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Where Are Gangs found?
Odds are that there are criminal street gangs in our community, your schools, and your work places. Your jails and prisons almost certainly have prison gangs and probably street gang members who have been incarcerated and have not yet joined a prison gang. And finally, perhaps, parents have gang members living in their own home and do not recognize the problem.
"Wannabe's"- We suggest that you eliminate this term from your vocabulary
"We don't have gangs in our community" is a phrase that is too often uttered by the city fathers, the police, the chamber of commerce, or the tourist bureau in many communities. This is often followed by, "All we have are a bunch of wannabes." By calling gangs and gang members "wannabes," a community is telling its citizens that it has nothing to worry about.
The inference here is that since the gangs in your community didn't originate in Los Angeles or Chicago, they are not the dangerous gangs of New York, the Chicago street gangs or the Los Angeles street gangs - therefore, they aren't real gangs. Nothing could be further from the truth. If a group of youths in your community have banned together and call themselves by a particular name, whether the name is a local street, a local neighborhood, or the Bloods, Piru Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings, Mara Salvatrucha, or Gangster Disciples, and if they use signs, symbols and or colors; and if they are committing crimes; they are a gang regardless of what members of the community say.
Gang Identification
It is also easy to understand how parents fail to recognize the gang identifiers, such as graffiti, signs and symbols, tattoos, or particular styles of clothing, worn or used by their son or daughter. How does this happen? They simply do not take the time to become aware.
It is extremely important to realize and understand that not everyone who wears a particular color, or who has a tattoo, is a gang member. Bloods wear red, Crips wear blue. There are thousands of gangs in the U.S. and most identify with one or more colors of every description. Today's youth, just like the youth of past generations, like to be "faddish." To some, wearing colors and sagging pants is cool
Traditional Gangs
n Exist in specific geographical areas for a long period of time.
n Have established set of rules, regulations, signs, and symbol.
n Members are usually older, young adults.
n Highly structured and sophisticated.
n Very Loyal.
n Can have regional or national ties.
n Easy to recognized
Non-Traditional Gangs
n Have not existed in a specific area for a long period of time.
n Struggle with their identity.
n Very little if any structure or organization.
n Members are usually younger, often juveniles.
n Usually dissolve very quickly.
n Not loyal.
n Usually have no ties or affiliation with traditional gangs.
n Very difficult to identify.
How do gangs affect our youth?
n Gang members usually drop out of school
n Many become dependent on alcohol and drugs
n Gang members are likely to be involved in crimes throughout the rest of their lives
n Many put themselves in danger of disease, prison, and death
n Gang members or more likely to be killed or seriously injured
Gangs in Wilson
North Carolina Gang Investigations Association defines a gang as:
A group or association of 3 or more persons who have a common identifying sign, symbol, or name and who individually or collectively engage in, or have engaged in criminal activity that creates an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.
Our community has an emerging problem with gangs. There are many kinds of gangs, but whatever kind, they mean trouble. They cause fear, destroy property, drive away businesses, threaten honest citizens and bring violence to the community.
We can do a lot to prevent or reduce gang problems. Most importantly, there is a great deal that you can do to keep your children from joining gangs.
In Wilson, police have identified over 15 different organized gangs. These gangs are made up of over 300 validated gang members throughout our City.
We have local sets of National gangs. Locally, they may have their own unique identifiers and customs. However, the base knowledge and core values are built from the national historical gang foundation.
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This circuit is a complete implementation of the analog portion of a broadband direct conversion transmitter (analog baseband in, RF out). RF frequencies from 68.75 MHz to 2.2 GHz are supported through the use of a PLL with a broadband integrated voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). Unlike modulators that use a divide-by-1 LO stage (as described in CN-0134), harmonic filtering of the LO is not required.
To achieve optimum performance, the only requirement is that the LO inputs of the modulator be driven differentially. The ADF4350 provides differential RF outputs and is, therefore, an excellent match. This PLL-to-modulator interface is applicable to all I/Q modulators and I/Q demodulators that contain a 2XLO-based phase splitter. Low noise LDOs ensure that the power management scheme has no adverse impact on phase noise and error vector magnitude (EVM). This combination of components represents industry-leading direct conversion transmitter performance over a frequency range of 68.75 MHz to 2.2 GHz. For frequencies above 2.2 GHz, it is recommended to use a divide-by-1 modulator, as described in CN-0134.
Figure 1. Direct Conversion Transmitter (Simplified Schematic: All Connections and Decoupling Not Shown)
The circuit shown in Figure 1 uses the ADF4350, a fully integrated fractional-N PLL IC, and the ADL5385 wideband transmit modulator.
The ADF4350 provides the local oscillator (the LO is twice the modulator RF output frequency) signal for the ADL5385 transmit quadrature modulator, which upconverts analog I/Q signals to RF. Taken together, the two devices provide a wideband baseband I/Q-to-RF transmit solution.
The ADF4350 is powered off the ultralow noise 3.3 V ADP150 regulator for optimal LO phase noise performance. The ADL5385 is powered off a 5 V ADP3334 LDO. The ADP150 LDO has an output voltage noise of only 9 μV rms, integrated from 10 Hz to 100 kHz, and helps to optimize VCO phase noise and reduce the impact of VCO pushing (equivalent to power supply rejection). See CN-0147 for more details on powering the ADF4350 with the ADP150 LDO.
The ADL5385 uses a divide-by-2 block to generate the quadrature LO signals. The quadrature accuracy is, thus, dependent on the duty cycle accuracy of the incoming LO signal (as well as the matching of the internal divider flip-flops). Any imbalance in the rise and fall times causes even order harmonics to appear, as evident on the ADF4350 RF outputs. When driving the modulator LO inputs differentially, even-order cancellation of harmonics is achieved, improving the overall quadrature generation. (See ""Wideband A/D Converter Front-End Design Considerations: When to Use a Double Transformer Configuration." Rob Reeder and Ramya Ramachandran. Analog Dialogue, 40-07.)
Because sideband suppression performance is dependent on the modulator quadrature accuracy, better sideband suppression is achievable when driving the LO input ports differentially vs. single-ended. The ADF4350 has differential RF outputs compared to a single-ended output available on most competitor PLL devices with integrated VCO.
The ADF4350 output match consists of the ZBIAS pull-up and, to a lesser extent, the decoupling capacitors on the supply node. To get a broadband match, it is recommended to use either a resistive load (ZBIAS= 50 Ω) or a resistive in parallel with a reactive load for ZBIAS. The latter gives slightly higher output power, depending on the inductor chosen. An inductor value of 19 nH or greater should be used for LO operation below 1 GHz. The measured results in this circuit were performed using ZBIAS = 50 Ω and an output power setting of +5 dBm. When using the 50 Ω resistor, this setting gives approximately 0 dBm on each output across the full band, or +3 dBm differentially. The ADL5385 LO input drive level specification is −10 dBm to +5 dBm; therefore, it should be possible to reduce the ADF4350 output power to save current.
A sweep of sideband suppression versus RF output frequency is shown in Figure 2. In this sweep, the test conditions were as follows: baseband I/Q amplitude = 1.4 V p-p differential sine waves in quadrature with a 500 mV dc bias; baseband I/Q frequency (fBB) = 1 MHz; LO = 2 × RFOUT. A simplified diagram of the test setup is shown in Figure 3. A modified ADL5385 evaluation board was used because the standard ADL5385 board does not allow a differential LO input drive.
Figure 2. Sideband Suppression, RFOUT Swept from 68.75 MHz to 2200 MHz
Figure 3. Sideband Suppression Measurement Test Setup (Simplified Diagram)
This circuit achieves comparable or improved sideband suppression performance when compared to driving the ADL5385 with a low noise RF signal generator, as used in the data sheet measurement. Using the differential RF outputs of the ADF4350 provides even-order harmonic cancellation and improves modulator quadrature accuracy. This impacts sideband suppression performance and EVM (error vector magnitude). A single carrier W-CDMA composite EVM of better than 2% was measured with the circuit shown in Figure 1. The solution thus provides a low EVM broadband solution for frequencies from 68.75 MHz to 2.2 GHz. For frequencies above 2.2 GHz, a divide-by-1 modulator block should be used, as described in CN-0134.
A complete design support package for this circuit note can be found at http://www.analog.com/CN0144-DesignSupport.
The PLL-to-modulator interface described in this circuit note is applicable to all I/Q modulators that contain a 2XLO-based phase splitter. It is also applicable to 2XLO-based I/Q demodulators such as the ADL5387.
Circuit note CN-0144 uses the EVAL-ADF4350EB1Z and the ADL5385-EVALZ boards for evaluation of the described circuit, allowing for quick setup and evaluation. The EVAL-ADF4350EB1Z board uses the standard ADF4350 programming software, contained on the CD that accompanies the evaluation board.
Equipment Needed
Windows® XP, Windows Vista (32-bit), or Windows 7 (32-bit) PC with USB Port, the ADF4350EB1Z, and the ADL5385-EVALZ circuit evaluation boards, the ADF4350 programming software, power supplies, I-Q signal source, such as a Rhode & Schwarz AMIQ, and a spectrum analyzer. See this circuit note and the UG-109 user guide for evaluation board EVAL-ADF435EB1Z and the ADF4350 and ADL5385 data sheets.
Getting Started
This circuit note contains a description of the circuit, the schematic, and a block diagram of the test setup. The user guide UG-109 details the installation and use of the EVAL-ADF4350 evaluation software. UG-109 also contains board setup instructions and the board schematic, layout, and bill of materials. The ADL5385-EVALZ board schematic, block diagram, bill of materials, layout and assembly information is included in the ADL5385 data sheet. See the ADF4350 and ADL5385 data sheet for device information.
Functional Block Diagram
Circuit note CN-0144 contains the function block diagram of the described test setup in Figure 3.
Setup and Test
After setting up the equipment, standard RF test methods should be used to measure the sideband suppression of the circuit.
The sideband suppression of this circuit can be further improved by filtering the LO signal before the LOIP and LOIN pins of the ADL5385. Filtering attenuates harmonic levels so as to minimize errors in the quadrature generation block of the ADL5385. At some frequencies, this can result in improvements over 10 dB. However, using a filter will limit the bandwidth of the circuit. See Figure 4 for narrowband results.
Figure 4. Sideband Suppression Comparison With and Without a Harmonic Filter
The LO signal was passed through a low-pass filter with a 3 dB point at approximately 2600 MHz. This results in a usable output frequency up to approximately 1300 MHz.


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Treating Latex Allergy
When Alex was in dental hygiene school, she suddenly developed allergy symptoms—sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes, and hives on her hands. She couldn't think of any new exposures that would cause her symptoms, except for the school environment. After visiting her doctor, she was surprised to learn that the latex gloves she had been wearing in school were causing her symptoms. Alex was diagnosed with a latex allergy.
Natural rubber latex is manufactured from a milky fluid found in the common rubber tree (also called the Para rubber tree or sharinga tree). Many products we use at home, work, and school contain latex, including:
- Balloons
- Condoms
- Diaphragms
- Disposable gloves
- Toys
- Rubber bands
- Adhesive tape and bandages
- Baby bottle nipples
- Pacifiers
- Goggles
- Rubber aprons
According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, latex allergy occurs when the body's immune system reacts to proteins found in the natural rubber latex. People with latex allergy are most apt to react to products made of thin, stretchy latex, such as that found in disposable gloves, condoms, and balloons, which are high in these proteins. Products made of hard rubber, such as tires, don't seem to cause as many allergic reactions. Items made using synthetic latex, such as latex paint, do not trigger allergy.
Powdered latex gloves may exacerbate allergic reactions because the proteins in latex fasten to the powder. When powdered gloves are removed, latex protein/powder particles get into the air, where they can be inhaled and come into contact with body membranes.
Reactions to Latex
Three types of reactions can occur in people using latex products: irritant contact dermatitis, allergic contact dermatitis, and latex allergy.
- Irritant contact dermatitis —The development of dry, itchy, irritated areas on the skin, usually the hands. The irritation is caused by using gloves, and possibly by contact with other products and chemicals. Irritant contact dermatitis is not a true allergy to latex. It comes on gradually over the course of several days.
- Allergic contact dermatitis (also known as delayed hypersensitivity or chemical sensitivity dermatitis)—A rash similar to poison ivy, which results from exposure to chemicals added to latex during harvesting, processing, or manufacturing. The rash usually begins 12-48 hours after contact.
- Latex allergy (also known as immediate hypersensitivity)—A more serious reaction to latex than irritant contact dermatitis or allergic contact dermatitis.
An allergic reaction to latex may cause:
- Red skin
- Hives
- Itching
- Swelling
- Runny nose
- Sneezing
- Coughing
- Wheezing
- Trouble breathing
- Itchy, watery eyes
- Scratchy throat
- Chest tightness
- Lightheadedness
Some symptoms may lead to a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. Although rare, a life-threatening reaction can be the first sign of latex allergy.
Last reviewedJune 2014by Michael Woods, MD
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When we are happy, we think clearly, or at least we feel so. We may not see some bad things "as they are", but we do see good things, and in general, we feel "normal" and feel life "fluid". On the meantime, as everything is "normal", thoughts are clean and you feel good, creativity comes naturally, and ideas, thoughts and general creation too. When we are sad, none of this actually happens.
It depends on how sad you are at the moment, but in general, if you're an "average person" (say, who gets equally sad and happy moments, and is not somehow depressed or something affecting those emotions), when you get sad, is for a reason. Maybe a friend insulted you, maybe you didn't win at something you were sure you would, or maybe the friend that insulted you for not winning just died. Those are just examples of what could make you sad. Now, regarding that reason, thoughts come in the way.
When we are happy, as I said, life feels "fluid", as you think what you want to think. When you are sad, unwanted thoughts come in the way, and make you think in things you don't want to think about. Like, for example, the bad thing that caused your sadness, or just other bad things, just because we are masochists sometimes.
Creativity doesn't come naturally when I'm sad
If you remember correctly, my articles are based on empirical knowledge (information I gather basically from observing others and myself), so this may not be (and should not be) the same for everybody. Yet it is for me, and you may be affected by this too. So the point is…
I can't be creative while sad. The reason is that when I'm sad, I over-think everything. I think and think about why I'm sad, and about other sad things. I think I'm an "average person", and I can tolerate many things, yet I can be sad, just as anyone else. The thing is that sad, I can't think straight. Life doesn't feel "fluid", as unwanted thoughts come in the way. Just as writing is difficult with interruptions, being creative is difficult being sad.
Thinking and feeling
Sadness and happiness are emotions. We, as humans, think and feel, somehow separately. How I feel doesn't really must affect what I think, but surely how I think. Happy people usually write happy things, and sad people sad things. People is affected by their emotions, even when creativity is the center of it all.
Thoughts are anything but emotions. The emotions may control the "fabric" of these thoughts to some degree, and even the reading of them (see Lines of thoughts, if you're interested), but not the thoughts themselves. They are separated entities, and as so, you may feel super happy about winning some argument, while thinking about how you cheated and told a lie. The thought itself can form a feeling (guilt?), but the main emotion is not related to the thought; none caused the other.
People tend to rationalize feelings. You usually feel bad because something happened, that made you feel that way. With that information, you could (you do) think that rationalizing the emotion, and understanding why you feel bad, to then "downplay" the reason to not feel bad, will actually work. Yet it doesn't actually work, because, as I said, emotions and thoughts are different things, even if you "make a copy" of an emotion, and "translate it" into a thought, to then "edit" it erasing the sadness effect, the original emotion won't change.
It does get better
Emotions do disappear, or transform, with time, only, as far as I know. If you're at least 5 years old, you could make a long list of how many times you've been sad. You could also make a list of how many times you've been happy. It's not about comparing both lists, but to realize nothing lasts forever. Even if that thought is sad itself, it tells you a bad feeling will eventually go away.
So, creativity and my thoughts/emotions
The creative process can be seriously interrupted by a sad mind, which is normal. The reason, as I told, is that bad emotions make the fabric of thoughts to create bad ones, even if unrelated to the moment. In my case, the bad thoughts themselves don't interrupt my creative process, but the way I handle those thoughts.
I shut down.
Usually I'm thinking a lot, about anything I want to think. When I'm sad, I think a lot, too, but about things I don't want to. That makes my mind a mess, as in the first case I can organize my thoughts to an end, yet in the second, I can't. So my solution, is to just shut down my mind, and stop thinking, or at least stop trying to think in this organized way I like so much. That is what interrupts my creative process.
Why does it matter to you how I handle this?
It should give you a picture of a way to handle bad thoughts, bad emotions, a reason a person (I) may stop thinking, the way emotions and thoughts are not completely (but yet) correlated and, in a few words: Another thing to think about this week.
Think about yourself, about something that bothers you, about bad feelings, about how you handle them, how you should handle them, how people think, act, and feel. Think about yourself as a machine that can always break down, but can always be repaired.
How are you feeling right now? Are you sad about something? Are you happy? How is your creative process going? Can you think of 5 different uses for a paperclip? More? None? Share a piece of your mind below in the comments.


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(09-12-2012 05:50 PM)bigtrip18 Wrote: You forgot to mention that now nobody else in the entire world can complete this set. Good Job!
(09-12-2012 06:31 PM)chibearsboy Wrote: YEA BABY!!!!!!!!!! NIIIIIIIIIIIIICE Brother!! a SSP out of the way!!! no better feeling IMO and that SOB is Fantastic Mike. Well done and way to hang tough between set finds...its Brutal...i ought to know...lol.
(09-12-2012 06:21 PM)mtadams2 Wrote: The Maynard's just seem to belong together lol but what a cool gesture of you.
(09-12-2012 06:38 PM)ripkenfan72 Wrote: Beautiful set Mike!!!!
(09-12-2012 06:16 PM)ftballcardz Wrote: Actually, there is another guy that I've talked to on ebay that is working the set. He already has the Thorpe, and is only two cards away from completeing it. He needs the Tarkenton and Maynard. If he gets the Tark before me, then I may just send him the Maynard as a freindly gesture.


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NEW YORK, January 9, 2012 – Orchestras and opera companies across the nation continue to either shrink or disappear due to dwindling endowments, donations, and budgetary support—problems often triggered, then exacerbated by the nation's ongoing Great Recession, which, economists to the contrary, has yet to end. The latest potential performing arts disaster: The highly regarded New York City Opera.
After grappling for years with a funding swan dive, the City Opera initially announced it would be exiting from the Lincoln Center this season and moving to a variety of other venues across New York City. According to the company's website:
"In the 2011-2012 season, New York City Opera embarks on a new era as it leaves its Lincoln Center home to present its season in venues throughout New York City, creating a living presence in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the Upper West Side, Harlem, and Central Park. These world-class theaters are specially-curated for the opera productions they house…bringing the art form directly into the neighborhoods of the city we serve."
A primary reason for the move: the New York City Opera's use of the Center's updated David H. Koch Theater complex—long the company's formal home—was costing the City Opera some $4.5 million a year. Simply renting the space would cut that cost almost in half, according to the New York Times. Abandoning it potentially saves even more.
Even this cost-cutting measure, however, won't even come close to closing the company's huge budget gap. City Opera still must contend with paying its orchestra, chorus, and soloists a contractual union-scale rate. To trim this part of its balance sheet, at least indirectly, the company also pared its ambitious schedule of operas from 16 to 12, much as DC's own beleaguered Washington National Opera slashed its already minimal season down to only five full operas both last season and this.
In addition, the City Opera has dramatically cut what it's actually paying the musicians and chorus, understandably leading to a major labor dispute with the musicians' unions. According to the Associated Press, when negotiations involving the union and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service broke down this past Saturday evening, the company chose to lock out the union's artists and cancel today's rehearsals for the upcoming February run of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata.
The orchestra's union negotiating committee chair Gail Kruvand insisted that her members "made a good faith effort" to share sacrifices with the company. But, she noted, the company's rejection of the committee's latest proposals might very well be "the death knell for one of New York's cultural treasures."
The breaking point for the union apparently occurred when the company offer was no longer offering guaranteed "work or pay" to the musicians, according to AP, which also noted that "the musicians' average annual income would drop from about $40,000 to as little as $5,000 for two productions."
That said, it is difficult to imagine where the City Opera could ultimately come up with the funds to continue with its present business model. The company's website is mum on the matter, and neither its blog nor its new release links appear to have been updated since early last fall.
Various news reports estimate the company has been in budget trouble for a decade or more, which actually pre-dates the nation's current economic morass. Yet in the midst of all these financial woes, the company chose to hire expensive director Gerard Mortier as their new general manager and artistic director with a contract effective commencing with the 2009-2010 season.
Mr. Mortier, a Belgian national, had been used to presenting lavish, often avant-garde productions in Europe without many budgetary constraints, courtesy of the Eurozone's tradition of hugely subsidizing the performing arts with taxpayer funds.
Unfortunately, on top of Mr. Mortier's substantial monetary expectations, the company essentially suspended operations during the 2008-2009 season, according to AP, due to extensive remodeling of their Lincoln Center space. Mortier abruptly resigned from his new post before even heading up a single opera season, citing as his rationale his severely reduced budget.
Losing one season along with a new company chief who never really materialized over the course of two years may have contributed to the company's seeming death spiral..
The musicians, and some patrons, place the blame for the company's current difficulties on embattled current general manager and artistic director George Steel. Such sniping, however, is typical when any company, whether in the arts or the private sector, begins to implode due to unfortunate decisions by past front office regimes. Mr. Steel had been snatched away from the Dallas Opera in 2009 to pick up the pieces Mr. Mortier had left behind. But by the time he arrived, it may have already been too late.
Only in his mid-40s, Mr. Steel, also a conductor, has a relatively thin resume when it comes to running the operations of a major company, something his critics like to point out. However, he served as executive director of the nearby Miller Theater at Columbia University for 11 years and was widely praised for that venue's innovative musical offerings.
With little left to work with currently, it's not clear what Mr. Steel can do to save the City Opera short of the performance and budget cuts he's arguably been forced to impose. Saving millions by abandoning the Lincoln Center for less expensive venues was a start, renovations to the space notwithstanding.
But with musicians, performers, and, presumably, a determined number of donors at loggerheads with Mr. Steel, added to NYCO's already extant funding issues, it appears possible that the company's budget right-sizing may have come too late.
From operas, to autos, to vanishing Eastman Kodak, the American landscape is changing irrevocably. Our economy, more than ever before, has become ruthlessly Darwinian. Organizations institutionally incapable of innovating or adapting today will not long survive.
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Been quite awhile since we had either a football post or open thread. Here is your chance to talk football or whateverthehell you want.
Today's games
- Jacksonville Jaguars at Buffalo Bills – 1 p.m. – which teams show up?
- Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears – 1 p.m. – this could be a good one
- Indianapolis Colts at Detroit Lions – 1 p.m. – another possible good game
- Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers – 1 p.m. – Vikes best be on guard for the Packers to go on a tear after last week's beatdown
- Carolina Panthers at Kansas City Chiefs – 1 p.m. – why not just flip a coin and skip the whole thing?
- New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins – 1 p.m. – could be a good one
- Arizona Cardinals at NY Jets – 1 p.m. – I wonder what's on Current TV?
- San Francisco 49ers at St. Louis Rams – 1 p.m. – possible 49ers trap game?
- Houston Texans at Tennessee Titans – 1 p.m. – might the Texans take the Titans lightly?
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Denver Broncos – 4:05 p.m. – this will be a damned good game
- Pittsburgh Steelers at Baltimore Ravens – 4:25 p.m. – Steelers need to play with desperation
- Cleveland Browns at Oakland Raiders – 4:25 p.m. – snoozer
- Cincinnati Bengals at San Diego Chargers – 4:25 p.m. – could this be Norv's last game as Charger's coach?
- Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys – 8:20 p.m. – isn't ABC allowed to move games this late in the season, so we aren't treated to this dog?
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Forgot to tell you my favourite climber is Awakening. |
LOL - I saw the photo & thought to myself, that's Awakening! Then I saw your 2nd post, LOL - So cool, thanks for posting. It's a great climber, isn't it? |
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And a lovely photograph of it, too. I can see why you'd be anxious. Look at all those buds!! :-) |
Another beauty! |
Golden Celebration...one of the first roses to bloom in my KY. garden. Can`t wait...hurry up spring! Lesley |
Ooooh--Awakening and GC--both are too, too lovely! If one of my climbers doesn't work out, I may consider Awakening as a substitute. But since I've already tried out 2 climbers in that one spot (RRD got one of them), I hope I don't need to dig one up and find any more replacements. Kate |
Gorgeous. Somehow I have ended up with 3 New Dawns and no Awakening- ND must root more easily. will have to try rooting Awakening again as she is surely one of my favorite climbers as well. |
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So I decided to plant one of my hostas in the ground in a spot that's mostly shady. When I took it out of the nursery pot, I discovered it has a seedling in it! It's Seboldiana Elegans. The seedling is between the two leaves on the left. It really surprised me, I thought it was an eye but it isn't. |
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I'm in zone 9b but way above I-10, just 50 miles south of San Francisco. Is that little green thing a weed? Hostas don't branch like that. -Babka |
Well, carp. I went out to take a close-up pic of the baby, and something has separated it from its roots. Darn it. Anyway, here's a close-up of the seedling, less its roots. |
Looks like a little seedling to me. Congratulations! Gesila |
Gesila, yes, seedling, but with no roots any more. Some bug ate it. :(:( It appears to have a fine root, so I planted it and will see what happens. |
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- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Tue, Apr 30, 13 at 0:34
EAH, just saw your post tonight, and it is my bedtime. I also discovered what I THINK is a seedling. Let me find it again, if you don't mind I'll post it here too? To me it looks like Captain's Adventure. It is growing in the pot with Sam Spade. It does not look like SS to me at all, but it could be a tiny Captain's Adventure. Cute, isn't it? And I did not think any of my hosta made viable seed last year. But somehow I got this new baby, and I'm delighted. EAH, do you still have hosta that are dormant? I'm very surprised to have at least a dozen that are, although on some of them I can feel the sharp pips just beneath the soil. I moved those containers into more sunlight and watered them well. Of course, we have fairly good rains. One in particular is slow this year. Unforgettable. It is just not showing anything. Others are pipping but not making TALL pips. Most of the containers are showing increased numbers of eyes, but I need to compare the size of the eyes today to those of last year......and my extensive hosta photo collection is not accessible (hard drive failure). Only some photos are uploaded to Flickr, but very few of those show such as eye count. I'll try to give details on which ones are slow to emerge, are still dormant, or have died. I repotted quite a few of the first hosta I potted last year. I learned a lot more about potting media as the year progressed, so the March/April/May arrivals benefited from the repotting. |
Babka, that green thing isn't a weed, it's a miniature basil that survived the mild winter we had. I need to prune it and see if it will come back looking better. Moc, other than the Golden Tiara, I've bought 2 more this year, and they are already growing. The only ones that show up in nurseries here are in pots. However, after seeing the fantastic pics of June that someone else posted, I found one on e-bay and got it, so I guess I'll have one soon that is still dormant. I see what you mean about that seedling looking like Captain's Adventure. I'll bet a seed found its way into the pot with Sam Spade. I'd be surprised if they breed true, though. The hybridizing has to be very complicated, like it is with orchids. |
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Psy Power d10 damage!
That's pretty brutal - and I say this in the context of the Mendacious Oracle that's the main villain of the first adventure! Even though the heretics will encounter an NPC group of Word Bearers, the book leaves them to deal with his guards (as if he wasn't enough!) and the heretics to confront him, and he's already pretty tough without this power (he has others and a forcefield that doesn't overload).
Ok, I get that it's a high level psy power and that people that acquire it are going to be the baddest of baddass! But at the very least the damage output is (iirc) 5d10! Comparing that to regular weaponry it seems to have no equivalent. WIth a penetration of 9 (!) it's pretty much a one shot kill. Now I guess it's intended to be used against really tough monsters like daemon princes and necron lords and what not, but there's nothing to stop it from being used against anything: there's no mana cost equivalent for psy powers. Yes it's a bolt, not a storm/barrage but it's just so good. It's not even classed as Corrupting (which I think it should be), and at the level the psyker will be to use this he's going to have a very easy time attacking with it.
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Lynne Fenton, James Holmes's doctor: Her ex-husband on minor discipline made to look major
Update: Shortly after publishing the following item about Dr. Lynne Fenton, a CU psychiatrist who treated accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, we heard from Steffan Andrews, Fenton's ex-husband, and one of the people to whom she provided Claritin and other meds without keeping proper records, earning censure from a state medical board. He provides some interesting back story on a case about which much is being made in the media, even though it appears to be unrelated and very minor.Lynne Fenton.
According to Andrews, who's been divorced from Fenton for about ten years but remains friendly with her, "someone in her office got a strange call from a pharmacy" circa the late 1990s. "There was a patient there trying to fill a prescription for Vicodin and nobody knew the patient. And in fairly short order, she was able to discover that it was her nurse."
At that point, Andrews continues, Fenton shared this information with the Drug Enforcement Administration, whose investigators were able to determine that the nurse had filled other prescriptions for Vicodin -- 1,200 to 1,400 of them, by his memory. But rather than stopping at busting the nurse, the DEA subsequently opened an inquiry into Fenton. Andrews's supposition about why: "The doctor gives the headlines."Steffan Andrews.
What followed was a four-year investigation, after which the DEA "had nothing," in Andrews's view. "They had that Lynne hadn't opened and maintained a proper chart on me for my chronic hay fever [she gave him some Claritins before they were available over the counter], she gave me a small prescription for Ambien after a European vacation, and she had given the nurse some medicine without keeping a chart."
One other thing: "Her mother was dying of cancer, and she took four Xanaxes from a sample bottle of, I think, one hundred that she'd gotten from a drug rep -- and she gave the DEA back the other 96."
At the time the investigation was winding up, Andrews says Fenton was taking a break from practicing -- but when the DEA asked if she'd voluntarily surrender her license, she said "no." Shortly thereafter, the agency gave its information to the state medical board, which ultimately filed the 2005 document seen at the bottom of this post. "They said, 'You need to improve your charting,' she took a course, and that was it," Andrews recalls.
Now, however, Andrews believes the press is blowing this incident out of proportion. "They're making it seem like she's some crazy, drug-prescribing, out-of-control physician," he says, In truth, though, "she's a very nice, kind, compassionate person who's utterly, utterly dedicated to her patients and her work as a psychiatrist."
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Kent Kammerer, neighborhood activist and writer, dies at 78
A retired teacher, Kammerer brought curiosity, skepticism, and human warmth to all of his subjects.
Kent Kammerer, a Seattle neighborhood activist and Crosscut writer with a deep sense of curiosity about the city he loved, has died following what his family said was a brief illness. He was 78.
His curiosity, which often extended to a fair-minded skepticism about how the city was run, was matched by the depth of his knowledge about civic affairs. He asked hard questions, looked at whether the answers matched up with what he knew from elsewhere, and made his own judgments, but respected those with whom he disagreed.
He hosted a wide range of civic, political, business, and intellectual leaders on Saturday mornings, for what his Crosscut biographiy called the "informal, non-partisan Seattle Neighborhood Coalition, which meets over breakfast once a month to discuss Seattle policy and politics." Kammerer served as the unofficial leader of the group.
The meetings, recalled Crosscut Publisher David Brewster, were "lively, funny, pointed, and all about educating neighborhood activists about the city and each other's neighborhoods." Crosscut writer and editor Eric Scigliano noted that while working for other publications, he covered Kammerer's activities as a neighborhood activist. "He had the knack of boring in and digging in on an issue, without ever getting personal or nasty about it," Scigliano said. That kindness could be seen in Kammerer's writing, which showed a deep streak of compassion for others, especially those simply trying to get by in a city that was becoming increasingly affluent.
While he was a serious student of any number of subjects, Kammerer brought a sense of delight to his explorations of issues. His eyes would often seem to twinkle with excitement as he discussed everything from Seattle's politics to the importance of dirt in shaping society.
A retired schoolteacher, Kammerer became one of Crosscut's first writers and published his last Crosscut piece just a few weeks ago. Because of the breadth of his interests, Kammerer wrote for us about a range of issues, including education, police tactics and policies (he worried greatly about abuses and whether the taxpayers were getting enough real protection for their money), city streets and parks, ever-rising utility rates, and City Hall's treatment of neighborhoods, the poor, and the disabled. (An index of all his stories for Crosscut can be found here.) He was also a talented photographer, and his work sometimes illustrated his articles.
Kammerer's final story for Crosscut questioned the cost, structure, and priorities of the city's Nov. 8 ballot issue, which sought a $60-per-year charge on car tabs. The measure was soundly defeated by voters, based on many of the factors that concerned him. He wrote about the city officials' eagerness to start new projects and their lack of effort in maintaining its existing transportation investments. Still, he also struck a note of understanding, acknowledging that acquiring new things, but failing to take care of them, was a fault shared by many of us.
As much as he could get to the heart of city problems, Kammerer also celebrated those who worked hard for the city, whether in business or government or as volunteers. He wrote about city officials who quietly made good things happen during long careers, the legacy of late Delridge community activist Vivian McLean, and Sally Jewell's community-oriented leadership at REI.
Kammerer's first story for Crosscut in April 2007 mourned the death of former City Councilmember and mayor candidate Charlie Chong. In it, Kammerer struck what became familiar themes: the need to ask questions at City Hall, even if it made people uncomfortable. He wrote candidly and admiringly:
Charlie, a civil servant much of his career, knew that unless the hard questions were asked, sensible, affordable, and practical decisions wouldn't be made.
Charlie cared deeply about Seattle neighborhoods and was our knight, our champion, our Sir Lancelot on some days and Don Quixote on others. Charlie was a warrior in what was often a battle between the establishment and the public. Because Charlie said what others were afraid to say, he was often the single voice of reason in a bureaucratic web.
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Posted Mon, Nov 14, 4:10 p.m.
I greatly admired Kent and regularly attended his Neighborhood Coalition meetings, first in Belltown and then at the Salmon Bay Cafe. He had no agenda except the wellbeing of ordinary citizens and always displayed integrity and independence. A truly good man lost to his city.
Posted Tue, Nov 15, 2:23 p.m.
Kent died of lung cancer. He never smoked, but his wife did -- apparently a lot. Beware the possibilities of second-hand smoke (although people do die from the affliction with no previous exposure to tobacco smoke and the cause always could be otherwise). He had had two previous operations to deal with the disease, and apparently was considered in at least stable condition.
I talked to him at the last SNC meeting, and he appeared to be well, although slowing down as all of us old farts are doing, so I thought little of it. He did request others to take over the burdens of some of the meetings, which he had single-handedly run by himself without interruption for years and years. I thought that he just wanted more flexibility to use his RV at will, but in retrospect, he must have known something that he was concealing from us.
In the end, his downhill slide to his demise was shockingly rapid.
Both you and Knute have written the most heartfelt, sincere, and eloquent eulogies that I can ever remember reading. It has always seemed to me to be an injustice that these treatises are written only after the most worthy recipients can no longer read them.
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The upcoming fourth one, which is due out for the PS3 later this year actually has so many cut scenes, and audio dialogue, that the developers struggled to fit it all on to a Blu-ray disc.
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Movie producer Michael De Luca is at least talking about the possibility. Talking about his new movie 21, in Las Vegas, he told ComingSoon.net about his desire to make it happen.
The writers strike was holding up progress, but now that is over, it seem he and Columbia Pictures are keen to get the ball rolling. But who could write and direct such an important video game based movie?
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Thanks, Gabe!
Yea, it was beyond cool! Mainly, 'cause someone else was already in that office. I knew that from visiting for meetings while doing the contract work. They moved my coworker (one of the few that survived the layoffs - our Marketing Coordinator, and a real nice person) to another office. I would have been just fine in the space they moved the coworker to, but they just felt I needed to feel like I was really "home".
I will NEVER forget "this" day, for sure!
And yes, Carolyn is still pretty over the moon...!
Even though I'm as happy as a fly on a rib roast 'cause I'm back in my element doing what I was meant to do, this is more about my family than anything else.
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Jan. 23 at 9:40am
The 39th sorrowful anniversary of Roe vs. Wade is a good occasion for high-lighting an important paper by friend and fellow personalist, Peter J. Colosi. In it he cautions pro-lifers against a growing trend in the movement, viz. a too exclusive reliance on empirical science to the neglect of deeper, philosophical issues. He freely grants that scientific developments making it undisputably evident that even the tiniest zygote is a distinct and absolutely unique human being have been a great benefit to our cause.
Nonetheless, the trend to use the force of that argument as the sole argument is dangerous, for it tends to miss important dimensions of reality related to the meaning of procreation, respect for women, and the meaning of personal existence.
It is in drawing attention to and dwelling on these other dimensions of reality that personalists have an indispensable contribution to make.
Colosi challenges Catholics who are tempted to treat the question of personhood as irrelevant to the moral question of abortion by showing compellingly that the Church herself grounds her prohibition not in biology, but in the value and dignity of persons.
to cast off the mysterious question of the personhood of the tiniest members of our species and to call that question irrelevant to the moral question represents another case of a portion of the pro-life movement drifting off to the "secure" world of empirical science, and it also represents a lack of attention to the texts of the Church on the matter.
It's an academic article with extensive footnotes and some technical language, so it won't be to everyone's taste. But it's not the only item he has at his website. If you're not going to the March for Life this year, may I suggest that a great way to mark the day would be by reading one of Dr. Colosi's articles or listening to one of his talks? All of them reflect his personalist training, his profoundly personalist approach to bio-ethics, and his deep concern for growing the culture of life.
I too think it is critical to go beyond the biological in establishing the dignity of the person from the moment of conception. Psalm 139 is one of the most important scriptual texts ("You knit me in my mother's womb") As I stated in a recent posting Paul Tournier, the Swis Physician who 's philosophy is "the medicine of the person" tells the following anecdote:
In his book "The Naming of Persons". A woman was distraught over being pregnannt and was considering an abortion. She came to speak with Dr. Tournier. In speeaking with her, Dr Tournier asked " Tell me, if you had planned to keep the child what names were you considering?" The woman was meditative for a moment and then looked at Dr. Tournier. She then said softly"Thank you" and got up and left.
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Thanks again for the earlier reference to that book. It arrived in the mail today. I have read only a few pages so far, but they are very good. The way, for instance, in which Tournier connects the name of a person with two opposite but paradoxically related truths about that person: his "solitude" on the one hand, and his "relatedness" on the other:
What separates and distinguishes me from other people is the fact that I am called by my name; but what unites me with them is the very fact that they call me. The movement of separation is what we understand by the formation of the self. Gradually the child must learn to recognize himself as distinct, first from his mother, then from other people... But the very fact that he is addressed and has to respond constitutes a movement of union.
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Hedgehogs are insectivores, i.e. their diet mostly consists of insects. Although there may be some differences due to availability, in general their diet is similar regardless of species or location. British and German research has found the following foods in the diet of European hedgehogs:
A hedgehog will spend almost all of the hours between dusk and dawn searching for food. In this time it will travel around one kilometre, usually ending its search where it started - at its nest. It appears that the animal knows exactly where it is going and will regularly visit the same place if it finds a plentiful food supply there.
During the summer, hedgehogs spend the day sleeping in a light, flimsy nest constructed from grass and leaves. They will have a number of such nests, and often sleep in the same one before returning to a nest they have used previously. A nest may be slept in at different times by several hedgehogs; they don't seem to mind who originally built it. When the weather is warm, a hedgehog may not bother to build a nest at all but will simply lie under a pile of leaves or among long grass.
The main reason for the hedgehog being nocturnal is that its food is mostly nocturnal too. The creatures that it eats are small invertebrates that are active at night to avoid other predators, or those that must keep out of the heat of the sun to avoid water loss.
Like all animals, hedgehogs need energy to survive. In their case, it comes from beetles, worms slugs and other small creatures that they consume each night. In summer, these invertebrates are plentiful, but as the weather gets colder its food becomes scarcer. The hedgehog is then in danger of using up more energy in finding food than it gains from eating it. Hedgehogs are more prone to this problem than other small mammals as they lack the insulation provided by a fur coat.
Hibernation is not always a part of the hedgehog's life cycle. European hedgehogs found in New Zealand generally do not hibernate, and if they do it is only for a few weeks. In contrast, Scandanavian hedgehogs have an extended hibernation period as winters in the region are longer. Hedgehogs will only hibernate for the minimum necessary period as the process is hazardous. Nevertheless, hibernation is a valuable strategy that gives the hedgehog a chance to live through conditions through which it would have no chance of surviving.
The hedgehog's winter nest, or hibernaculum, is made of grass and especially of leaves, which are weatherproof and long-lasting. The hedgehog brings leaves to the nesting site in its mouth, a few at a time. It makes a pile, adding new leaves to the centre - and these are held in place by the surrounding twigs, brambles etc. It then burrows inside and turns round and round, packing the leaves flat and ending up with walls up to 10 centimetres thick. The hedgehog will make a new nest in this way every year.
The hedgehog's hibernation is more complex than just a lengthy sleep. It involves lowering the energy consumption of the animal by lowering the metabolic rate, slowing down the pumping of blood and lowering its breathing rate so that it may not take a breath for several minutes - making it appear dead. The only observable difference being that it will bristle its spines when touched. The hedgehog's body temperature can be lowered from the usual 35ºC to as low as 4ºC and the heart will only beat around 20 beats per minute. These reductions mean that the energy required to keep it alive is around one fiftieth of its normal energy expenditure. These reductions mean that the hedgehog requires very little energy, but it must survive the whole winter on its fat reserves. It is therefore vitally important that the hedgehog eats well before the winter season - building its weight up to at least 600g. It a hedgehog's weight is much below this threshold, it will probably not survive the freezing winter.
Hibernation is not continuous - a hedgehog usually wakes for a short time every seven to eleven days. Its body temperature returns to normal, and it usually remains alert inside its nest, although sometimes it may leave the nest and be active for several days or even move to another nest. It is unknown why the hedgehog might do this as there is no apparent benefit. Arousals are mostly spontaneous but can also be due to outside factors such as flooding, warm weather or disturbance of the nest by humans or animals.
By the beginning of March, the hedgehog's fat reserves which have sustained them through the winter will be almost exhausted. The first mild nights of March see the emergence of the first hungry hedgehogs. During the inter they will have lost a substantial art of their body weight and they must quickly replace it. If cold weather sets in again, they will return to their winter nests. By mid-April all hedgehogs should be out busily feeding on the insects that are once again abundant in gardens and the countryside.


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hat tip to Glenn Greenwald
Greenwald's post is a must read. I don't have much to add beyond what he said.
I hate Hannity with the fire of a thousand suns. This guy is maybe the most despicable person in media today. To paraphrase Howard Stern, Hannity is the king of right-wing hack media.
Hannity's "logic" is utterly ridiculous. He is allowed to center his show around a virulent anti-semite because he is a "journalist" but Obama can't sit on a board with Ayers. Come on. First of all no one thinks Hannity is a journalist. Secondly Hannity makes it sound as if Martin's appearance on his show was adversarial in nature when it was not. Martin was on his show to promote smears Hannity already believed. I'm glad Gibbs asked him if he was an anti-semite. It's that kind of retort that exposes this guilt by association non-sense.


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Protecting Your Fish from Predators
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Fish in ponds are especially vulnerable to predators and pond nets help keep them safe. The world's entire fish population is under threat from all kinds of predators but fish in the open sea have, at least, an entire ocean in which to seek refuge. Fish in ponds, however, are in a very vulnerable situation, enclosed as they are in a relatively small area. There are a number of methods to protect fish in ponds from predators and using pond nets is a simple, inexpensive option.
Koi and goldfish are among the most popular pond fish and can be quite expensive. Providing adequate pond protection is not just a matter of saving the fish or keeping the beauty of your pond. It's also a question of safeguarding your investment. Among the common predators that prey on pond fish are herons and cats. Some of these predators hunt only at night so fish pond protection must be round-the-clock.
Different ways have been developed to give pond fish adequate protection. Some are simple, practical ideas like locating the pond under a tree which shields it from the eyes of flying predators. In case there are no trees available, planting broad-leafed lotuses or lilies can provide some kind of cover. Another idea is to install a fence around the pond or build the pond with steep, sloping sides to discourage land predators from wading into the pond to feed on the fish. Still another method is to build the pond deep enough so the fish can swim to the bottom and not be visible from the surface. A similar idea is to build nooks and crannies in the pond where the fish can hide. A different type of protection involves installing decoys, some with motion detectors to act like scarecrows in an open field. The most common method, however, is still installing nets over or on the pond.
The more common pond netting device involves covering the entire pond with a single net. This prevents birds from diving down to snatch the fish and discourages land predators from wading into the pond. While this is certainly an effective deterrent against predators, it can mar the beauty of the pond. Single netting over the entire pond can also interfere with growth of water lilies and other plant vegetation. Moreover, single netting pond protection has to be custom made because pond sizes and shapes vary
A different type of pond netting involves smaller, circular interlocking nets which can be installed to float around the pond perimeter and throughout the pond. Spaces in between the interlocking nets leave room for lilies and other plants to grow. This type of pond netting system can be installed in any pond regardless of its size or shape.
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Tue, Feb 9, 10 at 14:09
Do any of you make purchases from auctions, and if so, which ones? Do you buy for yourself or re-sale? I've been buying from the shopgoodwill.com site for my space at the antique mall, as well as Christmas gifts this year~I got a lot of old Fisher-Price for my Grandbabies. I find even w/shipping some of my purchases have been a bargain when comparing to ebay. ;o) |
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I've bought through Goodwill auctions and been very happy with my purchases, too. Some things have been true bargains but most have been 'reasonable' purchases price-wise. Maybe I could have purchased them for less but I never had to leave and hunt for them, and I consider that a big savings. One of my purchases I surely overpaid for, but I don't care. It's an oil portrait that just spoke to me and as a result I probably bid far more than it's actual worth, but I love having it in my home so that's all that really matters. If I pro-rate the cost over time, it was really a bargain! |
I have been on GW auctions many times before, and have bid on mainly art. In this case, it would have been for my home, not my booth. I also bid (but didn't win) on some nice leather coats I was planning to send to my cousin in Canada. I have found very unique art on the site |
I like Shop Goodwill.com but the descriptions are very often wrong. |
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I go to the Crumpton Auction in Maryland. It is only Weds beginning spring through fall. Too much fun! I take my partner in crime. |
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