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Betsy Goes For Gold
Betsy Richards, Year 5, is delighted to have returned to
School with a Gold Medal from the ISA National Swimming Finals at the Olympic
Stadium in London.
CBSO Singalong
Last Sunday twenty girls
and staff had a special day at the Birmingham Symphony Hall singing the Mozart
Requiem from scratch, with choral expert Simon Halsey and the CBSO Orchestra.
Flute Masterclass
Principal Flautist of the City of
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Marie-Christine Zupancic, gave a masterclass in
the Lawnside Room for our Senior flautists, watched by some of our other
flautists and GCSE / A-level musicians.
Roman Feast
On 16 January,
girls in Years 5 - 8 enjoyed a Roman Feast in Lawnside, which was transformed
into a Roman triclinium with couches and low tables.
Ski Trip 2014 - a report by Elysia Garland
The school ski trip was a great mix of twenty seven girls
from years 8 to years 13.
Room On The Broom
Pre-Prep went to see a super theatre production of
Room on the Broom (childrens story by acclaimed author Julia Donaldson) at
Malvern Theatres on 20 January.
OGA University Workshop
Ellie Kirby (MSJ 2011) came in to School to give a
University Workshop to current girls in Years 10 to 13 and to champion the
value of Arts degrees.
Pantomime Preparations
The Prep Department show, Panto Pandemonium, is now only two
weeks away and things are really starting to take shape.
Panto Pandemonium
Friday 30 January
Latest Sports News from Nicky Clift, Sports Prefect
Sport Report 17 January 2015
A mixed 2nd and Year 10 team played RGS Worcester on
Weekly Letter from Mrs Wilkinson, Pre-Prep Co-ordinator
To read Mrs Wilkinson's latest letter, please click here.
Weekly Letter from Miss Townsend, Prep Department Co-ordinator
To read Miss Townsend's latest letter, please click here.
Ambiguity - An Art Exhibition by Fleur Yearsley
Friday 6 March 2015
Military Music Career Beckons
Major Simon Haw,
Director of Music, British Army, recently visited Malvern St James to offer
bespoke career advice to one of our senior musicians, Kirsty Haines.
Hannah To Compete in Czech Republic
has started well for Hannah Tapley, Year 11.
She competed in her first event of the year last weekend; the Midlands
AA Indoor Open at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham.
Made In Africa Exhibition Raises Money for Ebola Crisis
Fiyin Durojaiye, one of our Year 10 Hatfield
House boarders, organised an exhibition in the lead up to Christmas in order to
raise funds for the Ebola Crisis. She
describes her experiences below:
Mrs Woodhouse, Headmistress, interviewed by The Independent on Sunday
The article below was printed in the Independent on Sunday newspaper on 28 December 2014.
Spring Concert
Sunday 22 March 2015
Friends of MSJ Barn Dance
Friday 27 February 2015
Oxbridge Interview Time
We are delighted to see some of our Sixth Form
students heading off for interview at Oxford and Cambridge universities this
MUN Conference at Tudor Hall School
the end of November, twenty five girls from MSJ attended the Model United
Nations Conference at Tudor Hall, along with some of the top academic schools
in the country.
Evelyn Rides to Victory
Evelyn Haynes,
Year 12, attended a British Show Jumping event held at the West Wiltshire
Equestrian Centre, near Chippenham on Sunday 23 November.
Grace Qualifies for British Biathlon Championships
On 19 October Grace Nolan, Year
5, competed in the West Midlands Regional Biathlon Championships under 10 age
group at Tudor Grange Academy in Solihull.
Oh! What A Lovely War
St. James Performing Arts Department staged a stunning production of Joan
Littlewood's 'Oh! What a Lovely War' this year to commemorate the centenary of
the outbreak of the Great War.
Inspiring Lectures for Classics Students
Classical Civilisation and Greek students in Years 11 to 13 travelled to Dean
Close School, Cheltenham, recently to hear two excellent speakers.
Life Drawing Class
On the weekend of the 15 and 16 November all Year 12 and 13
artists were given the opportunity to take part in a two day intensive course
in Life Drawing led by Dora Paynter.
Lest We Forget
Girls performed a programme of music entitled Lest We
Forget, to a rapt audience at Hellens Manor in Much Marcle on Friday 14
Expert Parents Day
On Friday 8 November, Pre-Prep held their first
Expert Parents Day.
Cliona Joins County Jazz Orchestra
Cliona Maley, Year 12,
has successfully auditioned to become a member of the Worcestershire Youth
Jazz Orchestra.
Georgia and Gregory Dance to Success
Georgia Mucklow, Year
8, was delighted to receive a clutch of medals at the West Midlands Dance
Festival recently.
Biology Field Trip to Nettlecombe Court
In October, as part of our Year 13 Ecology module, ten of us carried out
Biology fieldwork at a beautiful Field Centre at Nettlecombe Court, in Somerset.
International Golfing Success for Lucy Walton
Lucy Walton, Year 11, has
returned home thrilled and delighted after achieving an incredible 3rd place in
the Faldo Series Grand Final (Under 16 section) at The Greenbrier, West
Virginia, USA.
The Tempest
Students from Year 10 went to The Courtyard Theatre in
Hereford on Tuesday 14 October to perform a magical production of The Tempest
as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival.
MSJ in The Gambia
On Friday 10 October 2014, Team Gambia hosted 150 guests
at their biennial evening fundraising event.
People Who Help Us
On Monday 13 September, the Pre-Prep went on a trip to
discover People Who Help Us!.
Prep Department takes a trip to the Vet
The Prep
Department guinea pigs, Lola and Pigley, were in need of having their nails
trimmed, so it was time to take a trip to the vet.
Girls Visit the Newest Member of the MSJ Fleet
On 2 October three Sixth Form girls,
Nicole Cheng, Nicky Clift and Cliona Maley, along with Miss Andrews and Mrs
Cartwright, were invited to an Affiliates Day on board HMS Dragon.
Prestigious Law Firm Hosts MSJ Girls
On Wednesday 1 October, fourteen aspiring Law students
visited the Solihull office of Hill Hofstetter, a specialist commercial firm
offering first class legal and commercial advice to leading national and
international corporations.
Sweet Success for Eleanor
to Eleanor Revill, Year 12, who continues to amass awards for her beekeeping
Year 7 STEM Trip
Girls in Year 7 were enthralled by a Next Generation
Innovators Day, which took place in Malvern on Thursday 2 October.
Clean Sweep for MSJ at ISA Midlands Netball Tournament
30 September our Year 11 Netball team travelled to St Dominics School in
Staffordshire to take part in the ISA Midlands Netball Tournament, where they
would face a total of 7 matches throughout the day against some tough
MSJ Golf Day - Friday, 19 September 2014
The MSJ Golf Day was conceived by Year 11 pupil and
Worcestershire Schools U18 Girls Golf Champion Lucy Walton and the inaugural
event was organised at the Worcestershire Golf Club by the Friends of MSJ.
Waterside Fun for the Prep Department
Nearly the whole Prep Department gathered with
buckets and spades, beach balls and nets, sun hats and rain coats, ready for a
recreational trip to the Cotswold Water Park and Beach on Saturday 27 September.
Memorable Riding Season for Pippa
Pippa Wollen, Year 11, and her pony Phoenix have won the Pony
Club NFU Mutual National Novice Individual Eventing Championship at
Kelsall Hill.
Team Spirit Builds for Gambia 2015
Team Gambia 2015 spent Saturday 20 September under
canvas at Eastnor for a weekend of teambuilding and bonding, kindly donated by
D3 Events.
Drama Students Visit The Globe
It was a splendid trip to the Globe on 17 September. GCSE
and A level Drama students enjoyed a hilarious performance of 'Comedy of
Errors' in the wonderful setting of this recreated Elizabethan theatre.
Letter in The Times
Please follow the link to read a letter from Mrs Woodhouse, published in The Times on 24 September under the heading: Public schools 'offer the state sector a boost'.
This letter was in response to an article by Janice Turner, published in The Times of 20 September entitled: Public schools must learn the meaning of charity.
Hannah Hits The High Notes
Hannah Tapley, Year 11, is
nothing if not determined, as her mother will testify.
Final report on Duke of Edinburgh Qualifying Expedition 2014
girls successfully completed their Qualifying Venture at Gold and Silver level
this July during the first week of the summer holidays.
Year 12 Enjoy MSJ Old Girl Performing at the RSC
During their Cultural and Team Building Trip to
Stratford-Upon-Avon, Year 12 were fortunate enough to attend a performance of
Henry IV Part 1 at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Exciting Start of Term for the Pre-Prep Girls
As well as welcoming new
girls and catching up with old friends, Pre-Prep have been making the most of
the last of the summer weather with lots of fun activities.
Malvern St James Girls Enjoy Record GCSE Performances Across the Board
Malvern St James Girls School is celebrating record GSCE performances,
building on the excellent A Level successes last week and the years
outstanding personal achievements.
Top Universities Open Their Doors to Forward-Thinking Malvern St James Girls
MSJ is once again celebrating todays A Level results, which herald another excellent year of personal academic achievement.
Ani Plays with Nicola Benedetti
Ani King, Year 6, had the privilege to play with Nicola
Benedetti MBE when she directed 2 days of workshops for promising young
Launch of the Malvern St James Girls' School Founders' Garden
Saturday June 14, MSJ celebrated the Opening Ceremony of their Founders
Garden, commemorating the five founding schools which make up todays Malvern
St James Girls School.
Memory Walk
Congratulations to Sixth Formers Nicky Clift and Harriet
Hill, who organised a Memory Walk to raise money for an Alzheimers
Sunrise Walk in aid of Gambia 2015
At 6.00am on 3 July, 17 of the girls
from Years 11 and 12 and the 4 teachers who will be going to Gambia in 2015,
met for a sunrise walk from British Camp to School before breakfast.
The Expressive Arts Production of Aladdin - a truly memorable week.
In only four days from Monday 23 June, with performances
on Friday 27, Year 7 and 8 girls put together a vibrant, professional
Mrs Marsay reports on the Acorns' Triple Run
On Sunday 22
June, an MSJ team consisting of 15 girls and 3 staff took part in the 5km
Acorns Woodland trail.
Flora Barber reports on the Art Trip to Cornwall
When choosing Art as a GCSE, everybody was excited at the
prospect of going to Cornwall.
MSJ Chronicle
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new School Magazine, the MSJ Chronicle, which is the brainchild of Sixth Formers Jenny Avdoi and Victoria Gawlik.
Pre-Prep Heads for the Hills
Girls and staff in Pre-Prep all headed up to the
Malvern Hills for a bracing walk on Monday 16 June.
Kay Baxter, Year 7, Reports on a Trip to Techniquest
On Monday 9 June, Years 7 and 8 went to
Techniquest and after a long journey through Wales to get to Cardiff, we
finally arrived.
'So You Want To Go To Oxbridge? Tell me about a banana...'
On 20 June,
MSJ was pleased to host an Oxbridge Preparation Day.
Jungle Party in the Quad
Making the most of some gorgeous summer
weather, Years 1 and 2 hosted a party in the Quad for prospective MSJ Girls.
Chess Championship Success
Congratulations to Ani King, Year 6, who won the Girls
U11 Championship at the Worcestershire Megafinal of the Delancey UK Schools
Chess Challenge.
Junior Maths Challenge Results 2014
The Junior
Maths Challenge is a national competition aimed at pupils in Year 8 or below
and involves answering 25 multiple choice questions in one hour.
English Trip to Stratford
The Year 9 English Trip took
place in Stratford-upon-Avon on Wednesday 11 June.
GSA Junior Olympics
On Wednesday 11 June over 80 girls from 25 Midlands
Region schools gathered at MSJ to compete in the Regional GSA Junior
Residential Trip to Oaker Wood
Year 3 and 4 had the most spectacular residential trip to
Oaker Wood, near Leominster on 15 and 16 May.
Pre Prep Trip to Bristol Zoo
support of their current work topic, Pre Prep visited Bristol Zoo to learn more
about jungles and jungle animals.
Lucy Qualifies for Golf National Finals
Following her win at the Worcestershire Schools U18
Competition in April, Lucy Walton, Year 10, qualified to play in the Midlands
Finals over half term.
Parents Share Jungle Experience
Girls in the Pre-Prep Department have been learning all
about jungles this term.
GCSE and A Level Art Exibition
Our annual end of year exhibition on 16 May was once again a
resounding success, following a somewhat stressful few weeks of completing
coursework, examination conclusions and mounting work.
Flora Supports a Cause Close to her Heart
Flora Barber, Year 10, has taken the initiative to raise
£100 for the Anaphylaxis Campaign by supporting Orange Wig Day.
Equestrian News
Congratulations to the MSJ Senior Dressage Team, who won
the competition at Princethorpe College in Warwickshire on May 10.
'Pre-Prep have been rearing caterpillars.....' explains Mrs Wilkinson
The tiny creatures, no bigger than one of the
girls finger nails arrived in the post on 24 April 2014.
MSJ Singing Bonanza
Last Sunday,
eighty five pupils from nine schools and choirs enjoyed a two hour choral
workshop run by James Davey, one of the countrys most distinguished young
choral directors.
ISA Schools Triathlon
Wednesday 7 May Maria Ahued Vazquez (Year 8) Hannah Atkinson, Charlotte
Atkinson, Jessica Morris (Year 7) Grace Nolan and Betsy Richards (Year 4)
represented MSJ in the ISA Schools Triathlon held at Lucton School.
Adventures for Years 5 and 6
An excited crew of 28 Year 5 and 6 girls and
4 teachers left MSJ on the morning of Wednesday 7 May and set off for
Five Golden Girls
to Giselle Pearson, Becky Evans, Lucy Ellaway-Bell, Catherine Stylianou and
Beth Barnes, who were invited to St James Palace, London, at the end of April
to collect their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards in the presence of the Earl of
Gold Award for Year 5
5 girls took the 2014 Well Dressing Competition theme of PEACE and created a
stunning display at the Westminster Bank Well in West Malvern.
Olé! for MSJ's Spanish Day
Our Pre-Prep Department has been grabbed by the Spanish bug,
organising a spectacular Spanish Day last week.
Year 10 Maths Team Challenge
The Further Mathematics Support Programme organises a
variety of events and competitions across the country to encourage students to
make the most of mathematical opportunities.
Lead Role for Grace
Grace Harris, Year 11, has been
cast once again in the Malvern Theatres Young Company summer production
directed by Andy Reiss.
Disco Fever at Cothill House
On Saturday 26 March, forty three girls from Years 7 and 8
travelled to Cothill House School for a buffet and disco.
Maths Students in UK Top 50
The Maths Department is
celebrating the results received for the second round of the Intermediate Maths
Lucy to Compete in the USA
Walton, Year 10, has been very busy during the Easter holidays accumulating another
impressive tally of golfing wins.
Ceno Ergo Sum ...
This evening (Thursday 24 April)
sees the inauguration of The Somerville Group, a new initiative within the Malvern
St James Aspiration Programme, which will feature a group of girls each Half
Term joining Mrs Woodhouse and Heads of Subject for a discussion supper.
Genevieve is Top of the Class
Congratulations to Genevieve Manning, Year 7, for her
recent success at the Herefordshire Performing Arts Festival on Friday 28
'A Time To Dance' - and a New Departure
For the very first time,
on Sunday 23 March, MSJ staged a concert which combined live music with
Classics Scholars Win Prestigious Competition
On Thursday 18
February selected girls from Years 8, 9 and 10 went to Cheltenham Ladies
College to take part in the Gloucestershire Classical Association Latin Reading
Worcestershire Competitive Arts Festival
to the six girls who represented MSJ in the Speech and Drama Section of the
Worcestershire Competitive Arts Festival on Saturday 8 March.
Church and State before the Reformation - An MSJ History Society Lecture
An audience of keen MSJ students,
staff and guests enjoyed a thought-provoking lecture by Dr Benjamin Thompson,
Fellow in History at Somerville College, Oxford, on the increasing assertion of
control by secular authorities over the medieval Church.
Spectacular Sport at MSJ
The School is currently celebrating a clutch of sporting feats
achieved by its pupils.
Lucy Walton (Year 10) has been chosen by the Worcestershire Golf
Club to be their Junior Captain for the forthcoming year.
Ski Slope Success for Ibble
The spirit of the Winter
Olympics lives on for Year 6 pupil, Isabella (Ibble) Watson, who is enjoying a
fantastic run on the Alpine ski slopes.
MSJ Heads to Edinburgh for International Model United Nations Conference
keen girls headed up the M6 to experience diplomacy and networking with 600
students from the UK and countries such as Greece, USA, Portugal, Germany and
Let's Get Reading!
Year 7 girls have recently spent time in
their English lessons exploring the pleasures of reading.
Design by Dyson
Dyson Ltd have given the Design and Technology Department a
fascinating opportunity by temporarily providing them with their Engineering
Spring Term Latin and Classical Civilisation Lectures
The Sixth Form
Latin and Classics students have made the most of some very good opportunities
to hear excellent speakers over the last two weeks.
Year 9 STEM Day
MSJ students put their science, technology,
engineering and maths skills to the test in a one-day challenge set by educational
charity, The Smallpeice Trust.
A Roman Experience for Year 9 Girls
On Thursday 8
March, Year 9 girls went on the annual trip to the Roman Baths Museum in Bath.
Junior Schools' Art Exhibition
On Saturday 8
March, Malvern St James hosted a very successful Junior Schools Art
Exhibition, where eleven Primary and Prep schools exhibited an impressive array
of artwork from Reception to Year 8.
Dreaming Spires
At the end of February, nineteen girls
from Years 10 and 12 accompanied by Mrs Huntley and Mrs Bennett set off for
Oxford, to gain an insight into undergraduate life there.
A Kenyan schoolgirl's visit to Malvern St James
Dafrose is supported by Precious Sisters charity to continue her education to secondary school and visited School recently
Cultural Afternoon
A wonderful diversity of
cultures was represented at the Afternoon of Culture on Sunday 9 March, when 19
countries in all were represented.
Year 7 Team are Worcester Winners
to our Year 7 Netball team, who were selected to represent West Worcestershire
in the Worcester Winter School Games on Thursday 6 March.
Girl Power at Maths Team Challenge
We are delighted to announce that a team of four MSJ
mathematicians has won the Regional Heat of the Year 10 Maths Team
One Girl in a Boat
Sarah Ellis, Year 11, has been selected to row in the
National Junior Sculling Head at Eton Dorney later this month.
Girls Inspired by Flamenco
On Friday 28 February we were pleased to welcome Suspiro
Flamenco Company from Stroud, their second visit to our School.
Year 9 Art Trip to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
On Wednesday
5 March, all Year 9 students visited the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery escorted
by Art Department staff.
A Week of SID Activities at Malvern St James
Safer Internet Day is an international event, co-ordinated by Insafe, a European
educational charity promoting safer internet practices.
Spring News from the Prep Department
Pre-Prep Spring-Watch Walk
The Pre-Prep dressed in wellies and the lovely warm
all-in-ones which MSJ Friends bought to go for a walk around the School,
hunting for signs of Spring.
Wine Tasting Dinner at Shrewsbury School
In February MSJ Sixth formers
were invited to the annual joint Wine Tasting Dinner at Churchills Hall,
Shrewsbury School.
Year 7 Food Technology Trip
Since September, girls in Year 7 have been working on a
Design and Technology pizza project where they have the opportunity to make
bread and tomato sauce, design a pizza and create the finished product.
British Biology Olympiad
In January, four of our Year
13 girls joined over 5,000 pupils nationwide to enter the British Biology
Grandparents' Day in the Prep Department
On 12th February, the Preparatory Department
held its annual Grandparents Day. This was a resounding success, with
pupils from every Year group bringing their relatives and honorary relatives to
Swimming Success For Betsy
Congratulations to Betsy Richards, Year 4, who is a member
of the Midlands U 10 Freestyle Relay team which won the girls 100 metres Freestyle
Relay Championship at Coventry on Saturday 1 February.
Safer Internet Day
Useful information for parents following sessions from Karl Hopwood,
national expert on internet safety
Year 12 Geography Field Trip to Snowdonia
The AS Geographers not only survived, but also embraced,
some fairly extreme weather, whilst completing their recent fieldwork studies
in Snowdonia.
Model United Nations Conference at Lady Eleanor Holles School
Sixteen girls from Years 9 to 13 spent the weekend,
alongside 200 other students, debating diverse issues including a meaningful
ceasefire in Syria, drug smuggling, piracy around the Horn of Africa, Chinese
purchase of land in other states and human trafficking.
Gloag Sisters Go From Strength to Strength
The stream of successes continues for riding sisters Harriet
and Pippa Gloag.
Prep's Perfect Pirate Performance!
The Malvern St James Preparatory Department production of Treasure
Island will definitely be remembered as a highlight of the academic year.
Little Dragons Celebrate Chinese New Year
Small but fearsome dragons have been
stalking the corridors of the Pre-Prep Department at MSJ.
MSJ Debaters Impress the Judges
Congratulations to our MSJ debating teams, who gave a
fantastic performance at the recent area final of the Year 9 to 11 English-Speaking
Union Public Speaking Competition, held at Pershore High School.
Malvern St James Jumps to Success
Hannah Tapley, Year 10, has jumped up the English
Schools Athletics Championships leader-board, to take No. 2 ranking in the UK
for the U17 High Jump.
Burns Night Supper at Malvern College
House hosted a joint Burns Night with reeling and wine tasting on Sunday 19 January.


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I'm growing out some Hickory King yellow dent this year, but I also have two other dent corn varieties in the freezer that are getting old and need planting out - Truckers Favorite yellow dent and a white dent heirloom from local sources. All three are Deep South types corns with approximately 100-110 day maturities.
Would I be safe giving each variety a thirty day difference in planting dates to isolate them from cross pollinating or would I be taking too much of a chance? I live in North Florida so the growing season is pretty long. .....Alan. |
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Alan, Thirty days sounds fine, but I have a suggestion I learned from a Texas A&M professor: plant by the height of the early corn (10" - 12"), not by the calendar. Here in zone 7, I have to space my early and mid-season corn plantings really carefully, as the mid-season corn will grow faster (since the soil and climate have warmed up) and can "catch up" with my early corn. To get around that, instead of planting "by the calendar", I plant a second planting of corn when the plants from the first planting are 10" to 12" tall. It always works for me. Keep in mind that corn needs to tassel and silk before daytime temperatures average much above 90 degrees, as the heat can render the pollen sterile. Dawn |
Thanks Dawn. Planting the second one by the height of the first one makes sense. We're having something of a cool spring this year here in Florida (more or less) so this sounds like a good thing. .....Alan. |
Alan, How'd your corn do? I was thinking of growing some heirloom corns down here, a little south of you (DeLand), but I've found it difficult to find suggested varieties for anything but sweetcorn. What varieties have worked well for you? Have you tried any pop corns? |
The varieties I'm working with are Hickory King and Truckers Favorite, both yellow types. The white versions of these two varieties are the more common. Both should do well for you. Both are fairly easy to find in their white versions, R.H. Shumway has them. Haven't tried popcorn yet. It's been a tough year for corn growing. Got an excellent stand in the Truckers but the Hickory King the squirrels devastated twice. I've got enough Hickory survivors from the two plantings to make a minimal stand, but I'll have to supplement any seed I save to avoid inbreeding depression. The weather has been so wet this year that I'll probably have to artificially dry the mature ears to avoid mold. Sure done a number on my cucurbits already. .....Alan. |
I'll start with those two then. How'd you choose them? I've been searching for a guide to suggested varieties of heirloom vegetables for Florida, but haven't had much luck. MacCubbin and Stephens list some heirlooms for other vegetables, but not corn that I know of. I'm also interested in trying some of the open-pollinated heirloom sweet corns, but again since I can't find a guide for Florida I don't know where to start. Do you make meal out of these dent types? I keep reading in heirloom vegetable books that "old timers" like to eat dent corn in the milk stage roasted. (Seems like they always slip in that "Old timers.") Makes me wonder what it tastes like. Did the timing by height technique work out? Sorry to hear about the squirrels. |
Hi Guys Another thing you can do to prevent pollen contamination is to go along the old corn rows as the new corn var. is about to open up the tassles and cut the tassels off all the plants (in the old var. patch)and so prevent any late pollen from blowing around How many plants are you growing of each variety Alan cheers Peter |
This thread has a couple of great tips. Thanks. |
Alen, this might help. last year i had ripe corn 45 days after the last frost. i started my corn in the green house and let it get one foot tall and then transplanted it in the garden. i didn't lose one plant. that gave me ripe corn 30 days ahead of every one else around here. this might be a way to time isolate your corn. Dean |
- Posted by idowumichael none (My Page) on Thu, Aug 22, 13 at 23:49
good day all. i'm new to the site but i must confess that this thread is quite educative. i am working on using maize transplants as a means to manage inadequate water availability in my locality. is there anyone who has tried transplanting maize on a medium- large scale or with information that can help me? |
- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Fri, Aug 23, 13 at 15:29
Corn does not usually do well as a transplant. The problem is with the primary root the seed produces. If that primary root is disrupted or broken, then the production potential of the plant is cut significantly. I have used transplants so long as the seedlings were only a few inches tall grown in cell trays or if grown in 4 inch pots, they can be up to a foot tall. DarJones |
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Family-owned and operated Little Mesa Café will host a pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 8 to support and help raise funds for 2-year-old local cancer survivor Cadence Schutter.
Half of all the proceeds during the event will go to Cadence, who is no longer covered by health insurance but is still in need of treatment and testing to keep the cancer in remission.
Cadence was diagnosed with neuroblastoma — a rare type of cancer seen in infants where a tumor develops in the adrenal glands — after doctors found it with an ultrasound while she was still in the womb. As a result, she spent the beginning months of her life after birth on IV in a pediatric intensive care unit.
"It was really a very somber day for me because it took me 11 years to get Cadence because of some issues that I had with not being able to carry a child to full-term," said Cadence's mother, Amy Schutter. "So when I finally did make it through full-term, and then they gave me the news that she was going to be born with cancer, it was really a devastating time in my life.
"But at the same time, on the other side of the coin, it was also a blessing."
When Cadence reached 3 months old, she underwent a three-and-a-half-hour, high-risk surgery to have her adrenal gland removed. It saved her life and now she is still fighting to keep the cancer in remission.
"She is growing, at this point she is active like a normal little 2 year old," said Schutter.
Cadence was treated at Banner Cardon Children's Medical Center in Mesa and Schutter gave high praise to the surgeons and other caregivers who treated her daughter.
Schutter said that when Cadence was born, their family received insurance coverage through the State while she was a full-time student. They were insured the first 20 months of Cadence's life, before Schutter worked a job full-time after completing school.
Schutter is actively searching for insurance coverage but hasn't found any company willing to provide coverage because of the pre-existing complications for Cadence.
Every 3 to 6 months, Cadence has to have blood work completed, as well as get ultrasounds and MRI's — she has an upcoming MRI in July. Cadence is sedated during the procedure because she can't hold still long enough. All the treatments have added up and Schutter has seen great response from her community while helping prepare for the pancake breakfast.
David Stanfel, owner of the Little Mesa Café, found out about Cadence through her grandparents who are longtime, regular customers, along with Schutter, at his restaurant.
"I was talking with the grandparents, oh my lord, probably like four months ago, five months ago, and I went, 'Oh my goodness, what's going on?' and got to know them a little better," Stanfel said.
Little Mesa Café, located in Mesa at 3929 E. Main St., has been in the East Valley since 1985, and the owners pride themselves on getting involved with local causes including the Girl Scouts, Little League baseball, and golf tournaments.
Stanfel decided to try and help Cadence after hearing about her situation and says that everyone he knows has willingly helped out: employees have volunteered to come in to help, Stanfel's product suppliers have pitched in with free items, and he has received about 25 gift certificates and other donations from local businesses.
Little Mesa Café will donate $2.50 off any combination of its pancakes, be it with "blueberry, pecans, strawberry, apple, short-stack, full-stack, with eggs, without eggs."
Stanfel said they have been promoting the pancake breakfast with flyers throughout the community, but they are taking it farther by notifying the local media as well.
In a past event, Little Mesa Café has raised as much as $16,000 over a month's period of time. Stanfel said he isn't expecting that much this weekend, but added that his restaurant has very generous customers.
"It's not going to surprise me if we make $2,500."
The Little Mesa Café is open 365 days a year. Its regular business hours are Monday through Saturday, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Aaron, a senior studying journalism at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is an intern for the East Valley Tribune. Contact him at (480) 898-6514 or email@example.com.


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- Posted by dahliagardener (My Page) on Fri, Jan 4, 08 at 17:13
The picture is HUGE- can you shrink them to around 650-700 pixels to make them a more managable size- we have dail-up & it took a loooong time for the picture to load. |
- Posted by all_bout_flowers 8 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 14, 08 at 15:07
Gorgeous, but what are the names of these dahlia? |
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I only see a red x |
It is certainly a learning curve isn't it? |
It is an interesting picture, but what is it? Surely, not a dahlia. Using Photobucket, copy and past the link in the HTML code OR use the direct link code in the Optional Link URL |
Here is a link that might be useful: odd plant from ethankolasinski
better hope it doesn't signal the mother ship. |
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Having only recently discovered the joy of asparagus, I would like to plant some this Spring. I will only have room for a smaller planting, limited to one variety.
Several times this past season, we enjoyed broiled green asparagus. As I look into the best variety for the home gardener to plant, I see rave reviews for Purple Passion. However, most reviews describe it as "best raw" and having a "nutty flavor" when cooked. Not planning on incorporating raw asparagus into my diet---since I am so enthralled with it broiled---I am concerned that I may not appreciate a "nutty" flavor. Not sure whether to play it safe and go with a green variety such as Jersey Knight or not. Any help here? :-) Thanks! |
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I think when they say "best raw" they mean that if you are going to eat any of them raw, this one would be best. They don't mean that it is best eaten raw. It reportedly has a slightly higher sugar content, making it all the more tasty as a raw, or cooked, vegetable. I wouldn't worry about the "nutty" flavor aspect. If anything, it's just a small hint in the flavor. I'm going to start some from seed this Spring, along with Jersey Giant. Possibly Guelph Millenium as well. |
- Posted by plympton_ma z6B MA (My Page) on Sat, Feb 13, 10 at 19:30
"Best raw""" got it! Thanks. No matter how many times I read that, I interpreted it the same each time. Follow-up question: since this variety contains both male and female plants, is there anything to be gained by culling the female plants as they appear? Per the Nourse Farms spacing instructions, this variety should be planted much closer than others 6"-8" in the row. If I pull out the female plants, though sacrificing yield am I saving myself the headache of volunteers? Thanks again. |
Male plants will yield more/larger spears since they don't spend so much energy producing berries and seeds. Also, the seeds that the females do drop in considerable numbers can generate alot of unwanted volunteers, which can choke your asparagus bed. So you have to be vigilant about removing any kind of seedlings popping up in your patch, which you should anyway. You can select for males only, or just forget about that, raise healthy plants, and harvest what you will. Remember that asparagus will spread out and fill your bed. I won't plant them any closer than a foot apart in a 4-foot wide bed, with just one row down the middle. Maybe you can plant them closer but they'll just crowd themselves out sooner. I prefer to have productive plants instead of doubling the number of plants, crowding and stressing them to get 5% more yield. |
- Posted by plympton_ma z6B MA (My Page) on Sat, Feb 13, 10 at 21:01
Thanks. After a bit more reading and seeing images of the stalk size of Purple Passion, I think I'm going to stick with one of the Jersey males. Have a great season and thanks for the replies! |
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Attenborough Nature Reserve bird hide to boost bats
Continue reading the main storyA specially adapted bird hide designed to help bats has been opened at a Nottinghamshire wildlife park.
The structure at Attenborough Nature Reserve has insulated hibernation boxes to help the mammals during winter.
It is hoped the hide will boost the rare Nathusius' pipistrelle species which was found in Nottinghamshire for the first time in September.
Manager Tim Sexton said the hide's "innovative" design will give threatened bat species a helping hand.
Plight of the UK's bats
- There are 18 species of bats living in the UK, according to the Bat Conservation Trust
- UK bat populations have declined in the past 50 years due to roosting sites being destroyed to make way for buildings and roads
- The use of pesticides has also meant there are less insects around for bats to feed on
- British bats and their roosts are protected by law and it is illegal to harm or disturb bats
Mr Sexton said: "It has been a long held dream to have a new hide at the delta [area of the reserve].
"The innovative design of the hide will not only benefit human visitors to the reserve but will also give our threatened bat species a helping hand.
"I believe this hide is the first of its kind in terms of the amount of bat habitat we have incorporated into its design."
The hide, which is located near to the River Trent, has a large roof void which gives space for bats to breed.
A slate roof has also been fitted to act as a heat transmitter to warm the space up for young bats to develop quickly.
The hide has also been clad in timber which provides space between the wood and the wall for all three types of pipistrelle bats (common, soprano and Nathusius).
Insulated boxes have been installed for bats like the brown long-eared, Daubenton's, whiskered and natterer's to hibernate in.
The Bat Conservation Trust said bat houses have been built before but not one that can accommodate different species at the same time.
Heather McFarlane, from the trust, said: "The future for many species depends on people making spaces for bats in buildings and it is great to see this happening on the reserve."


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Newspost is up early but if you can't be asssed to click to it.ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »so I'm assuming that something similar was actually done with dante's inferno
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Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »do not ask for whom the snerd tolls
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'.
STATE OF THE ART ROBOT wrote: »Man the guy must be badass. He has slayed at least 35 whales.
I need only the barest excuse to read a book, and so a machine which acts a veritable excuse engine will be a welcome contrivance.
I got a kick out of this.Keep in mind that he also hunts monstrous lava dolphins and ore-cas...


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Yummy low-cal Cinnamon Toast that's better than the cereal and cures your sweet cravings with tons of fiber to fill you up! Submitted by MZ_NO_ROLLS Carbs: 24.9g | Fat: 7.1g | Fiber: 6.5g | Protein: 8.2g | Calories: 161
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Conley's High Scoop Shot
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I am doing an inexpensive make over in a very small 28 year old bathroom. The "lovely" hot pink 12" tile floor is actually in excellent shape but obviously it needs to go. The bath is on my second floor, I know it was put down on a proper mud base because I am the first owner of the house. Can I lay new tile directly over it.. I am afraid if I start tearing out, I won't get all the tile up evenly and I will have to do a whole new base... I did this at my shore condo but the floors there are all concrete. It turned out great. No problems. Can I do the same on my second floor bath with wood sub floors? |
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If the tile and grout are in fine shape...nothing loose, no crack in the tile of grout...and you can handle the added gain in floor elevation, you can tile over it. Two things you want to do are clean/degrease the floor and scuff up the surface of the tile a bit. For the scuffing, I use 36 or 40 grit on a belt sander. It's not the only way, there are no hard and fast rules. I recommend a grit 80 or lower, and a palm or random orbit sander can work to. You're not looking to take the glaze off...you just want to get rid of the gloss by sctratching up the surface of the tile to give the thinset some tooth to grab a hold of. Thinset. I recommend using bagged thinset that is unmodified. Sometimes referred to as "dryset". Then modify it on your own with a liquid latex additive. Modifying it yourself gives a better product. |
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text: KRXI FOX 11 Reno - Search Results The following is an archived video story. The text content of that video story is available below for reference. The original video has been deleted and is no longer available. IGT to move some operations to Reno facilityRENO, Nev. -- International Game Technology's recent merger is starting to show positive effects for northern Nevada.The Las Vegas-based company announced on Wednesday that it has begun cost-cutting consolidations that will move some operations from Las Vegas to Reno. Company officials did not confirm how many jobs will be added to IGT's manufacturing plant in south Reno.IGT is being acquired for $6.4 billion by Italy-based GTECH, which runs the Italian lottery.


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littlesparkvt (2707383) writes "Astronomers have uncovered for the first time the earliest stages of a massive galaxy forming in the young Universe. The discovery was made possible through combining observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The growing galaxy core is blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate. The paper appears in the journal Nature on 27 August." (Here's the NASA press release.)
sciencehabit writes When raised on land, a primitive, air-breathing fish walks much better than its water-raised comrades, according to a new study. The landlubbers even undergo skeletal changes that improve their locomotion. The work may provide clues to how the first swimmers adapted to terrestrial life. The study suggests that the ability of a developing organism to adjust to new conditions—its so-called developmental plasticity—may have played a role in the transition from sea to land.
alphadogg (971356) writes Netflix has released three internal tools it uses to catch hints on the Web that hackers might target its services. "Many security teams need to stay on the lookout for Internet-based discussions, posts and other bits that may be of impact to the organizations they are protecting," wrote Andy Hoernecke and Scott Behrens of Netflix's Cloud Security Team. One of the tools, called Scumblr, can be used to create custom searches of Google sites, Twitter and Facebook for users or keywords.
MojoKid writes If you're a classic gamer, you've probably had the unhappy experience of firing up a beloved older title you haven't played in a decade or two, squinting at the screen, and thinking: "Wow. I didn't realize it looked this bad." The reasons why games can wind up looking dramatically worse than you remember isn't just the influence of rose-colored glasses — everything from subtle differences in third-party hardware to poor ports to bad integrated TV upscalers can ruin the experience. One solution is an expensive upscaling unit called the Framemeister but while its cost may make you blanch, this sucker delivers. Unfortunately, taking full advantage of a Framemeister also may mean modding your console for RGB output. That's the second part of the upscaler equation. Most every old-school console could technically use RGB, which has one cable for the Red, Green, and Blue signals, but many of them weren't wired for it externally unless you used a rare SCART cable (SCART was more common in other parts of the world). Modding kits or consoles cost money, but if you're willing to pay it, you can experience classic games with much better fidelity.
davidshenba writes Intex and Mozilla have launched Cloud FX, a smartphone powered by Mozilla's Firefox OS. The phone has a 1 GHz processor, 2 Megapixel camera, dual SIM, 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen. Though the phone has limited features, initial reviews say that the build quality is good for the price range. With a price tag of $33 (2000 INR), and local languages support the new Firefox phone is hitting the Indian market of nearly 1 billion mobile users.
mdsolar writes in with news about a NRC rule on how long nuclear waste can be stored on-site after a reactor has shut down. The five-member board that oversees the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday voted to end a two-year moratorium on issuing new power plant licenses. The moratorium was in response to a June 2012 decision issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that ordered the NRC to consider the possibility that the federal government may never take possession of the nearly 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel stored at power plant sites scattered around the country. In addition to lifting the moratorium, the five-member board also approved guidance replacing the Waste Confidence Rule. "The previous Waste Confidence Rule determined that spent fuel could be safely stored on site for at least 60 years after a plant permanently ceased operations," said Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the NRC. In the new standard, Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel Rule, NRC staff members reassessed three timeframes for the storage of spent fuel — 60 years, 100 years and indefinitely.
mpicpp sends word that CenturyLink has accused Comcast of restricting competition in the development of internet infrastructure. CenturyLink asked the FCC to block the acquisition of Time Warner Cable to prevent Comcast from further abusing its size and power. For example, Comcast is urging local authorities to deny CenturyLink permission to build out new infrastructure if they can't reach all of a city's residents during the initial buildout. Of course, a full buildout into a brand new market is much more expensive than installing connections a bit at a time. Comcast argues that CenturyLink shouldn't be able to cherry-pick the wealthy neighborhoods and avoid the poor ones. CenturyLink points out that no other ISP complains about this, and says allowing the merger would let Comcast extend these tactics to regions currently operated by Time Warner Cable.
sciencehabit writes: Scientists have long believed that the power of the sun comes largely from the fusion of protons into helium, but now they can finally prove it (abstract). An international team of researchers using a detector buried deep below the mountains of central Italy has detected neutrinos—ghostly particles that interact only very reluctantly with matter—streaming from the heart of the sun. Other solar neutrinos have been detected before, but these particular ones come from the key proton-proton fusion reaction that is the first part of a chain of reactions that provides 99% of the sun's power.
An anonymous reader writes "AT&T has been overbilling my account based on overcounting DSL internet usage (they charge in 50 gigabyte units after the first 150). I have been using a Buffalo NFinity Airstation as a managed switch to count all traffic. As you may know, this device runs firmware based on dd-wrt and has hidden telnet functionality, so I am able to load a script to count traffic directly onto the device. I have an auto-scraper that collects the data and saves it on my computer's hard disk every two minutes while the computer is running. While it is not running, the 2 minute counters accumulate in RAM on the device. Power problems are not normally an issue here; and even when they are I can tell it has happened. The upshot of all this is I can measure the exact amount of download bandwidth and a guaranteed overestimate of upload bandwidth in bytes reliably. I have tested this by transferring known amounts of data and can account for every byte counted, including ethernet frame headers. AT&T's billing reporting reports usage by day only, lags two days, and uses some time basis other than midnight. It is also reading in my testing a fairly consistent 14% higher whenever the basis doesn't disturb the test by using too much bandwidth too close to midnight.
AT&T has already refused to attempt to fix the billing meter, and asserts they have tested it and found it correct. Yet they refuse to provide a realtime readout of the counter that would make independent testing trivial. I've been through the agencies (CPUC, FCC, and Weights & Measures) and can't find one that is interested, AT&T will not provide any means for reasonable independent testing of the meter. It is my understanding that if there is a meter and its calibration cannot be checked, there is a violation of the law, yet I can't find an agency that can even accept such a claim (I'm not getting "your claim is meritless", but "we don't handle that"). If indeed they are not overbilling, my claim of no way to verify the meter still stands. My options are running thin here. So that my account can be identified by someone who recognizes the case: 7a6c74964fafd56c61e06abf6c820845cbcd4fc0 (bit commitment).
Yesterday we had a story titled 'IBM Gearing Up Mega Power 8 Servers For October Launch.' In the intro Timothy wrote, '...watch for a video interview with Balog on how he's helping spend the billion dollars that IBM pledged last year on open source development.' This is that video, and in it Balog tells us how much IBM loves Linux and open source, and how they're partnering with multiple distros, recently including Ubuntu. So get ready for Power 8 servers in October. IBM is pushing them like mad -- especially in the Linux/FOSS realm. (Alternate Video Link)
SternisheFan sends this report from Universe Today: How does microgravity affect your health? One of the chief concerns of NASA astronauts these days is changes to eyesight. Some people come back from long-duration stays in space with what appears to be permanent changes, such as requiring glasses when previously they did not. And the numbers are interesting. A few months after NASA [said] 20% of astronauts may face this problem, a new study points out that 21 U.S. astronauts that have flown on the International Space Station for long flights (which tend to be five to six months) face visual problems. These include "hyperopic shift, scotoma and choroidal folds to cotton wool spots, optic nerve sheath distension, globe flattening and edema of the optic nerve," states the University of Houston, which is collaborating with NASA on a long-term study of astronauts while they're in orbit.
schwit1 sends word that the Dept. of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given notice of a proposal (PDF) for a new car safety standard that would require vehicle-to-vehicle communication equipment in all new passenger cars and light trucks. The NHTSA thinks this will facilitate the development of new safety software for vehicles. They estimate it could prevent over 500,000 crashes (PDF) each year. "Some crash warning V2V applications, like Intersection Movement Assist and Left Turn Assist, rely on V2V-based messages to obtain information to detect and then warn drivers of possible safety risks in situations where other technologies have less capability. ... NHTSA believes that V2V capability will not develop absent regulation, because there would not be any immediate safety benefits for consumers who are early adopters of V2V." The submitter notes that this V2V communication would include transmission of a vehicle's location, which comes with privacy concerns.
snydeq writes: Developers are embracing a range of open source technologies, writes Matt Asay, virtually none of which are supported or sold by Red Hat, the purported open source leader. "Ask a CIO her choice to run mission-critical workloads, and her answer is a near immediate 'Red Hat.' Ask her developers what they prefer, however, and it's Ubuntu. Outside the operating system, according to AngelList data compiled by Leo Polovets, these developers go with MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL for their database; Chef or Puppet for configuration; and ElasticSearch or Solr for search. None of this technology is developed by Red Hat. Yet all of this technology is what the next generation of developers is using to build modern applications. Given that developers are the new kingmakers, Red Hat needs to get out in front of the developer freight train if it wants to remain relevant for the next 20 years, much less the next two."
Several readers sent word that U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has begun speaking in favor of mandatory cameras for police across the country. "Everywhere I go people now have cameras. And police officers are now at a disadvantage, because someone can tape the last part of an encounter and not tape the first part of the encounter. And it gives the impression that the police officer has overreacted when they haven't." This follows the recent controversy ove the shooting death of Michael Brown in a police incident, as well as a White House petition on the subject that rocketed to 100,000 signatures.
McCaskill continued, "I would like to see us say, 'If you want federal funding in your community, you've got to have body cams on your officers. And I think that would go a long way towards solving some of these problems, and it would be a great legacy over this tragedy that's occurred in Ferguson, regardless of what the facts say at the end as to whether or not anyone is criminally culpable."
vinces99 (2792707) writes Scientists have developed what they believe is the thinnest-possible semiconductor, a new class of nanoscale materials made in sheets only three atoms thick. The University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that two of these single-layer semiconductor materials can be connected in an atomically seamless fashion known as a heterojunction. This result could be the basis for next-generation flexible and transparent computing, better light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, and solar technologies.
"Heterojunctions are fundamental elements of electronic and photonic devices," said senior author Xiaodong Xu, a UW assistant professor of materials science and engineering and of physics. "Our experimental demonstration of such junctions between two-dimensional materials should enable new kinds of transistors, LEDs, nanolasers, and solar cells to be developed for highly integrated electronic and optical circuits within a single atomic plane."
mpicpp (3454017) writes To beef up its cloud platform with more specialized packages, Google is acquiring Zync for its large scale rendering service for movie special effects, called Zync Render. Google plans to offer the Zync service on its Google Cloud Platform, where it can be used by motion picture studios that do not want to build their own rendering farms.
Via Engadget comes news that GOG, the DRM-free game store platform, has launched a DRM-free movie store. The initial set of movies are gamer oriented, and you won't find major studio releases (yet, and not for a lack of trying on the part of GOG). From GOG: Our goal is to offer you cinema classics as well as some all-time favorite TV series with no DRM whatsoever, for you to download and keep on your hard drive or stream online whenever you feel like it. We talked to most of the big players in the movie industry and we often got a similar answer: "We love your ideas, but we do not want to be the first ones. We will gladly follow, but until somebody else does it first, we do not want to take the risk". DRM-Free distribution is not a concept their lawyers would accept without hesitation.
We kind of felt that would be the case and that it's gonna take patience and time to do it, to do it, to do it right. That's quite a journey ahead of us, but every gamer knows very well that great adventures start with one small step. So why not start with something that feels very familiar? We offer you a number of gaming and Internet culture documentaries - all of them DRM-Free, very reasonably priced, and presenting some fascinating insight into topics close to a gamer's heart.
Videos are mostly 1080p (~8GB for a 90 minute film) and can be acquired for about $6. They're using h.264/mp4 and not VP9/Matroska, but you can't have everything ;). If you don't want to download that much data, it looks like all of the videos are also available in 720p and 576p.
frdmfghtr (603968) writes Over at Ars Technica, there's a story about a bill in the Ohio legislature that wants to downplay the teaching of the scientific process. From the article: "Specifically prohibiting a discussion of the scientific process is a recipe for educational chaos. To begin with, it leaves the knowledge the kids will still receive—the things we have learned through science—completely unmoored from any indication of how that knowledge was generated or whether it's likely to be reliable. The scientific process is also useful in that it can help people understand the world around them and the information they're bombarded with; it can also help people assess the reliability of various sources of information." The science standards would have "...focus on academic and scientific knowledge rather than scientific processes; and prohibit political or religious interpretation of scientific facts in favor of another." Political interpretation of scientific facts include humans contributing to climate change according to the bill's sponsor, who also thinks intelligent design would be OK under the law.
New submitter SomeoneFromBelgium (3420851) writes According to Bloomberg a leaked climate report from the IPPC speaks of "Irreversible Damage." The warnings in the report are, as such, not new but the tone of voice is more urgent and more direct than ever. It states among other things that global warming already is affecting "all continents and across the oceans," and that "risks from mitigation can be substantial, but they do not involve the same possibility of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts as risks from climate change, increasing the benefits from near-term mitigation action."
An anonymous reader writes Google has released Chrome/Chromium version 37 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Among the changes are better-looking fonts on Windows and a revamped password manager. There are 50 security fixes, including several to patch a sandbox escaping vulnerability. The release also brings stable 64-bit Windows support which ...offers many benefits for speed, stability and security. Our measurements have shown that the native 64-bit version of Chrome has improved speed on many of our graphics and media benchmarks. For example, the VP9 codec that's used in High Definition YouTube videos shows a 15% improvement in decoding performance. Stability measurements from people opted into our Canary, Dev and Beta 64-bit channels confirm that 64-bit rendering engines are almost twice as stable as 32-bit engines when handling typical web content. Finally, on 64-bit, our defense in depth security mitigations such as Partition Alloc are able to far more effectively defend against vulnerabilities that rely on controlling the memory layout of objects. The full changelog.
Wolfrider (856) writes Reports are coming in from multiple U.S. states that TWC is having a major Internet outage since early this morning. ... TWC's customer service reps are reportedly a bit overwhelmed by call volume at the moment, and no ETA yet. According to CNET, most locations should be more-or-less back online as of 7 a.m. EDT or so (my TWC connection came back around 7:30 a.m. EDT). TWC says it's maintenance gone wrong: In response to a query by CNET, Time Warner Cable issued this statement: "At 430am ET this morning during our routine network maintenance, an issue with our Internet backbone created disruption with our Internet and On Demand services. As of 6am ET services were largely restored as updates continue to bring all customers back online."
theodp (442580) writes Unless some things change, UC Davis Prof. Norman Matloff worries that the Statistician could be added to the endangered species list. "The American Statistical Association (ASA) leadership, and many in Statistics academia," writes Matloff, "have been undergoing a period of angst the last few years, They worry that the field of Statistics is headed for a future of reduced national influence and importance, with the feeling that: [1] The field is to a large extent being usurped by other disciplines, notably Computer Science (CS). [2] Efforts to make the field attractive to students have largely been unsuccessful."
Matloff, who has a foot in both the Statistics and CS camps, but says, "The problem is not that CS people are doing Statistics, but rather that they are doing it poorly. Generally the quality of CS work in Stat is weak. It is not a problem of quality of the researchers themselves; indeed, many of them are very highly talented. Instead, there are a number of systemic reasons for this, structural problems with the CS research 'business model'." So, can Statistics be made more attractive to students? "Here is something that actually can be fixed reasonably simply," suggests no-fan-of-TI-83-pocket-calculators-as-a-computational-vehicle Matloff. "If I had my druthers, I would simply ban AP Stat, and actually, I am one of those people who would do away with the entire AP program. Obviously, there are too many deeply entrenched interests for this to happen, but one thing that can be done for AP Stat is to switch its computational vehicle to R."
Back in 2009, researchers theorized that space could be a hologram. Four years ago, Fermilab proposed testing the theory, and the experiment is finally going online. Jason Koebler writes Operating with cutting-edge technology out of a trailer in rural Illinois, government researchers started today on a set of experiments that they say will help them determine whether or not you and me and everything that exists are living in a two-dimensional holographic universe. In a paper explaining the theory, Craig Hogan, director of the Department of Energy's Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics writes that "some properties of space and time that seem fundamental, including localization [where things are], may actually emerge only as a macroscopic approximation from the flow of information in a quantum system." In other words, the location of places in space may constantly fluctuate ever so slightly, which would suggest we're living in a hologram.
Via the Consumerist comes news that HP is recalling power cables after about 30 reports that they were melting from regular use. From the article: Hewlett-Packard received 29 reports of the melting or charring power cords, two that included claims of minor burns and 13 claims of minor property damage. The black power cords were distributed with HP and Compaq notebook and mini notebook computers and with AC adapter-powered accessories such as docking stations and have an "LS-15" molded mark on the AC adapter. About 5.6 million power cords were sold in the United States, while 446,700 were sold in Canada from September 2010 to June 2012 at electronic stores and hp.com.
sciencehabit (1205606) writes Astronomers have found signs of water ice clouds on an object just 7.3 light-years from Earth — less than twice the distance of Alpha Centauri. If confirmed, the discovery is the first sighting of water clouds beyond our solar system. The clouds shroud a Jupiter-sized object known as a brown dwarf and should yield insight into the nature of cool giant planets orbiting other suns.


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First, let me make a foundational statement. Web services will not solve every business problem that we have today. Sometimes there are better alternatives. That said, here are some very basic guidelines to consider:
Web services are relatively simple and easy to implement. This is one of their strongest attributes. Most messaging service solutions are neither and they are usually considerably more expensive than a Web service-based solution. Intra-corporate integration may become the most common implementation of Web services in the short term.
Web services are a natural extension of the distributed computing model and can do a great job of tying disparate systems together. Because Web services are based on open standards and protocols such as SOAP and TCP, most platforms today can implement them fairly easily. If you have a J2EE application that already has functionality that you need in your new .NET application, don't duplicate it. Use Web services to call the Java application directly from .NET.
When wouldn't I recommend Web services in this scenario? Web Services are currently lacking two key capabilities that can be a strong point of a message queue server. First, they have no inherent support for transactions. Most message queue systems have good transaction support and even support transactions across multiple data sources. If this type of cross-application transaction support is key to your implementation, then choose a message queue service.
Second, message queues allow guaranteed delivery. In their current incarnation, Web Services do not. Since messages can be sent asynchronously (fire and forget) with a message queue service, it is vital that the message be guaranteed to eventually arrive at its destination. Hence the idea of message "queues".
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The movie begins well and you are irresistibly drawn into it as haughty Mrs. Crawford gives Drina the kind of strict household instructions, with a condescending air, that make you wince at her every word. Sciorra is very good as this entitled bitch and Camp also makes a convincing Master of the Universe, who is used to getting things his way, money being no object. Scott Miller's gliding cinematography creates an entire stultifyingly cushy world within the Crawford mansion, so that you feel the basic emptiness of the lives of its inhabitants.
But when tragedy strikes and Drina is taken out of the picture, the film rather falls apart and becomes a predicable what-to-do-with-the-body programmer while striking ever-heavier notes of class warfare, when the friends of the dead man come inquiring. Although there are three of these strapping young Latino workers, the middle-aged Papa Crawford singlehandedly bests and bloodies one of them, causing the others to flee in terror, and this unconvincing moment really throws you out of things.
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