the nation so easily, even with the threat of the weapon. It wouldn't be a month before special forces were in the city; they would have neutralized the threat within hours, days at the longest. The multi-month occupation stands out as another strange aspect to the film, as one could imagine the action playing out over the course of a shorter period, but several months (necessitated obviously by the need to repair Wayne's back as well as moral authority, but cinematically unwieldy as filmed) seems too long to be realistically maintained.
These issues dissipate to some degree if we imagine Gotham as a City-State like Hong Kong or Singapore, but come with their own problems.
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So much disappointment for one movie.
Too Soon Yi.
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Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Actress: Viola Davis, The Help
Actor in a Supporting Role: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Actress in a Supporting Role: Octavia Spencer, The Help
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When 900 years old you reach, look this good, you will not, hmm?
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"This is my fan-made trailer for the upcoming movie Re-make/Prequel of "The Thing" (1982) is set to be released April 29th, 2011."
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Quoted from purlgirl - I think the point is she used 2/3 cup cocoa powder and was happy with the results. We are encouraged to play with the recipe and find whatever amts and ingredients (sweetners) work for us.
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Nine global logistics networks have joined forces as founding members of Elite Association of Logistic Networks (ELITE).
The combined membership of ELITE-qualified networks is more than 3,550 freight forwarders, with annual revenues of more than $60 billion. They operate from 7,000-plus offices in 188 countries and employ 140,000 staff.
"ELITE will act to represent the independent freight forwarding community by engaging with and participating alongside major global industry associations, regulators and government agencies," the new organization said. "For the first time the independent sector has a powerful and unified voice to ensure the interests of SME freight forwarders are considered."
Participating networks are: Global Logistics Network (GLN); Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN); Lognet Global; Project Cargo Network (PCN); Time Critical Logistics Alliance (TCLA); Universal Freight Organisation (UFO); WCA Family of Logistic Networks (WCAF); WCA Projects Network (WCAPN); and Worldwide Partners Alliance (WPA).
Welcoming the new grouping, IATA's head of global cargo, Des Vertannes, said: "We look forward to forming a close strategic relationship with ELITE and working together to drive new efficiencies for the benefit of us all."
By applying strict membership criteria, ELITE said it aimed to provide shippers and other supply-chain participants with visibility and clarity by differentiating bona fide, high-quality logistics networks from a growing number of "rogue" networks around the world.
In a statement, the founder members said: "There are new networks appearing almost daily that do not have the same ideals and standards that ELITE member networks embrace. Many of these networks operate using dubious practices, provide poor quality services, offer unsubstantiated benefits, lack proper financial backing, fail to implement membership vetting procedures, and are generally unable to fulfil their stated obligations."
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Tycho wrote:Having just completed our Warmachine tournament I'm still very much in that Mode, so the Kickstarter for Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack fell into fertile soil. It's essentially a tabletop wargame system designed for use with Lego bricks, and they've already made their nut, so this pitch doesn't have the imperative some others do. I am fucking hooked on their Lego designs, though: they're on that ultrasimplified tip, where the detail is all in the broad strokes and the silhouettes. Even better, enthusiasts of the project have already started putting up their own designs.
Is it wrong that my first thought was "that guy has a small wang"?
Must be steroid abuse.
And for someone who is surprisingly well waxed, he's got quite a forest going on.
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