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alt-J Announces Spring 2013 Tour Dates
Mercury Prize winners alt-J will kick off their North American tour December 9th in Boston to support their debut album An Awesome Wave.
Tickets for their shows will go on pre-sale December 5th, with sales to the public beginning December 7th. 2013 will be their biggest U.S. tour thus far, and judging by their road schedule, it'll be super busy. Here are the details:
Buy tickets for this tour here
Dec 9: Boston, MA – MTV Hive Live @ Brighton Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
Dec 11: San Francisco, CA – Bottom of The Hill * (SOLD OUT)
Dec 11: San Francisco, CA – Bottom of The Hill – 2nd Show Presented By Live 105 (SOLD OUT)
Dec 12: Los Angeles, CA – Fonda Theater (SOLD OUT)
Dec 13: San Diego, CA – Casbah * (SOLD OUT)
Dec 15: Portland, OR – Star Theater * (SOLD OUT)
Dec 16: Kansas City, MO – XXXMas Night 3 @ The Midland Theater # (SOLD OUT)
Dec 17: Seattle, WA – The Crocodile * (SOLD OUT)
Mar 2: Boston, MA – Paradise
Mar 4: Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
Mar 5: Carrboro, NC – Cats Cradle
Mar 6: Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Hell Stage)
Mar 8: Birmingham, AL – Bottletree
Mar 10: Houston, TX – Fitzgerald's
Mar 16: Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
Mar 18: Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
Mar 19: Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
Mar 21: Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts
Mar 22: New York, NY – Webster Hall
Mar 25: Montreal, QC – Corona Theatre
Mar 27: Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre
Mar 28: Chicago, IL – Metro
Mar 29: Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
Apr 1: Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
Apr 3: Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
Apr 4: Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
Apr 6: Seattle, WA – Neptune
Apr 7: Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
Apr 8: Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
Apr 10: San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
As you can see from the number of sold out concerts, tickets for alt-J shows are in high demand, so in case you don't get a chance to see them in person, check out this video for their single "Matilda":
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This Mother's Day, there are many ways to tell Mom or that special lady in your life how much you love her. Here are a few nearby options.
Mother's Day Floral Bouquet Workshop: In this indoor, all-weather event, children will work alongside a floral designer to create a personal flower arrangement that will delight Mom, Grandma, or anyone else. Registration required. May 6 at 4pm. All ages. $10 with $10 museum admission, includes accompanying adult and all materials. Old Westbury Gardens, 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury. 516-333-0048.
Lowe's offers a Build and Grow Clinic to build a heart-shaped vase for Mother's Day. Event includes project, an apron, a project-themed patch, and goggles. Check locations online to find a participating store near you. May 7, 10am. FREE. Lowe's, 2796 Route 112, Medford. 631-207-4541.
Mother's Day at the Museum: Mothers and grandmothers are invited to visit the Heckscher Museum admission-free on their special day. May 8, 11am-5pm. All ages. $8 adults other than moms; $6 seniors (62 years); $5 students ages 10 and over; FREE children under 10. The Heckscher Museum, 2 Prime Avenue, Huntington. 631-351-3250.
Enjoy a Mother's Day Brunch, entertainment, and activities for the kids, including a special craft for Mom - all at a terrific aquarium. May 8; seatings at 10:30am, 1pm, and 3pm. Call for reservations. $24.95-$34.95. Atlantis Marine World, 431 East Main Street, Riverhead. 631-208-9200.
Usdan Open House
The Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts will hold its final Open House for the 2011 summer camp season on May 15, 11am-2pm. Children ages 6 to 18 will be bussed to the 200-acre woodland setting to learn more about Usdan's day camp. Parents can also get more information about the more than 40 programs in music, dance, theater, creative writing, nature and ecology, and chess. (New for 2011: "Video Game Art and Design.") FREE. 185 Colonial Springs Road, Wheatley Heights. 631-643-7900 .
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Join hundreds of women, their families, and communities for the 2nd annual Every Woman Matters: A Walk for Women and Their Families. Learn about women's health and wellness programs and participate in fun hands-on activities. Proceeds from the 5K walk will benefit the new Katz Institute for Women's Health and Katz Women's Hospitals of North Shore-LIJ Health System. The event, which will be held rain or shine, features exhibitions, giveaways, refreshments and musical entertainment. May 22; check-in begins at 8:45am; walk begins at 10am. Jones Beach State Park, Field 5, Wantagh. For more information and to register, visit www.everywomanmatterswalk.com.
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One of Suffolk County's best-kept secrets: the Long Island Live Steamers hosts public run days twice a month over the summer, and families are invited to ride the steam, diesel, and electric trains operating on eight acres of scale tracks all day. Come early to watch the trains "steaming up." You can bring lunch and have a picnic on their grounds, too. Everyone must have a ticket to ride; tickets are free, but donations are appreciated. May 22 and 29. 10:30am-3pm. 631-345-0499.
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Come fly a kite, have snacks, color and design your own kites, and enjoy the beach with your family while helping to raise awareness and money for lung cancer research. This is the 5th Annual Kites for a Cure, benefitting the nonprofit corporation Uniting Against Lung Cancer, which has raised $7 million in lung cancer research grants. Coopers Beach, 268 Meadow Lane, Southampton. May 28, 4-6pm (rain date May 29). $30 donation.
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Beyond the Mohawk Warrior: Reinterpreting Benjamin West's Evocations of American Indians
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This essay offers a reinterpretation of the narratives in John Galt's The Life and Studies of Benjamin West (1816) that introduce the artist's encounters with, or evocations of, American Indians. This study grapples, in particular, with the iconic status of the narrative in which the young artist, newly arrived in Rome from the British Colony of Pennsylvania, is said to have exclaimed 'My God, how like it is to a young Mohawk warrior!' when he first encountered the Apollo Belvidere. It questions whether West actually did liken the Apollo Belvidere to a Mohawk warrior in 1760, and instead resituates the narrative within concerns of transatlantic audience and international politics in 1816. Rather than the naïve exclamation of a provincial visitor to a European metropolis, this article contends that West's remark, at least as retold within Galt's narrative, was the calculated reflection of a cosmopolitan intellectual on matters of intercultural and transatlantic concern.
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Wirth's law
Wirth's law is a computing adage made popular by Niklaus Wirth in 1995.[1][2] It states that
" | software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster | " |
or, colloquially, "software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster".
Computer hardware has become faster over time, and some of that development is quantified by Moore's law; Wirth's law points out that this does not imply that work is actually getting done faster.
Wirth attributed the saying to Martin Reiser, who, in the preface to his book on the Oberon System, wrote: "The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness."[3] Other observers had noted this for some time before, indeed the trend was becoming obvious as early as 1987.[4]
The law was restated in 2009 and attributed to Larry Page, founder of Google. It has been referred to as Page's law.[5] The first use of that name is attributed to Sergey Brin at the Google I/O Conference 2009.[6]
Gates' law[edit]
" | The speed of software halves every 18 months.[7] | " |
Gates' law is a variant on Wirth's law, borrowing its name from Bill Gates,[7] the founder of Microsoft. It is a humorous and ironic observation that the speed of commercial software generally slows by 50% every 18 months, thereby negating all the benefits of Moore's law. This could occur for a variety of reasons: "featuritis", "code cruft", developer laziness, or a management turnover whose design philosophy does not coincide with the previous manager.[8]
May's law[edit]
May's law, named after David May, is a variant where:
" | Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's Law.[9] | " |
See also[edit]
- ^ Niklaus Wirth (February 1995). "A Plea for Lean Software". Computer 28 (2): pp. 64–68. doi:10.1109/2.348001. Retrieved 2007-01-13.
- ^ Philip E. Ross. "5 Commandments". IEEE Spectrum.
- ^ Reiser, Martin (1991). The Oberon System User Guide and Programmer's Manual. ACM Press. ISBN 0-201-54422-9.
- ^ Geoffrey Welsh (1987). "Yes, There IS a Difference Between Micros and 'Big' Computers". TPUG News 2 (1).
- ^ "Can "Page's Law" Be Broken?". Slashdot.
- ^ searchengineland (2009-05-27). "Sergey Brin On Breaking "Page's Law" Of Software Sluggishness". YouTube. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- ^ a b Gates' law, from the Jargon Lexicon, in the Jargon File (version 4.4.7).
- ^ Orion, Egan (March 21, 2003). "WinTel trips on Linux?", The Inquirer.
- ^ Eadline, Douglas. "May's Law and Parallel Software". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
Further reading[edit]
- The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity by László Böszörményi, Jürg Gutknecht, and Gustav Pomberger (editors), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1-55860-723-4.


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(No need to) Buy Minecraft now before it's too late...
Posted by Huw,The Minecraft set has sold out in the USA and won't be returning. Brickset reader Dennis received this email from LEGO Direct Consumer Services:
"Dear Dennis,
"Thanks for your interest in our products.
"Set#21102 CUUSOO Minecraft is sold out. There were 10,000 sets created, Dennis, and all have been sold! There are not plans to produce any more of the set. Meanwhile, we have a team of experts in Denmark whose job it is to invent new LEGO® toys every year. They spend their time trying to create new and fun toys for children of all ages. You never know though, some of the old favorites sometimes make a comeback, so keep a look out!"
If true, 10,000 seems an incredibly small number, and if they have sold out in a matter of weeks it must surely have set some sort of record for the set available for the least amount of time from LEGO.com.
It's still available in Europe, but probably not for long, so if you intend buying it I suggest you do so soon.
Update: Tim from Cuusoo has stated in the comments "Actually, the message Dennis received is inaccurate. We knew the LEGO Minecraft Micro World would be popular, and though we are temporarily sold out at LEGO Direct, more than 10,000 have been made, and we are planning to meet demand on this item throughout the year."
Update 2: LEGO Direct Consumer Services is now stating "We just got an update on this item last night, Dennis, and we anticipate Set #21102 LEGO Minecraft will be returning. We have forecasted and ordered enough to last us through the holiday this year. We are temporarily out of stock but anticipate replenishment in the future."
So, panic over for now, and the 'Brickset 'effect' has had a positive impact on getting clarification on this.
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That is very interesting, I will be placing my order in the morning!
Sure old favorites sometimes make a comeback...after 4+ years. We can't wait that long for another run of minecraft.
I was actually going to buy a couple of sets, but now I guess not!
Aww man. That was a fast sellout.
Can you still order it from shop.lego.com in the US?
No, you get a page not found if you try: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Minecraft-21102
It still seems to be available at http://www.jinx.com/p/lego_minecraft_micro_world.html though
I never knew they only produced one set for each vote! This means I'll have to hurry my savings, as I live in Europe...
WHAT?! I wanted to buy this set eventually, I didn't know it was only 10,000 copies. Now how am I supposed to get this set!!
Just imagine if the current projects under review hit stores. I imagine a sellout happening in days, not weeks...
"Some of the old favourites sometimes make a comeback"??
Fingers crossed, then, on my Christmas Wish for the past 30 years... a re-release of 928 ;o)
Hey, just cuz I'm 45... they said "children of all ages" after all!
10,000 only?! Why didn't they tell us? Oh well, off to buy it at LEGO Shop.
Seriously only 10k copies! I knew this set would be valuable, and yet I hadn't bought it yet.
I know they did mention the first production run, but they never said it would be the last! They didn't realize that people who didn't/couldn't vote for it might want a copy too?
Funny, a lot of people were negative on this set. Now it's sold out.
I pre-ordered mine from Jinx, and they sent a couple of stickers with the set as a thanks. Nice touch.
(For JINX... got an email for the pre-order (Feb)... then a couple of emails, one "about to ship" June 8th, "payment" June 9th, and "shipped" June 20th.)
My 10 year old liked it so much, I bought him a copy from Lego.com. His current fav game is Minecraft.
(From Lego.com... pretty instant... got my daughter the beach party and a bunch of ninja parts from pic-a-brick... basically made an all girls ninja-go team in the same order to breach the $75 free shipping deal)
Can you still get them from Jinx?
Hi everyone, don't panic. :-)
Actually, the message Dennis received is inaccurate. We knew the LEGO Minecraft Micro World would be popular, and though we are temporarily sold out at LEGO Direct, more than 10,000 have been made, and we are planning to meet demand on this item throughout the year.
Very sorry about the mix-up. Glad to see all of the interest!
Tim Courtney
So undrscor, what kind of confirmation did you actually receive when you ordered? I just now placed and order and it was confirmed a few minutes later, though the shipping date is Not Available right now. I hope I actually have a spot for whatever stock they have pre-ordered because if I find out too late that it is cancelled, it's going to be a lot more expensive to get one later.
EDIT: well with the above from TimCourtney I feel better!
Bah, saw the message about them sold out and ordered 2 from jinx cause I thought they would disappear. Oh well, wanted a couple anyway :-)
I wasn't going to bother with this set, but with such a limited run it will soon become very collectable, I just had to buy one.
:edit: glad to read the update!
Why was it removed from shop.lego.com/en-US/Minecraft-21102, and how could customer service send me inaccurate information?
@ TimCourtney Then why does http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Minecraft-21102 result in a 404? I cannot imagine any webshop that takes a product page offline when the item is temporarily sold out. Don't want customers to order them? Disable the button. Or make it clear you don't have any stock now, so any orders will take a while to be filled.
This ridiculous behavior means http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=21102-1 does not have a "Buy it" tab anymore, and the set is included on http://www.brickset.com/buy/uk/noLongerAvailable/ and http://www.brickset.com/buy/us/noLongerAvailable/ .
I cannot comprehend how a major corporation is so clueless WRT its own webshop. Why pretend a product is EOL when you simply do not have stock anymore?
^ Wow, relax. Lego makes good on their mistakes, at least they always have with me. Plus, you got a response from a direct employee, what more do you want?
Can anyone confirm the info from @TimCourtney I don't want to rush out and buy this set above rrp but would rather do it now at ~$10 above than later at who knows what price.
I thought it looked cool, I hope our dear friend from Cuusco is correct! I'm short on money, rather I'm saving up for something else, hoping it's still available.
Y'know I believe LEGo should have made a free Minecraft texture pack come with the game, LEGO styled and what not. But one that looks actually GOOD
I'm passing on the set...
*sigh of relief* Thanks TimCourtney for the updated info! I was just about to buy one on ebay for 60 bucks before the price went any further.
It's funny how so many of us (myself included) thought the $35 price was way too much for a set like this but suddenly read "Sold out" and we all scramble to get it at a higher price!
Right when I was gonna buy it! Tim Courtney's message gives us hope though.
Set still available? Now everyone can go back to bashing it!
Can you imagine if the Western Modular was only 10,000 copies? And you think that Minecraft would sell out fast...
Wow, it's the first Cabbage Patch Kit effect for Lego (tickle me Elmo for you folks born in the 90's). Sell a product in limited number, something most people don't need. Discontinue it or sell out suddenly then watch the disinterested folks develop an appetite. Bring it back then HOOZAH, you got paying customers! Great marketing BTW. Can anyone else thing of other examples of the Cabbage Patch effects by TLG in the past 20, 30 years?
EDIT: Series 1 is the only thing that comes to mind but then they never made more series 1 so that doesn't really count...
@Tim: Thank goodness! This gives me more time to put aside some cash for this set, wonderful. :)
@copperwonder96-would the 10020 Santa Fe Super Chief count? They only made 9999 limited edition before they started creating the normal sets...
Maersk Container Ship?
You couldn't pay me to own the Minecraft Lego set.
Wait...! More to the point, if they only create 10,000 of them, then the *maximum* amount of royalties a creator can get after all of that work, and graphics, and publicizing, is about $3500! And that is *if* they win...! Barely worth it for all of the people who are putting countless hours into custom design and advanced graphic rendering like the Space Marines, etc! You are not going to get many professional designers or architects contributing like that! =(
^ Yeah you are right. $3500 for this: http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/4038 is not enough.. are you kidding me? I would build that all day long for $3500. Many of the projects on there are models people have made for themselves. The design renders are things people like to do for fun. If they make any coin off of it they will be happy. I don't think "Professional designers or architects" are scrounging for cash and looking at Lego websites to make money.
Maersk Container Ship is a good example of the kill and bring back effect. I remember the Black Falcons Fortress was brought back but that was like an all star treatment and not really a kill and return. SANTA Fe super chief was AWESOME! but I don't remember them killing it and bringing it back after shorting the sales. Maybe...
@the-real-indy. $3500 is a nice chunk of change! About a month's salary as a Lego company senior designer! But guess what, Mojang is the sponsor of the Minecraft build and donated the proceeds to charity since they are the makers of Minecraft. There was never an "official" designer so Mojang got the 1% and donated it. I wondered if the guy who developed the concept ever got any cash from Mojang?
People. First, why doesn't anybody read the comments that come before? A LEGO employee nicely said that the information is incorrect.
So you doubt the LEGO employee? You think it's some faker? Well let's see, a Google search happens to bring up a Linkedin for somebody by the name of Tim Courtney who happens to work at LEGO: http://www.linkedin.com/in/timcourtney. My guess is, it's real information.
Yes, if LEGO only made 10,000 copies, that would be very dumb, but it appears that they didn't.
It will be found on ebay.
Thank goodness. I am was planning on getting this for my 14 yo, soon to be 15 yo son's birthday (August), who loves Minecraft and LEGO. I just had a huge panic attack that I missed the window. lol Thank you, TimCourtney, for the response on this thread.
@Huw, you might want to update this post so more people don't freak out.
@copperwonder96 Do you have info to back this up, I'm curious about what pay in the toy segment of the ID world is. ...I'm sorry but 3500 a month sounds really low for senior design staff. I'm in the US and think 42k as you suggested is on the low end for anyone 5+ years out of school in the design world. I can't imagine it being that rate with a much higher cost of living.
@ crnk. I will add a link in the forum. I've read from a few folks who used to work there (are working in Denmark) and have said the salaries are very median but the benefits are the best in the world! If you are a web designer then you can approach 85K but graphic artist and builders are median. Check the forums.
> it must surely have set some sort of record for the set available for the least amount of time from LEGO.com
The first edition of the maersk ship #10152 was only available for some days.
Might they save some for Australian shops?
Wait does this mean future cuusoo sets will only have 10,000 sets made? So Eve,Bttf and the Modular western town will only have 10,000 sets made?!?
[James stops dialling S@H's number and replaces the receiver]
Thanks Huw! :o/
I got it :)
Good thing that got cleared up soon. Selling out in a week or two and then not making any more sounded like a business strategy that wasn't well thought out, anyway.
Very glad I pre-ordered mine from JINX and received it a week ago - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiredforsound23/7386910168/
May want to update the top part so as not to give people heart attacks when looking at news items..lol
And it has been updated.
So you have totally missed the whole point of the Cuusoo initiative... The whole reason that TLG is now offering cash royalties for designing a set is to motivate people who might not otherwise put their time and energy into designing a set. They know that hardcore AFOLs will gladly design a set just for fun, and pay $100s for all the bricks required to flesh it out, but they want to reach out to new people who are just semi-interested professionals or totally new "casual-builder" customer bases. To use an apt metaphor, they know they have "The Xbox Market" (the hardcore users), and now they want to pull in "The "Wii Market" (the casual users). Remember that Nintendo's annual sales dwarf the Xbox now, because they are grabbing brand new demographics of ***CASUAL USERS***. That is the whole point of Cuusoo!
I think any true Cuusoo "winner" would be happy just to have their name on the item, even if they never got a penny.
Seriously, seeing YOUR item for sale on shop.lego = awesome enough.
Not to say they shouldn't get what they deserve, like any creative effort.
@copperwonder96, are you implying a Lego senior designer makes only $42k per year? I think that's way low.
@tensor - It is a dream job but I have heard from a few sources that the salary is not all that great. They deserve more for what they do.
^^ @tensor,
Well obviously, only a tiny % of people are hardcore Lego-Heads... "Normal People" will need a financial incentive!
Again, that is the whole raison d'etre of the Cuusoo Project, to get casual builders and casual buyers involved.
Although I would absolutely put it on my C.V., if I got design royalties from a world-famous company! =D
In fact, I would *BOAST* about it on first dates!! ;)
I've heard that the AFOL market is about 3% of TLG's total... So is that per capita, or percentage of total spending?
I have a feeling that that's a percentage of total spending, because we AFOLs spend way more than an average kid.
Also, that is generally the way companies measure demographics, by looking at the percentage of total spending...
Does anyone know for sure?
I am actually on vacation in Florida and picked up the set at Legoland today. There weren't a lot, but they were available.
Glad to hear that there's a demand for the set. It's success from sets like this that'll keep builder submitting to Cussoo and we'll all benefit from unique kits down the road.
Like @undrscor...I pre order from Jinx and got some extra stickers... http://www.flickr.com/photos/51289111@N05/7397529808/in/photostream
My son(9) loves Minecraft so he had a blast building it and is duplicating the kit as best he can in the Minecraft game.
He's gonna' help me out with a review sometime soon on the different aspect of the set compared to the game.
I think I'll be buying this set.
^Good point. The demand for new (and improved?) sets with different designs from Cuusoo is great. Making sets like Minecraft, which TLG would probably never consider, is what Cuusoo is about.
It's true about the low salary at Lego's. I heard that of the designer, but he didn't tell how much.
But he said he liked the job, so he does it.
He said: "When you come home, you play with Legos. When I come at my Job, I play with Lego, and when I come home, I don't" says designer Mike.
But there are also designers who do both :)
Is it the same price at Jinx as it is at Lego?
^Yes, I believe so.
Sweet! I've just received my free minecraft giftcode!
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Just thought I would share my good news with you all.
In May of 2004, I purchased both an Ice Cream and Monkey Fingers banana from Stokes. While one of them didn't make it (not sure which one), the other one did take off like a rocket. Since I live in the Chicago area, it was a potted plant spending the summers outdoors and the winters indoors. Luckily, I have 18' ceilings in my living room, so there was plenty of space for it to thrive through the winter months and I have floor-to-ceiling windows with a SE exposure so light wasn't a problem either. Historically, through the winter months the growth would slow down to nearly a stall, but this past winter, one new leaf after the other kept on coming which was amazing. This banana was now 11 feet tall from the top of the soil to the point where the leaves were coming off the pseudostem. Each leaf was nearly 7 feet long and trust me, they it was taking over the entire room. In mid-April of this year, a new leaf unrolled and I thought it was strange that the new leaf was only about 3 feet long. Totally consistent in the appearance, only the size was smaller. In early-May of this year, I took it outside to spend the warmer months. During a major thunderstorm, I did lose 4 of the large leaves, but no real damage overall. No worries though. I did notice that nothing much was happening, no new leaf formation, but I attributed all of that to the cool nights and a general need for the plant to get accustomed to being outside. Now it had lots of direct sun, wind and other conditions. I suspected it just needed to get used to that for a bit. Well, lucky for me, that wasn't the case at all. I noticed that a new leaf was forming, but until it progressed further, no way to see it was anything special. Now in the past 2 days, I can see that it is the last leaf that appears before the flower stalk arrives. I'm really excited. So many people think you can't grow things up north, but let me tell you, you can, especially if your patient. This banana took 3 years and overtook my living space, but what the heck, it's finally "doing it's thing". Here are a few pictures and I'll post more pics as things progress. Enjoy. Ron |
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Great pictures, Ron. Amazing story! So, how did you take care of it while overwintering in the house? Do you fertilize it often? It has an enormous height. If I have to guess, it might be the ice cream because this variety grows tall. I have one in the ground that is 10-11 ft now. It has a pup that is 4-5 ft. So, has yours pupped yet? That said, I'm only guessing because I don't know how tall monkey fingers grow and haven't even seen one. Either way, you're going to enjoy your first fruit of your labor. How exciting! If time permits, keep posting your pictures. It would be interesting to see how it progresses with its fruit of the loom. I started planting bananas 2 and a half years ago, so far no sight of any blooms yet, so your story is inspiring! I see you have some kind of palms trees in the background. What varieties are those and do they do well where you are? The tree besides the banana, is it an Italian cypress? It looks lush green and very healthy. I have three Italian cypress and they're about 5 ft now--showing very slow growth and the foliages aren't as green. Wondering if I should feed it to make them look greener. |
- Posted by rwallen1961 Chicago Zone 5 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 1, 07 at 11:19
Well as for the winter care, I do reduce the watering to about 30% of what I do in the summer (which is to soak it with the hose nearly every single day). I did fertalize once around the first of the year and other than that, nothing special really. There was one pup that was up only about 10 inches when I brought it inside in late September and it grew like a weed all winter. In fact, it was about 6 feet tall by early May so I removed the pup as I couldn't get the plant out of the house without doing so. I planted the pup directly into my garden this year without potting it at all. It had a bit of shock for the first 10 days, but now has recovered nicely. I also have a 10 foot plumeria that blooms like crazy all summer, a 13 foot Foxtail palm a King Palm and a Royal Palm (now 9 feet tall to the top of the longest leaf) that I grew from seed. Crazy huh? I'll post progress pictures as the weeks carry on. |
- Posted by franktank232 z5 WI (My Page) on Fri, Jun 1, 07 at 14:00
That should be good timing, considering we've got atleast 3.5 to 4.5 months worth of heat left. After it fruits, its game over, right? |
Wow, I'm impressed!!! Thats a beauty!!! I had one grow almost that tall, and thanks to high ceilings, its possible. I hope you enjoy it!!! Diana55 |
- Posted by funsocaltiger SoCal Zone 9 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 8, 07 at 15:57
Wow that's impressive! I'm really curious, what size pot did you have to use to support that? |
Bummed here, the photos are only showing up as a red "X" on my screen. Must be parental controls or something... Sure would enjoy seeing them though. Mick -- Abilene, TX |
- Posted by rwallen1961 Chicago Zone 5 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 13, 07 at 21:51
I don't calculate pot sizes in "gallons", I just do it by simple measurements. The pot this baby has been growing in is 20" tall and 20" across at the top. It tapers down slightly so I suspect it's 16" across at the bottom. It's a large pot, but not excessive. The bloom has now formed completely, started tiping downwards and things are looking good. More pictures to come. |
- Posted by watergal z6/7 Westminster, MD (email@example.com) on Wed, Jun 13, 07 at 21:59
rwallen, actually, you are measuring pots correctly! :) Tropical foliage plants for indoor use have their size identified by the diameter of the pot measured across the top (so you technically have a 20" banana, although that sounds pretty silly and vaguely obscene!). When I switched from working at a garden center to an interior landscaping company, it took me a long time to stop thinking in gallons and start thinking in inches! |
- Posted by rwallen1961 Chicago Zone 5 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 18, 07 at 7:55
Well, here's an update on June 18th, less than 3 weeks later. The flower has emerged completely and I now have 3 clumps of bananas clearly visible. I'm amazed at how fast this has progressed. |
This is absolutely stunning. Growing bananas in a Chicago summer! You've done the impossible. Hope you get all this well documented. I don't know if anybody in the past has done that before. Perhaps some university extension might have already done that in their greenhouse? I presume this plant has already given off some pups. Are you going to do the same with the them? Thanks for sharing the pics--congrats and a job well done. Look forward to more pics. |
- Posted by rwallen1961 Chicago Zone 5 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 18, 07 at 12:21
Thanks for the kind words. I actually had a dwarf cavendish set fruit about 6-7 years ago, but being only about 5 feet tall, it wasn't nearly as dramatic as this beauty. Unfortunately, some of the 8 foot leaves took a beating during an early summer thunderstorm so it's not quite the thing of beauty that it once was, but what the heck, it's setting fruit and that's the point of it all, right? |
Awesome! It is a pleasure to see it! |
- Posted by christine1950 5a (My Page) on Fri, Jun 14, 13 at 11:27
Congrats, Great job !!!! |
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Teach For America works to ensure that youth has access to top notch education.
Question: Does anyone know the best metrics for academic success and excellence among American youth? Between constant bickering from debating (and often inaccessible) parents, school board representatives, administrators and politicians, no one can seem to figure out an appropriate response. Neither are standardized test scores a key determinant in deciding where the best and brightest kids are in this country. Socioeconomics and ethnicity are seemingly always the scapegoats for children obtaining a solid education and a bright future, but is there anything else people can do to ensure that their children are being led in the right direction?
Kids having equal access to a quality education is a lingering concern. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and The National Center For Education Statistics (NCES) conjointly report on their websites that ninety-nine thousand American public elementary and secondary schools host approximately forty-nine million students. The U.S. Department of Commerce and Census Bureau released another report in 2011 insisting that the country's high school dropout rate was at 8.1 percent since 2009: a significant decline for African Americans and Hispanics, traditionally perceived as having the highest dropout rates. Whether it's by having relevant and valid reading materials, state-of-the-art technological tools and equipment, well-equipped and structured facilities and most importantly – well-prepared and qualified teachers in the classrooms – a good education is a basic civil right: not a privilege.
So what would be the ultimate solution to combat such a war against the youth? In comes Teach For America (TFA): the ultimate relief effort to ensure that highly-trained educators — recent college graduates — provide two-year teaching stints in urban and rural areas to drive, motivate and encourage underprivileged and underrepresented young students to become successful scholars. To date, thirty-three thousand TFA corp members have impacted three million students in 43 communities. During the 2011-12 season, nine thousand TFA members influenced six hundred thousand students with twenty-four thousand alumni continuing to aid in passing education-based legislation and enhancing the morale of public schools into top quality, high-performing institutions and programs. The brainchild of then Princeton University undergraduate student Wendy Kopp in 1989, TFA is the result of her thesis project that envisions leadership, teamwork, diversity, respect, humility and transformational change. By the next year, 500 recent grads created what would become the ultimate educational movement of this generation. TFA cadets are social crusaders, committed leaders and social activists who lead the fight to eliminate educational inequalities between low income and wealthy children.
At the end of 2012, 3.2 million students are expected to receive a high school diploma. In the Metro Atlanta area, 400 TFA cadets are making their mark on the community. "This problem is solvable," says Shyam Kumar, TFA's Executive Director for Metro Atlanta. "When we go from classroom to classroom to classroom, we see that everyone of these kids have an incredible amount of potential, passion, joy and love in them to do amazing things. The unfortunate reality is that many of these students aren't given the opportunity to bring that potential out."
Currently, American public schools employ 3.2 million teachers: a pupil/teacher ratio of 15 to five. In another 2011 NCES report, estimated expenditures of $525 billion went towards public schools. Kumar – involved for three years with TFA — is a strong reflection of the advocacy organization's values and principles. Prior to his Executive Director duties, he worked five years with General Electric: eventually transitioning to the company's foundation for a year. He witnessed the bulk of the foundation's philanthropic efforts going towards local school districts' low income schools' curriculum and instruments. "While all of those things are important, the thing that mattered most were great teachers," he says.
A self-proclaimed visionary who knows where he comes from, Kumar is the product of South Indian origins; he candidly discusses his parents' impoverished living conditions as youth themselves. They were limited to two meals a day – a luxury according to Kumar — with virtually no money to pay for anything. Still, Kumar's father, who he calls "brilliant," would sit on the roof with only a piece of chalk and a passion for math. As Kumar thinks about his father's perseverance, he says he thinks hard about youth who has just as much dedication as his father.
"There were great teachers and an incredible community wrapped around him," he adds. "They were the community that saw his brilliance and said, 'We're not gonna let this kid fail.' He was part of a very different pathway in life, and it broke generations of poverty and the cycle that plagued him and our family for many years and many generations. It's an opportunity to talk about how great our kids are – brilliant kids not given the shot they deserve – and the fact they need everyone around them to believe in them." Kumar further acknowledges that TFA allows him to connect closely with his leadership role and how he impacts the community, too. "Promise is about having unlimited potential. It's being really bold. It's not stopping no matter what comes in your way. This is what could really be possible when you have hundreds of talented teachers, hundreds of dedicated public officials and hundreds of principals all working together on the same cause and what's really possible for our kids long term."
During TFA – Metro Atlanta's Thurs., Mar. 29, 2012 "A Night of Promise" celebration, concluding TFA's Promise Week, at the Woodruff Arts Center, nine-time Grammy Award-winner John Legend expresses his long-standing support for the work the organization does: calling TFA "near and dear to his heart and particularly important." A humanitarian himself with his own Show Me Campaign, which helps to eradicate poverty with education, along with his global efforts in Africa, endorsement of President Obama, collaboration with Samsung's "Solve For Tomorrow" Campaign and his own socially conscious music (i.e. collaborative album, Wake Up!, with fellow Grammy Award-winning hip hop band The Roots and his contributions to the Davis Guggenheim-directed documentary on the public school system, Waiting For Superman), Legend believes his endorsement of TFA, along with sitting on the boards for The Education Equality Project and the Harlem Village Academies, runs a parallel line to his own work.
"I care about educational inequality in this country," Legend says. "TFA is leading the way in figuring out what makes a great teacher…in training, supporting and teaching in critical ways to ensure that they're highly effective so that they can go out and fight to reform. They provide all of the key ingredients to ensure that our country can attain an excellent education. They take a group of young people and turn them into leaders in our educational system." Even Kumar knows the musician is a man of high integrity. "[John] really believes in kids. It's shown up in every part of his life."
In the midst of a heartwarming performance from behind the piano, Legend performs covers of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' "Wake Up Everybody" along with his own compositions, "Save Room" and "Ordinary People." He also shares a few statistics with the Atlanta Symphony Hall's packed house: noting that America's rank dropped from #1 to #18 for education and half of the high school dropout rates come from 15 percent of American schools. The distinguished TFA National Board Member acknowledges Atlanta as "one of his favorite places on Earth;" Legend believes that effective teachers are the most important factor in boosting student achievement. "It's too often our kids are getting lost in the system. We can't fulfill that promise if we don't have a strong educational system. Education is the civil rights issue of our time because if we don't get that right, we can't make this country as great as it needs to be. We know that every kid deserves a bright future. Whether our kids go to public school, we want to give them the opportunity to aspire to something great. In order for us to turn this around, young people need and deserve great teachers in their classrooms. We got to have great teachers leading our kids."
Progress is definitely being made; the 2011-12 season – according to both IES and NCES – predicts 19.7 million American youth, an astounding 4.4 million increase since 2000, are expected to attend college. The organizations also note that from 2000 to 2009, college enrollment for African American students increased from 11.3 to 14.3 percent while Hispanics accounted for 9.5 to 12.5 percent. Still, in order to ensure education is held to a high regard, TFA knows not only that well-trained professionals in the classrooms are essential, but community involvement and support are also beneficial to the cause.
"It's more important than class size, the number of dollars spent per student, the quality of the building, the textbooks and materials," Legend says. "Go to a school board meeting. Find out what's going on in the schools in Atlanta. Volunteer at your neighborhood school. Vote for politicians who are working to fix our educational system, and continue to donate to organizations that are making a difference. Let's all make a decision and make a commitment together. We're gonna roll up our sleeves, and we're gonna make it happen."
For more information on Teach For America, log onto www.teachforamerica.org, like Teach For America on Facebook or follow @TeachForAmerica on Twitter.
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Bader Field will host a 2013 New Year's Eve event that will paint the town red, green, blue, and yellow.
Formerly known as Dayglow, Life in Color is the world's largest paint party, featuring some of the hottest names in Electronic Dance Music (EDM) today. Headlining the countdown to midnight in Atlantic City is famed electro house artist and DJ, Steve Aoki, who will be joined by Tommy Trash, Adventure Club, and resident Life in Color DJ, David Solano.
Bader Field, which hosted the Metallica Orion Music + More festival in June, and the Dave Matthews Band Caravan the previous year, among other events, such as this fall's A.C. Seafood Festival, will be lined with food and beverage vendors, as well as Life in Color and artist merchandise available for purchase. VIP tables are also available with bottle service in "paint-free" zones.
Show-goers need not worry about the bitter cold of the night, as a custom-made heated tent will house the paint-splashing spectacular.
"We're building this custom heated tent that can hold up to 10,000 people plus the main stage production with lighting and sound, and all types of cool décor, with performers walking around," says CEO and co-founder of Life in Color, Sebastian Solano.
"We want to turn the whole thing into a different world. Because it's custom-made, it makes you feel like you're in a different place. With the DJs performing, the Life in Color sounds, visuals, the paint and everything, we want to transport you to a different world."
Solano, along with his partners Lukasz Tracz, Patryk Tracz and Paul Campbell, just recently decided to change the name of their now larger-than-life paint party phenomenon from Dayglow to Life in Color.
"As a brand we have been evolving in a new direction," says Solano. "We want to be perceived as a lifestyle. We've created a whole new trend with the concept of the paint party. We thought Life in Color would be a bigger name, represent the culture of it, as we step forward to a new chapter in 2013."
Recently, DJs and electro artists have evolved into some of the most coveted acts at nightclubs and festivals, especially over the past year, which as been noted as Year of the DJ.
Atlantic City has become a significant EDM destination, and with some of the most famous names in the genre lined up for this New Year's Eve weekend, including Tiesto at Revel, is sure to bring 2013 in with a bass boom.
Because she's fairly new to the DJ world, it might take Hilton some time to match the annual take of established spinners like Calvin Harris, who reportedly made $46 million last year, or Tiesto, an Atlantic City nightclub regular who raked in a cool $32 million.
New Year's Eve falling on a Tuesday is bad timing in some people's perspective, but if your NYE resolution is to try to be more optimistic, then view it as the culmination of five straight days of partying starting Friday, Dec. 27.
As expected, LineRocket Entertainment is bringing its popular Life in Color EDM music fest and paint party back to Bader Field in Atlantic City, to celebrate the end of 2013.
An event established as an effort to promote healthy living in a fun way, The Color Run will make its Atlantic City debut Saturday, Oct. 19, at Bader Field.
Amped up from its inaugural appearance at Bader Field last September, the Atlantic City Seafood Festival is part of a trifecta of special events this weekend that also includes the allied Atlantic City Triathlon, which has its start-finish line at the Seafood Fest, and of course the resort's eminent return of the Miss America Pageant.
The Life in Color NYE event was such a success that the promoters are already thinking about staging a similar event at the former airport over the July 4 holiday.
There were parties galore in Atlantic City on New Year's Eve 2013, including casino-wide celebrations, the Life in Color event at Bader Field and Tiesto.
"LineRocket Entertainment plans to become the sole source of EDM music festivals in Atlantic City and we have some big plans to bring the top artists in the world for Memorial Day weekend and ..."
No East Coast town does New Year's Eve better than Atlantic City and its environs (yes, New York City, that includes you), so here are a few suggestions for those who have not yet gotten around to planning out their big night.
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Nearly ten years after the 9/11 terror attacks, President Obama announced late last night that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed—and quickly buried at sea—in a firefight with U.S. forces in a posh hideout in Pakistan. Said Obama:
His death does not mark the end of our effort. There's no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must—and we will—remain vigilant at home and abroad.
As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not—and never will be—at war with Islam. I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.
Over the years, I've repeatedly made clear that we would take action within Pakistan if we knew where bin Laden was. That is what we've done. But it's important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding. Indeed, bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan as well, and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people. …
Read the president's entire statement here.
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- Oct 31:
- Editorial: Endorsements in Tam Community district and Measures A and G
- Oct 25:
- Editorial: Retain incumbents on Southern Marin fire board
- Oct 21:
- Editorial: IJ recommendations in Kentfield schools race
- Oct 18:
- Editorial: Keep incumbents on Novato's school board
- Oct 17:
- Editorial: Three new trustees for the Tamalpais Union High School District board
- Oct 15:
- Editorial: Dixie should retain incumbent school trustees
- Oct 14:
- Editorial: Larkspur-Corte Madera has three school board seats to fill
- Oct 11:
- Editorial: Retain three incumbents in Marinwood
- Editorial: IJ recommends Kelly in race for San Anselmo council
- Oct 8:
- Editorial: Time for change on Novato fire board
- Oct 7:
- Editorial: Elias, Greenfield and Clark in Las Gallinas sewer race
- Oct 6:
- Editorial: IJ recommends Hillmer, Haroff, Way in Larkspur
- Oct 4:
- Editorial: Retain Corte Madera council members Lappert, Condon and Furst
- Oct 3:
- Editorial: Reed, Coler and Weinsoff for 3 Fairfax council seats
- Oct 1:
- Editorial: IJ recommends Athas, Eklund in Novato race
- Sep 30:
- Editorial: IJ recommends Kelly and McCauley in Mill Valley council race
- Sep 29:
- Editorial: IJ recommends Colin and Bushey Lang in San Rafael council race
- Sep 27:
- Editorial: Conti, Treanor, Bevis for COM board
- Nov 5:
- Editorial: It's time for Marin voters to exercise their right and vote
- Dick Spotswood: Now political focus shifts to 2014 supervisors races
- Nov 4:
- Voters in Marin have options on Election Day
- Nov 2:
- Less than half of the registered voters in Marin expected to turn out for Tuesday's election
- Nov 1:
- Right race, wrong town: Marin council hopeful sends botched mailer
- Oct 31:
- Elections office open for voting on Saturday
- Oct 28:
- Five seek four seats on the Southern Marin Fire Protection District board
- Oct 27:
- More than $655,000 spent on campaign to pass Marin General bond measure
- Oct 26:
- Dick Spotswood: Are county term limits headed for Marin's ballot?
- Oct 24:
- State law violation among tactics called into question in heated Kentfield School District board race
- Oct 17:
- Measure J would make improvements to Strawberry Recreation District buildings
- COM board candidates forum planned in Kentfield
- Oct 16:
- Huffman: Connolly's the one for county supervisor
- Dick Spotswood: Marin Republicans test support for county term limits
- Oct 15:
- Dixie schools race shapes up as changes occur in district
- Point Reyes Station man challenges incumbents in Shoreline school board race
- Oct 14:
- Three candidates compete for seat on San Anselmo Town Council
- Oct 12:
- Marin Voice: MGH's Measure F is about seismic safety
- Oct 11:
- Five running for three seats on Tam Union school board
- Oct 10:
- Measure H seeks renewal of Marinwood park services tax
- Seven candidates seek Marinwood seats as district grapples with costs
- Election discussion on tap on 'Public Advocate'
- Oct 9:
- Incumbents, challengers jockey for seats on Kentfield School District board
- One challenger, three incumbents compete for seats on Novato school board
- Oct 7:
- Campaigns adjust strategy as number of Marin residents voting by mail grows
- Three candidates vie for two seats on Novato fire board
- Oct 5:
- Dick Spotswood: Searching for conflicts rather than solutions
- Six vying for seats on Larkspur-Corte Madera school board
- Sep 30:
- Editorial: IJ recommends Kelly and McCauley in Mill Valley council race
- Sep 29:
- Bolinas park tax back on ballot: 'We're asking for less than $1 a week'
- Sep 27:
- Four candidates vie for two seats on the Mill Valley City Council
- Sep 26:
- Two incumbents in contest for Tomales post
- Sep 25:
- Measure A is 'for the kids' in Lagunitas district
- Sep 22:
- Community college district candidates seek to keep COM on track
- Four Marin municipalities go hat in hand for sales tax hikes
- Sep 21:
- Four vie for three open seats on Fairfax Town Council
- Tax increase urged to keep up with costs
- Four candidates running for three Larkspur City Council seats
- Sep 20:
- Incumbents, challengers compete for spots on Novato City Council
- Sep 18:
- San Rafael City Council candidate calls for competitor to withdraw from race
- Four candidates seek three seats on Las Gallinas sanitation board
- Sep 17:
- Four candidates vie for two seats on San Rafael City Council
- Sep 15:
- Marin Voice: How to look at school board elections
- Aug 27:
- Strawberry Recreation District Zone 4 give OK to two dredging measures
- Aug 14:
- Council incumbents will face challengers in six Marin municipalities in November election
- Aug 10:
- Marin Voice: A plan for a safer San Rafael
- Aug 9:
- Deadline passes, but new candidates can still file for some races in Marin
- Jul 21:
- Dick Spotswood: Here's your chance to serve in local public office
- Jul 13:
- Big local ballot on tap for Marin's Nov. 5 election
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- Fairfax councilwoman says she'll seek election in November
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- State elections official honors Marin voters
- Longtime San Rafael Councilwoman Heller won't run for re-election
The Marin Independent Journal editorial board's recommendations for the Nov. 5 election contests on which we have taken a position.
* denotes incumbent:
COLLEGE OF MARIN BOARD (3 seats)
Diana M. Conti*
Wanden Treanor*
Brady J. Bevis
NOVATO SCHOOL BOARD (3 seats)
Derek Knell*
Shelly Scott*
Maria Aguila
TAMALPAIS HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD (3 seats)
Sheri Mowbray
Chuck Ford
Laura Anderson
DIXIE SCHOOL BOARD (3 seats)
Brad Honsberger*
Mark A. Schott*
Bruce Abbott*
(3 seats)
Ashley Paff*
Karen Loebbaka
Cynthia C. Roenisch*
LARKSPUR-CORTE MADERA SCHOOL BOARD (3 seats)
Susan Christman*
Maya Tuve
Andrea K. Pierpont
CORTE MADERA TOWN COUNCIL (3 seats)
Carla Condon*
Michael Lappert*
Diane Furst*
FAIRFAX TOWN COUNCIL (3 seats)
Barbara Coler*
David Weinsoff*
John Reed*
LARKSPUR CITY COUNCIL (3 seats)
Dan Hillmer*
Kevin Haroff
Catherine Way
MILL VALLEY CITY COUNCIL (2 seats)
John McCauley
Dan Kelly
NOVATO CITY COUNCIL (2 seats)
Pat Eklund*
Denise Athas*
SAN ANSELMO TOWN COUNCIL (1 seat)
Doug Kelly
SAN RAFAEL CITY COUNCIL (2 seats)
Kate Colin*
Maribeth Bushey Lang
(2 four-year terms)
Bruce A. Anderson*
Leah Kleinman-Green*
(1 two-year term)
Michael Dudasko
NOVATO FIRE BOARD (2 seats)
Gary Butler
Kevin Johnston
SOUTHERN MARIN FIRE BOARD (4 seats)
Kurt Chun*
Stephen Willis*
Thomas Perazzo*
Daniel St. John*
LAS GALLINAS VALLEY SANITARY DISTRICT (3 seats)
Russ Greenfield*
Megan Clark*
Rabi Elias*
TAMALPAIS COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT (2 seats)
Jim Jacobs*
Jeff Brown*
Measure A: Yes — A $5 million bond measure for upgrades, modernization and repairs for Lagunitas School District campuses.
Measure B: Yes — A town of Corte Madera proposal to add a half-percent to sales tax for six years intended for local services, projects and programs, such as maintaining local fire protection, flood control and street repair programs and senior and youth activites.
Measure C: Yes — A city of Larkspur proposal to add a half-percent to sales tax intended five years to pay for local services, projects and programs, such as fixing city streets and maintaining essential city services.
Measure D: Yes — A town of San Anselmo proposal to add a half-percent to sales tax for 10 years intended to pay for local projects, services and programs, such as fixing streets and maintaining town services.
Measure E: Yes — A city of San Rafael proposal to extend and increase the local city sales tax, setting it at three-quarters of a percent for 20 years intended to maintain city services and pay for seismic-safety repairs for emergency services buildings.
Measure F: Yes — A $394 million bond measure for seismic-safety upgrades for Marin General Hospital and to enhance and modernize emergency and medical facilities.
Measure G: Yes — Increasing the annual fire tax for the Kentfield Fire Department to 10 cents for every square foot of building space.
Election Day is Tuesday and polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information on local polling places, call 473-6456 or check the registrar's web page, www.marinvotes.org.


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I am planning on replacing my alumminum siding with vinyl on my two story NE home and replacing my 20 year old andersen narrowline double-hung windows with a tilt-in model for easier cleaning. I am looking for the best replacement window with a wood interior and vinyl exterior. Need suggestions. |
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I like the Marvin wood/Al-clad for a "classic" look. I don't know the age or style of your house. I can't comment on longevity as we've been looking to replace in a Victorian and will probably rebuild in place. |
Why not just replace them with Andersen conversion kits. Tilt-in,wood interior, fraction of the price of total replacement new 20 year warrenty do it yourself in about 20 minutes??? What's not to like? |
I checked into the conversion kits, even speaking to a very nice rep from Andersen. The average price of a kit window is $300 and you lose alittle glass because the frame is thicker. For around the same money I can buy new construction 200 series windows, due to the fact that I'm replacing the siding. It turns out that my narrowline double-hung windows are really 200 series windows so I'll probably go with the 200 series tilt-wash windows. Thanks though for your suggestion. |
Sorry but 200 tilt are low grade garbage made to compete with the vinyl replacement market...... That is why they need sash locks, otherwise in a breeze the sashes would self tilt. Once you replace the entire unit including interior trim for the 200's which you wouldn't have to do with conversion kits there can't be but a couple of bucks difference. But the difference in quality is priceless. Good luck with the 200 tilts unless you have an excellent experienced installer you'll need it. |
Anyone ever hear of Ideal windows out of Bayonne, NJ. Friends of mine have the 4500 series and love them. How about experiences with Simonton 5500 series vinyl windows? |
"Sorry but 200 tilt are low grade garbage" I agree. But Andersen makes an all-Fibrex window called the 100 Series that appears to be intended to compete with all-vinyl windows. The problem with this window and all-vinyl windows is that the double-hungs have smaller upper glass and look like drive-up teller windows. The plastic materials are just not strong enough to mimic a traditional wood window in appearance. |
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The new My Table Top from Stokke® is a lipped tray to firmly attach (using suckers) to the dining table both to protect its surface and also to keep the childs bowls, toys etc in a confined area. The my table top comes with changeable templates to go underneath (supplied) dependant on the age and development of your child and is easy to clean. The templates include giraffes and chickens (for 6months plus) animals and cars to count and describe (18m and over) and numbers and letters (for 4 years plus). As with all Stokke® products it is free from bisphenol and phthalates.


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text: Things just got really messy for North Carolina Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, whose terrified 8-year-old son, Cal, calls him in a panic after his mom (and Dwight's ex-wife) disappears into the chilly night air with nary a word. Then Cal himself goes MIA, sending Dwight on a harried hunt for answers. (His second wife, judge Deborah Knott, also elbows her way in to provide assistance.) It's not a bad setup, but the resulting 324 pages of Winter's Child are far from original. Margaret Maron writes in a crisp, undemanding style familiar to anybody who's plowed through a Mary Higgins Clark novel, her characters dim the suspense by speaking in helpful but rudimentary sprays of revealing dialogue, and mystery aficionados will figure out whodunit far sooner than they'd like.


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On October 4, 2012, Ms. Penny Pairet's class from Fuqua School visited the Bortz Library as well as Atkinson Museum on the campus of Hampden-Sydney College. The class is currently reading Sounder by William H. Armstrong who graduated from Hampden-Sydney in 1936. The students were able to view awards received by Armstrong and several foreign language copies of Sounder.
On Tuesday, October 16, Bill Young will present a historical interpretation of Patrick Henry at Hampden-Sydney College. Henry is portrayed in the last year of his life as he reflects on his childhood, two marriages, religious convictions, love of children, various careers, and key contributions to the formation of the United States. After retiring as a trial lawyer, Young decided to make his lifelong love of history, writing, and public speaking into a second career. He presents a dramatic and historically accurate first person impression of Henry.
Free and open to the public, the event is sponsored by the Farmville/Prince Edward Historical Society and Hampden-Sydney's Atkinson Museum. It will begin at 7 PM in the Parents & Friends Lounge in Venable Hall. H-SC Full Story...
A Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Educational Exhibition celebrating the Commonwealth's building heritage is open in the Atkinson Museum March 1 through April 30. The exhibition will present photographs and descriptions of 23 significant examples of our state's architecture built primarily between 1636 and 1775. The exhibition is based on "Architecture in Virginia," a popular guide written by University of Virginia architectural historian, William B. O'Neal. The book demonstrates that Virginia has often led the way in American architecture... H-SC Full Story...
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On Wednesday March 28, Dr. John Coombs, Associate Professor of History will present Architecture and the Making of the Virginia Gentry in the Seventeenth Century in conjunction with the museum exhibit,
Virginia Architecture: From Colonial to the Old Dominion.
Barbara Rothermel,
Director of the Daura Gallery at Lynchburg College
On Sunday, February 5, Barbara Rothermel presented a gallery talk at Hampden-Sydney College on the exhibit, Myths, Saints, and Symbols: The Use of Attributes in Art.
This lecture traces the transition of symbols and attributes from Classical Antiquity through the Early Christian era when it was the task of the church to redeem the world and all humankind. The church did not hesitate to borrow from every available source in its effort to convert and redeem; the sign and symbol, particularly those most common in the realm of human experience, were given a Christian and spiritual meaning. The lecture continues with the full flowering of symbolism in the northern Renaissance and Baroque eras.
This program has been organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp Memorial Fund.
Liberties with Liberty was on exhibit at the Atkinson Museum on the campus of Hampden-Sydney College through February 22. The exhibition contains twenty 24"x 36" color posters. Liberties with Liberty depicts the changing icons of liberty in America. The images range from an Indian queen to the Statue of Liberty itself and represent three centuries of American folk art. H-SC full story...
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On Friday morning, November 10, 1775, young Samuel Woodson Venable was up at the crack of dawn. This was the day of the official opening of Hampden-Sydney College and he wanted to be the first student there. He was already the first student to register for classes and he wanted to keep the string going. He grabbed something to eat, dashed out to the barn, saddled his horse, and was off at a gallop. He took the shortest route from Slate Hill to the College, which took him right past the future site of Mercy Seat Church (1870). Read this and more stories from the current Newsletter...
A staple of May Term at Hampden-Sydney is the Beneath This Hill Historical Archaeology Class, in which Doctor Charles Pearson leads his Hampden-Sydney students to the place of the founding of Hampden-Sydney College, the site of Slate Hill Plantation. Students in the May Term class have been working to reconstruct the 18th- and 19th-century landscapes at Slate Hill Plantation. This work has included identifying the locations and types of buildings that once existed on the property. Students rely on primary documents such as original deeds, wills, probate inventories, and photographs, as well as oral histories and archaeology. The full story in the current Newsletter....
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UPDATED 5:15 PM CDT Aug 19, 2014Omaha Police blocked off 52nd Street, one block north and south of Emmet, for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon as they investigated a hit-and-run crash.
Video TranscriptFOR MOST OF THE AFTERNOON THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A 2014 WHITE CHEVY CRUZE... BELIEVED TO BE INVOLVED IN AC DENT NEAR 52-ND AND EMMETT JUST AFTER 1:30 THIS AFTERNOON. THAT'S WHERE K-E-T-V- NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S JEREMY MASKEL IS LIVE. MELISSA ARRESTED THE DRIVER. MORE THAT. BUT WE'RE TOLD THE INJURIES, AND SEVERE CUTS TO HIS HEAD... BUT DOCTORS AT THE NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER SAY THE 45 OR 46 YEAR OLD MAN SHOULD SURVIVE. OMAHA POLICE TELL ME THAT WHITE CHEVY CRUZE WAS HEADED NORTH ALONG 52-ND, DRIVING WRECKLESSLY ACCORDING TO WITNESSES... AND RIGHT HERE IS WHERE THE DRIVER HIT THAT MAN ON THE BIKE, SENDING BOTH FLYING. YOU CAN SEE THE DEBRIS IN THE STREET AS WE FOLLOWED THE INVESTIGATION. THE BIKE SMASHED ON THE WEST SIDE OF 52ND, AND A SHOE AND THE BIKE SEAT YARDS AWAY -- IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. EVEN A VEHICLE'S FOG LIGHT - THAT POLICE SAY POINTED THEM TO THE 2014 CHEVY CRUZE. BUT THE SIZE OF THE SCENE, SHOWS HOW FAST THAT CAR MAY HAVE BEEN TRAVELING.( You see tire marks we have, where that officer is standing is where the cyclist came to rest. ) POLICE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED THE VICTIM - WITH THOSE SEVERE INJURIES - BUT HE SHOULD SURVIVE. REPORTING LIVE AT 52 AND EMMETT: JEREMY MASKEL KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN.
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First of all, thank you so much to all of you that left me a comment yesterday on my 200th post. It was awesome and I really appreciate it!!
Yesterday I got to spend the whole afternoon helping a friend organize her kitchen. It was great and I'm always amazed at how much can be accomplished in just a few short hours.
It has been a couple of weeks since I participated in Slow Cooking Thursday but today I remembered!
I tried this recipe out for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it was yummy and I liked how it only has 4 ingredients!
Chicken in Mushroom Sauce
4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1 can (10 3/4) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted (I always purchase the low fat variety)
1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
4 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
Place chicken in slow cooker. Combine soup and sour cream; pour over chicken. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until chicken is tender. Sprinkle with bacon. Yield: 4 servings.
Source: Taste of Home's Simple and Delicious 2007
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I planted a 3 ft Choquette avocado tree in March. It thrived with lush green leaves on it's dozen or more branches. Then 3 weeks ago I fertilized it for 2nd time and started thoroughly watering it twice a week. Previously it got watered maybe once a week at the most, other than the occasional rain. Now suddenly, about a week ago, 3/4 of the leaves started turning brown and curling up. I immediately stopped watering it and it seems to be in a state of limbo now, with all the leaves, including the still green ones, hanging limp. Am stumped,..anyone have any ideas ? |
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Hi. This happened to a couple that I planted from seed quite a while back. I don't want to be pessimistic but they didn't last too long after this. However, I'm thinking maybe it's because they were grown from seed, not grafted, and not planted in the best of soil as well as too much shade. Are yours in full sun? Have you sprayed for fungus? Noticed any chewed leaves or other pests on them? Maybe in this hot weather it needs more water and richer soil. P.S. Maybe the leaves were burned from excessive fertilizer? Just a thought. Keep me updated, okay? Sheri |
You either overfertilized and burnt it or more likely watered it too much and it got root rot fungus. With Avocado trees its always better to give too little water then too much. Try getting some copper based fungicide (Southern AG makes it) dilute to the amount recomended and then soak the roots with the copper mixture once. Cut back the watering schedule to no more then every other week. When it rains in between that dont water it at all and just let the tree recover. Again...With Avocado trees its always better to give them too little water then to too much. Good luck with your tree. |
Thanks for the feedback. A brief follow up : Sheri; Yes, my 4 ft ( not 3 ft ) avocado tree is in full sun. No, had not sprayed it previously for fungus. Did not notice any creepy crawlies on the leaves, - none were chewed. The soil in the hole when planted was a careful mixture of 1/3 top soil, 1/3 cow manure and 1/3 sandy soil ( some clay ) that existed there before the planting. After every watering, there were no standing puddles,..good drainage. I doubt the culprit was fertilizer burn, only applied barely 4 handfuls as I recall, - the first fertilization since it was planted in March.. swrancher ; I already had that Southern AG liquid copper fungicide in my shed,..using it mostly for the 4 mango trees. So just now hooked up the plastic spray jar to my garden hose and soaked the avocado roots with it, as well as a sparce spraying of the leaves. ( Sprayed the mango trees as well while at it lol ) Am hopeful this will do the trick. Will in future limit watering that avocado to twice a month at most. Will report back if there is any improvement. Thanks again. |
Hi Jofus. Sounds like you're doing the right things for it. Guess cutting back further on water will help. Let us know, okay? Happy gardening. Sheri |
- Posted by Rachel 33613(email@example.com) onFri, Apr 8, 11 at 14:43
I had the same problem. I purchased it at a garden shop, so I made sure it was grafted. I was planning on keeping it in a pot till it was past a few Florida winters and a little bigger and more stable. But for the time in the pot, I kept it moist, if not soaked from time to time. There were a few cold snaps (under 30 degrees F) but I always brought it inside, but I left it outside for some of the 'warmer' cold fronts, (that were in the 40's and 50's). I wondered if it was the cold. I had read that the choquette was a little better at handling the Florida cold, hence my purchase of that particular variety. Now reading here, I see that I may have put too much water in the container it was sitting in, a few weeks before any of those cold snaps, whether it was inside or outside. After reading your posts, I quickly put it in the ground on high dry soil. I hope it lives. It's leaves have successively browned now, down to about halfway down the sapling. The rest of it seems quite healthy. Should I get that copper stuff? Does it help? So, any follow ups on the other posts? Did your Choquette live? I want some homegrown guacamole. Anyone? |
- Posted by Jared 92618(firstname.lastname@example.com) onSun, Jun 5, 11 at 16:20
The leaves of my 3 ft avocado plant are getting chewed up from the outside. Does anyone know what I can do to save my plant. Ive looked for any pest that were present and couldnt find anything. Thanks wasnt sure how to post my own thread sorry for the add on |
- Posted by IowaAvo none (email@example.com) on Wed, Feb 29, 12 at 21:39
jofus, Do you happen to have any choquettes left? I'm looking for some pits for starting rootstocks. Thanks Ken |
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