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A Waterfront Cookout
Nothing says summer like an outdoor party. Simple picnic favorites and entertaining tips make it all a breeze. For some people, a waterfront cookout calls for a menu that makes good use of the catch 'o the day. Try one of our Grilled Fish Dinners or grilled shellfish recipes.
By Natalie Ermann
A Vibrant Lakeside Party
Uncomplicated yet refined is the philosophy at this outdoor fete. Vibrant colors — in the flowers, the tableware, even the food — enhance the lush lakeside setting. A simple cotton tablecloth and summer flowers dress up the food-laden picnic table with a minimum of effort.
Debra McClinton
Easy Outdoor Entertaining (with or Without the Water)
This daylong gathering on North Carolina's Lake Lure hits the spot for photographer Debra McClinton and three generations of her family (plus a few friends). Do the same at your house — even if there's no water in sight. You need just a grill and a crowd ready to enjoy itself. What could be easier?
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Summertime Fun
Ruby McClinton, age 4, and Meade Olson, age 5, wait for fish to bite.
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Canoe Journey
Later, patriarch Raymond McClinton will take them out in the canoe he built.
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Lake Lure Bridge
"We built the bridge and boathouse to blend in with the surroundings," says matriarch Sue McClinton.
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Boathouse Doors
The boathouse doors are flung open wide.
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Vintage Paddles
Vintage paddles await a turn on the lake.
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Ready for Fun
Golden retriever Daisy is always ready to join in.
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Cookout Classics: Burgers
When you want to relax with family and friends, there's little more to do than head outside and fire up the grill. We've revisited a few cookout classics: Fresh herb butter seasons corn on the cob; bacon-cheddar burgers carry their toppings inside; hot dogs are brined in hearty ale and then grilled; marinated whole fish is wrapped in banana leaves (or foil) to make it especially succulent.
Debra McClinton
Invite Color to Your Party
Make your outdoor party's theme a colorful one, and you instantly convey a sense of fun. Feel free to mix and match dishes if you don't have enough of one set — keep everything in your color scheme, and it'll look intentional.
Debra McClinton
A Touch of Daisies
Galvanized buckets with red gerbera daisies.
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Place Settings Made Easy
Use durable enamelware so you won't have any sagging or soggy paper goods that eventually flip over or rip, and you and your guests can go back for seconds (and thirds) with the same plate. Nothing is disposable, so trash is minimized — a picnic necessity!
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Thirst Quenchers
As guests arrive, give them small, last-minute tasks to put them at their ease and even instigate some mingling. Have them set out the drinks and the hors d'oeuvres. Arrange bottles of ginger ale and fruity sodas in an oversized galvanized tub and put out a pitcher of fresh-squeezed lemonade for anyone craving a noncarbonated thirst-quencher.
Debra McClinton
Simple Floral Arrangements
If you don't have a garden from which to snip blooms, you can often find seasonal classics such as daisies and roses at the grocery store. Tucked into a small container such as this cobalt blue votive holder, summery daisies are a perfect choice: They can be bought the day before, they're hardy enough to withstand a car ride (even with a couple of quick errand stops), and it takes just minutes to arrange them.
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Sweet Summer Corn
Corn on the Cob with Herbed Butter
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Homemade Invitations
While informal, this cookout definitely warrants some pre-party excitement. Begin by creating simple invitations on the computer: Print out the pertinent information, glue it to cheerful paper, and attach it to a theme-appropriate favor from the dollar store. Then mail or drop one off at each guest's home. A gesture that demands minimal effort, to be sure, but one that generates a wonderful sense of anticipation.
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Do not use GPS to find this park. It will not take you anywhere near the park. It is a typical KOA. It is difficult to find and is not right off the interstate. The owner/manager was very apologetic about the GPS sending us in the opposite direction. She said that this had happened frequently. There appeared to be some permanent residents but the park was clean and quiet. The wi-fi doesn't work very well and the cable had very limited channel selections. We were there for only one night as we were enroute to NC. - budolemiss
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Recently the subject of training has come up in the context of some work discussions. Training in relation to an extensive software product like CHS has quite a few facets. For example there is the distinction between knowing the technical details (which buttons to press, which places to look at to make the programs do what you came to them to make them do) and then there is the other matter, not quite so straightforward, of mapping that familiarity into how it works in your company's business processes.
Turning the knowledge into successful implementation.
Mastering the basics, then the detail of the application, that level of proficiency is necessary to move on to planning a deployment if you are taking the lead. Enhanced expertise becomes a baseline from which you move on.
There's a pressing need for this still deeper knowledge built on what you have got to know, to relate the things you do to get the job done, to the right way to do the job and know that for your company, that's the best and most efficient way. This puts your mastery of the pieces of the software into a context where you are really making it work to the best possible degree for your organization.
My colleagues have devised and deliver training courses which equip customers extremely well to understand the user interface, the nuances of the software suite. I know partly because occasionally over the last few years I have been a guest trainer. In fact if I think back a few years I can recall a teeny tiny bit of contribution to the Capital H training manuals from me. Hardly worth mentioning apart from making the point I understand what patience and professionalism goes into this work.
I am impressed too that a large body of knowledge is imparted in a reasonable time, in a fashion which maintains the student's interest and these training courses keep pace with the major new features which come into the latest releases. Here's something which I unhesitatingly recommend to new customers. Take all the training. You will learn some things which you won't ultimately use. That will be your informed choice. Take it all. You will have the knowledge that your decision not to use a particular way of processing data in favor of an alternative is sound.
Here are some advantages to going on a training course:
1) 100% of the time you can focus 100% of your attention to learning. This is of course much easier if you go to one of the Mentor training facilities. No chance of the boss encouraging you to "just take a look at that issue if you get a minute over lunch." Well, less chance I suppose.
2) The investment in time is repaid to you and your company by your sharpness and effectiveness and the boss is hardly likely to be thinking she's going to de-layer your post or disband your role now is she? Quite the opposite, you are being trained because you show the qualities your employer wants to grow and develop. Lucky you.
3) You get to take away the training materials and put them somewhere on your desk, your cubicle or in your office, and if you are smart you are going to open it and look at it every now and then to re-familiarize yourself with one or two things.
4) You get to meet one or more really nice Mentor Graphics employees, steeped, marinaded, soaked and pickled in knowledge of the CHS application. You have almost a 100% certainty that the Educational Services division of Mentor Graphics is assigning a person who has actually written the very CHS course material being delivered on the training course. Or occasionally it will be someone "borrowed" from the Customer Support division who is immersed in the application and it is my belief that those people actually know the software probably the best of all.
4) You get to attend a training course with a small group of other students. The trainee to trainer ratio is very favorable to learning.
The way it typically goes is that the early adopters of a new customer are responsible for designing a new processs using the new tool, and you can never know too much, you can never be too curious, too expert when you are scouting the landscape with plenty following you close behind. Because it is not necessary just to get up to a competence so that you can run some of your own data through your installation a few times when you finish the training course and go back to your desk. You have to be able to understand the implications, such that you can make choices which will stick for a few years.
Later students in an adoption of CHS in electrical distribution systems design and harness engineering stand on the shoulders of the pioneers. They may go to fewer classes, or may be attending training organized in-house which is tailored specifically to the needs summarized "just tell me how to get the job done."
Then there are decisions to be made if you are one of the lead-off group. How does this knowledge fit into the way I want my design process to be reflected in the tool usage? How is what I have learned going to be turned into the most efficient way of using this functionality? You go from a general understanding of the application to how it specifically is going to be implemented.
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What about the future? Mentor offers plenty of online classes. Not for the CHS products just yet though. At CHS 2008.2 this year the CHS Academy was introduced from where test drives and video runs-through of aspects of the software can be accessed, together with quick direct links to the knowledge bases known as Supportnet and something I have previously been enthusiastic about in this blog – the Mentor Community for Cabling and Harness http://communities.mentor.com/mgcx/community/harness/
Training is like insurance. The cost of having it is known, the cost of not having it is never apparent until something bad happens. The difference is that application training has a chance of preventing the bad thing happening. Insurance only reimburses you after the bad thing happens.
And remember, if you don't use your knowledge it slowly decays. CHS is a feature-rich system and there is probably something new you can learn every week. What's to lose? Well, keep it fresh, practice and keep sharp even if you have no production imperative straight away. You wouldn't go to a business meeting without preparation – using CHS lasts a little bit longer than a business meeting.
You can never know too much.
For no apparent reason other than providing some color here are some pictures of me learning about art in the Hirschorn Museum in Washington DC during a recent trip. Everybody should learn a new thing or two every now and then. The first one might have been inspired by multicore wire multicolors. The second picture is another one for the Capital H collection – but I didn't see a CHS logo cut into the south lawn of the residence of the Presidents.


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Your primary role is to listen without judgment. She needs to speak her mind without fear of being criticized or censored.
I would caution you in pushing her to "accept" that she's in an emotionally abusive relationship. This is a very difficult, very painful process, which is deeply personal. If it is true, she will need to take her own time to discover it.
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Posted: 15/02/2012 Filed under: Gulf and Middle East Security, Mark Fitzpatrick, Non-Proliferation | Tags: fuel rods, Iran, nuclear, sanctions 3 CommentsBy Mark Fitzpatrick, Director, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme
Today Iran announced three advances in its nuclear programme, calculated to show that it won't be impeded by sanctions, sabotage or assassinations. Two of these announcements were about progress in gas centrifuge technology, heightening concerns about Tehran's nuclear intentions and capabilities. Iran supposedly has increased the number of working centrifuges at the Natanz enrichment plant from 6,000 to 9,000. It also claims to have produced a 'fourth-generation' centrifuge.
If both of these announcements are true, then the timeline will be significantly shortened for Iran to be able to build nuclear weapons, if a decision were made to do so. But it will be important to know how many of those 3,000 additional centrifuges will actually work, and how well. The same applies for the supposed fourth-generation model. Iran has been working for more than 15 years on various second-generation models that it still has not perfected, in part because sanctions and other restrictions have impeded its ability to acquire the necessary material from abroad. Two years ago Iran unveiled a 'third-generation' model, but then said nothing more about it.
These announcements will further enflame talk of military options, which has reached feverish pitch in some quarters in Israel and the US. But even in the highly unlikely event that everything Iran has announced is true, it would still take Iran a couple of years to produce a handful of weapons. Any such decision to dash for weapons would surely be noticed by the international inspectors.
The remaining announcement – Iran's claim that it's now fuelling its Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) with domestically produced fuel plates, using 19.75% enriched uranium – is benign, except in terms of nuclear safety for Iranians themselves. The reactor is used to make medical isotopes for cancer patients, an eminently peaceful purpose. But enrichment at this level is very close to being weapons usable, so it has been one of the most worrisome aspects of Iran's nuclear programme.
Until now, the fact that Iran could not actually manufacture the fuel gave the lie to this excuse for the 19.75% enrichment. Making the fuel is not actually that difficult, but the new fuel needs to be tested for a considerable period in an operational reactor to be sure it is safe, especially since Iran does not have the fuel specifications from the original manufacturers in Argentina.
If Iran is really running the reactor with untested fuel plates, then it will be terribly unsafe for the nearby residents, as explained in the IISS Strategic Dossier on Iran's Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Capabilities published last year. More likely, Iran is testing the fuel plates, rather than using them to power the TRR. But saying otherwise is a way for Iran to say that it is no longer interested in making any concessions to obtain foreign-supplied reactor fuel.
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Bus Driver Gets Sucker Punched To Kingdom Come
Youtube – SHOCK VIDEO: Teens on a Bus Brutally Sucker Punch Elderly Bus Driver Knocking him Unconscious for Absolutely no Reason
Where the fuck is the Bus Monitor lady on this one? This guy gets his fucking lights punched out from the most cowardly sucker punch of all time and whats he gonna get? A few weeks vacation from his shit job as a bus driver. Whoop dee do. She gets made fun of for being fat and ugly and gets a million bucks to retire. He gets knocked into fucking the next solar system like his Ms. Frizzle on the Magic School Bus and hes probably gonna get nothing. Makes sense.
PS – Kinda giving me a Mike Ehrmentraut vibe as he just sits there in his drivers seat after getting punched. Just kinda slumped over thinking to himself "Let me die in peace."


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Aston University in Birmingham, UK has launched a unique new laboratory facility dedicated to solving the mysteries that lie in the relationship between the food we eat and the human brain.
The Nutrition and Behaviour Lab is part of a recent expansion of Aston's internationally recognised research in this area by Laboratory Director, Dr Michael Green and colleagues.
The lab will provide a resource for investigating the impact that different foods and supplements have on behaviour and well being, as well as enabling researchers to explore the efficacy of weight loss regimes and other dietary related health choices. Researchers will also carry out in-depth studies into how likes or dislikes for certain foods are acquired and how they can be changed along with the impact this has on food choice, health and well being.
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This second of the two-volume set covers Jeremiah 2652, the first volume having been published a decade earlier. McKane, emeritus professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages in the University of St. Andrews, pursues the prophecy of Jeremiah in typical ICC fashion. He leaves no aspect of intricacies in the text without comment; a plethora of detail greets the reader at every turn of the page. The author addresses questions relating to technical matters with thorough diligence.
The author's acceptance of a liberal source criticism perspective dictates his notations throughout. He argues that the book "is the product of a long growth extending into the post-exilic period" (clxxii) and later adds that "the shorter text of Sept. is a witness to a more original Hebrew text than that of MT. Thus Sept. has substantial text-critical significance and rests on a Hebrew Vorlage shorter than MT" (clxxii-clxxiii). This, of course, leads him frequently to reject the accuracy of the current text, often extracting passages from their present context and somewhat abitrarily re-inserting them into a later context.


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Air traffic (and therefore airplane contrails) was halted nationwide for nearly three days following September 11, 2001. Students will investigate whether that stoppage resulted in any changes to cloud cover, temperature and/or radiation. Using the... (View More) MY NASA DATA Live Access Server (LAS), students gather satellite data on each of the three atmospheric parameters around that time frame. Working in teams, they read, compare and discuss two accompanying articles, then use the data from the LAS to create a PowerPoint presentation contending whether it was the lack of contrails or simply natural weather patterns at the time that was responsible for the increase in the range of temperatures. This lesson uses student- and citizen science-friendly microsets of authentic NASA Earth system science data from the MY NASA DATA project. It includes detailed procedures, analysis questions, teacher notes, related links, background information, lesson extensions, and a list of related AP Environmental Science topics. (View Less)
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The Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) Department invites applications for a tenure track Assistant/Associate professor as part of a multi-college chronic disease/public health cluster hire. The cluster hire includes eight tenure track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level or higher, see below for more information.
Responsibilities: Candidates with a focus on childhood obesity, health disparities, or methodological and statistical approaches to public health would fit well into HDFS; joint appointments with other departments can also be considered. The candidate is expected to participate in ongoing and future initiatives in public health on campus (http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/ClusterHireinPublicHealth). This hire will complement existing departmental strengths in healthcare disparities, healthcare communication, family dynamics associated with management of chronic illness, family and sibling relationships and substance abuse, cortisol and immune functioning, families and developmental disabilities, and methodology and statistical methods.
Qualifications: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in public health, HDS, Psychology or a related field. Also applicant must have a strong publication record, potential to develop a funded research program, and potential to become an excellent teacher.
Applications: Submit applications as a single pdf file containing a cover letter, curriculum vitae, two-page summary of research interests, and a one-page teaching statement at (cluster hire site to be inserted). Three letters of recommendation must be submitted electronically to firstname.lastname@example.com. Screening of applications will begin September 20, 2012 and will continue until the position is filled. A background check is required for employment in this position.
Qualified applicants in one or more of the areas listed below may apply to up to three of the following positions within the research cluster center on Prevention of Chronic Disease/Pubic Health.
Department of Nutrition Sciences (http://www.purdue.edu/ethics/oie/OfficeofInstitutionalEquity002751-2012.html)
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Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing (http://www.purdue.edu/ethics/oie/OfficeofInstitutionalEquity002698-2012.html)
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Department of Computer Graphics Technology (http://www.purdue.edu/ethics/oie/OfficeofInstitutionalEquity002699-2012.html)
Purdue University is an EEO/AA employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce. All individuals, including minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.


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Flash Photography And the Law
Did you know that there is a law that we should be aware of when we use our flash?
This law applies to ALL flashes; the pop up flash on your camera and the, usually more powerful, separate flash unit that works off of your hot-shoe.
If you don't know about this law, it could seriously limit your ability to create a photograph.
Hot Air Balloon Over Pine Trees
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Brits Want Nirvana's 'Teen Spirit' to Hit No. 1
It's almost Halloween, which means it's time for U.K. fans to start fighting over what song should top the British charts during the Christmas week. The hotly debated "Christmas No. 1" slot almost always goes to the debut single from The X Factor's newest winner, with the reality show's unstintingly stodgy Matt Cardle grabbing the honor last year.
In 2009, though, a grassroots Facebook campaign called "Rage Against the X Factor" improbably helped Rage Against the Machine's 1992 political rocker "Killing in the Name" beat Simon Cowell's latest septuagenarian-friendly selection to the holiday top spot. After a failed push last year for John Cage's avant-garde "4'33," fans have begun a 2011 Facebook campaign for Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," as the Nevermind album marks its 20th anniversary (via NME).
Flip through 14 rare photos of Kurt Cobain. Plus! See all of SPIN's complete coverage of Nevermind's 20th anniversary.
With more than 19,000 "likes" at the time of this post, the campaigners say they're responding to The X Factor's decision "to effectively bully" the English children's charity Rhythmix; The X Factor used the moniker for an ensemble featuring four of its contestants, and the charity told RockNewsDesk the show won't give up the Rhythmix name without an expensive legal fight. "Well, fuck you, X Favor," the "Nirvana for Christmas No. 1" group says. "We're going to download the Nirvana classic 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' to stick the proverbial finger at you. Who's in?" We're shocked to find out a Cowell-affiliated brand would ever do anything remotely dickish.


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Hello there dear support and forum I am wondering do you have some kind of report regarding issues with metropolis it seems for me (not only me i saw a post on the us forums having the same problem) i am droping in frames from 90-80 frames to almost 30-45 at the start of the game I never had other issues with frames on other maps only this one and it's since today (because the map was added today anyway).So i am asking is there any fix to that and did other people suffer the same thing?
Here too:
- playing on a 15" MacBook Pro with AMD Radeon HD 6750M card - no problems whatsoever on any map at 'very high' settings (~70fps) - except the new Metropolis where it drops to ~25fps from the start, even when staring at an empty spot in the fog of war Some feedback would be appreciated. Thx. |
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We have tested this map and did not registered any FPS drops or other issues while playing. Please paste your DxDiag report in this thread so we can attempt to troubleshoot your issue: http://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/how-do-i-create-dxdiag-and-msinfo-files |
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This has to be bull!@#$. Everyone I know have much lower FPS on metropolis than any other map. It's worse on some areas of the map, especially the starting positions. |
Exactly same problem, running smooth on every map, but on Metropolis my FPS often drops below 26 making screen lag a bit.
BTW - Please click "Request for sticky", because many users has problem with this map.
Edited by Ramiel on 14/04/2012 10:09 BST
Having the same problem. Insane FPS drops on Metropolis and Daybreak. Seems to be when the smoke around xelnaga towers are on my screen, but not quite sure.
Thank you for all your reports.
We're currently having a closer look at this map as it seems there might be some issues with it that are causing a slight performance drops. We do not currently have an ETA for any potential updates for this map. I apologise for any inconvenience caused. |
I'll probably going to veto it. The difference in fps in comparison to other maps is very high.
slight performance drops. It isn't slight. On Metropolis at top-right spawn location I get 80 fps when splitting workers (1 insane AI). On Daybreak at top-right - 200 fps. On Ohana bottom - 150 fps. And this is just on High settings (i7 920 @ 4.0, 6 GB, 560 GTX TI, win7 64, the latest nvidia drivers). |
Regarding the issue here is some info:
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/4496750749 The map will be removed from the Ladder as of next maintainence to be fixed and added in the future season. |
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You would think the biologist at FWC would know this time of the year is not good for reptile hunting ?
After the Fergusons hastily sign a release to film their hunt, Ardezzone pairs them with Mosher. Around 1:30 p.m., the Fergusons and the cameraman roll out with an assortment of gear straight from the gladiator pit. Scoffing at the snake sticks on sale for $90 a pop, Ferguson jury-rigged his own out of a bent piece of conduit and a fishing-rod grip. His back is strapped with a custom-made Manny "Sharkman" Puig knife. For snakes measuring more than 12 feet, he's got a Taurus revolver that fires shotgun shells and can take off a python's head with a single trigger pull.
Most important, his cooler is stocked with Bud. "You ain't going to be jumping on no python without that," he laughs.
With Mosher running his camera, the father and daughter hit the bush around North Okeechobee Road, kicking at the shade under coco plum plants, sawgrass bushes, and other pieces of prime python real estate.
"See how the grass is all pushed down," Ferguson coaches his daughter for the camera, his voice hitched up into a prime-time decibel. "That's what you have to look for, the signs. An animal has been hanging around this tree." A suspenseful pause. "Hopefully, it's a python."
As the truck bed rattles with empty beer cans, Ferguson pulls in at Mack's Fish Camp, a weekend getaway sitting on a slim canal where two gators dubbed Elvis and Sneaky Pete coast upstream. The father and daughter are regulars, and Ferguson has come with some insider info. The camp once had a 14-foot pet python named Speed Bump. It got away three years ago, and Ferguson figures it might be hanging out in the nearby marshes.
Thirty minutes later, the hunt adds up to nothing. With the afternoon winding down, Ferguson and Mosher figure it might be time to throw some fiction into the mix. They're tapping into the first rule of reality TV: When reality doesn't cooperate, fake it.
After details are stage-managed over some more gulps of beer, everyone settles on the abandoned camper at the edge of the lot, a forgotten piece of Eisenhower-era ordinance sprouting sawgrass. It's the perfect hiding spot for pythons and other snakes, except Ferguson already gave the building the all-clear an hour earlier.
But now, with the handheld high-def camera rolling, the Fergusons again walk through the trashed interior. The father sends up a B-movie bark of horror. A few quick squirts of costume blood finish off the effect.
"OK, maybe one more. Little louder. That was good," Mosher says. "It's always good to have a couple of takes."
"Like you really got hurt," Jennifer deadpans to her dad.
After a second go at staging a bite, Ferguson decides to call it a day. All over the Glades, TV crews and newspaper reporters tailing would-be python slayers file reports that no snakes have been caught. (By Monday afternoon, however, FWC reported 11 had been captured.)
Before the pair makes it to the end of a dirt road leading back to civilization, though, a car heading the other way screeches to a halt and a guy in skinny jeans and a Gilligan hat jumps out, camera in hand, asking Ferguson if he's seen any pythons. When he spots the driver's hand, he asks what happened.
"Bit by a python," the hunter replies straight-facedly.
The photographer, who says he's working for Vice Magazine, snaps shots of the fake blood caking Ferguson's fingers: It's another successful quarry for the real hunters at this Everglades contest.


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2013 SsangYong Actyon Sports Luxury Pick-up – The new SsangYong Actyon Sports come with the front, it is dynamic yet sophisticated, complemented by a mesh radiator grille and trapezoidal bumper, and stylish black headlight bezels provide a luxurious touch. In profile new SsangYong Actyon Sports, the sharp belt line runs to the rear bumper emphasising the sleek, sporty appearance, and from the rear the wide glass area not only gives excellent rearward visibility but also complements the transparent rear lamps, providing the car's signature look.
The new 2013 SsangYong Actyon Sports reflects the growing demand from drivers with an interest in outdoor activities and extreme sports. A large, flat rear deck provides a 2.04m2 load area, accessed via a tailgate which takes only half the effort to open (11kgf) compared to that of its predecessor (21kgf).The interior cabin of the new SsangYong Actyon Sports there's a smart and sophisticated environment, created by using black and metallic finishes along with an LED illuminated instrument cluster. Quality leather can be specified to trim the comfortable seats, while passengers in the rear can recline their seats by up to 29 degrees.
Designed of 2013 SsangYong Actyon Sports to be the perfect vehicle for everything from weekend leisure activities to city commuter driving, the car's sharp, contemporary design and spacious cabin reflects the unique strength and dynamics of SsangYong Motor. After two years development and an investment of over 60 million Euros, the new SsangYong Actyon Sports is a third generation model, inheriting the brand values of the first generation Musso Sports and second generation Actyon Sports.
Engine specifications of the new "2013 SsangYong Actyon Sports" is powered by the e-XDi active engine provides maximum power of 155ps and peak torque of 360Nm, which is a 16 per cent improvement over its predecessor. Maximum torque is consistent between 1,500rpm and 2,800rpm, providing ample performance in what is typically the most commonly used part of the rev range. Ample low end torque of 190Nm allows the 2013 SsangYong Actyon Sports to tackle tough off-road terrain and maintain SsangYong's legendary reputation for off-road capability.We think this car is perfect for those who like adventure and luxury features in this car.
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Burke is quite a decent man, and lives in Italy. He is a polyglot, and speaks Latin fluently, so he is definity Vatican City material more than American by now.
As for the socialism part, well, all I can say is to repeat the words of Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno, "No man can at the same time be a devoted Catholic and a sincere Socialist."
Yet, the supposed leading African Cardinal candidate for the Papacy is an extreme socialist. Although I have read that he has hurt his chances as it appears he has committed one of the cardinal no - nos for a conclave. It appears he has either actively or appeared to actively campaign for the job.


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Mare Care and Problems
Complications Related to Intrauterine Marbles
Complications include chronic endometritis, pyometra, and the marble or shreds of glass adhering to the endometrium.
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What to Consider Before Breeding an Older Mare
Plan ahead and ensure your older mare is up to the task before sending her to the breeding shed.
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CMN Teams Up with Dairy Queen for Miracle Treat Day
Today a special thing happens all over the country at participating Dairy Queens. It is Miracle Treat Day! It is a day to treat yourself to a blizzard and help out the Children's Miracle Network.
Today a special thing happens all over the country at participating Dairy Queens. It is Miracle Treat Day! It is a day to treat yourself to a blizzard and help out the Children's Miracle Network.
Each and every year we dedicate 2 days to the Children's Miracle Network to raise money for this wonderful cause and this year you helped us raise over $120,000 for CMN!
Every year during the Children's Miracle Network Celebration Radiothon you will find a special group of volunteers who give their time to answer phones. They are the special people who take your donation for the Children's Miracle Network.
Every year we designate two full days of broadcasting to the Children's Miracle Network as we help raise money that will stay right here in the Texas Panhandle.
Maegan Rowland is one of the newest additions to the CMN family and serves as the BSA CMN Coordinator. It's her job to oversee all Children's Miracle Network Projects, including the CMN radiothon and telethon as well as to raise money and awareness for the Children's Miracle Network.
What is a child life specialist? A child life specialist is a very important person to have at a children's hospital. It makes an unbelievable difference in a hospital stay for a child. Because of the generous donations made each year to Children's Miracle Network, BSA has a child life specialist.
If you ever wonder where donations made to the Children's Miracle Network go, Sam takes you on a tour of the new pediatric playroom. This is one of the many things that CMN provides.
We kicked off our CMN Celebration Radiothon this morning at 6am with Murphy, Sam & Jodi. This is a two-day event that is near and dear to our hearts. To donate, call 212-HELP (4357) and become a 'Maker Maker' with just $1o dollars a month or text 'Good' to 90999.
The Children's Miracle Network Celebration kicks off tomorrow at 5:30am with Murphy, Sam and Jodi. We will turn our radio station over to this wonderful organization for two days. Why do we do this? We do this for many reasons, but I'll tell you why I do this each year.
The Children's Miracle Radiothon is this Thursday and Friday and the Mix 94.1 Crew couldn't be more excited. I would love you to meet a wonderful CMN kiddo who I met when he was just a baby. You see I have known and worked with his mom for years. It was 2 years ago that Jax and his momma Kim stepped into my studio to tell me that Jax has Type 1 diabetes. It was 2 years ago that Jax met Murphy(as in Murphy, Sam and Jodi), who like Jax lives with diabetes. Meet this week's child of the week Jax May.
Mix 94.1 is gearing up for our Children's Miracle Network Radiothon June 2nd and June 3rd. Over the next few weeks we would like to introduce you to some of our CMN Kiddos who are near and dear to our heart. This week we would like to introduce you to Karon Silva.
Mix 94.1's annual Children's Miracle Network Radiothon is just around the corner. We will be celebrating CMN June 2nd and 3rd. Tune in to learn about the great children in our area that have been helped by CMN. We want to get everyone involved with the Radiothon.


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This is the first report of the newly constituted Edinburgh Child Protection Committee and it reviews the operation of the Committee in the period March 2005 to March 2006. It reports good progress in meeting the Committee's objectives with work still to be progressed, particularly in the area of child protection public awareness, implementing the child protection inter-agency training strategy and the revised Lothian and Borders Inter-Agency Child Protection Guidelines in the autumn of 2006.
This document was written by the Department of Health. The National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services establishes clear standards for promoting the health and well-being of children and young people and for providing high quality services that meet their needs.
Workbook containing the CWDC induction standards and other materials intended to facilitate the induction process for new children's social care staff.
Document detailing the framework for social work education in Scotland which consists of the Scottish requirements for social work training, an introduction to the standards in social work education and the standards in social work education.
This leaflet set out the National Care Standards and the role of the Care Commission.
Report of a study which followed up an investigation by the National Care Standards Commission in 2004 into the management of medication in care and children's homes in England which found homes were not performing well in this area.
The follow up study found some improvement but not enough to be wholly satisfactory.
In this position paper, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) sets out a skills and qualifications framework that should support practice learning, both in the new degree and across social care organisations. We focus on ways of supporting those whose task it is to assess practice in the workplace ('practice assessors'). We also look at employers' opportunities for organisational development, improved practice standards and human resource development (HRD).
Scottish Executive document laying down the standards expected of mental health officer services in the following areas, responsive services, referral, assessment and admission procedures, care planning and care management, interagency collaboration, equitable provision and anti-discriminatory practice, staff training and development and organisation and management.
Document summarising proceedings at Care Commission consultation events in Dunoon and Oban at which they got the views of attendees who used care services, their carers and relatives.
Collaborative report assessing the state of services for older people in England and pinpointing the steps which need to be taken to ensure standards are met and that services for older people continuously improve.


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Do you love spoken word performances?
Every year, Youth Speaks gathers the community to celebrate the ongoing life and legacy of Dr. King. Our celebration — Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — is a showcase of young people from throughout the Bay Area who have written, in their own voices, original works that grapple with the thoughts and work of the man, who are working to demand—in their own voices, in their lifetimes—huge leaps into possibility, an ongoing commitment to love like a consuming fire.
This year join us as we listen to excerpts of some of Dr. King's powerful oratory and witness the responses from our young people.
Youth Speaks presents The 17th Annual Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in San Francisco, CA at the Nourse Auditorium Monday, January 20, 2014 from 7pm – 9pm.
Want to go? All you have to do to enter is send your email address and full name to firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll randomly select 3 winners for a pair of tickets each.
Deadline to enter is Monday, January 20, at 9am.
Value: $10 per ticket. You must be a California resident and 18 years or older to participate. Employees of KQED are not eligible to enter.


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Miriam Schapiro
- Not to be confused with Miriam Shapira-Luria, a Talmud scholar in the Late Middle Ages
Miriam Schapiro | |
Born | Toronto, Canada |
Education | BA, University of Iowa (1945), MA, University of Iowa (1946), MFA, University of Iowa (1949) |
Known for | Painting, Printmaking, Collage |
Movement | Abstract Expressionism, Feminist art, Pattern and Decoration |
Awards | College Art Association Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement (2002) |
Miriam Schapiro (or Shapiro) (born 1923) is a Canadian-born artist based in America. She is a painter, feminist, sculptor, and printmaker. She is a pioneer of feminist art. She is also considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art movement.[1]
Personal life and education[edit]
She was born in Toronto, Canada.[2] Her father was an industrial design artist who fostered her desire to be an artist and served as her role model and mentor. Her mother was a stay at home mother who worked part-time during the depression.[3]
She studied at the State University of Iowa, where she met the artist Paul Brach, whom she married in 1946.[2] By 1951 they moved to New York City and befriended many of the Abstract expressionist artists of the New York School, including Joan Mitchell, Larry Rivers, Knox Martin and Michael Goldberg. Shapiro and Brach lived in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. During this period Shapiro had a successful career as an abstract expressionist painter in the hard-edge style.[4]
Early in her career, Schapiro started looking for maternal symbols to unify her own roles as a woman. Her series, Shrines (1963), was her first artistically successful attempt at compartmentalizing her life roles. Her painting, Big Ox No. 1, from 1968, references Shrines, however no longer compartmentalized. The center O takes on the symbol of the egg which exists as the window into the maternal structure with outstretched limbs.[3]
In the 1970s, Schapiro and Brach moved to California so that both could teach in the art department at the University of California. Subsequently, she was able to establish the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia with Judy Chicago. The program set out to address the problems in the arts from an institutional position. They wanted the creation of art to be less of a private, introspective adventure and more of a public process through consciousness raising sessions, personal confessions, and technical training.[5] She participated in the Womanhouse exhibition in 1972. Schapiro's smaller piece within Womanhouse, called "Dollhouse", was constructed using various scrap pieces to create all the furniture and accessories in the house. Each room signified a particular role a woman plays in society and depicted the conflicts between them.[6]
Schapiro's work from the 1970s onwards consists primarily of collages assembled from fabrics, which she calls "femmages". As Schapiro traveled the United States giving lectures, she would ask the women she met for a souvenir. These souvenirs would be used in her collage like paintings. Her 1977 - 1978 essay Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled - FEMMAGE (written with Melissa Meyer) describes femmage as the activities of collage, assemblage, découpage and photomontage practised by women using "traditional women's techniques - sewing, piercing, hooking, cutting, appliquéing, cooking and the like..."[7]
Her works are held in numerous museum collections[8][better source needed] including the Jewish Museum (New York), the National Gallery of Art,[9][better source needed] and the Flomenhaft Gallery.[10] Her awards include the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement from the College Art Association[11] and a 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship.[12]
Awards and honors[edit]
- 1982: Skowhegan Medal for Collage[13]
- 1983: Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
- 1988: Honors Award, The Women's Caucus for Art
- 1989: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
- 1992: Honors Award, National Association of Schools of Art and Design
- 1994: Honors Award, New York State NARAL
- 1994: Honorary Doctorate Degree, Minneapolis and Design, Minneapolis, MN
- 1994: Honorary Doctorate Degree, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
- 2002: Lifetime Achievement Award
List of major works[edit]
- (1963) Shrines Grey Art Gallery [14]
- (1968) Big Ox No. 1 Brooklyn Museum [15]
See also[edit]
- ^ Cotter, Holland (2008-01-15), "Scaling a Minimalist Wall With Bright, Shiny Colors", New York Times, retrieved 2009-09-12
- ^ a b Avital H. Bloch, Lauri Umansky, Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s, NYU Press, 2005, p319. ISBN 0-8147-9910-8
- ^ a b Gouma-Peterson, Thalia. Miriam Schapiro: An Art of Becoming. American Art 11.1 (1997) : 10-45.
- ^ Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya, Helen Gardner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Thomson Wadsworth, 2005, p1073. ISBN 0-15-505090-7
- ^ Arnason, H.H.; Mansfield, E.C. History of Modern Art. Prentice Hall. 2010. pp604. ISBN 0-205-67367-8
- ^ 3. Schapiro, Miriam. The Education of Women as Artists: Project Womanhouse. Art Journal 31.3 (1972) : 268-270.
- ^ Kristine Stiles, Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings, University of California Press, 1996, pp151-4. ISBN 0-520-20253-8
- ^ artfacts.net. artfacts.net (2013-11-12). Retrieved on 2014-01-24.
- ^ nga.gov[dead link]
- ^ Miriam Schapiro. "Flomenhaft Gallery. Retrieved on 2014-01-24.
- ^ Miriam Schapiro, feminist artist and Pattern & Decoration painter, received the distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement - People - Brief Article, Art in America, August 2002.
- ^ "Miriam Schapiro". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- ^ "Mairiam Schapiro Awards Page". Mariam Schapiro. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/nycool/27shapiro.html
- ^ Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party. Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved on 2014-01-24.
- Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
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Best apple tree in So. Cal.
I live in San Diego, and want to plant an apple tree (or two)--which do you suggest?
If possible, I'd love one with tart-ish fruit (my boys are granny smith fans).
Okay... no one has answered, so I will stick my neck out. Apples are generally grown in colder areas. I am up in Sacramento, and apples are grown in the hills where it gets below freezing in the winter. I have heard that there are some warmer weather types, but I don't know them. Unfortunately, you live in a place that is gardening heaven for SOME fruits... but not the cooler weather types.
I live in the hot San Fernando Valley and have been growing an Anna apple tree since 1999. It produces a lot of apples each year; some are extremely good and crunchy and some are sort of mealy. I am also growing a Granny Smith which is still young. Currently, there are two apples hanging on the tree. The others, the squirrels got to them even before they were ripe. In a previous house, I grew Beverly Hills apples as the nurseryman told me this was a good growing apple for hot areas. The squirrels always got those apples :-(
I grow Anna and Dorsett Golden. Anna is very early and good for cooking. Dorsett is a wee bit later and good for fresh eating. I recently planted Fuji and Pink Lady so I don't know about them.
Check out the Dave Wilson Nursery site, Trees of Antiquity and the California Rare Fruit Growers and Kuffelcreek Press all have information on apple growing in Southern California.
You might not have heard of planting 3 trees in one hole, but it really works well. This way you could have three different kinds of apples in the space of one tree. You just plant them in a triangle shape. What I've done with my peaches is plant an early, mid, and late season variety in the same hole so I`m eating peaches over the entire growing season. You could do the same with apples. They don't fight with each other over space nor do their roots strangle each other. If one tree sends a branch into another's space, you just trim it off.
Hi: I asked the same question last month on this forum. I wanted to grow a colonade apple tree in the San Fernando Valley. I did a lot of research and contacted several online nurseries that specialize in growing apples. What I was told is you need to find out how many chill hours the apple tree you want to grow needs. If I remember correctly it's the number of hours under 35 degrees that the tree needs to flower and produce fruit. While an apple tree will grow in a climate that does not have enough chill hours, it will not flower and bear fruit. There are many micro climates within a zone but generally a zone over zone 6 is too warm. A recent visit to Hood City Oregon where apples flourish comfirmed that apples like cold weather.
I believe you wanted to say hours under 45 degrees (Dave Wilson), however other places say between 55 to 33 degrees provide the 'chilling' needed.
In warmer areas that is why they have developed low chill varieties. Israel has done a lot of research on low chill apples. Anna and Ein Shemer varieties were developed there (both low chill).
Naturally, I would not expect great success with Red Delicious in my area (low desert) so I wouldn't plant it to begin with.
Low chill apples do great in warm areas for which they are designed.
The beautiful thing about living in a warm area is the fact that you can grow low chill apples right next to mangos, guavas, avocados, etc (like I do) outside!
Try that in Oregon and see what happens.
Interesting site:
Has anybody in your area tried the Pink Lady apple from Australia? It is supposed to have low chill and requires a lot of heat in order to develop tasty apples. I have two trees growing here and for the first time I got some real tree ripened fruits off of it and it is truly great tasting. I believe it requires less than 400-500 chilling hours (old model calcs). The major problem with this is that it can be affected easily by fireblight because of its prolonged bloom. It is also the latest harvesting apple in my yard. I still have some that are hanging in the tree, not yet ripe, and could possibly stay there until the first frost.
You can also check with the Master Gardener hotline about varieties they recommend: (858) 694-2860. I bought 4-5 varieties a few years ago in January (bare-root) from Walter Andersen Nursery in San Diego. They have lots of info about good varieties for our area. Good luck!
Here is a link that might be useful: San Diego Horticultural Society
I'm growing Anna and Dorsett Golden. The Anna (2nd year) produced quite well this season - (tart for apple sauce). The Dorsett had a few (first year) and had a somewhat "Delicious" look to it - and better for eating.
I, too would like a good "Granny" but will settle for the low chill fruits anyway.
As others posted, Ein Sheimer and Beverly Hills are also recommended for our zone (Sunset 23 here), but haven't room for any more.
I also planted a peach this past year (Bonanza) had 3 beautiful peaches (squirrels/coons didn't find em - yet).
Hope it lives.
Good luck.
I have a "Gordon" apple in my North inland San Diego yard. It has done well despite my lack of care. It really should get more water then I manage to give it. The apples are both good for eating out of hand and make great apple sauce.
In the past the best nursery I have found for bare root trees is Sunshine Gardens in Encinitas. Although I have noticed they have moved from their old location to the adjacent property and I am not sure if their selection will be the same come bare root time.
Here is a link that might be useful: Apples in Calif
Here is a web site that would give chilling requirements for apples, etc., for different areas.
Scroll down to the "Weather Related" paragraph.
Web site: http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/crops/crops/shtml
I live in Long Beach and I have a Beverly Hills apple tree that has been growing for about 7 years now. It is a small tree probably about 10 feet but not to wide and it has a lot of apples. They are on the tart side which may be just what you are looking for. They are firm and tart like a pippin but if you leave them on the tree they get reddish strips on them and get softer and a little sweeter. I have used them for pies but mostly for just picking and eating as I wander through the yard. I have been really happy with it and the way it produces apples, there are still apples on it now and it is almost Nov.
Jiliberto, great link -- VERY useful guide to varieties for the various parts of CA. In particular, it helps to break up the Southern coast, the central coast, the northern areas north of Santa Rosa, the deserts, and the valleys, because the "northern" vs "southern" cal distinction is very overbroad, and as the list shows, there is much overlap in varieties depending on area.
Here in Walnut Creek, our friends have had some of the sunburn and early drop problems, and we get much less chilling than Santa Rosa, so I think we'll look at the "inland valley" guide -- we should be comparable for this purpose to central valley temps, though slightly less hot and cold, but closer in climate than to the coast or the northern climates.
Thanks for that link!
Just plant your favorite variety and ignore the chilling hours requirement. Strip the leaves off by hand by say, February, and it will fruit just fine. It may not taste like back east, but will be much better than anything in the supermarket.
A fellow CRFG member in South Orange County has over 100 apple varieties that do quite well. His secret is to have just one variety per rootstock instead of multi-grafts.
Kevin Hauser
Here is a link that might be useful: Growing Apples in the City
The disadvantages to using only one variety per rootstock is that you will have to spend more to buy rootstocks even if the scionwood are free, unless your rootstocks are also free. If you graft unto a seedling rootstock, it takes one to two years longer for the grafted variety to bear fruit compared to grafting on a branch of a mature tree. Grafting on a branch of a mature tree usually will bear fruits the next season, and in most cases with my apple grafts, they also bear fruit the season they are grafted (I usually snip off the blooms to prevent this early bearing). If you have hybridized seedling and would want to have it bear fruit very quickly, graft your hybrid seedling unto a branch of a mature tree, and you will know much earlier the taste.
There are certain advantages to using only one variety per tree but to achieve the most number of plants per unit area, the tree must be spaced really close together and this means summer pruning faithfully every year. If hedge-row type of closely spaced trees are to your liking as in the case of trellises or hedges, then this is the best approach. You can insure that the growth of most of your trees are easier to control if only one variety per rootstock, but there is stil danger of one variety dominating over another just like in multi-grafts. If they are planted closed together, and one tree has better vigor performance on that rootstock, for sure, that variety will crowd and dominate over the others in that area, or will shade out the others. Exactly the same problem as multi-grafts. You will have to be vigilant in watching their growth.
I do multi-graft because I'd like to create an illusion of slightly bigger trees that are spaced like 6 ft apart. For example, my 30-in-1 citrus tree looks like a well-balanced single big tree, but closer look will show that they have different fruits and leaves. There is a technique that I have thought about and successfully applied to balancing the shape of trees with multi-grafted varieties, something that you will be hard pressed to do in trees that are single grafts but planted close together. My technique is to continuously graft over the vigorous branches with the less vigorous varieties, and then graft the vigorous varieties unto the less vigorous branches. If you don't have much time and would graft only once in a while and still achieve more cultivar packing, graft the most vigorous one to grow towards the north side, and the less vigorous one pointing to the south. The more heat tolerant variety should be grafted to grow towards the west and the one with the same vigor but less heat tolerant should be to the east. I also do grafting according to frost protection as with my citruses. The mandarins would be on the top canopy, oranges and navels on the middle, lemons would be in the lower middle, and then the limes and grapefruits would be at the bottom. Yes, you can keep the grapefruits from becoming a giant branch. None of my trees are lopsided using this technique.
Definitely I would use single variety per rootstock if I have more land, or if my whims would change to hedge type planting.
I don't dispute the advantages of multi-graft, especially in a small yard. But Frank reports that he has much better results getting high-chill apples to fruit in his area's measly 250 or so chill-hours when they're grafted one per rootstock. He does not know why, but the multi-grafts fail much more than the single-grafts. Using that method, he can get just about any variety he tries to fruit (OK, he's having problems with Pitmaston Pineapple, but about 100 others have done well). And yes, he has a huge yard.
Luther Burbank would have hundreds of cherry grafts on one tree, as it saved walking time and made for controlled conditions. But in Sebastipol, he didn't have to worry about chilling hours.
That is nice to know about the high chill apples getting fruits when grafted unto a single rootstock, the principles of inducing the tree to bloom and fruit by stressing can be easily done. Of course when there are other cultivars that gets to bloom first on the same stock as in the case of multi-grafts, those that have high chills would have their nutrients and hormones diverted to those that are quicker to be induced.
I think I may have the technique for multi-grafted trees to behave like the single grafts without much interaction with the other grafted cultivars on the same stock, and thus achieving the same performance that he got, but the high chills would still bloom even on the multi-grafts. The technique is called bark inversion. If you take out a band or a ring of bark on the main stems that goes to each variety, tkae them out, turn 180 degrees and put them back, that would then minimize interaction and reallocation of nutrients, and so in effect will be equivalent to single variety behavior with minimum chemical interactions with the other cultivars. Bark inversion is one lazy way to keep your trees very small but the fruits become bigger, and the tree becomes productive much earlier. Have been practiced in citruses, avocadoes and mangoes. You can google up the "bark inversion".
By the way, vanJ was asking about a columnar tree. I have Scarlet Sentinel (which is green here) growing in a pot here in Zone 9, and it fruits just fine. Nice sweet (huge) crunchy apple. Ignore what the nursery tells you and plant what you want- for years they told me Fuji was too high a chill hour to fruit here.
Thanks for the bark tip Joe- you may have saved me from planting 50 extra trees!
Ron Lombaugh also cited a study that unusually wet winters wash the blooming inhibitors off the tree, causing heavy bearing like we had after the warm, wet El Nino year of 1995-96, which blasted all records in the San Juaquin valley. "Experts" had predicted stone fruit crop disaster because the lack of chilling hours. I'm wondering if you can get the same results with a sprinkler...
I will have to remember that note about sprinkler, will make for a good yard experiment, although we have about 1100 chilling hours average. I though have a very high chill columnar apple (needs>1500 chilling hours) which will never bloom unless I wrap my foldable ice box around it, then dump the unused ice from my icemaker come late winter. You can see the foldable ice box in my web page in this forum. I might try using sprinkler to see if it will work on this hard headed apple tree, this tree is potted and the only cultivar on a rootstock. Last year, even though we are relatively cooler than the previous year, it did not bloom because I did not treat it with my ice box. The reason why I potted this tree is really for science fair experiment for my kids and I was able to successfully get fruits from this very high chill columnar apple.
That is why I keep a very close eye on our chill hours accumulation, and only use the foldable ice box when there was not enough chilling hours by late winter, then I would compute the rest of chilling hours that is needed. I can get 24 chilling hours per day with the ice box. I Keep the tree small so that it's entire column where the blooms come out are enclosed by the ice box. Only for this particular apple. My only regret is it really doesn't taste that good, but proving that it can be done is simply priceless. The same feeling that you folks in the South would feel when you get fruits from your apple trees regardless of what the gurus will say.
Thanks for the great reference. At my last house I had a Bartlett pear that was not supposed to bear in Sunset zone 24, but it certainly hadn't read the book on chilling hours because despite a total lack of care, it set quite a lot of fruit every other year. I had planted some higher chill hour European plums to see how they would do, but didn't live there long enough to see the end of the experiment. When I once again have a larger yard than I have now, I would like to try a few more higher chill hour fruit and strip the leaves.
Don't forget that lack of chilling hours may not be the reason the apple doesn't fruit. Maybe you're just being too nice to it- try shutting the irrigation off, don't feed it, maybe even sick a borer on it (kidding). The thing is to stress the tree. Some people are surprised their tree gives tons of fruit one year and then dies the nest. That flush of fruit was a diseased tree's last gasp. So the trick is to make it think it's in jeapordy without actually letting it die...
There is also a chemical that you can spray on your temperate fruit tree if at near the end of the chilling hours accumulation season, just before budswell, you did not have enough chilling hours. It helps break down some of the tree's chemicals or hormones that keeps the fruit tree from blooming. It has been successfully used in the tropics along with mechanical or chemical defoliation techniques.
The name of the chem is Dormex. Below is a link ti guidelines of how much to use depending upon how much hours you needed.
Here is a link that might be useful: Not enough Chilling hours?
Wow! I just noticed that there was some more activity on my thread...
Kevin, your online book is about the coolest thing I've seen in forever! I just spent the last hour reading (I still have more than half to go) and an hour of my time this late at night is precious! (it's sleeptime if my nursing baby allows it)
I am so excited, I can't wait for those bare-root trees to be ready to buy. I'm thrilled to have seen your info now, at the perfect time, and I'm definitely going to plant more than the one or two apple trees I was considering.
Thank you!
I've had Anna and Dorsett Golden for about 5 years now. The Anna is much more prolific, has actually 2 fruit bearing seasons. In fact it's hard to dormant spray 'cause it seems to always have fruit or flowers. Before you buy, check the cross pollination requirements.
I have them in my west side yard, and the Anna is about 15 ft tall. I bought them espalied, so they're between the concrete wall and the sidewalk, about 3 ft wide space. My only problem with critters is the possums, but I'm hoping they're eating snails and slugs as well as my apples.
It's wonderful having fresh apples!
I grow several apple trees in Thousand Oaks.
Included are Fuji, Gordon, Gala, Beverly Hills, Granny Smith, Big Green (Sundance), Anna, and Dorsette Golden.
By far the most consistantly good yield and good quality comes from the Anna tree. That is hands down my first choice for anyone that is only going to grow one variety in southern California. It's character is most like an exceptional Red Delicious. Second choice is Dorsette Golden. Most like a Golden Delicous. Third is Big Green (also known as Sundance). It is in character much like Granny Smith but sweeter. it is an excellent eating and exceptional pie apple. Big Green even improves in flavor when stored. It is an exclusive variety of Johnson Nersury in Elijay, Georga. Fourth choice is Gala. Gala is an exceptional apple, the tree does well here and fuits well, but the quality of the fruit is not as good as it is in other areas. Granny Smith does very well here. It produces a little better than Big Green, and the Granny Smith fruit is as good as an grown anywhere, but Big Green is higher quality fruit. Beverly Hills is not nearly as strong of a tree as the others. Fruit quality is reasonable. If you like a McIntosh type apple it is worth growing, but it does not yield nearly as well as Anna. Gordon has never produced well for me. I also have a Yates apple, but it has never done much of anything.
Again, by far my first choice and recommendation is Anna. By the way, it was bred in Israel. It is grown there in areas that also grow bannanas.
I saw a Fuji apple at Armstrong nursery today and considered it for our side yard. Then I saw this thread. My favorite apple in the market is Gala for it's sweet taste and crisp texture. It's always a winner to me and I'd love to grow it. What would be the best apple to grow for the same characteristics as Gala?
Kevin, I just visited your wonderful site and read every link. I'm going to show Hubby the page about the teardrop trailers.
Why don't you just plant Gala? It's been grown here for years. I think Home Depot even has them bare root right now for $14. Fuji does wonderfully also, but takes about 3 years to really get going good (but is worth the wait- much better than those from the supermarket).
Thanks for the kind note.
Thanks Kevin, maybe I'll try that. The only place for an apple tree is in our side yard. We were planning to landscape it with shrubs/perennials for a more lush look, so maybe espalier is the way to go. I don't want a bare-dirt side yard any longer because of all the dust that gets blown into the house from the breezes that occur almost every afternoon here. Anyway, it's worth a try!
I live in the San Fernando Valley.
Are the Anna and Dorsett apple trees self-pollinating?
I have had a Beverly Hills apple tree for nearly 40 years.
It is self-pollinating, and it has been a prolific producer.
The last few years has seen considerable limb loss,
possibly a blight of some sort, but it still produces.
However, I do want to change it: Anna, Dorsett, or
another Beverly Hills. I only have room for one.
Any recommendations?
Hi Jackinthevalley,
Might I suggest a 4 in 1 apple tree in you have room for just one tree. I have a 4 in 1 apple tree that is doing perfect in my yard, this is its second year since I planted it and it has many flowers and last year I was lucky to get 2 apples since I planted it from bareroot. The 4 apple varieties are Anna, Golden Dorsett, Ein Sheimer, and Fuji. Though I have to do some creative pruning and grafting because my Anna seems to be 75% of my tree and have only one branch of each of the other varieties. Oh, I bought my tree from Lowes, you can check it out at your local lowes but these types of trees seem to be the first ones to sell. Hope this helps.
I'm not saying it was the best, but we had and relatives have "Gordon". Great production but worms are terrible. Spray spray spray, or do not "bite into" an apple off the tree. I would say you can produce nice Pie and apple sauce apples, but beware if you plan on producing apples to pack into your kids lunch.
Jack, I believe my Anna is a semi-dwarf as it is now about 8-10' tall and has very good shape. It would not be a standard because I only buy dwarf or semi-dwarf trees. There are more flowers on it this year than I have ever seen since I planted it in 1999. I do not spray, and would like to find a natural solution to keeping the apple fly/maggot/worms away.
Just happened on this thread - and now encouraged that perhaps my Anna dwarf apple is not dead. It was slow to drop leaves last fall, and perhaps it is just going to be a bit slow coming out of its dormant period.
It is about 4 ft tall now, and produced quite a few nice apples last year. The Dorsett Golden next to it, has been flowering and fruiting for over a month now but no sign of Anna - neither flower nor leaf. We are in a cooler climate, so perhaps it will be soon.
I haven't sprayed either - but I do use a strong spray of water on nearby lemon/mandarin orange trees during summer -and the apples as well - once the fruit is firmly set, the water spray is usually done early on a warm day, to allow thorough drying before night. It seems to be working well on the citrus and hope equally on the apples. Don't use the spray blast too hard, however.
Got a White Winter Pearmain, which is very prolific but the apples are mealy. Going to try making apple butter. Gala tastes great but has been quirky in its bearing. Fuji is wonderful! But the Fuji makes clusters of five apples, which need to be thinned back to three or two, to make big fruit. If I thin the tiny apples early, the tree makes more blossoms! Had to put netting over all the apple trees since parrots discovered them. Parrots like Pluots, too. They don't touch the avocados.
Speaking of multi-grafted trees, have three Pluot varieties on one trunk -- one is very vigorous and is outpaceing the others, while one barely keeps up. Pluots don't hold on the tree well. They fall off the day they get ripe, unless the parrots get them. I don't spray anything - it kills the ladybugs and lacewings, whose larvae are my pesticides. Yes, a few apples get worms. That's life. I keep ants and their aphid "cattle" off the trees by putting Tanglefoot around the trunk. Tanglefoot also discourages rodents and, one time, a possum. It's like axlegrease mixed with tar. Organic as in carbon-based.
Anna is probably the best choice as far as chilling requirements, yet Fuji is also a terrific Southern California apple. You obviously are going to have a heck of a time growing any apple in areas like Cochella valley, but in the more mild climates you can pull off a tasty backyard apple. I live in Long Beach and have a multitude of fruit trees including a Fuji apple that loads up on fruit every year. This will be slow to fruit for the first couple years (especially with bare root), but will thereafter begin to bloom and set fruit in higher numbers.
Make sure you water your fruit trees adequately. Fruit orchards require a totally different water requirment than lawns and ornamentals. You really need a good soil saturation of these deciduous fruit trees. Also, as your fruit tree matures, begin moving your minisprinklers away from the trunk to the center between trees. The root zone of your trees are not going to be next to the trunk but away from the tree a bit, also you will cause splitting of bark by consistantly spraying the trunk. With your trees in a row, put your microsprinklers between the trees.
My vote is for Granny Smith. It is a good reliable producer. If you pick the apples green they have a good tart flavor. Here in San Diego county you can leave them on the tree into late fall and they become sweeter. Anna is also a must have as it produces a lot earlier. Also need my Fuji.
I have about forty others but they are still a bit young. I am sure there will be several more winners.
We made a pie this weekend from the Anna apples we picked; outstanding! The flavor and texture held up well in a pie, and there's been a request for more from work from folks who's tasted it.
I picked the apples a bit on the green side, the seeds showing just a bit of white tips still.
5 years after I posted above, we've finally bought 2 apple trees: Anna and Dorsett Golden. They'll go in our side yard which faces southeast and gets sun most of the day. Sun-loving edibles (including tomatoes, peppers, and a tangerine tree) do very well in the same area, so there should be plenty of sun for the apples.
Looking forward to getting started leaning heavily on Kevin's comprehensive Growing Apples in the City. Thank you, Kevin!
Since you started this post 5 years ago I've even come more to the opinion that you should ignore chilling hours for apples; taste quality is #1. This year our winner is Dixie Red Delight, followed closely by Stump and Sierra Beauty. Red Boskoop is for those who want an apple that bites back. Mutsu has done well as has Nittany. Granny Smith is productive and trouble-free. Stupid Hass avocado froze again- why do I even bother?
I enjoyed reading this post because our new property has one Anna tree (which the previous owner told me is like a golden delicious), and a dwarf with 5 kinds grafted on it. Part of the little tree is dead, so I'll wait to see how that bears.
The Anna is in full bloom, very large, and I can't wait to make a pie from it!
I bought a bareroot 5-in1 at OSH in January:
Ein Shemer
Beverly Hills
Golden Dorsett
I also have a Fuji, onto which I have recently grafted:
Pink Lady
Sekai Ichi
Next year I'll be looking to maybe add Granny Smith or Big Green to the mix. I use to really like Granny Smith, but I don't think I've had a good one for a few years. Maybe a backyard Granny will revive the romance.