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Canada's commercial seal hunt is the largest hunt for marine mammals in the world. Sealers are allowed to kill 280,000 harp seal pups this year, provided they have begun to molt their white coats, which occurs when the animals are about two weeks old.
"It's preposterous that the Canadian government insists on moving forward with this hunt." said Sheryl Fink, a senior researcher with IFAW.
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"This is truly a historic moment – a moment that marks the beginning of the inevitable end to Canada's commercial seal hunt," said Sheryl Fink, a senior researcher with IFAW. "Senator Harb has shown incredible leadership and courage by speaking out on behalf of the majority of Canadians on this issue."
The bill is an amendment to the Fisheries Act and would prohibit the commercial hunting of seals in Canadian waters, while protecting the rights of aboriginal peoples to hunt seals.
"The plan released today is a bad deal for whales and international efforts to protect them" said Patrick Ramage, IFAW Global Whale Program Director. "It would lift the commercial whaling moratorium; give new rights to the Government of Japan to kill protected whales, and permit illegal, high-seas whaling to continue. Rather than compromising hard-won conservation measures and finding ways for whaling to expand, the IWC and its member governments should be negotiating the terms under which Japan, Norway and Iceland will end their commercial whali
Outgoing Fisheries and Agriculture Minister, Einar K Gudfinnsson, recently granted commercial whaling quotas of up to 150 endangered fin whales and 100 minke whales a year for the next five years. Iceland's new Fisheries Minister, Steingrimur J Sigfusson, today announced these catch allowances would remain for one year instead of five, and despite only a limited domestic market for minke whales and no domestic market for fin whales.
IFAW opposes whaling because it is cruel, unnecessary and unsustainable.
MEPs from the IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) Committee, today voted overwhelmingly in favor of a ban on the trade in seal products without any derogations, and with the only exemption for products from traditional Inuit seal hunts.
The 25:7 majority vote defeats plans for a proposed labeling system put forward by the IMCO rapporteur, UK Liberal MEP Diana Wallis.
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Rangers had trailed the poacher and his accomplice for 17 hours on foot, according to area warden Josphat Erupe. "We noticed one poacher on top of a tree but he jumped down and vanished. We only became aware that there was a second man when he opened fire at our rangers from behind the tree but he was shot and killed in the ensuing battle."
According to unnamed sources in KWS, elephant poaching rose by over 60 per cent in Kenya from 2007 to 2008.
Yesterday's vote was a strong signal that MEPs in the Environment Committee are unwilling to accept the half-baked solution proposed by the European Commission.
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Ok so I was recently replanting one of my succulents after propagating it and when I went to remove it I saw these tiny yellow specks that look kind of like eggs on the top of the soil. I had originally had my soil covered with a few pebbles for decoration so I didn't notice it before now and have no idea how long it's been like that. Can somebody please tell me what this is and how I should fix/remove it. |
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Several of us have had the same thing. We removed it and changed soil and this eliminated the problem. MG soil seemed to be the common denominator. See this link and decide if you have the same thing. |
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FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medco Health Solutions, Inc., (NYSE: MHS) today announced that it has been awarded URAC's Drug Therapy Management (DTM) Accreditation for its clinical management and member engagement programs that improve pharmacy care and prescription drug safety. The programs that earned accreditation include the Medco Therapeutic Resource Centers(R) that provide patients with access to specialist pharmacists trained in specific chronic and complex conditions, as well as the company's call center and front-end pharmacies.
In October 2007, URAC, an independent evaluator of health care quality, also awarded Medco its inaugural Pharmacy Benefit Management Accreditation, which recognized that Medco is clinically focused and meets quality standards for consumer protection and empowerment.
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"Do not, under any circumstances, delete software or modify system configurations when you are under a formal audit notice," IAITAM wrote. "In many cases, this type of action can be considered spoliation of evidence and could easily escalate the action being taken against you." In other words, instead of paying a small settlement fee, the auditors can sue you for copyright infringement, which could be significantly more costly. Plus, the criminal penalty for copyright infringement is up to five years in jail and a $250,000 fine.
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The Middle East is vital to China's present and future energy interests, but the region's thorny geopolitics make Chinese state-owned firms hesitant to make large investments there.
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Most Chinese apparently believe that China's rightful place in the international order is as a major (not singularly dominant) power whose views must be respected but who exists in general harmony with other nations.
Three years ago, the EU began to intensify its engagement with Asia. Now, the question is whether there is the political will to move this relationship to the next phase.
Dropping commodity prices will benefit China and create challenges for Latin American countries, yet this trend also opens the possibility of a more sustainable economic relationship.
As the 2015 ASEAN chair, Malaysia should demonstrate genuine and forward-looking regional leadership on the ASEAN Economic Community.
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To allay neighboring countries' misgivings about Beijing's growing assertiveness, China must match its verbal commitment to harmony and win-win collaboration with concrete actions.
Surging supply and faltering demand are the leading reason for the drop in oil prices, despite speculation in China about political machinations by Washington.
As the American occupation of Afghanistan comes to an end, China is getting ready to play a significant role in a country that has seen many great powers bite the dust.
China and the United States could join forces for a more sustainable oil policy in Venezuela.
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The BRICS countries are establishing the New Development Bank to expand economic assistance to developing countries beyond that offered by the Bretton Woods institutions.
China has enjoyed decades of rapid growth, but remains a developing country where urban and rural citizens have vastly different economic opportunities and income levels.
China faces challenges in achieving the ambitious carbon emissions targets announced during APEC, yet the country's progress on clean energy technology could also benefit other developing countries.
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According to an Eastern allegory explaining the cult of Divine Wisdom, Faith, Hope, and Charity were the daughters of Wisdom, a widow in Rome. The daughters suffered martyrdom during Hadrian's persecution of Christians: Faith, twelve, was scourged and went unharmed when boiling pitch was poured on her, was beheaded; Hope, ten, and Charity, nine, were also beheaded after emerging unscathed, from a furnace; and Wisdom died three days later ... Continue Reading
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Her father was ninety years old, but he was threatening her that if she got involved in India he was going to disinherit her. And he was a billionaire. So she was waiting - once he dies, she can become a sannyasin totally, without any fear.
But meanwhile, I have come here. The father is now dead, but the whole family - the mother, the uncles - now she is afraid of them. I have been here for four years; she has not come even once. In India, three times a year for fifteen years she was coming. I am here for four years, she has not come once.
On the contrary - certainly under some pressure because she is a billionaire - she has written a letter to Sheela saying, "I am no longer connected with the sannyas movement of Osho, I am no longer a sannyasin; and a note of this fact should be taken."
In America or in any other country, wherever I am there is going to be conflict with the people of that country. They are bound to be hostile, just because we are new, just because we are teaching a new way of living. And their investment with the old life is so much, that it is better to stay away from us. So only a few Americans who have guts are here.
The same was the situation in India. People from all over the world were coming, but Indians were not coming. In India they have their vested interests; they are afraid of the society, they are afraid of their religion. They are afraid of to whom they are going to marry their girl. Who will accept her? - because they have dropped out of the society.
But you will be surprised. India is so poor; still, at this festival there were two hundred and fifty Indians. There would have been five hundred, but two hundred and fifty were rejected, not given permission to come. Those two hundred and fifty people who came from that faraway place - thousands of miles - they were not coming to me in Pune. It is strange, but understandable. Coming here, nobody knows. Going back, nobody knows. Their society, their family - everything is safe. But coming to me in India would have been difficult.
I used to live in Bombay. Just above my apartment, there lived a family.Once in a while we passed each other, either in the elevator, or on the steps, or in the garden, but they never came to see me. And every day at my place, in my apartment, a group of two hundred sannyasins was meeting. And I was talking on a tremendously significant subject, which is published in The Book Of The Secrets - one hundred and twelve methods of meditation. But they could not gather courage.
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Mystery Boat: I am seeking any information about a boat I saw back in the early 1980's in a dry moorage in Seattle. It was on a trailer. I can only describe it the best that I can and then hope what I say here tips someone off as to what the make of this boat is. I have searched the internet for two days looking at images, etc using all kinds of keywords such as drop keel shoal keel swing keel 24 sailboat with bowsprit 1800 lbs ballast shoal draft outboard compartment Here is what I can tell you the boat had: swing keel shoal draft bowsprit outboard compartment full rudder had a keel that looked like a full keel and the swing keel then came down from there. Looked to draw about 2.5-3' good sized space below with head room of about 5.10-6' Green hull perhaps 24' or less teak interior with enclosed marine head the owner told me it was designed to cruise bluewater. The asking price used at the time was $12,000 and in good condition. Ring any bells? |
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Ding ding....Given you were in Seattle there's a possibility it was a Kent Ranger 26... follow the link.
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Aloha and thank you. You nailed it!
That is the boat! You are good! Really Good! I am located on the Big Island of Hawaii north of Hilo about 25 miles on highway 19 where my wife is teaching for a year. We are relocating to Page Arizona the summer of 2013 and I am looking for boat to sail Lake Powell. I love the design of the Ranger 26 and that it can be placed on a trailer. Do you still own a Ranger? My name is Bob Harding, good to meet you sir! Mahalo |
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10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. | 10 the voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths. |
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She is absolutely beautiful, too young for me but hopefully she finds a guy who can appreciate a woman like her.
this is nice... i did this when i turned 21... after that day the pay it forward thing sorta sticks with you to a greater or less degree... though less ambitious than that day... eventually the grandness of it fades away as the days go by... but it seems what you are left with is that little voice... reminding you when the opportunity to help someone presents itself to you
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The textile reader
- Language
- English.
- Edition
- English ed.
- Imprint
- London : Berg Publishers, 2012.
- Physical description
- xxi, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Contributor
- Hemmings, Jessica, editor of compilation.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Touch
- Textiles, text and techne
- Freud, fabric, fetish
- Meditation on translations and seduction
- The blank page
- Sense and sensibility
- Continuity of touch--textile as silent witness
- 2. Memory
- Stain: on cloth, stigma, and shame
- Considering the evidence
- Worn worlds: clothes, mourning and the life of things
- Collecting the contemporary: 'Love will decide what is kept and science will decide how it is kept
- The parody of the motley cadaver: displaying the funeral of fashion
- Autobiography of a pocket handkerchief
- 3. Structure
- Invisible cities
- Reflexive textile
- Ouvrage: knot a not, notes as knots
- Piecing and writing
- Testing orthodoxy: collecting, the gaze, knitting the impossible
- 1440: the smooth and the striated
- Folds, fragments, surfaces: towards a poetics of cloth
- Statement VI
- 4. Politics
- Weaving as metaphor and model for political thought
- Fiber art and the hierarchy of art and craft, 1960-80
- Tapestry and identity in Australia
- Gandhi and Khadi, the fabric of Indian independence
- Arachne's genre: towards inter-cultural studies in textiles
- Setting the stage: Yinka Shonibare MBE in conversation with Anthony Downey
- Culture
- 100% cotton
- Lisa Anne Auerbach's canny domesticity
- The subversive stitch: embroidery and the making of the feminine
- The yellow wallpaper
- 5. Production
- A tradition with a reason
- Zeroes + one: digital women & the new technoculture
- Open source embroidery: curatorial facilitation of material networks
- Embroidery pirates and fashion victims: textiles, c raft and copyright
- The romance of modern manufacture--A brief history of embroidered embellishment
- Artist's statement
- Upcycling textiles: adding value through design
- Constructing textiles
- Biocouture or how to grow a frock ...
- 6. Use
- Stronger, faster, lighter, safer, and smarter
- Knitting is ...
- De-coding the hierarchy of fashion textiles
- The Scarlet Letter
- Everyday use.
- Summary
- "The Textile Reader is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing field of scholarly research. Revealing the full diversity of approaches to the study of textiles, the Reader introduces students to the theoretical frameworks essential to the exploration of the textile from both a critical and a creative perspective. Content is drawn from a wide range of genres - blogs, artists' statements and fiction, as well as critical writings - and organized in themed sections covering touch, memory, structure, politics, production and use. Each thematic section is separately introduced and concludes with a bibliography for further reading. The Textile Reader will be an invaluable resource for students of textile design, textile art, applied arts and crafts and material culture. Selected authors include Glenn Adamson, Anni Albers, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Sarat Maharaj, Rozsika Parker, Sadie Plant, Peter Stallybrass, Alice Walker and Catherine de Zegher"-- Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Textile fabrics.
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- Publication date
- 2012
- Responsibility
- edited by Jessica Hemmings.
- 9781847886354
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Full title reads: "Notting Hill. Shameful Episode".
West London. Race riots are sparked, possibly by outsiders coming to attack immigrant families.
SV Afro-Caribbean Family carrying cases and bags walking towards camera, as they walk out of picture a small boy is left pushing a pushing-chair. CU Sign on wall reading "Bramley Road, W."
GV Crowds of people running along street towards greengrocer's shop in which an Afro-Caribbean man is hiding. SV Greengrocer's shop with crowds of people outside, policemen trying to hold them back. SV Police car coming towards camera. SV Crowd on other side of road watching. CU Police car going past into BV taking Afro-Carribean to safety.
SV People walking towards camera. GV Street in Notting Hill. CU Rag and bone man with horse and cart. GV Street, youth leaning against railings looking towards houses, pan to CU broken windows. CU Other broken windows on ground floor, pan up to broken windows on first floor, pan up to broken windows on second floor. CU Sign outside house "To Be Sold" pan up to Afro-Carribean woman looking out of window. CU White women pan across to broken railings. CU Bits of iron railing lying on ground. GV Youths sitting on wall at corner of street with two policemen walking by and another youth walking across street towards them.


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A good anaylsis of Sarkozy.
He seemed to have good ideas about making France more competitive however the system was stacked against him.
Change in France is hard. This is sucide in a world where developing countries have low labor costs and 40 hr weeks. You need to compete or suffer the consquences.
"He seemed to have good ideas"
oh! Plenty!
You know what they say about precision watches (a subject well to his liking).
A functioning watch is always a bit fast or slow - thus, never on time.
A stopped watch is exactly on time - twice a day.
He was that rare thing, a watch on triple speed: he was on time a lot of times a day - but nobody could tell when.
Now we're trying the first model. Only hoping he won't morph into the second one.
You have Sarkozy deranged syndrome.
Obviously you go nuts whenever you hear his name.
Better to go nuts than bananas, as you obviously do.
He IS fascinating. He'll be the subject of many a book.
And if you care to look at my other posts, you'll see I can spy the light in him, like Luke Skywalker.
Excuse me I am not a Sarkozy supporter nor a French citizen so I don't have a bone in this fight.
Just giving my views on an international blog about the French elections.
But your assumption that anybody doesn't agree with your views about Sarkozy has gone "bananas" speaks volumes about your Sarkozy deranged syndrome.
Sarkozy was not evil nor an saint, just a politician trying to do what he thought was the best in a time of the greatest economic turmoil in a long time.
Good luck to Hollande. We are all in the same boat together whether you realize it or not. If France prospers we all in the west prosper because the North American / European economies are intimately tied together whether you leftists like it or not.
Three things dear Emma,
(1) calling me (unprovoked) nuts and deranged is not conducive to civil discourse. It will expose you to unfriendly counterfire in the shape of bananas. No apologies here.
(2) I see many things in Mr Sarkozy, both good and bad, and believe me, in the current bipolarization he has induced, that is quite an achievement. Get a look at French blogs and reel at the intensity of the melee.
(3) Asserting that Mr Sarkozy was only "trying to do what he thought was the best" is, er, open to discussion. To many, he was very much intent on his own interests, status, posture, image, whatever, and the service of the State was a distant background consideration. OK, let's concede that he honestly thought that what was good for Mr Sarkozy was good for France.
However I completely concur with you that we are all in the same boat. I too wish good luck to Mr Hollande. He needs it. After all, contrary to Mr Sarkozy, he does not start with the glowing endorsement of the international powers that be.
Most politicians with very rare exceptions tend to be self centered and concerned perhaps too much with their status, posture, image etc. Some are better at hiding it behind high sounding words than others.
Sarkozy however didn't seem to have te knack of camouflaging it as well as most politicians. He wasn't slick.
Ok I grant that he may have at times put his personal interests above that of the state but don't all politicians do that at least some of the time?
And perhaps the current economic turmoil is more to blame for the polorization in French society. Just take a look all over Europe, the polorization whether in Greece or Holland is equally bad.
The only international power that I know of which was openly against Hollande was Merkel. The German dovernment is not the only international power in the world. Nor does the Economist represent the British government.


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good agreement with the localization proposed for the homologous Ysc proteins. Thus, the similarity between the Ysc apparatus and the flagellum export apparatus resides in their most inner part. While the Salmonella and Shigella "injectisomes" can be visualized by electron microscopy (13, 14), such visualization is not yet the case for the Yersinia Ysc apparatus. Little is known about the actual mechanism of export, but it is generally assumed that the Ysc apparatus serves as a hollow conduit through which the exported proteins travel to cross the two membranes and the peptidoglycan barrier, in one step. Whether proteins travel folded or unfolded has not yet been demonstrated but, given the size of channel, it is likely that they travel at least partially unfolded.
Translocation of Effectors Across Animal Cell Membranes. Purified secreted Yops have no cytotoxic effect on cultured cells, although live extracellular Yersinia have such an activity. Cytotoxicity nevertheless depends on the capacity of the bacterium to secrete YopE and YopD, and YopE alone is cytotoxic when microinjected into the cells (15). This observation led to the hypothesis that YopE is a cytotoxin that needs to be injected into the eukaryotic cell's cytosol by a mechanism involving YopD to exert its effect (15). This hypothesis was demonstrated by confocal laser scanning microscopy (16) and by the adenylate cyclase reporter enzyme strategy, an approach that is now widely used in "type III secretion" (17): infection of eukaryotic cells with a recombinant Y. enterocolitica producing hybrid proteins consisting of the N terminus of various Yops (other than YopB and YopD) fused to the catalytic domain of a calmodulin-dependant adenylate cyclase (Yop-Cya proteins) leads to an accumulation of cyclic AMP (cAMP) in the cells. Since there is no calmodulin in the bacterial cell and culture medium, this accumulation of cAMP signifies the internalization of Yop-Cya into the cytosol of eukaryotic cells (17). The phenomenon is strictly dependant on the presence of YopD and YopB. Thus, extracellular Yersinia inject Yops into the cytosol of eukaryotic cells by a mechanism that involves at least YopD and YopB (18, 19). Yops are thus a collection of intracellular "effectors" (YopE, YopH, YopM, YpkA/YopO, YopP/YopJ, and YopT) and "translocators" (including YopB and YopD) which are required for the translocation of the effectors across the plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells ( 20).
This model of intracellular delivery of Yop effectors by extracellular adhering bacteria is now largely supported by a number of other results, including immunological observations. During a mouse infection by wild-type Y. enterocolitica, the epitope formed by amino acid residues 249–257 of the YopH effector protein is presented by MHC class I molecules, as cytosolic proteins are, and not by MHC class II molecules, as antigens are that are processed in phagocytic vacuoles (21).
A Pore Formed by Translocators. The translocators YopB and YopD have hydrophobic domains, suggesting that they could act as transmembrane proteins (16, 17 and 18, 22). In agreement with this possibility, Yersinia has a contact-dependent lytic activity on sheep erythrocytes, depending on YopB and YopD (19, 23), which suggests that the translocation apparatus involves some kind of a pore in the target cell membrane by which the Yop effectors pass through to reach the cytosol. This YopB- and YopD-dependent lytic activity is higher when the effector yop genes are deleted, suggesting that the pore is normally filled with effectors (19, 23). The idea of a translocation pore is further supported by the observation that the membrane of macrophage-like cells infected with an effector polymutant Y. enterocolitica becomes permeable to small dyes (23). If the macrophages are preloaded before the infection with a low-molecular weight fluorescent marker, they release the fluorescent marker but not cytosolic proteins, indicating that there is no membrane lysis but rather insertion of a small pore (diameter 16–23 Å) into the macrophage plasma membrane (23). The hypothesis of a channel is reinforced by the observation that artificial liposomes that have been incubated with Yersinia contain channels detectable by electrophysiology (24). All these events are dependent on the presence of the translocators YopB and YopD. These two hydrophobic Yops seem thus to be central for the translocation of the effectors and for the formation of a channel in lipid membranes. They presumably play different roles in pore formation. Indeed, YopB alone can disturb artificial membranes, whereas YopD cannot. Moreover, YopD has been shown to end up in the cytosol of eukaryotic cells (25).
YopB and YopD are encoded by a large operon that also encodes LcrV, LcrG, and the chaperone SycD. LcrV is a secreted Yop that has a different name for historical reasons. The fact that LcrG and LcrV are encoded together with translocators suggests that they could also be involved in translocation. Not surprisingly, LcrV interacts with YopB and YopD (26), is surfaceexposed before target cell contact (27), and is also required for translocation (26). In contrast with YopB, YopD, and LcrV, LcrG is not a released protein, but its exact localization in the bacterium remains elusive. It is required for efficient translocation of Yersinia Yop effector proteins into the eukaryotic cells but it is not required for pore formation. It binds to heparan sulfate proteoglycans (28), but the significance of this binding is not clear yet.
The Cytosolic Chaperones. Type III secretion often involves a new type of small cytosolic chaperone (29, 30 and 31) (Fig. 1). In Yersinia, these chaperones are called "Syc" (for specific Yop chaperone) (31). Generally, they are encoded by a gene that is located close to the gene encoding the Yop protein they serve, and this is a useful indication to recognize them. These chaperones may not form a single homogeneous group but rather could belong to two


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I had a cabinet replaced yesterday to fit a microwave/convection oven with a touch sensor screen. From above eye level I can see there is saw dust / wood particles in the clock panel. Dose anyone have any suggestions on how to remove the saw dust or know how it is done? I will contact the manufacturer, but am concerned the saw dust / particles will damage the control panel. Thank you! |
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What is the best way to remove offsets from species such as paeonifolius during dormancy? I accidentally broke an offset from the parent corm. Then i treated it with a fungicide called 'Mancozeb' as it was all I had at the time as to prevent infection. Anyone else had success with this product?
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if they look as if they will remove easily, then you probably can. otherwise what another season before doing it. offsets can be a little sensitive and may dessicate because they are so small. |
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First trailer for the upcoming game Prey 2
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This is a Prey Video Review. The reviewer is Chris Phillips aka chrisphil1724. I WANT DUKE NUKEM FOREVER!
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This is an old trailer that was shown at E3 in 1998.
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Prey for your mobile phone.. Looks amazing, like ps2 quality amazing!!
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Prey, changed around a bit, using The Movies. If you have not played the game, you may not understand some of the jokes. But if you have, watch!
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All Dark Sector's stuff put together with slow-mo executions. Soundtrack by Korn, Slipknot and Drowning Pool. New awesome gameplay
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A full music video I created for fhe ending track to Prey, by "After Midnight Project". The video was directed by Joseph "Maniac" Cirillo III (me) and it features After Midnight Project and scenes from the smash hit Prey
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In First Person Lover, players battle evil forces with the power of love.
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Don your cape and mask and join the Supreme League of Patriots in this hilarious and irreverent superhero comedy...
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Life is Strange is a five part episodic game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and...
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The new game from Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki.
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Guide Kirby as he sets off on grand adventures in a hand-sculpted clay world.
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Hektor is a first-person, psychological horror game where nothing ever stays the same for long.
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School bells are ringing again; don't hate (all) movie/TV educators because they're beautiful...
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Daisy makes tira de asado, or barbecued beef short ribs, for family dinner.
Just what the doctor ordered: pork braised in a good-for-you herbal broth.
UNLV footballers run on this barbecue. Now you can feed it to your team!
Bal uses her own garden herbs and veggies to roast with ribs for a picnic.
Drunk, indeed: cooking pasta in a bottle of wine intensifies the flavor.
Bobby Flay does beef and Ching does pork in an Asian rib grilling battle.
High-temp grilling gives beer-braised spare ribs and sausages big flavor.
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The Case That Apple Should Buy Nokia
Re:One more thing... (286 comments)
Actually HTC is making the "signature" WP8 devices, not Nokia.
Announcing: Slashdot Deals - Explore geek apps, games, gadgets and more. (what is this?)
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Re:One more thing... (286 comments)
Actually HTC is making the "signature" WP8 devices, not Nokia.
Re:Trailer-generators (490 comments)
Another disadvantage: the time when you would most want to tow something else, like an actual trailer or a boat - on a longer trip - you can't, because you're towing part of your car instead. There's also the issue of safety: trailers are terrible for handling and make driving, dangerously lethal as it already is, even more difficult.
Re:How much dough does this man have!? (266 comments)
He actually started the space company because nobody would provide him with a rocket cheaply enough to launch his greenhouse. So, he decided he would have to do it himself.
Re:Good to keep in mind (421 comments)
There's no inherent reason you *have* to rebuild everything, it's just that our resuable designs are not sufficiently advanced. Early jet engines had to be rebuilt after almost every flight; but after a few decades of refinement, they can operate almost continuously for months without major maintenance.
Re:boo! (184 comments)
I doubt it. I mean, I asm certain that most people value their privacy. They just don't value it all that highly. The first time frozen pizzas go on sale 5/$10, most people will conclude that it's worth the price.
Re:My prediction (179 comments)
You're on to something, but I think it's simply a case of chronological proximity bias. The problems we face today always *feel* like the most severe problems ever faced, but that is probably often just because they are the most prominent in our minds. I mean, look how many writers from the last century predicted widespread famine, because when you ran the numbers it just didn't seem possible. They thought it was the biggest problem humanity ever faced. Eventually we managed to overcome it and now it feels like a big nothing. Instead we have our own, new, biggest problems humanity has ever faced. Except they're not, not really. They just seem that way because we know that the other ones got solved, and we don't know yet how to solve the unsolved ones. And those writers, in turn, were probably overestimating the relative severity of that problem compared to other historical problems.
It's the same perspective problem that causes doomsdayism.
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If enough manufacturers are seeing this reason for return and losing money because of it, you can be sure they'll start charging restock fees.
Re:Thin edge of the wedge. (521 comments)
The point is that there is nothing that will be preventing you from doing whatever you want to the hardware you bought: hack it, wipe it, blend it, nobody will stop you. What you are actually complaining about is that the hardware you bought isn't exactly the hardware you want. But, it's a lot harder to blame other people for the poor purchasing decision you made.
Re:Simple adjustment: (222 comments)
Honest to god, real-life spit-take. Keyboard's okay, though, it's a Model M.
Re:ZPE (222 comments)
There's already an entire website specifically for that purpose.
Re:Article title (222 comments)
Thank you, Dr. Science.
Re:Would not one have to spend energy... (222 comments)
I don't recall the specific physics principle, but it is something along the lines of 'particles below a certain size cannot be measured without affecting their behavior'.
It's the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. However, by reversing the polarity of the entangled particles and running them through the matrix field of a Heisenberg compensator, you get a controlled tachyon burst that counteracts entropy. At least, that's what I gathered from this write-up.
Re:The best is when people break the stereotype. (432 comments)
No, no, you want to say "serious business." Mirrored shades, porn 'stache, aloha shirt, silk sport coat, and a concealed smartphone holster.
Re:Your staff (432 comments)
That would be great! Get them with the cursive name patches, too. And might as well strap on elbow pads by default for working under the desks!
Re:Look to Gene Kranz (432 comments)
You know, I'm not sure if there was an explicit dress code beyond "shirt and tie," or if it was simply a case of everybody following Kranz's lead. I'm fairly certain that engineers were originally expected to wear suits, but somewhere along the line that rule was relaxed and short sleeves permitted due to the heat generated by all the equipment.
Look to Gene Kranz (432 comments)
Mission control, 1960's, shall forever be the exemplar of true nerd fashion. However, in a bow to modernity, the pocket slide rule could probably be replaced with a smartphone.
Re:Maybe it's just me (563 comments)
The difference is how much rendering is done by vertex and pixel shaders, and how much is pre-rendered by the CPU and blitted to the GPU as a texture. Ideally you want as much of the former as you can.
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Re:Ok... (180 comments)
Or, if you want to get really crazy sci-fi, a kind of jet-powered "superbus" made out of lightweight materials like composites and aluminum, that travels above the roads and doesn't require any infrastructure between the start and end points at all! It could go much faster and could travel in direct routes, disregarding terrain altogether. Maybe someday...
Re:A foul subject. (303 comments)
Salt? That goes on the fries, of course.
This is why the Federation, by the time of Picard, has devolved into a totalitarian military dictatorship. The only apparent choices, when confronted with the discovery of technology as dangerous as matter transportation and mass-energy conversion, it seemed the only logical choice. Replicators, warp drives, and transporters could easily give every single person a comfortable lifestyle, but were so incredibly dangerous that they could never be allowed to fall into untrusted hands. So, Starfleet (and later, the Federation) established itself as the only entity allowed to possess such dangerous technology, strictly and ruthlessly enforced, but in return, provided every person on the planet with all their material needs.
This, of course, resulted in the elimination of free markets, because the only thing that could not be easily replicated was land. For a brief time, it was worried that, having nothing of value with which to negotiate the buying and selling of land, violence would break out between those that owned land and those which did not, and now could not because even human labor was now of minimal value. As a solution, Starfleet confiscated all privately owned land. Thereafter, land was apportioned to individuals on the basis of their contributions to Starfleet. This is one reason why, despite being a very hazardous occupation, it was so hard to get into the academy - becoming a member of starfleet was one of the only ways to gain significant amounts of landed property, though of course scientists and other professionals who rendered their services to Starfleet as civilians, while they could not be paid with any material goods (material goods having lost all value), were paid with land as well.
The major exception was for human colonists. In order to promote human expansion, increase the amount of available Earth land available for Starfleet apportionment, and to encourage the dislocation of dissidents, colonists were granted the right to appropriate land on other planets according to whatever method of apportionment the colonists wished to choose - subject, of course, to the needs of the Federation.
The net result of this policy was that most people remaining on earth were Starfleet supporters, and dissidents were strongly encouraged to leave Earth and colonize other parts of the quadrant. While a few colonists, desperate to escape the clutches of Starfleet, left federation space altogether, most could not afford to do so, having been stripped of the right to own weapons by the Federation and thus being almost totally defenseless and needing the protection of Starfleet. But Starfleet protection was not by any means inexpensive. In return for protection, Starfleet demanded complete obedience. Colonists were forbidden from owning energy weapons, warp vessels, or unauthorized replicators. Starfleet was even skeptical about allowing fusion reactors, but ultimately realized the necessity of it. As a result, however, Federation observation posts and starbases were never far away.
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Another year draws to a close.
2013 was a big year for me in many ways. Lots of life changing events. The most important of these was in February when I lost my beautiful, and always inspiring, Aunt Ruby. I still can't really believe she is gone. If you know me at all you know she was a source of inspiration to me. A real treasure. She was a strong, smart, spunky lady who had a ready smile, a warm heart, and baked a killer pecan pie. I miss her every day and 2013 was a little bleaker for her loss. Of course, 2013 was not all bad. In April I went to England and became Godmother to my best friends youngest daughter. After that I flew to Bologna, Italy where I had some of the best food in the world. When I got home I decided to change my life, and over the summer did just that! It is going better than I could have hoped! I am happy, and that is what matters most! This fall I went back to what is my favorite place outside Texas – Tokyo, Japan. I ate my way across the city, tortured the locals with my very bad Japanese, and had the most marvelous time! I have made some wonderful new friends this year, like the witty Ms. T, discovered that I like painting even though I have very little talent for it, and I am looking forward to what 2014 has to offer! I think a party is in order!
When I think party I think appetizers! I love bite-sized goodies that one can grab on the way to the bar! These little pies were inspired by two things – roast beef sandwiches, and Southern cheese straws. I wanted a tangy, slightly spicy crust with a savory, cheesy beef filling. These certainly delivered. For the crust I used the sharpest cheddar I could find. I wanted a very tangy cheese to stand up against the robust filling. That filling is made with smoked Gouda, beer, horseradish, more cheddar, and – for freshness – chives. There is a lot going on here, but it all works. These are cute little pies, too, so they would fit in at both formal and casual events. I can see these being a big hit at a New Years Eve party, as a nibble before Thanksgiving, served up at a Superbowl watching party, or as part of a Spring brunch spread.
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I recently promised an individual through the plant exchange forum to trade some anna hardy kiwi cuttings from my three vines that are now producing fruit. After reading about the difficulty of propogating hardwood kiwi cuttings, I decided to try to propagate them from soft cuttings taken this year. I first tried airlayering; all five attempts failed. I am now trying ground layering. I place a brick over the soil-covered branch to hold it down, but I believe that the brick heats up the souild and has killed the branch. I have three green cuttings that I planted in a pot that still have a shot, but I am not hopeful. Any suggestions? |
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Here is a link that might be useful: Kiwi Propagation
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I stuck some dormant season prunings in the ground this winter not really thinking (or especially even wanting) that they would grow, but they leafed out a couple months ago and they're still alive now, so they must have rooted. Regular (ground) layering is how I've propagated hardy kiwis when I've wanted to. If you're going to use a brick I wouldn't put it directly on top of the vine, but I'd dig a shallow trench, bury a middle section of the branch with the dirt I dug out, and then put the brick/weight on top of that to hold everything down. So far as I can remember I've had 100% success layering hardy kiwis like that, although I've mostly given the process a full growing season. It sure seems like the easiest way to propagate a few extra vines. |
Last June, I had success in rooting cuttings. About half took. I used my usual potting mix (a combination of leaf compost, pine bark, and perlite) and kept them moist and out of direct sun for several weeks. |
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Swamp Pirate Zombies take the Reliance Stage by Storm
Chris Eymer, on the left, played the part of a pirate, while Shane Reis, on the right was cast as a Hollywood type producer and both starred in the Reliance Area Community Development's 18th annual dinner/theater which wrapped up its last performance Sat. March 2. Gayle Mohr, center, the screenplay writer, continues to write the fictitious script for Swamp Pirate Zombies as Eymer and Reis have fun playing the part of pirates. See more on page 2.
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Operating from London and Luxembourg, Borletti Group's Private Equity division is a team of successful managers with entrepreneurial, industrial and financial backgrounds. The team has expertise of investing in three core sectors: retail, luxury/branded consumer goods and real estate with a retail component.
Over the last eight years, Borletti Group has led acquisitions that total over €6bn:
Borletti Group makes investments in buy-outs, acquiring stakes in mid-sized companies within its core industry sectors.
These investments typically include leveraged buyouts and other types of private equity transactions, including co-investments. Borletti Group differs to many other private equity groups because it adjusts its investment horizon to suit the investment needs of the acquired company. This means that there are no maturity constraints on exit time, an approach that has resulted in an excellent track record of returns for co-investors.
Borletti Group focuses on three core sectors:
- Retail with a particular focus on department stores
- Luxury and branded consumer goods
- Real estate with a retail component
Borletti Group has a deep understanding of the sectors in which it invests. The Group brings a strong entrepreneurial approach to its investments and works with leading management teams to realise the full potential of the portfolio companies. The Group takes an active role in all investments, leveraging its network in targeted industries and using specific knowledge of industries to create a bespoke approach that gets results. Its aim is to act as support and accelerator of the company CEO and the management team. However, while Borletti Group participates in key strategic decisions it does not take a direct management role, leaving company management in charge of the day-to-day running of the business.
Borletti Group's role with both Printemps and la Rinascente proves that this is a winning approach. In both cases, Borletti Group played an active role in driving the business plan and successfully:
- March 2005: Acquisition of la Rinascente from IFIL / Auchan
Leading Italian department store with over €300m sales, 5,500 employees and a prime real estate portfolio
- Competitive auction with over 35 participants
- Borletti Group's equity partners: Deutsche Bank, Pirelli, Investitori Associati
- 2005-2011: Strategy of revamping the stores, through major investments and of product category reallocation that led to a successful repositioning of la Rinascente
- June 2011: Sale of la Rinascente to Central Retail Corporation (Thai retail group)
- Over five times equity return
- Played a key role in the acquisition phase with the seller and its advisors
- Used its expertise to help the business
- Accessed its network and contacts to build a consortium involving some of the most prestigious and prominent private and institutional investors
- Delivered credibility with regards to unions, media and other institutions
- Decided the constitution of the management team
- Led important negotiations with key brands
- Significant sales improvement confirmed the success of the new brand strategy for
la Rinascente (+9.4% net sales in 2008)
- Unsuccessful own brands were replaced by "A-brands"
- October 2006: Acquisition of "Printemps" from PPR Group
Leading French department store chain with €950m sales, over 5,000 employees and a prime real estate portfolio.
- Proprietary confidential acquisition process with only three participants.
- Borletti Group's equity partner: Deutsche Bank.
- 2006-2013: Major investments to revamp the stores and product category reallocation leading to a successful repositioning of the group.
- July 2013: Sale of Printemps to Qatari investor (sales having reached €1.3bn).
- Over six times equity return.
- Played a key role in the acquisition phase with the seller and its advisors.
- Used its great expertise to help the business.
- Built a consortium involving some of the most prestigious and prominent private and institutional investors.
- Delivered credibility with regards to unions, media and other institutions during the acquisition phase.
- Identified the CEO and decided the constitution of the management team.
- Led negotiations with key brands.
- Successful repositioning of store network including the flagship store leading to a significant increase in sales productivity per square metre.
- Operational improvement leading to a four point increase in profitability.
The asset management activity of Borletti Group was launched in 2013 with the creation of Borletti & Partners as a Luxembourg-based investment manager. This operates as a separate division distinct from the private equity operation. A key driving force of this new venture is to leverage the Borletti Group private equity expertise and its industry know how. Its aim is to bring this insight and knowledge to the world of public companies and open-end funds, combining it with a hedge fund investment approach.
The Borletti & Partners Fund was created to provide its investors with access to the expertise and insight packaged in the "The Borletti Asset Class ". The Borletti Asset Class is comprised of stocks, bonds and other liquid financial instruments across the Luxury, Retail, Consumer Services, Household and Personal Care sectors. A focus on these sectors combines attractive growth, inflation protection and income generation supported by well-recognized brands and franchises that have been built over a long period. Borletti Group's investment universe includes around 250 listed companies worldwide.
Borletti & Partners has a disciplined and rigorous investment process. Its objective is to achieve high performance by constructing a concentrated portfolio (between 20 and 25) of thoroughly selected stocks. While the aim is to be fully-invested for the majority of the time, its absolute return strategy builds in flexibility to protect investments, when needed, via effective and well-tested protection strategies. The goal is to build performance through long biased exposures.
Its global investment universe is closely monitored and industry insight, depth of knowledge and day‐to‐day intelligence enables the Borletti & Partners team to hand-pick stocks, sectors and regions that it believes are the most likely to achieve the best results. The goal is to adopt an approach that balances the best quality portfolio of stocks with diversification and portfolio risks. Borletti & Partners in‐depth, bottom-up, analysis will always be validated and counterbalanced with a top down approach for geographic positioning.
The Savile Global Lifestyle Fund was created as a vehicle for stocks, bonds and other liquid financial instruments that make up "The Borletti Asset Class".
Borletti & Partners' organisation is based upon a strict separation of investment and non-investment tasks. The investment team is in charge of investment decisions, trading and portfolio management. The Risk and Operations team is responsible for trade and portfolio reconciliation, compliance controls and risk management and reporting. Valuation and accounting are performed by a top-tier independent fund administrator.
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Borletti Group has invested in a state-of-the art IT infrastructure offering redundant data storage, secure distance access, business continuity solutions and disaster recovery plans. It has also invested in a customised portfolio management solution developed by Hedgeguard. This offers bespoke compliance and risk alerts as well as portfolio analysis and stress test tools.
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NEW YORK–The 7 W New York showroom building has debuted the Sales Specialist Initiative, which is intended to allow more of the building's showrooms to take advantage of buyer traffic during and between markets.
The building has named Tania Perez-Nieves to the newly created position of head salesperson/showroom manager, responsible for leading this program and helping to represent showrooms during markets and regular business hours. Perez-Nieves reports to Toni Toreno, 7 W's marketing manager. In this position, she will perform training and product/brand immersion services, provide buyers with product information and company contacts, communicate sales leads to company executives, ensure that buyer leads receive follow-up, make certain that showrooms are in order with proper signage displayed and provide outreach between buyers and the design community.
Prior to taking this post, Perez-Nieves served on the sales team for 7 W's NYC Baby & Kids Fair. Her career also includes showroom-management positions for Aldik and Silvestri/Syratech.