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I have waited 7 years to see signs of fruit on my two pear trees, blossoms for the first time this year. Guess what? No bees, not a one.
Last year I had numerous bumble bees working what blossoms we had, dry hot spring, late frosts took them 'all' off. So no fruit last year, this year lots of blossoms, no bees, no fruit again.
I think last years drought did a number on the bumbles, plus the neonicitinoids are just going to finish them off.
I'll just have to use the gardeners mantra, "There is always next year". Bummer!
Two different variety pear trees? Hand-pollinate them yourself.
I did my first year when I had one Asian pear in bloom and my friend had another variety. We live in different towns!! We cut some flowers from our trees, swapped them and hand pollinated them. At that time, I did not know about using a paint brush. I just used the flowers from my friend's tree brushing right on the flowers of mine. It worked.
Here in Wisconsin the honeybee people are having problems with high losses of colonies, over the winter. However, in our yard, in Madison, the native bees seem to be doing OK, so far as I can tell. We have bumblebees, green bees, digger bees that are about the size of honeybees, and smaller digger bees, about half the size of honeybees. Someone must be keeping honeybees around here, because we have them, as well. There is some effort involved in maintaining the local bee population. Our lawn, trees, and garden are all free of herbicide and insecticide. Dandelions get dug up and composted. We have a small restored prairie, and there is something blooming over there through the entire growing season. It seems to be working, and it is not all that hard to do. However, our lawn does not look like a golf course.
FN, I believe pears bear fruit without seeds (carpenocarthicly?) only when the weather is warm enough in spring. Further north this is not a reliable event. I'm not speaking about Asian pears, because I rarely see them growing alone but I often read that they need pollination.
I've heard southern growers speaking about reliable pear self fruitfulness and Childers mentions this aspect of pears in his book "Modern Fruit Science" (which isn't very modern anymore). He mentions that Bartlett pears used to be grown commercially without pollinators in S. CA, unlike production further north.
In the south bartletts are sold as self pollinating. We've had the same lack of pollinators this spring, but I think it's because we've had an unusually wet and cold spring, and the bees never came out in force. They only came out in spurts, as the weather occassionally warmed up, then they would disappear again.
Some of my trees got pollinated, while others didn't. If the particular cultivar bloomed, when the bees were out, it got pollinated. If it bloomed, when they weren't, it didn't.
Maybe up north or northeast is different. But Adam's County Nursery in PA makes the blanket statement that Asian pears are self fruitful. My experience says the same. But like you say my experience doesn't mean much in the northeast. I'd think ACN experience does count in NE.
If I didn't find Asians so tedious to thin it won't matter as much. But why make a grind even worse.
Have you seen lone Asians fail to set?
Beeman, I did a little hand pollinating myself this year. I found this advice somewhere on Garden Web, sorry I can't credit writer. Best to pollinate early in the day. Use a small brush, like kids paint brush or I used flux brushes bought cheaply in big bags at Harbor Freight. Go to first tree, look for newest blossom that are probably whiter than older blossoms. Swirl paint brush around in several blossoms. then proceed to next tree where you swirl around in as many blossoms as you wish to pollinate then do a few new blossoms to increase pollen load on brush. Go back to first tree and repeat process in order to pollinate it. I did this 3 days running in the morning and had nice results.
Pam in cinti
FN, as I wrote, I wasn't speaking about Asian pears although I haven't read that they are self fruitful (not the same as self fertile which requires containing viable seeds- some species reject fruit without them, I believe).
However, in the past I've read people discussing the need for Asian pear pollination- where does Adams post this claim? I agree there would almost certainly be solid basis for them to say it.
On page 13 of the 2013-14 ACN catalog right below Asian Pears and above the variety descriptions it says "Asian pear trees are self fertile and do not require cross pollination".
You're probably like me and usually have plenty of pollen donors around. But sometimes I don't see bees and the trees load up anyhow. I've never seen one that wasn't way overloaded with fruit except when they froze.
Ditto! My Bosc is in it's 7th leaf and gave me one fruit out of it's 2 bloom clusters last year. This year Bosc just finished PF on it's 10 clusters, the biggest bummers in addition are it's planned pollenizer next to it has no flowers yet so I had to scrounge around town for some blooming trees and beg for branches to put in a bucket under it. The 2 trees I could get branches from were very close to PF when I put their branches under that Bosc in FB.
That one Bosc fruit last year was absolutely delicious, sweet and juicy, sure would be nice to get a few hundred more some year.
BTW, there is an asian pear in town that produces like mad every year and mine are the closest pear trees to it, over 4 blocks away as the bee flies.
I feel yer pain, man :)
I did not put branches of flowers in the bucket of water under a tree. I was worried that bees may not have found them in time or worse, no bees. I just brushed pollen from flowers of another tree right on the flowers I intended to cross pollinate. At the time, my tree was short enough.
I'm glad Asian pears do not need cross pollination. I did not regret I helped them at the time, though.
I really like Pinc06's method, a lot more organized and efficient.
Maybe I'll get lucky and Seckel, next to Bosc will finally start pushing out flowers one of these years and at the same time as Bosc. After all these years it seems a waste to have dedecated so much room to nearly zero productivity. I blame the productivity solely on myself, poor pruning combined with inadequate FB control and possibly improper variety selection.
Do you want the good or bad news first....;-)
My Bosc and Seckel grafted to the same tree took about 7-8 years to set fruit and there were no issues like you mention. But they both set very well once they started blooming. Comice bloomed much earlier, several years, but set nothing to start and maybe 1% at best after 10 years.
Bosc is very biennial. So when it does bloom be prepared to thin heavily or write off the crop the next year.
Hang in there!! I'm glad I did!! The fruit is great and not many can say they are growing their own.
The issue of self fertility or self fruitfulness is complicated. When I started my business here in SE NY 25 years ago, Adams claimed apricots were completely self fruiting but I noticed plantings with at least two varieties seemed to bear more consistently.
I mentioned this during a conversation with one of the senior Adams sales reps and a couple years later they suggested N. apricots benefit from cross pollination. My suggestion probably had nothing to do with the change but I did feel a certain gratification.
I can't be sure Childers was correct when he wrote that self fertility of E. pears depends on mild spring temps after bloom but evidence certainly points to it.
Even if Adams now claims all Asian pears are reliably self fruitful, I am not absolutely sure this is true every season, every variety, regardless of weather. Not without the research that goes with the claim. It just isn't an important commercial crop in the northeast so there is limited info on requirements here.
Incidentally, Seckel seems to be consistently self fruitful here.
Curious how Beemans pollination went. This year I had about a dozen trees that flowered profusley. I vistited the site several times per day to count bees. The most that I ever saw at one time was 3. I assumed the worst.
The trees are now loaded with so many fruitlets I'll never get them thin enough.
Busy Bees.
I can't say how Beeman's pollination is going, but I have not seen many bees visiting our blueberry shrubs this spring. I see them in the yard, around the violets and creeping charlie, also in bloom. Last night I saw a bumblebee working over the blueberry shrubs, at 8 pm. It was pretty near dark, and I did not know that bees worked this late in the evening. So, the bees are still full of surprises for me. I am guessing that we will have a good crop of blueberries this year. Most of the pollination seems to be happening when I am not looking.
As you seemed interested I thought an update would be in order.
I seem to have a reasonable set of blubs, we had a solitary Bumble who did all that. Have seen her around on the Black currants, which also look good.
The petals are drifting off the pears, saw a solitary black bee, which I took for a Mason, doing the rounds on late blossoms on the Bartlett.
My Granny Smith, new this year, has a lot of small fruitlets, but will wait a few days to see what sort of a take we get.
My wife went through both pears using a small soft paint brush. Will be interesting to see what develops.
I'm a bit more optimistic, even with the loss of so many bees.
Last year at one point I counted 6 big bumble bees working the garden plus solitaries, this year just one. At this rate of loss next year not even one, bad business.
ltilton, Seckel is "mostly self-fruitful". For me, however, it is almost like an Anna apple. My whip had fruit. Then, it set a second round (which I cut off). This is it's second year and I'm going to have to thin. Now, I do have 16 different varieties of pear trees, but many did not bloom this year, as this is only their second year in the ground (planted last bare root season). Seckel is a very reliable self-fruiting tree here in my very warm climate. In fact even in colder zones, it can over set, and you can end up with a bunch of ping pong sized pears. Not that that is a bad thing necessarily, but you do have to thin if the tree is very very young, so the tree puts some energy into developing a good canopy. My Seckel is extremely happy here, and is at least a year's growth ahead of almost every other variety except for Comice. Comice is big, but no fruit, yet (dang it, my favorite dessert pear).
Patty S.
Yep, I spot signs of fruit set on the Seckel already. I'll be bagging them shortly.
I top-worked the Keiffer a bit last year, and I hope to get flowers the next, to help with the x-pollination.
I've been doing a lot of reading into the mason bee and how I can do much better with them, but happily I seem to get fruit regardless.
Be cautious 'ltilton' as a bee keeper I tried Mason or Blue Orchard Bees. Worked hard at establishing a population which didn't work, spent time and money trying. Seems that you need Eastern bees.
You can read my efforts at the link below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Mason Bees
beeman - I had a thiving population of mason bees [hornfaced bees] for several years. In fact, they outgrew my ability to provide homes for them and started to nest in odd and inconvenient places.
But last year for several unrelated reasons, I had a population crash and very few bees hatched this spring. I now see that I need new methods of managing them.
But they sure do work.
An update on pollination in our yard in Madison, Wisconsin: The blueberry shrubs are covered with tiny green berries, so I think the flowers were pollinated successfully. It has been a long, cool, and damp spring, and I think the weather has reduced bee activity. Even so, I have seen two species of ground nesters, or digger bees, as well as a few bumblebees, and also a few honeybees. I do not keep honeybees, so they must be coming in from elsewhere. I don't have any bee enclosures or bee houses, but I do avoid using any toxics in the yard and garden. We have a wide range of flowering plants, so there is always something in bloom here, beginning in April, and extending through October.
At this time our blueberry shrubs are covered with green fruit, and it is clear that pollination was not complete this spring. Maybe 25% of the fruit is very tiny, and I know from past years that these will never develop into full-size berries. It looks like we will get a crop, the shrubs are healthy, but the yield will be off. We are having an endless spring, with rainfall every other day, or so it seems. There are some bees out and about, but not very many compared to what I have seen in the past. I think that they are just not very active in this dreary weather.


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Schanden freunde once again. Greece has not defaulted and the Euro is still in existance and will remain so. But the British empire has long been gone. Stop being so negative and make some positive contributions for a change. If Ireland can do it so can Greece. Greeks should stop whingeing and accept the austerity measures.
Kind of you to put the Irish example on the table, Fred. What a travesty - the Irish people were "sold down the river" by their own leaders, who caved to the pressure of Continental European leaders panicky over losses their banks stood to suffer from bad Irish loans, and who obliged the Euro-elite by taking all that private bank-debt onto the government's balance sheet. The result is a hopeless burden on the backs of Irish taxpayers, but a free ride for the German and French banks that made the dud loans.
The Irish have no future, and they know it - thousands flee to Australia and the US. Salvation for Ireland can only come when that debt burden is removed. Greece is in the same situation.
The travesty is that governments in Ireland like Greece borrowed far more than they could afford, when they got a hard currency...the Euro. Of course its now difficult to accept a decrease in spending but it was only inevitable. As for the tax burden it now falls most heavily on the GERMAN taxpayers not the Greek or Irish. British bankers made more loans than German ones. The banks did make irresponsible loans but it was not just French and German banks there was also US and British that where heavily involved, but the pressure has been on the GERMAN taxpayer to bail them out. But the problem was still created by the respective national governments(Irish, Greek) who are looking for scapegoats.
As for migrating to Australia , good luck mate. Now there is an interesting economy or should I say quarry to China. Dont except to find work here, but we have an over generous welfare system encourages loathing.
"Of all the wonders that I have yet heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear, … the default and exit of Greece," says Julius Ceasar.
Economist: "The worry is the unpredictable impact of a euro-zone exit, not just for Greece but for the rest of the euro zone." That worry should indeed be troubling the citizens of all the other Eurozone countries, because the respective governments will undoubtedly use a Greecian exit to sell to their citizens whatever 'austerity measures' they have up their sleeves yet. And there will be plenty of such unpleasant measures.
So when you write: "The prospect of euro-zone departures (even multiple ones) doesn't scare people as much as it should." I think you are very right indeed allbeit for the 'wrong' reasons.
"That strongly echoes the mood when policymakers let Lehman fail. Sometimes it's good to be afraid." Same happened in Argentina, bail-out after bail-out, when the big fishes were safe creditors unplugged the cord.
Why does the Economist push the outrageous lie that leaving the Euro would be bad. The only people for whom it would be bad if the wealthdestroying Euro disappeared are the rich, the bankers and democracyhating EU politicians.
The Euro is an unmitigated disaster for the middle class and the poor.
Nothing to fear but the lack of fear itself: this reminded me of an aphorism by Mencken.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Who is afraid of another 2008 repeat? Four years after Lehman collapsed the Bankers stil enjoy fat profits and the rich are getting richer. China is going from strength to greater strength and so are a lot of emerging countries. The US auto industry is shining and housing is starting to pick up. The stock markets had a roaring comeback. Oil and energy consumtion is way up as are their prices. The central banks are in easy money mode. All statistics points to full ignition.
It's as if the financial abyss we faced was just an illusion. If we knew how good it be in 2012 back in 2008 nobody would have panicked. I think a lot more people will embrace opportunity in any catastrophic event. The Greek egress is assured and any resulting damage is already under control.
Your litany of success & prosperity in many sectors is true but you blithely ignore the expansion of the ranks of poverty & the flat-lining of wages for tens of millions more. Perhaps all this glorious abundance is sustainable, but without some jingle in the jeans of Joe Six Pack the recovery lacks vigor. Clue: Corporate balance sheets are overwighted with cash because the incentive to invest & expand isn't there without consumer demand.
The message is that the vast majority never profited from the Euro, never profited from globalization, never profited from 'free trade'. Only a small minority of bankers, corporate types, politicians and lawyers/accountants profited. There is no real increase in income for most people in the last 40 years, but the rich have gotten massively richer. Time to reclaim these ill gotten gains.
Please, can anybody explain to me why exactly default must necessarily mean abandoning of the prevailing currency?
I think the theory is that Greece will no longer be able to borrow, nor will it balance it's budget. It will "need" to be able to print it's own money to keep the government (dis)functioning as normal.
Yuri, it's really quite straight forward - countries with economies as different as Greece and Germany have no business using the same currency. One monetary policy can't possibly be right for both of them.
This is not news - it was known and appreciated before the Euro was even introduced. But politics trumps economics - it's almost as if Euro elites beleve we could all fly if they were to pass a law prohibiting gravity.
OBTW: are you the Yuri from INTJf? Please "friend" me there is you are.
But Greece is already unable to borrow! To balance her budget Greece needs to s t a y in the currency. For with its own currency it will simply print money and thus finance its deficits.
Well, aparently it was not appreciated. At least, not by all. I figure Missury and California have different economies as well. Yet they somehow manage to stay withing a currency union.
I have no idea what INTJf stands for.
The Euro looks more and more like another one of those grand schemes that European leaders love to cook up carried away by a meglomanic dream of a superstate EU.
The creation of the euro was flawed right from the beginning. New York times has an excellent analysis on what went wrong with the euro...
"By introducing a single currency without the institutions needed to make that currency work, Europe effectively reinvented the defects of the gold standard — defects that played a major role in causing and perpetuating the Great Depression."
"If the peripheral nations still had their own currencies, they could and would use devaluation to quickly restore competitiveness. But they don't, which means that they are in for a long period of mass unemployment and slow, grinding deflation."
"The afflicted nations, in particular, have nothing but bad choices: either they suffer the pains of deflation or they take the drastic step of leaving the euro, which won't be politically feasible until or unless all else fails (a point Greece seems to be approaching). Germany could help by reversing its own austerity policies and accepting higher inflation, but it won't."
The EU began as a dream, and the plan was to make this dream reality. But the plan was not that this should become the permanent modus operandi. Yet this is what happens. Pipedreams of all kinds are uttered in the hope that they immediately become self-fulfilling. Someone states, for example, that "all Europeans have the same culture" -- and whoosh, this becomes reality. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as the Greeks are proving every day.
The decline of international government (or attempt at it) is at hand. New superpowers: China, India; and emerging powers such as Brazil and again, Russia are coming to the stage. Europe is in decline, with an increased dependence on foreign oil, and the failure of joint action, ie. Kosovo, and the failure to see their own fall coming. Europeans increasingly are fed up with the structure of the EU and the economic mess doesn't help. The end is here.
Except UK financial sector, German auto and equipment makers, Swiss pharma and possibly civil and military aircraft segments, much of European industry and agriculture lack competitiveness. Add to that having no oil, ageing population, rigid labour laws and speculative lending. Tough to Europe to make both ends meet. Greece is an extreme case, with its corruption making matters worse. A case for Greece going out is built upon a simple logic- own currency, aggressive devaluation, export competitiveness, more employment, more tax revenue... Missing is - what Greek exports? What happens to Greek economy when imported inflation hits it?
After this crisis is solved, the Eurozone needs to figure out a system to kick out a future country that lies about its finances the way Greece did. That kind of a stick would be a great tool, call it a sort of living will.
"The Eurozone needs to figure out a system to kick out a future country that lies about its finances the way Greece did. "
Rather, the EU needs to figure out a way to put LEADERS of such lying countries in jail. Maybe we could ask the Polish government to convert one of the Nazi concentration camps into a purpose-built jail for such crooks...
We have to make that distinction that Greece may have to leave Eurozone but there is no obligation for Greece to leave EU. In which case, EU might as well kick out the Brits who have accumulated more debts, allowing banksters to interfere with LIBORs and generally, are more troublesome to Merkozy duo.
But if they left, they'd be better off, how is that a punishment?
March 2011: "We have no indication that the reactors in Fukushima have melted down"
February 2012: "We have no indication that some economies in the Eurozone have melted down"
The Merkozy duo has put much fear into the Greek voters that they would be kicked out of EU if they opt for defaults.
It is ridiculous for the bullying duo to issue such a blatant threat because there are a number of countries in EU that did not join the Eurozone.
Greece should default, if only because (despite all the scaremongering to the contrary) they'd be better off. Better off? Indeed.
But Brussels does not want that. They know that if Greece is better off out, other countries might follow suit, and then the whole 'project' would collapse. Which project? The one they've been working on since 1957, the stealthy destruction of parliamentary democracy and the foundation of a de facto EuroSoviet Union. They do not want that dream to be derailed, and they are willing to utterly destroy our wealth in order to achieve it.
The Euro is great for the rich, the bankers and politicians, but around here where I live (western Netherlands) the incomes of lower middle class and lower incomes have already declined (relatively if not absolutely) since the intruduction of the Euro.
Sure, the bankers would be worse off with Greek default, but in a world with peer-to-peer technology banks are an idea who's time has come and gone, much like the printing press (internet caused that one). And of course, the political dream to destroy parliamentary democracy would be toast as well, but hey we can't have everything can we.
I'm sure that the people at Bear Stearns wish that they'd been bailed out.
I think this calls for a special report from The Economist. A twenty page scenario analysis of several countries leaving the Euro. What a mess! Maybe that focuses some minds.
Another favorite of mine for a special report from The Economist would be a detailed country by country analysis of structural weaknesses that need to be addressed by each country (also Germany!) in order to create growth and their current progress in achieving necessary structural reforms. That would give us readers a better understanding of what is really happening (or not) and - hopefully - a fruitful discussion.
I would settle for a special report focussing on the different scenarios under which Greece could leave the euro. Then for each scenario the consequences for all relevant parties could be analyzed. Considering the complexity of the matter, that should be enough to fill twenty pages.
Of course it would have to be based on hard data concerning exposure, instead of the unsubstantiated fear-mongering in this blog.
Perpetual economic growth is impossible. Infinite growth on a finite planet with finite resources is impossible. The western debt based 'growth' model has run its course. Game over. And what we see now is politicians determined to make sure that 'the rich' are the last ones to lose anything.
Why would the Economist write about how countries would be better off out of the Euro? The Economist is fully invested into keeping the wealth destroying Euro and bailouts for bankers going.
Nobody is talking about perpetual growth. Everybody knows that we have something that is called the business cycle. Ups and downs. Now we have had ups and downs for hundreds of years. But I don't think that we have seen the end of growth yet. I also don't buy into your "end of the western model". Growth is not simply a function of debt. Growth depends on demographics, capital and ideas.
"Growth depends on demographics"
Ah, the perpetual population increase model (ie the current western world's economic model. So I'm right after all, thanks for confirming it.
And how is the rest of the world going to sit idly by and let the western world overconsume natural resources just so that we can be rich. Our being disproportionately rich requires them to be disproportionately poor. The globe ain't growing, and the size of the pie isn't growing either. The more people, the smaller a cut everyone gets.
And yes, you have seen the end of growth already. If it hadn't been for structural government overspending and consumers drowning in debt to buy the latest unneccesary gadget, there hasn't been any economic growth in the western world for over a decade. You see, if you factor out overspending, the picture looks quite different. The last decade was only possible through more and more borrowing and piling more debt upon debt.
The sooner we know ,publicly, the Emperor is naked the better.
We've known it privately for years since France and Germany ignored all rules they made up themselves for others. Growth and Stability Pact anyone ?
The Economist Conference was in London where CFs and CEOs have to be up to date on the market and international opinion on it. What ever did you expect ?
The euro is the illness, not the cure for anything.
The sooner everyone knows you do better outside it like the UK after leaving ERM and would have continued to have done without Blair Brown, the better.
Then it will be optional, a money market only entity and the rest of us can go back to controlling our own interest rates and floating currency values
Exactly, the Euro is part of the problem, so it cannot be part of the solution. The world should know that 'bigger is not always better'. Just ask the near bankrupt USA where The Bernank is debasing the currency to help rich bankers at the expense of the taxpayer. And Bush and Obama like(d) it.
The Euro is not "part of the problem" -- the Euro IS the problem!!! The "Economist" printed a chart only a few weeks ago showing the development of the ratings for the 17 Euro countries during the last 25 years. The ratings steadily improved up to a high point about 12 years ago when all 17 countries were rated AAA, AA or A. Then the Euro was introduced, and the ratings began to decline gradually to their present lowest point.
Once again, another Euro Crisis is brewing. This time it is more serious than before. This brinkmanship politics is going to create Lehman brothers 2.0 and drag the world economy into a spin!!
It is high time that governments act responsibly in live within the national means of their respective economies. They cannot continue an Ostrich head in the sand approach to fiscal problems. The PIIGs countries need to put the brakes on spending they cannot afford.
The Euro-politics of prevarication & obfuscation are not going to provide a genuine solution to the upcoming inflation in Europe. First rule for solving a problem is to recognize its existence and not to live in denial! You cannot continue to delay the inevitable. The Euro union is not a catholic marriage because it is not made among economic equals. It is more like a tale of two cities with a Grand Canyon divide between the rich Europe and the poor Europe!
It is quintessential that they follow a paradigm shift in modifying their fiscal behavior from credit "Loan based Economy" to savings based investment Economy. Please earn from the Chinese. Do NOT give the man a fish teach him how to fish!
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Please please please... can socialist California with largely poor households who owe an average $40,000 (including healthcare cost) for government bureaucrat expensive retirement debt join in this European bankruptcy party?
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A person can reside some weeks without food, but only a couple of days without water. So, it's obligatory to take as much water as you'll need during your entire journey. Don't forget to purchase a water purification kit in case of no pure water.
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First Aid Kit
First aid kits are probably the most important things in any living in tents trip, as in the wilds you' won't be adept to find a clinic or an emergency rescue crew. Your kit should comprise many band-aids, as well as sterilized gauze, antiseptic, ballpoint or ball pencil and paper, gauze adhesive, pair of pair of scissors, elastic bandages, and a CPR mouth barrier device.
Self-Rescue Aids
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Non-perishable nourishment
Power bars and MRE's will help you to have a long living in tents trip topped up with heavy hiking. Non-perishable foods will not only save your time on finding and cooking food, but will also rapidly give you the calories you need.
cord can be of great help in building covers as well as for emergency release situations. There're hundreds of ways to use a cord, and probably no living in tents journey can do without its usage. It's recommended to discover some major knots, encompassing the bowline and the rectangle tie up.
Without a digital chart a living in tents journey can be furthermore flawless, but only if you have a compass, yes, an vintage fashioned compass that's exceedingly durable and reliable. So, take it with you while you proceed!
Pocketknives can be used for a large number of desires, so always take it with you and keep the cutting-edge well sharpened.
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The credit crisis and related market turbulence has dramatically reshaped the fixed-income investment environment.
An unrelenting appetite for risk in recent years meant investors were willing to take on additional risk with little additional yield as compensation. As a result, the difference in yield between corporate bonds and virtually risk-free U.S. Treasuries with a comparable maturity date (also known as a credit spread) shrank to an abnormally slim margin.
But with the onset of the financial crisis, investors reversed course to a near-total aversion to risk. As they sought haven in the highest quality securities, yields of corporate bonds soared—causing prices of corporate bonds to plummet.
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- The flight to quality in fixed-income markets is slowing as investors have become more comfortable taking on risk.
- Issuance of corporate bonds is booming after nearly grinding to a halt last year.
- Signs of recovery and government intervention are helping sectors of the fixed-income markets return to good health.
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Although important risks remain, these shifts have created significant opportunities for investors willing to move beyond the safety of U.S. Treasuries—both to diversify their fixed-income portfolios and to pursue more attractive returns.
Credit spreads have been falling this year yet remain relatively wide. Because prices and yields generally move in opposite directions, a narrower yield spread indicates a higher price—and potentially higher total return for corporate bonds compared to other investment options. (Total return is the coupon income from a bond plus the change in its market price over the holding period.)
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Pappy reminds all of Craig's relatively recent book BOODY (see elsewhere on this page) whilst reprinting a long and entertaining tale of Boody Rogers' BABE, DARLING OF THE HILLS that was NOT found in said volume! Boody seems to be an acquired taste but I had no trouble acquiring it and if you like well-drawn and genuinely funny comics, I doubt that you will either.
Here's a history and a reprint from Michael Fleischer and Jim Aparo's legendarily violent and understandably short-lived SPECTRE series that ran in issues of DC's venerable ADVENTURE COMICS in the late seventies. In spite of a history of good art, few would deny that Aparo OWNED this character's look!
Originally an assistant to SPIRIT creator Will Eisner during his post-PS years, Mike Ploog debuted at Marvel in the early seventies and has been around the fringes of the industry ever since. Here's a look at a couple of his vintage Marvel covers and the enhanced re-creations he produced more recently.
2008 NCS Reuben Award winner Al Jaffee is showcased in his 1961 comic strip TALL TALES over at the returning Ger Appeldorn's blog. The black and white samples are from Monday but skip ahead to Tuesday for some color Sundays and the promise of more to come.
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The Murder of Abraham Lincoln by Geary on Comixology this week
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Rick Geary's Treasury of Victorian Murder volume on the Murder of Abraham Lincoln has been added today on Comixology with its usual accompanying 10 page free preview. See more about the book here.
Geary's Murder Of Lincoln as the president's 200th approaches.
As Presidents' Day is around the corner and the birthday of Abraham Lincoln a special occasion this year since it will be 200 years, I thought it good to bring to everyone's attention that we've had Rick Geary's excellent graphic novel "The Murder of Abraham Lincoln" available and it just went back to press. Both […]


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UPDATED 3:58 AM CDT Jun 18, 2013Residents gathered Sunday to check out the many items, pieces of clothing and knick-knacks available at the Des Moines Community Playhouse garage sale.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- DNA might be a key factor in excessive physical aggression in toddlers, a new Canadian study suggests.
Even if a child's genes do foster such behaviors, however, all is not lost because parents can still work to curb aggression in kids, the researchers said.
"It should be emphasized that these genetic associations do not imply that the early trajectories of physical aggression are set and unchangeable," study author Eric Lacourse, of the University of Montreal, said in a university news release. "Genetic factors can always interact with other factors from the environment ... explaining any behavior."
The findings might lead to improved ways to reduce childhood aggression, according to Lacourse's team, which compared nearly 700 sets of identical and non-identical twins.
The twins' mothers were asked to rate their children's levels of physical aggression -- actions such as hitting, biting, kicking and fighting -- at the ages of 20 months, 32 months and 50 months. The researchers then looked at genetic and environmental factors -- such as family or parent influences -- that might affect aggression levels in the toddlers.
The development of physical aggression was strongly associated with genetic factors, and to a lesser degree with social environment, said the researchers, whose findings were published Jan. 21 in the journal Psychological Medicine.
Long-term studies of physical aggression also show that most children, teens and adults will eventually learn to control physical aggression, Lacourse said.
He said aggression in young children needs to be dealt with carefully because in-kind responses from parents, siblings and peers can simply reinforce the aggressive behavior. That could lead to a kind of "vicious circle" effect, he said.
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"We had news that we were going in search of a land that an Indian boy had told us was on another sea... He said that he was from another land... and that a woman ruled it. Her town was of wonderful size... and she collected gold in abundance from her Chiefs..." Elvas in The DeSoto Chronicles
The King of Spain gave "Governor" Hernando DeSoto four years to colonize America from the Port of Havana. DeSoto's long journey through America, searching for riches in order to entice more settlers to his new colony, was well documented in candid, personal journals by members of his all volunteer "army." DESOTO'S TRAIL ON GOOGLE EARTH
These first-hand accounts of Native America (as in the above quotation) were written by people caught up in something they had little understanding of and no control over. Their works, misunderstood for centuries, are the only spoils of Spain's "Conquest of North America." Our land and Indians would never be the same again. Theirs is the only record we have of what it was like when Europeans first sighted America's Indians. What follows is their story, sketchy in places, incredible in others.
DeSoto's people sighted this continent in May, 1539, at a port first discovered by Ponce de Leon, one of Columbus' captains. He had named North America "La Florida." Panfilo de Narvaez, another Spanish Captain, had aimed for that port but missed it twelve years before DeSoto. His ships were blown further up Florida's Gulf Coast where he would die after being misled by Indians. DeSoto would massacre them shortly after his arrival.
620 hand-picked volunteers landed with DeSoto. 200 of them brought their horses; many brought their dogs; all brought their own equipment for camping and fighting. DeSoto brought tons of supplies - cannon, gun powder, cross bows, shields, lances, armor, helmets, blood hounds, seeds, nails, axes, saws and pigs - to start a Spanish colony somewhere near the Great River, preferably at a place much like Mexico City, with plenty of gold and silver to plunder. Other Europeans had made similar attempts. None this big. All had failed.
Along for the riches of conquest were: carpenters, priests, navigators, lords, engineers, ship builders, blacksmiths, farmers, herdsmen, merchants and prospectors. Some had sold their houses and farms to be with the famous conquistador but most had never been trained as soldiers. Many had never been outside their own villages, much less in a land so vast that even the worldly DeSoto misjudged its size. Spain and Portugal could be walked from one end to the other in less than one month. This "army" would walk North America for four years without seeing an ocean, not one of them ever knowing what they were up against. Their long-lasting effect on America, on the world for that matter, would be profound.
DeSoto believed that this continent was an island. He planned to control it by controlling its central river, the Mississippi, from its mouth northward to what he believed was the Pacific Ocean. Balboa had discovered that ocean beyond Panama, DeSoto's boyhood home. Magellan had sailed that ocean to the Orient when DeSoto was twenty-one years old.
The Orient, the greatest market in the world at that time, was waiting for Spain's New World riches. The prospects of opening a trade route through his new colony to the Orient lured DeSoto into America. DeSoto had observed that a Great Circle of Earth drawn from Havana, Spain's world shipping port in the New World, to the Orient went up America's Great River and crossed the Indians' legendary northern sea. Spanish immigrants, first attracted by riches, would surely settle the banks of America's Great River and its tributaries once the Indians were removed to the mines of Mexico and Peru. DeSoto could direct his settlers to build a port on America's northern sea, then sail that sea to China to open an East-West "Northern Passage" trade route through his new colony.
The after-effects of DeSoto's invasion are obvious once his history is placed into perspective. DeSoto accounts were published throughout Europe and served to entice others to America. Those accounts were the only source of written intelligence of America until French and English explorations much later. The DeSoto accounts of the splendor of America were celebrated in Europe for centuries. Most significant, however, is that DeSoto's peoples' accounts established the precedent for all European relations with America's Indians. That is, DeSoto's people interacted with Native Americans in such a manner as to place them in a role subordinate to humanity. European doctrine would, thereafter, place America's Indians in the same category that DeSoto's people had: as pagan Devil's; non-humans incapable of ownership.
Beginning with news of Hernando DeSoto's death in the 1540's, today's image of the Devil arose throughout Europe: our tall, red-skinned, body-hairless, dark-eyed, headdressed, spear-carrying American Indians with animal tails were immortalized. Indians were even called "Red Devils" by European settlers. That image, born in Spanish Conquest, survives to this day. It varies so much from all previous "Devil" concepts in Europe that its widespread use, immediately following DeSoto's death, seems indisputable.
Why has it taken so long for us to realize the profound effect DeSoto had on us? The answer is simple. Most could not believe the stories about DeSoto, even shortly after the fact, because things had changed so much and so quickly just after DeSoto's arrival in America. Indians became itinerants to avoid diseases in population centers. Their great nations, their cities and giant farms, all described by DeSoto's people, no longer existed. Indian cities were abandoned: the people had fled them for refuge.
DeSoto's accounts were dismissed by French and English pioneers, given the tremendous short-term changes in the North America he visited. His landing place in Florida was not even correctly identified until 1995, and his trail could be located only by using the precise directions his people wrote starting at his landing place, the best seaport he could have used to perserve his horses from the ravages of a long sea passage from Cuba. He was a military genius, not the wandering fool portrayed by many historians. He had honed his skills in Peru, where he had fought his way straight to a City of Gold with a much smaller army. Tracking DeSoto's Army Fast Facts


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ALBANY, N.Y. – The Albany Devils have signed defenseman Eric Baier. The announcement was made by Albany General Manager Chris Lamoriello.
Baier, 23, has played 50 games this season with the Trenton Titans of the ECHL. He has registered 16 points with four goals and 12 assists. After completing a four-year career at Providence College, he played three games with the Portland Pirates (AHL) and six games with the Reading Royals (ECHL) at the end of the 2010-11 season.
While at Providence, Baier appeared in 127 games, registering nine goals and 23 points. He was named to the 2009-10 Hockey East All-Academic Team.
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A contraction in mining and manufacturing activity was behind the slowdown.
Friday's figures show the economy is now expanding at the slowest rate since 2009.
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Julia Brückner (born 9 December 1986), best known as Mia Magma, is a German model, singer and former pornographic actress.
Born in Gilching, Bavaria,[1] Magma debuted in adult industry in December 2010, starring in the film Das Sennenlutschi.[2] She had previously attended several swinger clubs together with her husband Peter, a former insurance agent, who later became her manager and an occasional actor in her films.[2]
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Unless you live under a rock, you've heard of what's happening to Haiti. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck their capital and have killed tens of thousands of people. From the photos, the city is basically in shambles. People are fighting to even get some water.
We're all about good food and living a good life, but we can't just sit here and do nothing. As we've mentioned in our January newsletter, we aren't having any giveaways this month. Instead we donated $50 to Médecins Sans Frontières Canada (Doctors Without Borders) and the Canadian Red Cross. It's the fastest and easiest way to help.
This is the time to give. Money is tight, I know, but we have a roof over our heads, can eat when we want, and we can basically swim in potable water. Every dollar will help. Try to give.
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The Government of Canada will match the contributions of individual Canadians to eligible Canadian charitable organizations in support of humanitarian and recovery efforts in response to the earthquake in Haiti, up to a total of $50 million. The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will allocate these funds to Canadian and international humanitarian and development organizations.
• Canadian Red Cross
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