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It organizes conferences, symposiums, lectures and study tours for specialists and non-specialists.
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I'm trying to figure out lighting for my old standard size bathroom (approx 8 x 10). The vanity area will be 42" with two tall cabinets on each side and a wood valance between. I'm planning on sconces to the side of the mirror but maybe additional lighting overhead.
I've always hated recessed lighting as it's terribly unflattering and casts bright, glaring focused beams in some areas (maybe what they call hot spots?). But, I'm hoping there are options to get around this. Using a vanity bar light over the mirror won't look right. Maybe one with a lens or a wall wash to bounce light off the back wall instead would work? Has anyone experienced either of those? Was also considering a simple fluorescent tube light along the top but am afraid I'd hate the light color. It's terribly hard to set this up without knowing all the different bulbs, their colors, and the amounts of light. What I do know is lighting is often so terrible, harsh, or just not adequate. Now I've remembered all these incandescents are going to be banned. I can't afford to redo everything in a few more years. Thanks. |
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You could do xenon under cabinet lights behind the wood valence, and I think it would look really nice below the two side cabinets too. Xenon gives a good color that makes people look good and healthy sometimes the fluorescent can be a little too blue. |
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Tue, Sep 25, 07 at 19:40
i guess it's a cane begonia , bloms deep pink, it grows taller, blooms, grows taller blooms, and on and on.....it's over 2 foot tall now.....the leaves are big, and they are falling off at the bottom, so about 6-8 inches of the plant from the bottom up is nothing but a stalk.
my question... if i cut it back to say 6-8 inches tall, will it leaf back out ? and will it continue to bloom this year ? thanks in advance for any advice given. miss daisy |
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- Posted by hcmcdole z7 (email@example.com) on Fri, Sep 28, 07 at 10:37
You should be able to trim back almost to the ground and it should send new shoots out. I doubt it would bloom again this year but you never know. The safe thing to do is cut it back hard and propagate the tops either in water or some fresh potting soil. Water rooting is very easy - I stick some cuttings in a bud vase and place it on the kitchen windowsill for example. Here is a good site for questions: |
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hcmcdole,, thanks so much, i'll take a look see and write some things down. miss daisy |
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text: Originally Posted by magerette Have you looked at the faces of the team as they line up to be grilled by the media on their feelings? These are young women whose lives have been totally derailed by this jackass. Calling them whores is slander, as they are not engaged in selling sex for money, but playing basketball and trying to get an education. And yes, if they insulted you on national airspace and made you a household word and forced you to deal with every pushy journalist on the street shoving a microphone in your face, you would certainly be entitled to the same legal redress. These young women may be big enough human beings to forgive the guy, but that wouldn't be me. I don't see this as being sue happy—that's when you suck down some boiling hot coffee because you have no brain function telling you not to and sue the vendor. BTW roqua I'm glad you're back.


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ELLENBURG — In a special election held Monday, Shirley Durnin won a seat on the Northern Adirondack Central School Board.
She received 123 votes to opponent Claire Bosley Lambert's 100 and will finish out the unexpired term of Stephen Peryea, beginning July 1 and ending in June 2015.
Peryea recently resigned from the board, but too late for the district to include his seat on the ballot for the May 21 vote.
A retired pharmacy technician, Durnin, 74, is a former Town of Dannemora supervisor and also a member of a number of civic organizations, including the Mountain Top Senior Housing Board of Directors, Catholic Daughters of America, Lyon Mountain Fire Department Auxiliary and Lyon Mountain Youth Commission. She and husband, William Durnin Sr., have four adult children.


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I'd like the make the recipe linked below. I don't know one mushroom from the next except by their appearance. It says to use assorted mushrooms. Can anyone suggest which I should choose? PS In case the link does not work, it's a vegetable stock based soup with the addition of mushrooms, spinach, Cabernet Sauvignon and 1-2 T fresh ginger. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Grubs spinach mushroom ginger soup
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That sounds like a great winter soup recipe, Socks. Of commonly available fresh mushroom varieties, I'd probably use a combination of crimini and shiitake. |
Love the idea of Crimini and Shiitake, I might even a a few Oyster mushrooms (if you can find them) and some regular white button. Really, anything you can find in the mushroom family would be great in that recipe I think. Alexa |
I agree crimini and shitake and regular white would all be great. The only ones I would not use is Portabello. |
A Portobella is just a grown up Crimini. |
Yes I know that Eileen but like all of us as we grow older we change ....same with Portabella's in my mind they are too earthy. |
- Posted by socks12345 (My Page) on Sun, Dec 15, 13 at 21:00
In case anyone cares, I did make the soup. I liked it, DH did not. It's very wine-y. The shiitake mushrooms were tough, but the oyster and whites were ok. If you make it the way they say, pouring the broth over the spinach and ginger in the bowls, the spinach leaves don't cook up very well. I mixed it all in the pot. |
"---shiitake mushrooms were tough---" They should not be tough, unless you did not remove the stems, or they got all dried out. dcarch |
Shitake stems are tough, but I don't usually find the tops/caps to be. That's too bad, after all the work making the soup. It reminds me that I have a container of baby "bellas" in the fridge that I need to use up. Annie |
I sometimes find that mushrooms end up being tough in my soup. I usually use Criminis or white buttons. I wonder why. |
- Posted by socks12345 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 16, 13 at 13:07
I did not remove the stems from the shiitakes. The white buttons were very nice, the oysters were somewhat chewy but ok. |
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ITS RAIDER WEEK! I know we have a playoff spot locked up and I know there is always a risk of injury, but there is plenty of incentive to play this game like it means everything. Either way, I expect the starters to play until the game gets out of hand, if that happens. Anyways, lets do this.
Bring it on -
Matt Cassel:
This is not only about watching his play, but watching how much he plays. I really feel that Matt Cassel needs to play the entire game unless we are winning or losing by a lot. There are multiple reasons for this. One, he is 3 touchdowns away from tying the Chiefs all time record, and 4 away from breaking it. Another being that we should avoid having him be rusty in the playoffs. We all saw in the St. Louis Rams game that it took Cassel almost an entire quarter to shake of the rust from missing a week. In the playoffs, we don't have a quarter to waste.
Jamaal Charles:
Wow, this post is starting to be a lot like last weeks. Anyways, words cannot describe how badly I want Jamaal Charles to get the rushing title. It would be an incredible testimony to our offensive line and to his incredible play. I know he is a ways behind Foster, but hopefully the Jacksonville Jaguars can hold him to a minimal afternoon.
Overall Defense:
I was going to single out Brandon Flowers in this, but I will make it about the entire defense. Tamba Hali hasn't had a big game in a while, and a big game this week, like 3 sacks, would go along way to him potentially being a Pro Bowl Reserve. I would also like to see Flowers get an INT. He had 2 in the first two weeks and has had none since. He is our best lockdown man, and he needs more reward for his great play.
What to Watch for: Around the NFL
Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
For some odd reason the packers are in my game of the week really often. Anyways, this game has major implications. The Packers need a win and they are in, and the Bears can go for the one seed thanks to the Vikings surprise victory over the Eagles. Anyways, I predict the Packers to win this one. Green Bay 38 Chicago 28
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Artist and inventor Ronald Van Der Meijis's bicycle art 'Sound Architecture IV' is a labor of love and a mixture of art and nature.
The art work is made up of 5,000 bicycle bells attached to steel pins. The way the piece operates is as the wind blows and picks up, the bells cling against one another and create a noise similar to the sound of a wind chime. Ronald's breathtaking piece is metallic and incorporates the wonders of nature, like rocks and weather, to manifest functional art.
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Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - Wilson Betemit went 4-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI to power the Kansas City Royals to a 9-5 win over the Detroit Tigers in the rubber match of a three-game series at Comerica Park.
Chris Getz knocked in two runs for the Royals, who improved to 6-3 on the young season. Luke Hochevar (1-1) gave up four runs -- three earned -- on five hits and struck out six in seven innings.
"I thought he pitched very well," said Kansas City manager Ned Yost about his starting pitcher. "I was very impressed with the way he was [throwing] strikes, not walking anybody, changing speeds and keeping the ball down."
Miguel Cabrera clubbed a two-run homer for Detroit, while Jhonny Peralta and Alex Avila both added solo shots. Rick Porcello (0-2) was tagged for five runs and nine hits over five frames.
"We didn't play a very good game, but we did keep battling offensively and got ourselves in a position to get back into it," said Detroit manager Jim Leyland.
The Tigers have lost six of nine to open 2011.
The Royals pushed two runs home in the third. Getz led off with a walk and Melky Cabrera stroked a double to left field. A throwing error by Ryan Raburn allowed Getz to score and Melky Cabrera to move up to third before he came home on an Alex Gordon groundout.
Detroit got a run back in the bottom of the inning on Peralta's leadoff blast to left field, but Getz lofted a sacrifice fly in the fourth to make it 3-1.
Kansas City extended its lead to 5-1 in the fifth on an RBI triple by Jeff Francoeur, who later scored on a throwing error by Tigers third baseman Brandon Inge.
Avila went deep in the sixth -- the home run was upheld following a video review -- and Miguel Cabrera homered in the next inning, trimming the Tigers' deficit to 7-4 after the Royals had scratched out two runs in the top of the seventh on a Betemit double and an Alcides Escobar single.
Kansas City got sac flies from Kila Ka'aihue and Getz in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, to go up 9-4. Miguel Cabrera scored on a Raburn fly ball in the bottom of the ninth, but it wasn't enough for Detroit.
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1. Castles were first built in Britain by the Normans from France during the Norman Conquest. They appeared sometime after 1066 during the period in history known as the Middle Ages. Castles were built for about a 500 year period of time. They played a big role in the social system called feudalism.
2. The word castle comes from a Latin word meaning "fortress". From prehistoric times, people have come up with ways to protect the place where they lived. The first castles were made from wood, but eventually they were built from stone.
3. It is believed that as many as 1000 Motte and Bailey Castles were built in England by the Normans. These early castles were made of wood. The word "motte" means "cod of earth" and the word "bailey" means "enclosure".
4. The moat was a ring of water surrounding a castle. If someone wanted to get over the moat,the drawbridge would have to be cranked down from inside the castle. A bailey is the enclosed area inside the castle. Baileys helped protect a castle.
5. The most important part of the Motte and Bailey castle was the Keep. It was built on a huge mound and could be as tall as 80 feet (24 metres). A ditch was dug around the motte and filled with water. The sides of the motte were usually so steep they were impossible to climb.
6. The walls of the stone castles could be as thick as 33 feet. Once the cannon was created, no castles could stand that kind of attack. The cannon balls could easily destroy the stone walls no matter how thick they were.
7. At the bottom of the motte was the bailey. The bailey varied in size from one to three acres. Inside the bailey, lived the followers of the Lord who ran the castle. There were many buildings inside the bailey including houses, kitchens, storehouses, blacksmith, stables, bakeries, and quarters for soldiers. A strong wooden fence, called a palisade, surrounded the buildings.
8. Castles were dark and cold, but they offered protection from enemies. Castles were very expensiveto build and run. It could cost thousands of dollars to build just part of a castle. The workers might have had to destroy whole forests to build part of a castle, and then to heat it after it was built.9. Castles were in lots of different countries. There were castles in Spain, Germany, Britain, Japan, and many more countries. They all had different styles.
10. Windsor castle is one of the many homes of Queen Elizabeth of England.It was originally built as a Motte and Bailey castle.
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The Best Game-Show Contestants Ever
Or, at least, a collection of one author's well-studied favorites. Because to make a definitive list would be impossible.
By Chris Jones
Roger Craig, Jeopardy!
Ken Jennings is a very smart man with a brain for trivia recall; Roger Craig is also a very smart man, who made the conscious decision to train his brain for trivia recall. Through a long cycle of self-testing, Craig found his weaknesses and concentrated on filling them. He also found patterns in the all-important Daily Doubles and later exploited them hugely, setting records for the most money earned in a single episode of Jeopardy! and the most money earned by a contestant in his first five episodes. Then he won last year's Tournament of Champions for good measure. Craig is mathematical proof of the value of dedication.


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Program Description: By focusing on assets that promote healthy youth development, communities can mobilize across agencies and schools. Learn more about successful interventions being implemented at the local level and about statewide partnerships and resources to promote adolescent wellness.
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We are building an addition as we have currently outgrown our home. Current home is a stockade style (verticle log) home.
1st floor consists of: approx. 1200sq/ft more like 1140 with knee wall areas for storage upstairs as it's a story and a half. 2 bedrooms. (1 decent size one more of an office size. Living/Dining Room: 13 1/2 X 24' stairs are in this room. Kitchen: 8X9 with laundry on the end we are making this the laundry/pantry. 1 small 8X5 Full Bath. 2 small common area closets (coat at door and linen in hall before bath. 2nd floor: Master Bath and Small loft area with bathroom. We are builing off the back of the home. The new addition will be either Coastal style or craftsman style but with "period details" and white kitchen cabinets. Attached are links to exterior photos of the cabin and two layouts for our exsisting home and addition. I need help!!!:) What we want:
http://s1145.photobucket.com/albums/o515/houseofsticks/ Thank you for any assistance I know you are all very talented people. I've been lurking and viewing for years.
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- Posted by houseofsticks (My Page) on Fri, Mar 16, 12 at 11:57
In the Homestyler link the exsisting cabin ends after the first large room on the right and includes the left hand bedroom the small area on the left is a closet for the new bedroom. The back is a screened patio and a screened deck off the right next to the driveway. |
It would help me to see your layout, current, and planned, as 2 separate graph images. Just draw it out, pencil and graph paper, and scan. Your homestyler image is too small and unlabeled. |
- Posted by houseofsticks (My Page) on Fri, Mar 16, 12 at 13:55
Kirkhall, I will do that tonight, thank you! |
- Posted by houseofsticks (My Page) on Fri, Mar 16, 12 at 22:02
The attached link has been updated to include: 3 photos of current home and current floorplan with rough dimensions. We are removing the bumpout that is currently the washer and dryer so the room will be 13 1/2'X 24'. The addition is going off the back and the sun rises there. |
Here is a link that might be useful: current home houseofsticks
I used the link on the side of your photobucket that said "HTML code" and pasted that in the message box. Then, your picture actually posts to the forum. Can you do the same for your addition picture? Your house is somewhat similar to mine--a cape-style home. You may find inspiration in other cape layouts or additions to cape style homes. |
- Posted by houseofsticks (My Page) on Sat, Mar 17, 12 at 0:16
Yes, I'll work on putting 2 renditions of the home addition on graph paper tomorrow. The Master is upstairs and we are not changing this the ceiling on the other half is 17' to the rafters and is log inside and verticle beadboard. I was told for structural stability of the log style we have(verticle) not to cut into the last 4' on the right back/living room side. We'd like to make as little changes to the exsisting as possible but need a good master on the lower level and 2 kids rooms. I'd be open to any style in structure as I can add the log/craftsman/coastal in on the accents to seem more cohesive. The material for the addition will be stick built, sheetrock and hardie board siding as we cannot afford the log prices to match and we would like a lighter feel as the logs are heavy and warm but dark. Thanks for the help-I'm such a novice:) The current kitchen has a lower ceiling than the rest of the living/dining room only 7' so I think we are better off using as laundry and starting fresh for the kitchen in the new structure. |
- Posted by houseofsticks (My Page) on Sat, Mar 17, 12 at 23:11
This might seem odd, but I *think* I would figure out how to make your laundry a pass-through or walk through room. Can you open it to your existing space on its "bottom/south" wall?) It would be nice to have it easily accessible to the original bedrooms. I think you are making the bedroom be a pass through, and while that can work, it makes that bedroom more like an office or study than it does a bedroom. If you can get the door/pass through in the laundry area, it would work better, imo. (or at least put a little door in the wall, since I think that space may be bathroom?) Moving on... do you plan to get rid of table seating? It seems that you have no space for a table. And, your island will function as the eating space. That may or may not work out for you. Your aisle width to the left of the island is too narrow also. I might consider rearranging your new bedroom/bathroom/master. I think, if it were my house, and my kids needed to use the bathroom, they'd most likely use the master bath--it is closest to the family room. I'd flip the new bath and pantry space, then slide the pantry/closet space down to the adjacent to the old. Enter the master and new bedroom from a common alcove/hallway where the door to the bathroom would also be. (and in fact, I might also change the location of the pantry/laundry...) Where would you put your fridge? It might be nice to recess it a bit into a closet/pantry/laundry room area so you can get a standard depth one. (and you've drawn a GIGANTIC master bed ;) ) |
- Posted by houseofsticks (My Page) on Mon, Mar 19, 12 at 9:08
On making the laundry a passageway: I could put a door in the bathroom (it would be tiny-less than 3'. The Bedroom (#2) is my son's room and would be a pass through. In this plan my son's room stays his room. The room in the front would be a playarea and I may remove the hallway wall to make a decent size area (decent-still small.). Here are the other 2 senarios: Table seating: Yes, the island would be our primary seating for the kids breakfast and lunch. I do want a screen deck or patio as we live in SC and love it outside but are unable to since the mosquito is our state bird.:) I would LOVE a booth/banquet with a bench-husband hates this idea but would tolerate. We currently have table in the top right off the kitchen area but it's tight. I was thinking we'd have room in the new family room but I may be wrong. For Kitchen: I'm trying to visualize the switch to bath for the pantry/laundry area (assuming this isn't pass-through) I think I'd have to create a hallway to the bedrooms so the kids can use the bathroom without walking through a more public area. By adjacent to the older home for the pantry location do you mean off the old living room before the kitchen? Oh, yes the inset fridge. I could probably make the window a little larger and inset it 1' so it almost matches the cabinets but allows for full open (it's a french door/bottom drawer freezer) with our budget we're keeping all our appliances and buying a gas range if we have enough $$ left. All our current are stainless and new kitchen cabinets are white shaker style cheap RTA wood that my contractor sells at a really good price. Granite in a whitish (we were going to do marble on the island but can't imagine the etching and marks on a piece this large looking anything other than bad:( with honed black granite for cabinet walls runs as we can't afford soapstone. |
- Posted by houseofsticks (My Page) on Mon, Mar 19, 12 at 22:51
I'm having trouble following your plan... I think the dissociation of the 2 initial graph drawings is the trouble, for me... Sorry. (have you tried floorplanner.com? I like that when I was doing a lot of shuffling). |
- Posted by houseofsticks (My Page) on Tue, Mar 20, 12 at 22:31
I'll try the website you mentioned, thanks for your time. Sorry for the confusion. I'll try to make better layouts and repost. |
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Does anyone know the best way to propagate bromeliad plants? Can you grow from the proms, can the roots be split, or is there another way? Thanks for any advice. |
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Hi Chopper, I am not familiar with them, but you might try doing a search and/or asking over at The Bromeliad Forum hth. Sue |
Bromeliads shoot off pups. they can be divided when the babies are about 2/3 the size of the mother plant. Some grow very fast some not so much. After they bloom they will die, but that is OK, a lot of them make many babies. They can also be propageted from seed, but that takes years and years. I started some from seed (just for fun) I plan to give them to my unborn grandchildren when they graduate from college. LOL! I love love love bromeliads! It is a serious addiction I have. Sharon |
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Thank you both for responding. I just got this bromeliad, and it looks really neat (fire red and golden yellow on top). I'd like to produce allot of them, and get others. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if it produces pups. Thanks again. |
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Recently bought a home with a big septic system mound covered with grass and loads of weeds. It is full sun. We put in a few ornamental grasses and lavenders which look great but we need to do something about the weeding and constant mowing we need to do around each plant. Our plan is section 1/to get rid of grass and put in some low sedums or heathers (but harder to grow in this area?) as a ground cover. And back section 2/replace with a flower meadow. Apparently we cannot till or mulch due to damage risks and the importance of maintaining aeration. At this point I think we could A/just use a Weed B Gone product and cover up grass with thin layer topsoil and plant our new succulents or flower meadow accordingly. B/Use an organic biodegradable/breathable paper layer, water, cover top soil and plant. I have read every University extension paper on these septic systems and know what plants to put but am going crazy with lack of what we CAN do. Any tips on what worked for you? |
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- Posted by whitegarden Z5 MA (My Page) on Sun, Oct 16, 11 at 9:15
I would start by contacting your town's building department and asking them what you are allowed to do. No sense in guessing. |
Are you referring to the leaching fields? Or is this the area over the tank itself, which will have to be uncovered to be opened and cleaned? I agree with whitegarden - start with the town and see what is allowed first, and then take it from there. Let us know what they say and then I'm sure you'll find help here. Dee |
I guess I am not totally clear what your goal is. Is the problem that the mound is obtrusive in your view and that you want it to look less like a septic mound? Or is this the only sunny spot and so you want flowers here? Or do you just want something tidy and easy to maintain rather than a bunch of weeds in this area? I've lived with a septic system for 30+ years. A septic field is an expensive thing to replace and I've never wanted to mess with it much. Most folks I know just have lawn on their septic field and that is what we had at our last house. In our current rural setting, the septic is out in a field that has hay-type grass, mowed 2 or 3 times a year with a tractor and so that is what is on our septic as well. We have an old piece of farm equipment, a horse-drawn hay rake, sitting on top that we found in our woods, as sort of a joke since around here old farm equipment is often used as lawn ornaments. Getting a wildflower meadow established is a lot of work (like any new garden) as you need to be vigilant the first couple of years to weed out undesirable plants. For both the parts of your plan, you will need to do quite a bit of weeding until plants are well established and closely enough spaced to shade out most weeds. I think that's why most folks use grass (in addition to knowing that it won't interfere with the system) since it makes a great groundcover that just needs to be mowed and is therefore less work. In addition to WG's suggestion, I'd get a soil test done to find out if you need something done to the soil (like lime or fertilizer) to get whatever you decide to plant on the mound the best possible growing conditions. It's not necessarily good topsoil that is on your septic, so putting a very light coat of organic matter on this fall that will decompose quickly (such as an inch of chopped leaves) may help by adding organic matter. Also, with whatever you decide to plant, a light, thin layer of mulch without unwanted seed like straw will help retain moisture and provide better conditions for plants to establish while not interfering with the septic function. If the problem is a rectangular or square mound in the center of your front yard or other view, you might want to think about camouflaging it rather than emphasizing it by planting on top of it. You could consult with an expert in building septic fields to see if the shape can be altered at all by adding soil at the edges to make it taper into the surroundings better or to make it less rectangular. Or if the budget precludes that, can you add a picket fence several feet a way on the main view side with a garden of tall perennials on either side of the fence to camouflage the change in grade rather than planting on top of the mound? |
Thanks so much to those three members who took the time to respond. Yes, the mound is over the leaching field. We have already checked: It is fine and recommended to either grass or landscape with low root system plants on this area. The roots will hold earth in place. The landscaping is very common for this type of mound. It is a huge mound in our back yard and just having grass was not working for us for many reasons (we have a lot of land to mow, this area should not be mowed on that often, and for aesthetic reasons). Testing the soil is an excellent idea. It is not a rectangular mound, rather a tapered oval or bean type shape. If you saw, it you'd see that it looks very nice with the ornamental plants already there and that plus a ground cover is the way we think we should go. Thanks! |
- Posted by diggingthedirt CapeCod Zone7ish (My Page) on Sun, Oct 16, 11 at 21:58
I guess I'm unclear what your question is, which is why I didn't respond sooner. After your second post, I think you are just asking about how to get rid of grass in an area where you want a bed, and it really doesn't have much to do with the fact that it's a septic field. I agree in that case that mulch including a layer of paper is the way to go. I never bother with weed killer in a new bed, when I'm converting lawn to flowers - mulch with newspapers seems to do the trick every time. |
- Posted by steve_mass 5b (My Page) on Sun, Oct 16, 11 at 22:40
The quickest way to get rid of that grass is with Roundup. It'll be dead in a week or so and you can go ahead and plant ornamentals. Read the label. It breaks down in the soil fairly quickly in the soil, so as herbicides go it's the one to use. Newspapers work well, but they area lot of work and then you need to put something on them (woodchips, mulch, grass clippings or something organic). Steve |
- Posted by whitegarden Z5 MA (My Page) on Thu, Oct 20, 11 at 8:38
Here's a link that might be helpful: http://www.gardensalive.com/article.asp?ai=643 From that article, some info about "Roundup." "ďż˝ Recent research has found Roundup to be deadly to frogs and toads and to negatively affect human reproductive function. The author offers some great alternatives to chemical pesticides in the article and in a related article he links to. |
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Summary and participants: USAID and ICMA focus on water
The USAID and ICMA Commercialization of Afghanistan Water and Sanitation Activity (CAWSA) program has made significant strides toward achieving that goal. Most recently, CAWSA arranged a week-long training and study tour for 15 directors and engineers from local water supply companies in Afghanistan to participate in a study tour to Ahmedabad, in Gujarat state, India. The tour, hosted by the Urban Management Centre (UMC), ICMA's representative in South Asia, focused on water supply and wastewater management systems.
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Ok, because it went faster than they thought, the cart went all the way down instead of stopping at where it was suppose to?? that is my best guess!
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This one is frustrating me.
I've seen the Travel Channel Disney show in which the answer was referrenced more than once, but it is an older show that I have not seen in a while. Please give me a little more time to research.
But, sorry, so far, I have not seen the answer here that I'm looking for, so keep guessing...I guess...!
MMmm?... Time to keep guessing!... but what to guess?..
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I'm so sorry Rich and gang...
No matter how much I've searched, I can't find confirmation of this anywhere, so I'm just gonna' throw it out there to see if any of y'all remember hearing about it.
When they did the first test in an enclosed tower, like a piston in a cylinder, they did not compensate for the compression of the air from the drop vehicle and it either blew out or buckled the walls towards the bottom. So instead of just "venting" the drop shafts, they decided to create the openings that we can see and hear the guests screaming out of to achieve both the thrill and the practical effects at the same time.
Anyway, that's what I heard.
Again, my apologies.
I bump to another member...
That makes sense. But I don't remember anything about it either. Sorry.
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3(3-0)Theory and practice of choral speaking, oral reading of children's poetry and prose, creative drama, public speaking and small group discussion with children.
Recommended for future elementary teachers.
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Prerequisite: COMS 1311 or equivalent
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3(2-4)Expanded operation and theory of television equipment is utilized in the production and direction of programs for the local educational cable television system.
Prerequisite: COMS 1336
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3(3-0)Advanced theory and practice in selected types of speech communication, debate and oral interpretation. Contest speaking, tournament management and communication evaluation.
Prerequisite: 6 hours of Speech or Communication
4331. Readings in Speech Communication and Theatre Arts.
3(3-0)Research in contemporary thought in speech communication and theatre arts.
Prerequisites: COMS 1311, COMS 2335, COMS 2342 (Credit may not be obtained in both COMS 4331 and THEA 4331)
4335. Advanced Studio and Remote Television Production.
3(1-5)Mastery of television equipment utilization both in the studio and field. Practical experience in electronic news gathering and electronic field production for educational cable television.
Prerequisite: COMS 3337
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I'm really struggling with this. Our white shaker custom cabinets have been painted multiple times. Not due to our pickiness, but due to multiple shades of what was supposed to be the same shade of white. The good part: They are finally all the same shade. The bad part: I can see all sorts of imperfections. I can see scratches from the hardware installation. I can see pinholes from what I suspect are nail heads. I can see cracks forming where the different cabinets are joined together. We have not even signed the last check yet, what is this going to look like in a year? So my big question is... How perfect are your white painted custom cabs? Am I expecting too much? I do get that they are white and life is going to happen. I was just expecting the scratches and bumps to come from me and not my contractor. Maybe I'm just suffering remodel fatigue.... |
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- Posted by BlackChamois (My Page) on Tue, Apr 23, 13 at 19:34
Hi SoCal Leigh! I am wondering who your contractor was as I had the same issues. They looked good from a distance (as yours do in the pic) but upclose they were horrible. I ended up terminating my relationship with my contractor for this and a wide variety of other reasons. I am now in the process of looking for another contractor so if you wouldn't mind sharing who you went with you can email me via my link. But back to your question, I don't think any of what you are describing is acceptable. I, like you, expected some of that down the road, and caused by me. At installation they should be pretty perfect IMHO. |
I see this all too often. Cabinets that are to be painted should be done by a finisher and not a house painter. Its takes a higher level of knowledge and skill.They should use a high quality paint, like Fine Paints Of Europe, they should prep the wood properly. To answer your question, they should look good close up too. |
- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Fri, Apr 26, 13 at 14:55
Are your cabs hand brushed or sprayed? I would not accept what you describe. My cabs, sprayed with BM Satin Impervo waterborne, were gorgeous. No scratched or nicks or nail holes. I was very impressed. I hope you can get this resolved! |
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Midwinter 2011: Managing the Myth of Shelf-Ready: Creating a Tiered Workflow for Bibliographic Records: Elguindi & Sandler (American University)
by Margaret Mering on Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:07 pm- 1383 Views
RDA Enrichment--How Will It Benefit Your Catalog? / Roman S. Panchyshyn
by Janet Ahrberg on Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:11 am- 134 Views
Challenges and Opportunities Outside MARC and AACR2/RDA / Nathan B. Putnam
by Janet Ahrberg on Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 01:24 pm- 160 Views
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by ALAConnect Helpdesk (staff) on Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 07:37 pmPresenters for the ALCTS Copy Cataloging Interest Group Meeting
ALA Annual 2014
Presenter: Angela Kinney
Library of Congress Report
Presenter: April Grey
Differentiating Ebook Packages through Unique Identifiers
As more of our library content became available through various vendor packages; identifying unique batch record loads became necessary. We created a workflow to include a unique identifier (599 field) for each ebook package using MARC Edit and Innovative's Sierra. Each unique identifier included the vendor, the file name, and the load date.
We now can differentiate between subscription and purchase records in the catalog and distinguish bibliographic records with the same title from different vendors. It also provides a new means to track holdings and statistics. Collection development and acquisitions departments also benefit from the new feature in the MARC record. Going forward, we will continue to implement this workflow for added visibility, clarity, and quality control in our catalog.
Presenter: Roman Panchyshyn
Kent State University Libraries (KSUL) is currently planning a RDA enrichment project with their authority control vendor (Backstage Library Works). The project entails machine manipulation of all MARC legacy data (bibliographic records) in the library catalog by adding RDA elements to all non-RDA records to create "hybrid" RDA records. This presentation will examine the planning process, focusing on the issues that the library, together with the vendor, need to address before an RDA enrichment project can be successfully undertaken. Since preparation and execution of this type of project requires a certain level of commitment and investment in time and resources by the library, the presentation will discuss the benefits of RDA enrichment projects for libraries and their users. Implications for consortia partners and for system vendors will also be covered. KSUL feels there is substantial value to be gained from a RDA enrichment project and wishes to share its views.
Presenter: Nathan Putnam
Copy catalogers at the University of Maryland, College Park have are using their copy cataloging skills in areas outside of MARC and AACR2/RDA. One area is copy cataloging of digitized postcards, where catalogers review the metadata created during the digitization process, correct errors as needed, and add subject terms outside of LCSH. Instead of working in the our Aleph ILS, catalogers are reviewing and updating in our Digital Repository (Fedora), using a locally created University of Maryland Description Metadata profile. The other area in which the copy catalogers are working is the WorldCat Knowledge base. Here, catalogers receive email alerts for newly purchased ebooks, and then check for accuracy and working links in the WCKB, thus leveraging WorldCat bibliographic data. My presentation for the Copy Cataloger's Interest Group would be to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented to copy catalogers by working in these systems outside of MARC and AACR2/RDA.
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Batch Loading and Editing of Vendor MARC Records / Nastia Guimaraes
by Janet Ahrberg on Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:46 am- 237 Views
Copy Cataloging Interest Group
by ALAConnect Helpdesk (staff) on Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 07:22 pmReport from the Library Congress
Angela Kinney, Chief, African, Latin American & Western European Division, Library of Congress will provide a report from the Library of Congress.
Batchloading and Editing of Vendor MARC records
Providing access to individual titles within large ebook collections is important to our users. Yet, editing and loading of vendor records could be perplexing. Quality of vendor records continues to present challenges and requires some massaging of data before records are ready for public consumption. This presentation will report on experiences of a team of copy catalogers responsible for batchloading activities at the University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries.
Presenter: Nastia Guimaraes, Electronic Resources Cataloging Librarian, Head Batch Processing, Data Support, and Metadata Services, Norte Dame, Hesburgh Library.
RDA Implementation
The implementation of RDA in 2013 brought many challenges and changes to technical services. Two presenters will share their experiences.
Presenter: Amy Hart, has been a technical services/systems librarian for 20-plus years. Since June 2013, she divides her time between Brisbane, Australia, and Boston, Massachusetts. Before her move to Brisbane, Amy served as head of bibliographic services at Minuteman Library Network in Natick, Massachusetts for eight years. She is the author of ABC-CLIO's "The RDA Primer" (2010) and is currently working on a follow-up title on RDA cataloging in MARC. Amy will provide an international perspective by speaking on RDA implementation by technical services librarians in Australia.
Presenter: Marian Schad from the Joseph Krauskopf Memorial Library, Delaware Valley College will discuss the changes addressed to the catalog department's local practices and the consideration given to the effect on catalog's users.
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Copy Cataloging Interest Group
by ALAConnect Helpdesk (staff) on Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 07:37 pm- 217 Views
Copy Cataloging Interest Group
by ALAConnect Helpdesk (staff) on Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:38 am--Angela Kinney, Chief, African, Latin American & Western European Division, Library of Congress will provide a report from the Library of Congress followed by:
--Deborah Fritz,* presenting: RIMMF: RDA Minus MARC
What will copy cataloging look like in a world without MARC?
Working under the assumption that we will still do some type of cataloging in the new non-MARC environment, this presentation will illustrate how similar and yet different our procedures might be, using RIMMF to show how we might do searching, matching, and editing for a set of non-MARC 'records' for a resource.
RIMMF is a prototype of how RDA-based software might work, minus MARC or any other underlying encoding format, hence its name "RDA in Many Metadata Formats". TMQ (quietly) released RIMMF in April 2012 (under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License<>< />).
RIMMF is designed to be:
* a visualization tool for catalogers and system designers, to help them to get used to thinking RDA, instead of thinking AACR/MARC
* a cataloging training tool, to help educators teach RDA thinking
RIMMF is not a 'real' cataloging tool, because, although you can use it to create and save data, it does not allow you to save records that you can actually use in an ILS. It does, however, let you apply RDA thinking to metadata creation.
Using RIMMF, you can practice copying, cloning, and creating WEMI and PFC data; and, using it, you might just possibly get an idea of how much the RDA/FRBR way of thinking will change the way we do cataloging.
See the RIMMF wiki<> and RIMMF Notes<>< /> for more details about RIMMF< />
* Deborah Fritz has specialized in cataloging, and teaching cataloging for the past 24 years. She is the author of two cataloging books published by ALA Editions; and has been teaching cataloging workshops around the U.S. and internationally, since 1988. She and Richard Fritz operate a cataloging training, and software company called "The MARC of Quality" aka TMQ Inc. Instead of writing another cataloging book about RDA, she and Richard have decided to focus on figuring out what is necessary to design software that could help catalogers to work with RDA. The RIMMF software she will show you is a first step in that direction, but she wants to assure you that there is MUCH more that can be done by real 'cataloging' software, to simplify the 'cataloging' process, once RDA really takes hold.
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Coping with Multiple Codes and Hybrid Records: OCLC & RDA / Cynthia Whitacre, Manager, WorldCat Quality & Partner Content Dept., OCLC
by Angela Kinney on Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 01:21 pm- 5 Comments
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Library of Congress Copy Cataloging Report 2012 / Susan Morris, Special Assistant to the Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, Library of Congress
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Topiary comes from the Latin word "topiarus". Strictly translated it means "landscape gardener." Since these folks tended these living sculptures, the plants became known as "topiaries." Eventually, topiary took on the meaning of the art of clipping evergreen plant material into geometric patterns and shapes.
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The small country estate, located on 7 acres overlooking the picturesque Narragansett Bay in Portsmouth, R.I., was purchased originally in the 1870s by Thomas E. Brayton, treasurer of the Union Cotton Manufacturing Co., purchased the small Portsmouth, R.I., estate in the 1870s. It consists of 7 acres overlooking the picturesque Narragansett Bay. During the Civil War, this outfitter supplied most of the uniforms for the Yankee soldiers. Brayton's daughter Alice made the estate her permanent residence in 1939, and named it "Green Animals". She bestowed it to The Preservation Society of Newport County upon her death in 1972.
Forty years after Alice's death, The Preservation Society of Newport County continues to maintain the diversity of her whimsical topiary gardens and surrounding formal and vegetable gardens, just on a smaller scale. Every summer it welcomes more than 12,000 visitors.
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Jim Donahue is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Green Animals. He has been the horticulturist for the Preservation Society of Newport County there since 2004.
Donahue learned, researching old photographs and writings, that the original landscape was pasture with extensive food production including a pumpkin patch and squash fields. It also had fruit trees, figs, blueberries, rhubarb, asparagus, currants and gooseberries.
"I would call the landscape a mixed Portuguese style. That is it was defined by a heavily mixed lush assortment of fruit, flowers and vegetables," he says.
Donahue is proud of the ancient massive purple-leafed European copper beach, the stand of Damask roses dating back to the 1860s and the Concord grape arbor dating back to 1900. (Did you know that the Concord grape is one of only three fruits native to the United States? The other two are cranberries and blueberries.) The property was an ever-evolving country retreat for two people with no formal master plan.
"Unlike other historic gardens, Green Animals has had excellent documentation from a select few individuals who have been involved in its development," says Donahue. "So, when we take on renovation efforts, we are confident about its authenticity."
In recent years, renovation efforts around Green Animals have been quite prolific.
"Much of our topiary boxwood is old and needs to be replaced," says Donahue. "The choice of boxwood varieties was driven, most likely, by what plants could be propagated easily from cuttings, or traded with other estate gardeners. Carriero brought California Privet cuttings to the farm from the Azores in 1901. From photos, we also know they were fully grown by 1920."
The original English boxwood hedges became diseased and aged so Donahue's crew recently added 2000 new disease-resistant boxwoods, Morris Midget and Justin Brouwers varieties.
Donahue's crew is consists of one other full-time gardener, Eugene Platt, who also trims the topiary. The privet topiaries are sheared every two to three weeks during the growing season; the topiary yew, such as the teddy bears, need be trimmed only twice a year; and the extensive boxwood hedges get deadwooded during the winter months and sheared heavily in early summer. In the growing season, Donahue takes on three additional workers and a generous handful of part-time community volunteers.
The renovation of the formal gardens is Donahue's biggest challenge.
"We have to be really careful about what we do there. It's where we feature the high-profile circus animals, including the camel, giraffe and lion," he says.
The renovation has included stripping out and replanting all the old flowerbeds and introducing new irrigation and landscape lighting systems. "We now have an extensive collection of Dahlias," says Donahue. "At last count we had around 125 varieties of all types and classes."
In addition, Donahue developed a plant container program around the Victorian house and along the major garden pathways. "Since we're a topiary garden we try to emphasize trained standards grown from coleus, flowering maple and even geraniums," he says.
Beyond maintaining the formal gardens, there are also 4 acres of lush, rolling lawn descending to the water that visitors like to use for picnicking and recreation. The lawn consists of perennial rye divided into smaller areas by gravel paths.
"The original property did not have much lawn because everything was in fruit and vegetable production," explains Donahue. In addition to a few push mowers, the crew still uses a classic dark green vintage Locke power lawnmower estimated to be at least 50 years old that still cuts beautifully.
"The lawn is kept presentable, but it's not golf course quality," explains Donahue. "We use a very small amount of chemicals, organic fertilizers and a crabgrass preventative. We topdress with loam and reseed in spring and fall, as needed, and dethatch areas that become spongy." All of the lawn areas, outside the garden, are not irrigated.
Donahue finds his job diverse as well as rewarding. "The year goes fast," he says. "Every single month I'm doing something different."
Here's Donahue's annual gardening task calendar to prove it.
Throughout the off-season, January through March, Donahue is growing his own perennials, annuals and vegetables in the Green Animal's greenhouses. He also participates in regional flower shows locally and in Providence and Boston.
Extensive spring clean up begins in March. Perennial beds are cut back and tidied up. In April, the focus is on tree pruning. May is mostly all about seasonal planting in the formal gardens on average 3,000 to 4,000 annuals, perennials and vegetables. Because Donahue tries to keep the look decidedly "old-fashioned," it's not unusual to see petunias, ageratum, vinca periwinkle or bedding geraniums in the formal gardens.
June is the time to keep up with all the growth, sweeping the paths clean and deadheading the annuals. In July, the crew keeps things afloat by topdressing and fertilizing the flowerbeds.
August is focused on the 200 or so individually staked and tied dahlias, which start blooming heavily at this time. The vegetable starts to deliver its crops and needs attention. September is the time for addressing small landscape construction projects or to do landscape plantings. October is leaf removal time. Green Animals closes by Columbus Day. Clean up is performed the month of November and can go well into December.
Is there a month or even a week of rest for Donahue? Not really! But he says he wouldn't want it any other way.
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