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Fish Extenders 101...Can someone educate me?
I have seen numerous posts on this board about Fish Extenders. I have a friend on another board who made one for her Disney Cruise in May. I just don't fully understand what it is and how it works. Can someone help?:confused:
And what if I would LOVE to get involved for my cruise and I can't sew a button! How would I make one of those without a needle, thread or sewing machine?:rolleyes1 Thanks for any help you can give me! ;) |
A Fish Extender Primer
So just what exactly is a fish and just why does it need extending? Well
The fish is a combination wall decoration/ornament and message clip that is attached to the wall outside every cabin on the Magic & Wonder. The CMs (thats Cast Members for the newbies) use them to leave messages, official forms or invitations for the occupants of the cabin as needed. Its kind of like a glorified fridge-magnet and it looks like this: (click on the image to enlarge)
http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...5520-door1.jpg A Fish Extender is any thing that you care to hang on the fish. Literally anything will qualify, but in general, they are usually some type pocket organizer similar to a shoe caddy or mail organizer. They can be as simple as a canvass bag or as complex as your imagination cares to stretch. Here are a couple from our last cruise: (click to enlarge) http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...h_IMG_2038.jpg http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...h_IMG_2035.jpg Were are not very good with a needle and thread, so we engineered ours out of a couple of small cotton bags, a Disney themed bandana and some chain from a light fixture and ended up with this variation on the idea: (click to enlarge) http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/v...th_F-E2009.jpg So, whats it for? Well Its become a kind of Secret Santa game played by the folks who roam the DIS Boards. The idea is that every DIS Member who is on the same cruise will go around the ship and leave a little nick-nack or whats-it in the pouches for the other members that are playing along. The generally agreed rules are that you give out gifts to each participant once per cruise, and that the gifts should be very inexpensive trinkets that either fit a cruise or holiday theme and/or show off a little taste of who you are or the place that you call home. Heres a link to a continuing thread on the boards that discusses the subject at length: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1219607 |
Excellent explanation!
You would go to the Cruise Meet section of the boards and locate the thread for your cruise. Go there and meet other dis-ers who will be sailing with you. See if they are planning FEs, and if there is interest in starting one if they are not. It's fun to come back to your room and find goodies..... |
My cruise leaves out on Dec 7th on the fantasy (yes in just a few weeks) I just signed up to do fish exchange I see my name on the list but any idea if I am to late? I see the form for my cruise is closed ..... I just have no idea how many gifts to do or if I am to late to do this....???? Anyone help???
You're right - that forum is closed - that is usually what happens around 250 pages of posts. I tried to find a Part 2 for you, but I can't locate it. My suggestion: You need 10 posts to be able to send or receive a PM (Private Message) In this thread, just make 9 short posts - they can contain one word each; just put a character in the text (Like hi, help, I, am, trying, to, get, 9, posts) Then go to the thread for your cruise, click on a name of someone who has posted recently (or often), and send them a PM - try philatiger - by clicking on the name to the left of the post. from there, it will give you the option to send a Private Message. Ask them if they can get you to the right place for the Fish Extender and the 2nd thread of posts for your cruise. Good Luck and Bon Voyage! |
Here's the link to Part 2 of your cruise's thread: http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3193439 |
Fish extender group for Fantasy March 1 2014
Help I am so confused on to get in on the FE group for our cruise. And this whole DIS is making me crazy! I am just trying to find out how we can participate.
try and send a message on here. I will try and find it. PLEASE PLEASE HELP. |
There is the Link for that one. I think you may have missed the FE sign up date :worried:; but ask just in case. Maybe you can just meet everyone. |
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3221387 After you read it, you need to go to your Cruise Meet thread in order to sign up to participate. Of course, this depends if your cruise has a meet thread going, and if they are doing Fish Extenders. Here's your Cruise Meet thread: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=46879284 |
We are planning our first ever cruise in June and while I like the idea of the FE I'm not sure if we'll be able to enjoy doing that along with all of the things on the cruise we'll be choosing from.
If we don't participate, will we regret it? Should we still plan a meet with other cruisers or only if you do FE? Sorry, just nervous/excited/confused. :) |
The "group" for my first disney cruise is only three people. I am so bummed I reaaly wanted to do the fe :-(
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I have a weakness for decorative items. As much as I love them, I went through my home thoughtfully editing and was easily able to fill two storage tubs and may do more. It's amazing how much lighter the rooms and I feel! It's as if I can breathe better and am mostly company ready--a goal I've wanted to reach for some time. I admire those of you who have lived this way all along--I'm a late bloomer, I guess. I've told myself I can store the things and change them out from time to time. Whether or not I do that remains to be seen. I also have stopped bringing in more things (almost!) I have designated hidden spaces for necessary clutter (paper, etc.) and am now keeping on top of it. I will periodically go through drawers, chests and closets. I no longer want to come home from work and see so much to dust and crap laying around on surfaces. It's now a lot easier to keep clean (love Swiffers) and when the season changes, I'll be able to turn my attention to the garden and not feel torn between that and housework/organizing. Anyone else clearing out and lightening their load? |
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- Posted by justgotabme (My Page) on Thu, Jan 23, 14 at 15:25
I've been doing the same for the last year and it does feel better, but I've still a ways to go. I now find it almost impossible to buy something decorative as I look at them as something to clean and clean around. |
I have been doing this for the last few years since I've been in my late 40s. Then, having a move two years ago to a new state helped me edit even further. I think after so many years of settling and having to DIY a lot of projects (not that I didn't also have fun) and having to make do with well intentioned gifts from friends and/or relatives that I may have liked but wouldn't have necessarily chosen, I finally am able to buy a few large pieces instead of settling for something much smaller that was "not quite right but close enough" because we had such a tight budget. I feel like more streamlined, organized decorating in general is catching on. Many decor magazines (websites etc.) don't seem to feature as many homes where every available inch of space is crammed with tchotchkes the way they seemed to 10 years ago. It's nice not having to move items to set down a drink and it feels freeing not to have to make sure I work around, trying to make an item fit in my home just because a friend gave it to me 10 years ago. My preference is to combine form and function when that is possible. And, you're right, It does feel much lighter! |
Woohoo, Catkin! Good for you. I am partially there. I live with a hoarder, so I fear we will never be as de-cluttered as I would like, but I am making headway. I am about to clean out the kitchen stuff that I never use any more. You are so right about the feeling of being lighter! |
- Posted by patty_cakes (My Page) on Thu, Jan 23, 14 at 18:35
I have less 'stuff' but the items are bigger, so take up more space, yet give me the look I want. Too many small 'tchochkes' can be overwhelming and dusting, forget it! Maybe it's time to get rid of some of the smaller things, and in your shopping 'excursions' start buying bigger, eventually 'upsizing'. ;) |
- Posted by desertsteph (My Page) on Fri, Jan 24, 14 at 3:39
"store the things and change them out from time to time" that's what I plan to do. not there yet cause I'm still in process. Have been going thru tons of boxes for the past yr. I had them all put in my LR/DR and I'm still working at them. I'm down to about 8 boxes. 3 or so are holiday decorations and at least 2 are china/glassware. I have no where to unpack those to right now - no real furniture in here yet. I'm having those set to the side for now until the flooring is down and furniture brought in. |
I always say I am getting cranky in my old age. Grandma called them dust catchers and had nothing but a few ash trays out. My mom is a boarderline hoarder. Her floor is clear but everything else is covered with stuff. I don,t like clutter but I don,t want to be grandma either. I think a house is not a home when it has nothing in it but furnature. So I try to strike a balance with the exception of my mantle . I have tons of things on it but thats just what seems to look right there |
- Posted by Violet.West (My Page) on Fri, Jan 24, 14 at 11:54
I don't think anybody should feel guilty for wanting to be surrounded by things they love. That said, most of us have too much "stuff." it's like the old saying -- after you get dressed, look in the mirror and take one accessory off. |
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I too am working on it. Not hard enough, but working on it. Books are my downfall, even with my e-reader. |
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Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves MP |
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 7 October 2013 |
Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Liam Byrne |
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 7 October 2011 – 7 October 2013 |
Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Angela Eagle |
Succeeded by | Chris Leslie |
Member of Parliament for Leeds West |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
Preceded by | John Battle |
Majority | 7,016 (18.1%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Lewisham, London, England |
13 February 1979
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse(s) | Nicholas Joicey |
Residence | Bramley |
Alma mater | New College, Oxford London School of Economics |
Occupation | Economist |
Website | rachelreeves.net |
Rachel Jane Reeves (born 13 February 1979) is a British economist and a Labour Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament for Leeds West since 2010. Reeves is also the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Reeves was born to Graham and Sally Reeves in Lewisham, London.[1][2] She was educated at Cator Park School for Girls in Bromley.[3] At school, Reeves was the UK Under-14 girls Chess champion.[4][5][6]
After A-Levels in Politics, Economics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics, Reeves read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford, followed by an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.[7]
Reeves cites the influence of her father on her and her sister in supporting the Labour Party. She recalls how when she was eight years old he pointed out former Labour leader Neil Kinnock on the television and "told us that was who we voted for". Reeves says she and her sister have "both known we were Labour since then".[8] She joined the Labour Party at age 16.[9]
Reeves worked as an economist at the Bank of England and British Embassy in Washington, D.C. between 2000 and 2006.[10]
She stood as the Labour Party parliamentary candidate in the Conservative safe seat Bromley and Chislehurst in the 2005 general election, finishing second.[11] She again contested the 2006 by-election for the same seat following the death of sitting MP Eric Forth and finished fourth. Labour support reduced from 10,241 votes to 1,925 in what was described as a "humiliation" for Labour.[12][13] The result was the worst performance for a governing party since 1991.[14][15]
Reeves moved to Leeds in 2006 to work for HBOS.[16] She was once interviewed for a job at Goldman Sachs but turned it down. She said the job could have made her "a lot richer".[5] She later sought nomination for the Leeds West seat at the 2010 General Election.[17] to replace John Battle, who had chosen to retire.[18] She was selected by the Labour Party to contest the seat from an all-women shortlist of prospective Labour candidates.[1]
Following similar titles of publications by Roy Jenkins in 1959 and Tony Wright in 1997, Reeves wrote the new edition of Why Vote Labour? in preparation for the 2010 election, as part of a series giving the case for each of the main political parties.[19]
Member of Parliament[edit]
Reeves was elected with a majority of 7,016 on 6 May 2010, a 5,794 reduction in majority compared to her predecessor,[20] becoming only the second woman to represent a Leeds constituency. Reeves is currently writing the biography of Alice Bacon,[7][21] who was the first female MP to represent the city (from 1945 to 1970).[22]
In her maiden speech, delivered on 8 June 2010,[23] Reeves praised the work of her predecessor, John Battle and pledged to fight for jobs, growth and prosperity for Leeds West.[23] Reeves also pledged to follow in Battle's footsteps and fight for justice for the victims of the Armley asbestos disaster and their families. In a series of questions in Parliament, Reeves enquired whether the government would honour promises by the previous government to compensate victims of asbestos diagnosed with pleural plaques and bring legislation into force making it easier to pursue claims against insurers.[24]
After the 2010 election she supported Ed Miliband for the Labour leadership, because she felt he was the candidate most willing to listen to what the voters were saying about where the party went wrong.[25] Since becoming an MP, Reeves was elected to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee[26] and was appointed Shadow Pensions Minister in October 2010.[27] In her role as Shadow Pensions Minister she campaigned against the Government's proposed acceleration of equalising state pensions ages for men and women.[28] She was promoted to the post of Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in October 2011.[29]
Reeves has been named by The Guardian newspaper as being one of several MPs who employ unpaid interns, a practice that some maintain may breach the National Minimum Wage Act 1998.[30] The Independent newspaper has named Reeves as a member of a group of new Labour MPs known as the "Nando's Five".[31] The other members are Chuka Umunna MP, Luciana Berger MP, Jonathan Reynolds MP and Emma Reynolds MP.
Policy stances[edit]
Reeves has written on the financial crisis of 2007–2010 for the Fabian Review, Institute of Public Policy Research,[32] Socialist Environment and Resources Association,[33] and the European Journal of Political Economy.[34] Following her election as MP, Reeves wrote about the direction of UK government fiscal policy in Renewal, the Journal of Social Democracy. In an article entitled "The Politics of Deficit Reduction",[35] Reeves offers her critique of the current financial situation and efforts to bring down the budget deficit.
Reeves is a proponent of Quantitative Easing[36] to alleviate the late-2000s recession, having studied the effects of the policy on Japan in the early 2000s.[37]
Reeves is a supporter of the High Speed Rail campaign,[38] raising the issue in Parliament,[39] as well as campaigning for the proposed Kirkstall Forge railway station.[40] She is also involved in the campaign to save the historic Bramley Baths[41] and the campaign to save the children's heart unit at the Leeds General Infirmary.[42]
She is a supporter of Israel, writing a chapter for a book about Israeli politics and society,[43] and she is a keen supporter of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.[44] Reeves has been an officer for pro-Israel lobby group Labour Friends of Israel.[45]
Reeves regularly contributes articles to publications such as the website LabourList,[46] Progress[47] and The Guardian 's Comment is Free.[48]
Personal life[edit]
Reeves is married to Nicholas Joicey,[49] director of the international department of HM Treasury.[50][51] and a former private secretary and speech writer to Gordon Brown.[52] She lives in Bramley, Leeds, and London.[53]
Reeves' younger sister, Ellie, is a member of Labour's National Executive Committee and Joint Policy Committee, and is married to John Cryer, another Labour MP.[54] Reeves announced her first pregnancy on 20 September 2012.[55]
Reeves spends her free time swimming, reading and walking.[7][17] Reeves is a patron of Bramley Elderly Action and a trustee of Leeds Healthy Living Network.[7] She was previously on the board of BARCA - Leeds and a governor of Swallow Hill Community College, and Kirkstall Valley Primary School.[7]
Reeves is a member of the Labour Friends of Israel.[56]
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- ^ "Latest News". Cator Park School.
- ^ Kidd, Patrick (21 August 2013). "Stuart Wheeler chickens out of chess challenge and the Duchess of Northumberland's Poison Garden". The Times (London). Retrieved 2 January 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Interview with Rachel Reeves". Investors Fresh News.
- ^ Friedel, Frederic (28 February 2012). "A history of cheating in chess (4)".
- ^ a b c d e About Rachel
- ^ PPC Profile: Rachel Reeves | LabourList.org 2.0.2 | LabourList.org
- ^ "Leeds West MP: Rachel Reeves interview". Yorkshire Evening Post.
- ^ Stratton, Allegra (2009-03-19). "Waiting in the Wings". London: Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
- ^ Voting begins in Bromley and Chislehurst by-election (From This Is Local London)
- ^ "Labour and Tories suffer at polls". BBC News. 30 June 2006.
- ^ Assinder, Nick (30 June 2006). "Blair to count cost of poor night". BBC News.
- ^ "'Out of steam' Blair refuses to name departure date". Daily Mail (London). 30 June 2006.
- ^ Freedland, Jonathan (30 June 2006). "Way off base". The Guardian (London).
- ^ "Battle Lines Drawn". Yorkshire Evening Post. 2007-09-15. p. 7.
- ^ a b Women at war - Jayne Dawson - Yorkshire Evening Post
- ^ Stoddard, Katy (7 April 2010). "General Election 2010: Safe seats". The Guardian (London).
- ^ Rachel Reeves (2010). Why Vote Labour?. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1849540193.
- ^ "Election 2010". BBC.
- ^ "Rachel Reeves Interview". Yorkshire Evening Post.
- ^ "Election reaction: Rachel is Leeds West's first lady". Yorkshire Evening Post.
- ^ a b "Economic Affairs and Work and Pensions". They Work For You.
- ^ "MP takes up asbestos battle". Post Online.
- ^ Sparrow, Andrew (February 2012). "Rachel Reeves, rising star". Ethos. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
- ^ New MPs elected to select committees: ePolitix.com
- ^ Rachel Reeves takes Shadow pensions role | News | Money Marketing
- ^ Reeves, Rachel (8 June 2011). "Don't turn back the clock for women". London: The Guardian.
- ^ Miliband promotes Rachel Reeves to Shadow cabinet | News | Money Marketing
- ^ Malik, Shiv (27 November 2011). "MPs may be breaking law in offering work to unpaid interns". London: The Guardian.
- ^ Walker, Tim (12 November 2011). "'Don't compare me to Obama': Is Chuka Umunna Britain's first black PM?". London: The Independent.
- ^ "Building a Better Balanced UK Economy". IPPR.
- ^ "The Road to Copenhagen". SERA.
- ^ "Do Financial Markets React to Bank of England Communication". European Journal of Political Economy.
- ^ "The Politics of Deficit Reduction". Renewal.
- ^ "Labour must challenge the Tories on Quantitative Easing". LabourList.
- ^ "Rachel Reeves: can she save the Labour Party?". London: The Independent. 9 October 2011.
- ^ "Transport Minister reacts to today's demand from 90 regional leaders for high-speed rail link". Yorkshire Evening Post.
- ^ "Minister 'shrugs off' Leeds MP's transport questions". Yorkshire Evening Post.
- ^ "Leeds: MP calls for end to railway station 'limbo'". Yorkshire Evening Post.
- ^ "Leeds West MP makes a splash for Bramley Baths". Yorkshire Evening Post.
- ^ "Oral Answers to Questions — Health". They Work For.
- ^ "Like Ed, we should all be friends of Israel". Progress Online.
- ^ "Preserving Auschwitz-Birkenau". The Jerusalem Post.
- ^ Oliver Wright (10 October 2010). "Anger grows within Labour over forced Palestinian vote". The Independent.
- ^ "Rachel Reeves". LabourList.
- ^ "Progress Online". Progress Online.
- ^ "Contributor: Rachel Reeves". London: Guardian. 26 October 2009.
- ^ The Euro is going to continue to struggle for a long time, warns Claire Perry
- ^ Who's Who
- ^ The UK's role in the World Bank and IMF (Bretton Woods Project)
- ^ Who's new in the new Who's Who? | This is Grimsby
- ^ "Rachel Reeves". London: The Telegraph.
- ^ Jonny Greatrex "MP Tom Watson finds new love after break up of marriage", Birmingham Mail, 26 August 2012
- ^ Laura Bowyer (20 September 2012). "Baby joy for Leeds West Labour MP Rachel Reeves". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/anger-grows-within-labour-over-forced-palestinian-vote-9788395.html
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WATCH IT!!! That's all I have to say. Cinderella is just another one of Disney's fantastic, well-done films that I enjoy all the time.
Once Upon A Time..... In this under-appreciated Disney delight from 1950, a pretty, young woman, who is continually berated and abused by her nasty stepmother and stepsisters, is given one fabulous night to finally fulfill her dreams thanks to her kindly fairy godmother._____ With grace and charm, Cinderella beautifully spins its traditional story, adding some priceless comic embellishments to the overall storyline._____ The mice characters in Cinderella are amongst the studio's best, and the story moves along at a fairly good clip._____ Cinderella is definitely a fairy tale classic of wonder and joy that's in the same league as that of Pinocchio and Sleeping Beauty. This animated triumph is sure to please the young and the young-at-heart.
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I recieved a copy that was scratched to the point it was not watchable. I meant to put a note on it when I returned it so it would be pulled and not loaned out anymore. I forgot. Hopefully we can all put notes on the bad copies and get them weeded out.
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Did anyone else get to the Edgewood Nursery Auction? What a great sale it was. The day was gorgeous and there were plenty of bargains to be had. We only bought two lots because that's all we could squeeze in the station wagon. If you're looking for flowering shrubs and trees, it's a must for next year. |
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I,m not sure I am ready to drive all the way to Rochester for a plant auction but 2 posts on this has my curiosity peaked . What did you buy? Were the prices really good? Better than the usual retail? |
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- Posted by lilylouise z6NY (My Page) on Sun, May 8, 05 at 20:48
It truly was an auction conducted at a nursery that for 364 days a year is wholesale only. One day a year they conduct an auction open to the general public of over stock perennials, evergreen and deciduis(sp?) shrubs and trees. Much of the stock is well past the 3 year mark and maybe more. For the perennials and shrubs they collect a group of five or more various plants and auction each group off one at a time. Each group is different and the going prices range according to what happens to be in that group. I got two groups. The first was $40 for 7 plants. The second $70 for 7 also. The difference was that the 2nd included a rhody, a 5ft Alberta spruce and a 3-4 ft blue princess holly. Other groups had 3-4 ft Japanese lace leaf Maples or 3 ft Magnolias. I want to try a tapestry helge so what I got is all good and will fit in somewhere. Of course there's the excitement of the bidding. We truly had to turn our back because everything had to be removed by 5pm and we didn't have a truck. If you are a perfectionist and want that perfect specimen, the sale wouldn't be your thing, but it beats the heck out big box garden centers. |
That really sounds like fun . It sounds like you really made out well and to have such mature plants is wonderful. Please post when you get them in . Kareen |
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Here is an article about an 11-year-old boy who was shot dead in Liverpool.
What's crazy is that they've made arrests but the accused murderers seem to have been almost immediately freed on BAIL!
British police have released the six teenagers they were questioning over the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy in Liverpool last week.
The four boys and two girls (?!!), all aged between 15 and 19, were detained over the weekend in connection with the killing of Rhys Jones.
He was shot in the back of the neck by a teenager riding a BMX bicycle with a hood concealing his face.
Four of those who were in custody were released without charge this morning, while the other two were released on bail pending further inquiries.
Clearly what modern society is facing is a dire deterioration in moral character, that enables KIDS to become vile, wanton murderers. This is not about "access to guns." Access to guns (um, particularly in a country that has them BANNED) is stricter than it has ever historically been. You used to be able to buy them at the hardware store no-questions-asked; you could order them through the mail; you could bring them with you to school for sport shooting on the way home. You can't do ANY of that now; "access to guns" is more tightly restricted than it's ever been (but the media will sling the B.S. that "easy access to guns" is behind the gang killings and other thrill killings and such that are plaguing us more and more.
Something is wrong in the minds of the children these days. They are little psychopaths with stunted development; brought up with a me-first, I-want-it-right-now, I-don't-want-to-have-to-actually WORK-for-what-I-want mentality. Is it any wonder they have no consciences?


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AHMEDABAD: A 45-year-old woman was deported from the US on Saturday. She was handed over to the Sardarnagar police by the immigration department at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport for further investigation.
According to Sardarnagar police officials, the immigration department handed over Rekha Patel, a native of Mehsana, to police after she was deported from the United States due to lack of proper papers.
"Patel had been to the US with her husband in 2004. With the help of a local immigration agent, they had procured the passports and visa papers of their lookalikes for Canada and went there in 2002. After spending two years there, they used the local agent channel and entered the US. They then assimilated with the local population and started working at a motel," said a Sardarnagar police official.
Patel was identified as an illegal immigrant by the US homeland security department and was sent back to India. Investigators said that Patel's husband is still in the US. "Investigation is on to get the details of the local agents who procured the passports and visa for the couple," said the police official.
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I've been trying to get a hold of one of the following mixes for some tree seedlings I'm starting that has been recommended on another forum, but am hitting a brick wall. I'm in Columbia, MD between Baltimore and Washington, DC. Local or online sources are OK. Looking for either Metro Mix 852 or Fafard 51. Most "garden centers" around here answer with a blank stare. Anyone got any sources? |
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I germinated a lot of African trees in the last few months. The best results I got was with riversand and watering with a spray from the top. I tried other mixes to but had to many problems with damping off. Hope that helps. |
If you go on the Fafard site they have a store locator that sells their products. Phone numbers are listed, you could call to see what products they carry. I found Fafard 52 mix that way. And it was a very cool nursery i didn't know about. I go there all the time now. |
Hair, I think as you read more on this forum, you'll find there aren't many advocates at all of bagged mixes. You owe it to yourself and your seedlings to try your own mix based on 5-1-1/Gritty principles. |
- Posted by hairmetal4ever Z7 MD (My Page) on Tue, Jan 21, 14 at 22:53
Looking at Al's famous mixes now!! Even the ingredients for his mixes is tough to find though... |
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Wed, Jan 22, 14 at 11:36
Fafard's line of Heavyweight Mixes - in particular the "Nursery Mix" - are about as close to a 5-1-1 as one can find in a bagged mix. Highly recommended for those who can't source their own ingredients for a custom mix. Josh |
- Posted by greentoe357 7b NYC under lights (My Page) on Wed, Jan 29, 14 at 2:24
Looking for either Metro Mix 852 or Fafard 51. Most "garden centers" around here answer with a blank stare. I would not be surprised if that is in response to whether they have it. Asking them to check if they can special order it may help though - probably not with Home Depots and Lowes and Walmarts, but with smaller nurseries / garden centers. |
I am going to use BARK-BASED mix this year too. I start with 5-1-1 (5 parts pine/fir bark ranging from dust to 3/8", 1 part peat moss, 1 part perlite, ). If the bark you can find has slightly more bigger pieces than fines then you can make as 4 -2-1. ONE MORE THING: with home made mixes like 5-1-1 you will need to use ONLY synthetic fertilizers ,possibly with calcium and magnesium. The way I understand it, organic fertilized need bio herds to make it usable for the plants. I have already bought enough supplies from Lowes |
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Here is a mix that requires a bit of attention, but will work very well for large tomatoes ans such. I am going to do a run with this mix on my deck that gets 4 hours of sun a day. I want to share pics of my results with this mix. It is just bark right out of the bag. |
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Wed, Jan 29, 14 at 11:32
That is bark, very large bark, not a "mix" from what I can tell. Seysonn, the peat and the potting mix that you're intending to use are both serving the same purpose - binding and, thus, moisture retention. As such, your mix will hold a lot of moisture. I know the Perlite can be pricey, but I wouldn't skimp. Of course, your mix might work exactly as you wish; but if it doesn't, I would hate for you to attribute the results to a bark mix. Josh |
Agree with Josh. For any bark based mix , (5-1-1 eg) the max bark size should be smaller than 1/2". Plus, the has to be smaller particles (crushed, 1/8", 1/4" ..). |
Hi hairmetal4ever, It looks like you are only 20 minutes or so away from a Griffin Greenhouse Supplies location. They should have both of those mixes and the ingredients for Al's mix. They specialize in selling to greenhouses but will also sell retail to the public. I bought a few things from the Georgia location a year or two ago and they were very nice there. You'll probably want to call first to check what they have in stock and prices. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Griffin Greenhouse Supplies
I just bought Fafard 52 mix from Walter Fehr and Son nursery in Burtonsville. they also had 3B mix and some others. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Fehrs
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The only problem is that after analyzing the specs, I'm not so sure that the GLI really does have more space. Both cars share a 101.5-inch wheelbase, but the GLI trades the GTI's hatch for a spacious trunk, which adds more than a foot to the car's length, not to mention more than 200 pounds to the curb weight. What's more, Volkswagen says that the GTI has a hair legroom in the back seat, versus the GLI. Cargo volume in the GLI rated markedly higher and your luggage is more secure, but you lose the GTI's hatchback versatility. The GLI does have larger rear doors, though, which are very important for loading kids into the back.
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Memorial Day brings the promise of summer: languorous days spent lounging at the beach or by the air conditioner with the perfect page-turner. A mesmerizing potboiler, a heady historic tome, a gripping memoir — you want a book that transports you to exotic places without making you go through airport security. You want something you can really sink your teeth into, but that won't leave you feeling overstuffed. In the coming weeks, Salon's staff will recommend a selection of summer reads — mysteries, chick lit, memoirs and fiction with a historical twist.
This week's focus is thrillers: a suburban family is menaced by shady secrets and unexpected dangers; an art forger gets sucked into a bizarre conspiracy; a Stalin-era communist apparatchik seeks to redeem himself by uncovering a crime; an enigmatic college professor asks his class to unravel a hypothetical (or is it?) murder; and a divorcee becomes a mother-avenger as she searches for her missing teenage daughter.
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"Hold Tight"
By Harlan Coben
Like the hit men he portrays with such relish, Harlan Coben collects his contract and goes about his business with a minimum of fuss — and he gets the job done every time. Not that he earns much love from the critical intelligentsia, but for his millions of acolytes, the effect of reading a Coben book is to resent anything that stops you from completing it. Had a rough day, honey? Tough shit. You want me to eat dinner? I'm on a diet. Kids killing each other? Call me when someone's bleeding.
And indeed, someone is always bleeding in Harlan Coben land, a white upper-middle-class suburban enclave menaced by the World Without. Coben's particular suspense turf is the imperiled family, and the clan that lies at the center of "Hold Tight" has more than its share of trouble — though the full extent of it doesn't become clear until Mike and Tia Baye install spy software on their son's computer. Adam is a 16-year-old goth with the expected attitude and some unexpected secrets, as his parents learn when they find an instant message advising him to "just stay quiet and all safe."
"What would Adam need to stay quiet about in order to be safe?" his mother wonders, but Adam doesn't stick around long enough to answer, and in the course of tracking him down, his parents learn that he's mixed up in the suicide of his best friend, Spencer, and in the shady doings of a teen-oriented club in the Bronx that may be offering a bit more than alcohol-free entertainment. And the Bayes aren't the only ones having a bad week. Their next-door neighbor has just learned that her dying son was fathered by someone other than her husband, and a psychopathic killer named Nash is, for mysterious reasons, dragging suburban moms into his van and pulverizing them.
Kidnapping, rape, Internet cabals, kids with drugs, kids with guns: Coben's work might be accused of playing too ardently on the fears of the soccer-mom demographic, but he gives his families enough gumption to fight through their various terrors and enough layers to make you care about whether or not they end up in someone's nasty white van with tinted windows. And if "Hold Tight" is forced to fall back on coincidence to tie up its loose threads, it nevertheless gives readers all the assets we've come to expect from Coben: killer pace, stripped-down prose that never overreaches itself, and a conservative and abiding belief in the family structure, even — make that especially — at its most fragile. Formula this may be, but nobody cooks up the ingredients better. — Louis Bayard
"The Forgery of Venus"
By Michael Gruber"
Absorbing suspense, well garnished with history and a dollop of high culture — so many "literary thrillers" promise just that, setting their contemporary characters hot on the trail of an antique mystery, name-checking the geniuses of the past as they go. Most of these books, however, seem to be written by people who know as much about, say, Leonardo da Vinci as can be skimmed from a dog-eared copy of "Fodor's Guide to Italy." Then there's Michael Gruber, the master of the game, a pop Nabokov whose sterling prose, unreliable narrators and Möbius Strip plot devices bump the genre into previously unexplored territory. His 2007 bestseller, "The Book of Air and Shadows," followed a lubricious attorney's search for a long-lost Shakespeare play. His latest novel, "The Forgery of Venus," is narrated by a conflicted painter who fabricates (or perhaps re-creates) one of several now-lost nudes that the Spanish painter Velásquez is believed to have produced in Rome in 1650.
Gruber's choice is astute; though not as familiar to the masses as Rembrandt or Michelangelo, Velásquez is generally considered by other painters to be the greatest of the old masters. Gruber has a real understanding of painting, that witchery of chemistry and technique that conjures the luster of flesh, fur and satin out of calcite and iron oxide; at moments, the novel is almost fragrant with turpentine and linseed oil.
His narrator, Chaz Wilmot, the embittered son of a successful but hopelessly compromised Norman Rockwell type, dithers away his own talent until he comes to the attention of some rich, powerful and shadowy individuals. They have noted his uncanny ability to imitate the great painters of the past with a keen and mercenary interest. Chaz's knack for artistic mimicry is further honed when he participates in a bizarre study on the effects of a drug called salvinorin A on creativity. The drug, known for stimulating hyper-vivid memories in those who take it, causes Chaz to relive not only his own past, but someone else's, too. And that someone else appears to be Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velásquez.
Chaz is a mess, a cynical wisecracker and a screw-up who has allowed his disillusionment with the contemporary art world to corrode his soul. "Our icons are blank," he complains to a friend, "and the only religion we see in the galleries is irony. I can do irony fine, but it makes me sick." He's not likable in any conventional sense, certainly not idealized in the usual fashion of pop-fictional heroes, but he's completely believable. His struggle to find an honorable use for his own gifts becomes as gripping as the bizarre, possibly delusional conspiracy he gets caught up in.
Pervading the novel, as luminous, complex and elusive as Velásquez's rendering of the pope's white lace robes ("white is never white, only fools paint it so with actual white paint"), is the dream of art itself. It is, as one of the characters assures Chaz (paraphrasing Marcel Duchamp), "that which cannot be explained," a mystery it takes a lifetime to solve. — Laura Miller
"Child 44″
By Tom Rob Smith
The heroes of most thrillers are damaged men with tragic pasts; they tend to feel guilty about a dead wife or estranged child, or they chew themselves up inside over some doomed innocent they failed to protect. These aren't bad guys, however — quite the opposite. They are knights in slightly tarnished armor, over-committed to the job and way too hard on themselves, but ultimately on the side of right and good — yadda, yadda, yadda.
Leo Demidov, the protagonist of Tom Rob Smith's flinty, Stalin-era detective thriller, "Child 44," starts out guilty, really guilty. A war hero and loyal Communist Party apparatchik, he is an officer of the MGB (precursor to the KGB), and in the first few chapters of the novel, we learn that he has been complicit in more crimes against humanity than the best detectives ever get the chance to solve. All the machinery of the paranoid, dehumanizing totalitarian state — arrests, interrogations, denunciations, executions — is in full gear at the beginning of "Child 44″ (although things stutter a bit when Stalin dies midway through the novel) and Leo's job is to provide people to be ground up by it. His victims are "ideological criminals"; as for actual crime, that's supposed to be extinct in the perfected communist state. Anyone who suggests otherwise qualifies as an ideological criminal.
Thanks to his role in the persecution of a man who even he comes to see must be innocent, Leo has an inkling of his own culpability before the system inevitably turns on him and his wife, Raisa. The couple survives, barely, and Leo gets reassigned to an obscure rural police force where one of his past misdeeds catches up with him. The gruesome murder of a local girl reminds him of rumors about the death of a child back in Moscow — rumors that Leo was ordered to shut down, since a child-targeting serial killer is the sort of monster who can only be produced by the decadent West.
Although the conclusion of "Child 44″ is a bit outlandish, Smith otherwise handles this story (based on a notorious real-life case) with a grounded, muscular realism and some truly riveting action scenes. Unlike Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko, who solves crime in a Soviet Union that is already beginning to crumble from within, Leo must pursue his investigation near the peak of "1984″-style oppression and double-think. Unsympathetic superiors are a convention of the genre, but Leo has it exponentially worse than Dirty Harry, et al.: His bosses will destroy him for even suggesting that this crime is possible. His illusions pulverized, his wife finally free to announce that she married him out of fear instead of love, Leo sees catching the murderer as his last shot at redemption — literally. He knows he won't survive the solving of it, and that the authorities can't be trusted to dispense justice. Bleak as it is, the help Leo receives from an unexpected quarter provides a morsel of balm in what's otherwise an almost unbearably relentless thriller. — L.M.
By Will Lavender
Two signs that Winchester University is bit stranger than the average Midwestern college: At least one student is perpetually reading "City of Glass," Paul Auster's exercise in metaphysical noir, and the campus sports a statue of Stanley Milgram, who conducted that famous experiment demonstrating the average individual's willingness to subject others to painful electric shocks if ordered to do so by an authority figure. Like every college, Winchester has its share of creepily intense student-professor dynamics, whether played out as illicit affairs, harassment complaints or the formation of fanatical cliques of intellectual followers. But at this school, the fervor is ratcheted up a few more notches.
In "Obedience," Will Lavender's suspense novel set at the fictional Winchester University, the professor in question is charismatic, mysterious and rather scary. His name is Leonard Williams (or is it?) and he teaches a course called Logic and Reasoning 204, in which the sole assignment is to solve a mystery. "There's been a murder," he announces on the first day of class, or rather "a murder that may happen in the future." A teenage girl is missing. Who took her, and why? He gives his class a few shreds of evidence. That night, the students receive cryptic e-mails containing possibly staged photographs. Attempts to track down more information about the pictures result in reprimands from shadowy campus officials. Three of the students — a big man on campus, the studious girlfriend he dumped the year before and an emotionally fragile boy mourning his brother's suicide — begin to wonder just how "hypothetical" professor Williams' little thought experiment really is.
It must be said that "Obedience" is not one of those intricate, Swiss-clock thrillers in which every piece of the plot clicks smoothly into place and it all adds up perfectly in the end. While it may not be as enigmatic as Auster's novels or David Lynch's films, it shares their preference for atmospheric menace over strict logic. Halfway through, you may find yourself wondering how Lavender can possibly account for every twist in this metastasizing collection of ominous developments; he can't … or at least, not entirely. But all of the elements are so striking — especially the recurring figure of a disturbing girl who keeps turning her head away, hiding her face — that you're tempted to just go with it, and you should succumb to that temptation.
This is the sort of story in which a character, while retrieving her sweater from a cloakroom, is slipped a note reading, "None of this is real. I AM NOT HIS WIFE." A library's copy of a true crime book is revealed to contain nothing but blank pages. A roadside lounge, replete with weather-beaten poker players and a chatty bartender on one afternoon, is, when visited the next day, completely emptied of people and furniture. Plausible? Perhaps not. But "Obedience" is nevertheless a full course-load of sinister fun. — LM
"Losing You"
By Nicci French
I admit it. The whole time I was reading "Losing You," the thriller by husband-and-wife writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, I was busy casting the movie version. I have no idea if the film rights have even been sold, but if they have, the producers had better choose an actress ballsy enough to play the book's heroine. If they don't, they'll have to answer to me and a goodly number of Gerrard fans, and I'm here to say it won't be pretty.
Not that there's anything exceptional about Nina Landry at first glance. She's a divorcee, just turned 40, still struggling to stay civil with her ex and living for the time being on a remote island 60 miles east of London. (It was her ex's idea to move there.) Christmas is less than a week away, and she's about to take her two kids on a vacation to Florida with her new boyfriend. The tension is high, the packing isn't finished, the car won't work and Nina's 15-year-old daughter, Charlie, has had the bad timing to throw her mother a surprise birthday party — a party Charlie hasn't even bothered to attend. Now there's only a few hours before the flight, and Charlie still hasn't shown up and wait till I get my hands on that girl! Only it seems someone else may have had the same idea, because Charlie never comes home. And as disquiet gives way to blazing panic, Nina becomes a mother-avenger, chasing down every clue, shaking every tree, disdaining and finally ignoring the dim-bulb local constables who've been assigned to the case. There's nobody she won't piss off and nothing, finally, she won't do to find out what's happened.
"Losing You" plays out over what feels like real time — from roughly 10 in the morning to 6 in the evening — and although it builds slowly, it never once slackens. At the same time, it never forsakes the need for texture. The complex particulars of Nina's and Charlie's relationship are convincingly evoked, and the authors make shrewd use of their locale: the fictional Sandling Island, a place like "the edge of the world" — all foghorns and moaning winds and shrieking gulls — where Nina can "scarcely bear the sense of solitude that engulfed me" and where people can live and die without a trace.
What gives "Losing You" its chief distinction, though, is its unusually emotive color and its flinty protagonist, who, like any mother, understands that no one can possibly care as much about her child as she does. Nina is the parent we'd all like to be under duress, and I find I've become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter. A friendly warning, then, to any producer thinking of committing her story to film: Kate Winslet or nobody. — L.B.
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Laura Miller is a senior writer for Salon. She is the author of "The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia" and has a Web site, magiciansbook.com.
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Burger King's black cheeseburger: Made with squid ink and bamboo charcoal, arguably a symbol of meat's destructive effect on the planet. Only available in Japan.
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Domino's Specialty Chicken: It's like regular pizza, except instead of a crust, there's fried chicken. The company's marketing officer calls it "one of the most creative, innovative menu items we have ever had" -- brain power put to good use.
Arby's Meat Mountain: The viral off-menu product containing eight different types of meat that, on second read, was probably engineered by Arby's all along. Horrific, regardless.
KFC'S ZINGER DOUBLE DOWN KING: A sandwich made by adding a burger patty to the infamous chicken-instead-of-buns creation can only be described using all caps. NO BUN ALL MEAT. Only available in South Korea.
Taco Bell's Waffle Taco: It took two years for Taco Bell to develop this waffle folded in the shape of a taco, the stand-out star of its new breakfast menu.
Krispy Kreme Triple Cheeseburger: Only attendees at the San Diego County Fair were given the opportunity to taste the official version of this donut-hamburger-heart attack combo. The rest of America has reasonable odds of not dropping dead tomorrow.
Taco Bell's Quesarito: A burrito wrapped in a quesadilla inside an enigma. Quarantined to one store in Oklahoma City.
Boston Pizza's Pizza Cake: The people's choice winner of a Canadian pizza chain's contest whose real aim, we'd imagine, is to prove that there's no such thing as "too far." Currently in development.
7-Eleven's Doritos Loaded: "For something decadent and artificial by design," wrote one impassioned reviewer, "it only tasted of the latter."
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Milestones in space
From sending rhesus monkeys into orbit to India's launch of a lunar probe, a hitchhiker's guide to exploration of the universe.
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March 16, 1926: American scientist Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket.
June 11, 1948: The US launches a V-2 Blossom rocket carrying a rhesus monkey into space from White Sands, N.M.
Aug. 15, 1951: Dezik and Tsygan become the first canines lifted into suborbit as part of the Soviets' R-1 rocket program.
Oct. 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches the first space satellite, Sputnik-1.
Jan. 31, 1958: The US launches Explorer 1, a scientific satellite that later reveals that Earth is surrounded by bands of radiation.
Oct. 1, 1958: NASA is created.
Jan. 2, 1959: The Soviet Union launches Luna 1, the first artificial object to leave Earth's orbit.
Aug. 7, 1959: NASA sends aloft Explorer 6, which provides the first photographs of Earth from space.
Oct. 18, 1963: France launches a cat, Felix, into space.
June 3, 1965: Ed White, during the Gemini 4 mission, becomes the first American to walk in space.
March 1, 1966: The Soviet Union lands the first spacecraft, Venera 3, on Venus.
Oct. 10, 1967: 93 countries sign the Outer Space Treaty, declaring the cosmos open to exploration but prohibits military bases.
April 24, 1970: China launches its first satellite, Dongfanghong-1.


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Rock City Angels Singer Bobby Durango Dies
Bobby Durango, the lead singer of the hair metal / glam rock band the Rock City Angels, has passed away, according to a new post on the band's Facebook page.
Bobby Durango, the lead singer of the hair metal / glam rock band the Rock City Angels, has passed away, according to a new post on the band's Facebook page.
Last week we brought you word that Eduard Khil ',aka Mr. Trololo,' was gravely ill after suffering a stroke.
Now we've learned that Khil, whose 1976 Soviet TV performance of the song 'I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home' became a unlikely viral video hit in late 2009, has died at age 77. The stroke was the cause of his death, according to his manager Tatyana Mamedova.
There's sad news to report as onetime Sebastian Bach touring drummer Mark 'Bam Bam' McConnell passed today (May 24).
Robin Gibb, co-founder and one third of the Bee Gees, has died Sunday at 62 years old after a long battle with cancer.
We the jury find these strippers guilty of dancing to 'Dr. Feelgood' one too many times and killing a dude. Both are punishable by the permanent removal of all body glitter.
TV host and producer Dick Clark has died at 82. He passed away today (April 18) in Santa Monica, Calif., after suffering a massive heart attack, according to his publicist. In recent years, Clark's appearance in the spotlight was limited because of a stroke he suffered in 2004.
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You only die once, they say (unless you get brought back as a zombie, and then you get one more shot at it), so it's kind of important that you make your last moments on Earth enjoyable. In this article, we'll bring you ten dudes who shuffled off this mortal coil enjoying their favorite activities.
Most of us are accustomed to getting email, but almost no one is prepared to get a missive from a friend who's been dead for months. Yet that's what's happened to the loved ones of a young man who passed away last summer.
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As we go into the new season ESCLA can confirm the news many members have heard, that Everton have announced that match tickets will only be provided to Supporters Clubs for those of their members who hold a Season Ticket.Tickets may go on General Sale if Season Ticket Holders do not take up all of Everton's allocation for any particular match. Therefore ESCLA at this time have no "ticket policy" but will have to take each game as it comes.
The reason Everton have done this is because they expect to have 27,000 season ticket holders for 2014/15. Last season season ticket holders could not get tickets for some away matches, whilst Supporters Club's received an allocation, that caused complaints from seaon ticket holders which Everton believe they have now addressed.


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In my neighborhood Zoyzia was planted many years ago, about 25. In the the years since everyone has overseeded with other types of grass. In my yard I think I have 15-20% zoysia left, evenly spread. What can I do to encourage the zoysia to take back over? How long does it take to spread?
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- Posted by texas-weed 7A (My Page) on Wed, Mar 19, 08 at 13:25
Are you in Maryland? If so it will be a challenge as Zoysia is a warm season grass. |
You can cut plugs out of the zoysia patches you have and plant them in the other areas. The zoysia would eventually take back over the yard anyway, but this will help speed things along. You shouldn't have any problems getting it to take, one well-known provider of zoysia plugs is in Taneytown. The fact that it is a warm season grass simply means it will brown during the colder winter months, just like fescue browns during the hottest summer months, being a cool season grass. |
It's not in solid patches anywhere just spread fairly evenly around. I've thaught about getting plugs locally and poping them in here and there to help it along. I'm not in a hurry but how long do you think it should take to come back in force? |
- Posted by firstandgoal OKC (My Page) on Wed, Mar 19, 08 at 18:47
If you want a Zoysia lawn, call around to your local nurseries and see if they have "Empire" zoysia plugs. Of course, the more plugs you put in the ground the quicker it will be to fill in. Empire is a good fast spreading, medium textured zoysia with deep green color and good cold tolerance. |
- Posted by rosemallow z7 Md (My Page) on Wed, Mar 19, 08 at 19:33
Just take the plugs from the zoysia and re plug the areas you want it to grow. Zoysia grows well in Maryland. In a matter of fact I read somewhere it came from Korea. And one of the first companies to bring it here was in Maryland. As for my lawn I would never have Zoysia. I like a green lawn in the fall. I killed off all my Zoysia 15 years ago and went with the newer rebel mixtures. Best choice I ever made. |
- Posted by texas-weed 7A (My Page) on Wed, Mar 19, 08 at 22:30
Bear you still didn't answer the question . Are you in Maryland? Kind of hard to win a 12 round fight (1 year) if you can only punch for 3 rounds. After 25 years ought to tell you something. |
Yes, I'm in MD about a mile from DC. I figued that over the years other owners of this yard kept planting other types of grass and the zoysia just could not compete with the constant scalping and seeding. I was hoping there was something I could do to encourage the zoysia to take over. I've read that warm season grases perfer to be fertilized in the spring and cool season in the fall. Also, zoysia perfers to be cut lower. Are these good ways to make it more aggessive? |
- Posted by texas-weed 7A (My Page) on Thu, Mar 20, 08 at 14:11
Well you hit on something here without realizing it.. Zoysia will out-compete any cool season grass and all the warm season grasses except Bermuda if the climate is right. After 25 years the Zoysia should have been completely dominant crowding out all competitors. Now it could be the previous owners did not know how to care for Zoysia. Zoysia is a heavy thatcher, and needs dethatched every couple of years, especially if over fertilized and over-seeded in the fall with Rye grass. What I really suspect is the growing season is so short where you live, the Zoysia really never has a chance to get growing aggressively and choke out the competition. Like I said it is hard to win a 12 round fight if you can only punch for 2 or 3 rounds. In the south the growing season is more like 8 or 9 months Anyway Meyers (aka Z-52) is the most cold tolerant and earliest strain of Zoysia released in the USA. Since yours is 25 years tells me it has to be Meyers which is as good as it gets to survive in your area Here is what I would do if I were you trying to make what you have work: First go look and see if you have a thatch problem, that will have to be dealt with first When the grass is about 50% green dethatch if necessary and immediately fertilize with a slow release balanced urea fertilizer like 15-5-10 or 20-5-10. Lesco makes an excellent slow release urea products. Then about 8 weeks later add another fertilizer treatment with slow release urea nitrogen only product. This will complete your fertilizer applications for the year until the following spring. So in your area, only 2 apps per year. For those in the south, we can apply 3 apps @ 8 weeks apart. Keep it mowed between 1 and 2 inches, and you can go as high as 3 inches if you have slopes, otherwise keep it around 1 to 2 inches. Watering, this is where you can really knock out the cool season grasses in the summer with proper watering. Zoysia is very drought resistant while the cool season grasses are not and you can use this trait with great success if watered properly. Water only when the Zoysia needs it, and then water deeply with a full inch of water. You will have to learn how to tell by looking at the grass, it will tell you when it needs watering by a slight color change when it wilts. Keep in mind Zoysia, especially Meyers is a very slow spreading grass, and it will take a few seasons to regain dominance if it will ever will. The only other option is to re-sod, but I would not suggest that in your area as I think it would be a waist of money and time. Good Luck TW |
Would adding plugs help it along? There is a small turf farm nearby that looks to be growing zoysia. Could I buy a roll and cut it into plugs and spread them out? |
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As Kentucky tries to regroup from a loss at North Carolina — it's third loss of the season to a ranked team — coach John Calipari said Thursday he had a simple message for his players going into Saturday's game against Belmont.
"You can't change how we started. Not changing. You can change how you approach the end. And that's how you'll be remembered," said Calipari. "We've made strides in practice, but you got to carry it over. You got to take the habits we're trying to create, understand you really got to focus.
"And you can't play as many minutes. Got to play less minutes. Means guys got to be ready to go in and out. The guys that are coming off the bench, you may not play as many minutes as you want because the guys take themselves out and he's ready to go back. Just how it is right now.
"But this team at the end of the day has got to be a great defensive team. That's what we need to be, and we're not. And it starts (with) pressuring the ball. There's five or six things. And again, personnel, understanding that's got to be the best part of your game as an individual. Michael (Kidd-Gilchrist) understood it because he didn't shoot the ball well. He knew, 'Well, I'm not making a name shooting jumpers. I'm making a name playing defense, rebounding, being vicious.' And we have some guys here that they got to take that on."
Calipari's message apparently has hit home with sophomore center Willie Cauley-Stein.
"What we've done, you can't change it. So there's no point in rethinking about it," Cauley-Stein said. "The last three games, you can't … I mean, there's no point in going back unless you're trying to teach a mistake and that's about it. The losses, it's done, it's over with and the only thing you can control now is how we prepare for the next two games.
"But a lot of it has to do with just effort on defense and a lot of what he says, it comes down to the last five minutes of a game. Right now we don't know how to close out the last five minutes of a game. That happens with young guys. It was the same with us last year. Hopefully it just comes and it starts clicking for us."
Last year's team, though, never clicked, went to the NIT and went out in the first round. Is this team better equipped to respond?
"We'll find out. I can't really tell you," Cauley-Stein said.
Calipari says he always has a "sense of urgency" and wants his players better immediately.
"But it's gonna be a process, and we all got to live with it — and me especially — that it's not always on my timetable or our fans or the media when the light will go on. But I have all the confidence in the world it will at some point. I keep saying, our persistence versus their resistance. And just understand, I'm not changing," Calipari said.
Calipari said it is "easier to play the way they play" than do what he's asking to "fly" up and down the court on every possession like Texas did Wednesday night when it won at North Carolina, something UK could not do last Saturday.
"Well why aren't we flying? Because it's not their habit. Their habit is to jog it up and, 'OK, now I'm going to beat this guy.' We're just trying to get that," Calipari said. "It's going to take time, but I tell you what: when they get it, they'll be fine. But until then, games are going to be a struggle. And I'm used to us being up 20 at half. Doesn't appear like that'll be this team. We're going to be in dog fights every night."


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Wake Up! President Obama's Fact Sheet
Ending Abuses by Wall Street and Predatory Lenders
Wall Street Reforms and Consumer Protections passed by President Obama put an end to the predatory lending practices that disproportionally targeted African Americans.
President Obama passed the Credit CARD Act, to put an end to unfair and hidden credit card fees, helping save money for cardholders, including the nearly half of all African Americans who hold credit cards. All told, the Credit CARD Act will work to protect consumers from the billions of dollars in fees card companies charge each year.


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Good question. I heard somewhere that thanks to Ireland and its generous tax system, Google is hardly paying any taxes at all - less than 3% of its income, and here we're talking about one of the largest and richest corporations in the world.
I can understand that the Irish see low corporate taxation as the cornerstone of its competitiveness, but there must be some boundaries to that. Providing safe haven for large corporations where they can hide from taxation isn't really helping anyone but the tax haven itself. It's pretty ironic that when things go awry and the tax haven needs cash to pay for its debts, it is asking countries which have in the past been damaged by the tax haven's irresponsible tax policy for help.
I say, if it wants help now, Ireland will have to adjust its tax policies.


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I'm a fan of piracy.
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I'm a fan of piracy.
I pay $50 for internet...
i support piracy not because i dont respect the industry but i support logic. if the chances of getting caught for taking something for free of the net are insanely low and all thats preventing me from doing it is ethics, then my ethics say save my fifty dollars and download the movie/album/game/book and keep it. sure the author loses his cut of one book (or millions) but the truth is if they dont want people to steal it dont force them into a situation by raising the price of music to $25 for a cd or $30 for a dvd or $60 dollars for a game or fucking HUNDREDS of dollars for software. when i see prices that reflect the quality of whats in it then ill stop stealing ... but till then ... my name will be Steal the Dragon for the win.
everything on the net thats free is most likely to be pirated stuff........download manga, songs, movie, software etc.......but i do it anyway since the real thing is too expensive......if its movie, i dont care a single bit about the production house or the artist....once they sign the contract for a movie, whether it'll be a blockbuster or not they already got their $millions.......if its a song, i buy the album of the artist that i like....manga is not available so i got no other choice, sure i can get it from amazon or ebay, but thats just too expensive
Music people usually only get money from tours and shirts and things.
all the more reason NOT to pay $20 for a fucking 50 minute cd.
the only albums id buy the real versions of are by Eminem, Jay-Z, Gorillaz, The Pillows, Linkin Park, and Fort Minor.
I'd buy the ones at second hand stores.
for me id be lying if i said i dont pirate stuff
like most i cant afford all that crap
i cant spend 800$ for a program cuz i want i nice siggy
or 20$ on a cd i want for 1 song that i like it in
20$ for 3~5 mins of entertainment is stupid ~_~
i still try to buy games i loved, but like most here ...~_~
I could count on my fingers how many times i have buy dvds, cds, softwares combined. Why buy it when you can get for free? my name ain't bill gates.
^Point made, I agree with you lol.
I really dont have alot of money...


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The Herald added that US officials were concerned over the weekend about the possible repercussions of the incident.
Cardinal Ortega was eventually granted a 30-day visa and allowed to leave the airport.
Similar incidents have occurred in the past at Miami's airport. In April of last year, Spanish Prince Felipe de Borbon and his girlfriend had their luggage searched despite their diplomatic passports and the protests of their security detail.
Another incident occurred on January 14 of this year. The Chancellor of Argentina, Rafael Bielsa, was detained in Miami after complaining about the seven-hour long delay of his flight from New York to Miami. According to Argentinean consul Gregorio Dupont, the questioning Bielsa was subjected to was characterized by "an ignorance of diplomatic protocol and unusual rudeness."
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