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A vigorous sucker saved this tree from complete extinction at the hands of scale bugs. I didn't realize until just recently that this was almost certainly coming from the rootstock. Now I am in two minds as to whether or not to leave it be and see what I get, or remove and replace. Anybody know what the rootstock typically is? It was a Home Depot purchase, Monrovia was the grower. The tree is now going into its second winter now. It's about 4 feet tall although pretty leggy, so far no fruit but until I moved it into full sun just recently, it was only getting about 4 hours of sun daily. I hate to remove it as it has shown itself to be a real survivor, but if the fruit is going to suck then it will have to go.
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Forgive my ignorance, I just looked up water sprout and I think that must be it, as it originated below the graft line but above the soil.
Not much point keeping it now, I think, beyond the demonstrated toughness. It seems unlikely to do well for fruit in terms of quality or quantity.
Definitely rootstock if it's from below the graft. If there is no cultivar above the graft, better to just replace the tree. You can always try to draft, but then, you'd need to know how to graft , and have access to clean budwood. Not hard to learn, but it's a bit of a process. For most folks, simply easier to replant.
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Thanks rugbyhukr, you are spot on I think, having just googled that. Seems that my new tree would not bear fruit for many more years, and then they are pretty awful tasting fruit anyway. I'll probably go guerrilla-plant it somewhere I may one day see it fruit, but not in my postage-stamp of a yard.
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"Oct. 7 is when agencies will publish online detailed plans that will spell out exactly how much money they are going to save," Kundra said. "Agencies are making sure information they're putting out there is timely and accurate and they want to make sure that they vet all information," he said, adding that agency managers want to make sure they are not inadvertently compromising security.
Kundra spoke at an event hosted by his office and Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
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The event included a panel of federal, state and private-sector IT officials who spoke about the status of consolidation efforts and advantages of moving to cloud computing infrastructures.
Federal agencies are required to close 800 of the government's 2,094 data centers by 2015, with the goal of saving $3 billion annually. Kundra recently announced that a total of 373 federal data centers will be closed by the end of 2012.
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However, only one of the agencies submitted a complete inventory and no agency submitted complete plans, the GAO report states.
"Further, OMB did not require agencies to document the steps they took, if any, to verify the inventory data. For example, in their inventories, 14 agencies do not provide a complete listing of data centers and 15 do not list all of their software assets," according to the report.
"The reason for these gaps, according to several agency officials, was that they had difficulty completing their inventories and plans within OMB's timelines," the GAO report states. The report goes on to say that "until these inventories and plans are complete, agencies may not be able to implement their consolidation activities and realize expected cost savings."
Moreover, OMB cannot be assured that agencies are providing a sound baseline for estimating consolidation savings and measuring progress against those goals, according to the GAO report, which was requested by the Senate's Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
"We agree fully that agencies historically have not done a good job in terms of keeping good accounting of all their data centers, all of their assets and what is going on in terms of asset utilization," Kundra said, commenting on the GAO report during the Capitol Hill event.
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The GAO study was right-on in terms of making sure that agencies are collecting a proper set of inventory information, he said. However, the study was going on at the same time – mid-stream – as agencies were collecting inventory data for OMB, he said. GAO conducted the performance audit from August 2010 to July 2011.
"I would point you to the Oct. 7 plans that are going to be published," Kundra said. Those plans are going "to be the golden source of data around cost savings, around every data center that agencies own [and provide] a very specific road map for which data centers will be shut down by 2015," he said.
The GAO report also recognizes that state governments have undertaken data center consolidation initiatives and have encountered similar challenges as federal agencies. To that end, the report gives some lessons learned from state agencies that could be leveraged at the federal level.
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An important page in history was turned yesterday on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, as Chancellor DiStefano officially handed over an electronic copy of important documents from the university's human rights archive to a delegation of Kurdish officials.
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Figured it wouldn't take long before a threat was issued...
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Steven, It's not a threat, It's reality.
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Didn't Arata say our schools aren't doing as well as we think and we should vote No on C? I'm confused by his "facts."
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Phobos-Grunt's upcoming demise: What we know and what we don't
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/13 12:25 CST
I'm not looking forward to spending the weekend sitting deathwatch on Phobos-Grunt. It's not science, and it's a sad event, so my instincts would lead me to other subjects. But it contains the Planetary Society's Phobos LIFE experiment.
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2012/01/13 10:35 CST
We explore space for the noblest goals of science and exploration, and we often persevere in spite of challenges. But space exploration is fraught with bad things happening, or, to use the technical term, ouchies. The Planetary Society's Phobos LIFE biomodule will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days with the rest of the Phobos-Grunt mission.
Phobos-Grunt: all but over, a letter from IKI
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/12/09 07:14 CST
A letter sent by Lev Zelenyi, director of the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI) to participants in the Phobos-Soil project about the mission's failure.
ESA is ending ground station support for Phobos-Grunt
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/12/02 12:04 CST
After modifying two antennas and attempting to send commands to Phobos-Grunt for weeks without success, ESA has made the decision to stop tracking support.
Brief contact made with Phobos-Grunt after two weeks of silence
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/11/23 11:29 CST
On Tuesday, November 22 at 20:25 UTC, a European Space Agency ground station in Perth, Australia, successfully made brief radio contact with Phobos-Grunt.
Phobos-Grunt status, launch plus six days
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/11/14 06:37 CST
I said I wasn't going to post again unless the spacecraft talked to us, but I changed my mind because finally there were official comments today about the status of the mission from Roskosmos head Vladimir Popovkin.
Phobos-Grunt summary, three days after launch
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/11/11 02:51 CST
I can summarize the news about the last day's efforts to save Phobos-Grunt in three words: there is none. At least nothing official.
Phobos-Grunt status, two days after launch
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/11/10 12:07 CST
When I last left Phobos-Grunt, Roscosmos had not yet commented on the results of a planned attempt to communicate with the wayward spacecraft at 19:00 UT on November 9.
Phobos-Grunt, the morning after
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/11/09 09:04 CST
I repeatedly rewrote yesterday's post on the problem suffered by Phobos-Grunt after its apparently perfect Zenit launch and thought it was time to begin fresh.
A serious problem on Phobos-Grunt
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/11/08 05:29 CST
It looks like something has gone wrong with Phobos-Grunt.
Phobos-Grunt and Phobos LIFE, with Yinghuo-1, have launched!
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2011/11/08 02:12 CST
I am ecstatic to report that at 20:16 UTC, millions of passengers on board the Planetary Society's Phobos LIFE biomodule launched into space inside the Phobos Sample Return (also known as Phobos Grunt or Phobos Soil) spacecraft.
Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 poised for liftoff
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/11/08 08:00 CST
Russia's Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft, carrying the Planetary Society's Phobos LIFE experiment, plus China's Yinghuo-1 Mars minisatellite, are poised for launch at Baikonur! The launch window opens in less than six hours, at 20:16 UTC.
Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 now encapsulated in their fairing (lots of photos)
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/11/04 03:24 CDT
About a week after Curiosity passed through the same milestone, Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 -- still slated for a November 8 launch -- were encapsulated in their payload fairing in preparation for being stacked on their rocket. And, of course, our little Phobos LIFE capsule is inside there too!
Mars Climate Sounder confirms a Martian weather prediction
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/10/25 01:30 CDT
The Mars Climate Sounder team has recently confirmed a prediction of a weather phenomenon on Mars that we haven't been able to observe before.
Nighttime Water Ice Clouds Predicted by Models are Confirmed by MCS Observations
Posted by Jim Shirley on 2011/10/25 12:00 CDT
The Mars Climate Sounder instrument provides routine nightside observations of atmospheric temperature and opacity that document the presence of rapidly evolving water ice cloud layers in the Martian tropics during the northern summer season.
Phobos-Grunt unpacked! With Yinghuo-1 and LIFE!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/10/18 02:01 CDT | 1 comments
I know I just posted about Phobos-Grunt on Friday, but there are lots of new pictures from Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russia's main launch facility in Kazakhstan) showing Phobos-Grunt being removed from its shipping crate and tipped upright in preparation for its launch in early November.
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2011/09/01 12:00 CDT
Years in the making, our Phobos LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) is nearing launch this November. Phobos LIFE will send millions of passengers on a 34-month journey to Mars' moon Phobos and back.
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2011/08/21 12:00 CDT
We are super excited that the Planetary Society's Phobos LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) is about ready to launch to Mars' moon Phobos and back. We have been working for years preparing this unique test of the effects of long term exposure to deep space on a wide variety of life.
Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 have completed thermal vacuum testing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/07/30 02:20 CDT
The Russian Phobos sample return mission, Phobos-Grunt, has passed a key milestone in its preparation for launch: it successfully completed its thermal vacuum testing in June.
Shuttle LIFE Organisms Return from Space
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2011/06/09 05:40 CDT
In the middle of the night on June 1, 2011, millions of passengers returned safely to Earth as part of the great conclusion to space shuttle Endeavour's last flight, STS-134. Many of those millions of passengers were part of the Planetary Society's Shuttle LIFE experiment. Five different kinds of creatures from all three domains of life are part of Shuttle LIFE.
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Edwards, crew chief Osborne argue their way to Pocono victory
Carl Edwards thought crew chief Bob Osborne wanted him to pit. Osborne thought Edwards wanted to pit. They ended up agreeing to disagree, but whoever made the call at Pocono made the correct one for their fourth victory of the season, writes Terry Blount.
Updated: August 4, 2008, 2:12 AM ETBy Terry Blount | ESPN.com
LONG POND, Pa. -- Some 4½ hours into the longest 500-mile race of the season, Carl Edwards had a very important question for his crew chief Bob Osborne:"This is the last lap, right?"Yes it was, thankfully for Edwards and the No. 99 Ford team. No further arguments were necessary between driver and crew chief.They both knew the car was seconds away from running out of gas in the Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500, but the tank had just enough fumes to give Edwards his fourth victory of the season.Good thing for Edwards and Bob Osborne. Otherwise, they might have needed a no-rules cage match on pay-per-view. Edwards and Osborne got in each other's face during a rain delay earlier in the day. When it started to rain with 73 laps to go, they debated about coming to pit road under caution.Pitting meant giving up track position to pit, dropping Edwards from first to 22nd. Then a red flag came, causing Edwards and Osborne to second-guess each other on the pit box after Edwards got out of the car."We blamed one another," Edwards said. "He thought [pitting] was my idea and I thought it was his. I could see he was really mad and I thought he was going to punch me in the neck, so I had to walk away. Bob is one of the smartest guys in the world, but he was looking kind of angry."Osborne said a heated discussion isn't unusual for the two in pressure moments."Carl and I argue on a regular basis," Osborne said. "We walk away, then calmer heads prevail and [we] come back together. We may get mad again, but in the end we come to terms about what we want to do and how to do it."How they came to terms on Sunday's decision wasn't completely clear. Team owner Jack Roush said Osborne made the decision to pit when it rained, calling Osborne, "the captain of the ship." A democracy isn't usually how things work in Sprint Cup. It's not often that the driver gets the final say in a critical decision during the race."Carl had a premonition that this thing would not get rained out," Osborne said. "I'm glad he did because I thought we were done for. But that's what makes this a great team. Everybody has an opinion."Edwards and Osborne weren't lone wolves on this one. Other teams running up front also elected to pit, believing the rain shower wouldn't end the race early.Tony Stewart, who finished second, and Jimmie Johnson, who was third, both said they didn't have any team disagreements about pitting before the red flag waved."We felt the race would finish under green," Johnson said. "There were a few little rain cells out there, but we didn't think it would end the day and we stuck to our plan. But we had a couple of nervous moments."The radar screen showed that a rain storm had split in two, both parts veering around the track without crossing over the 2.5-mile triangle. It played into the hands of the leaders who pitted before the rain delay.
Carl may slap me, and he can if he wants to, but he wasn't ready to win a championship until this year. Now I think he can go head to head with Jimmie or Tony or anybody else out there. He can close the deal.Busch still has a commanding points lead and a series-best seven victories, but he must feel footsteps now from Edwards and Johnson.Johnson won last week at Indy. Edwards' victory Sunday was his first since Texas in April, but he was second at Indy and Daytona, two of the previous three events.Roush said Edwards is a serious title contender, but he didn't see Edwards that way in the past, even when Edwards tied for second in the 2005 standings."Carl may slap me, and he can if he wants to, but he wasn't ready to win a championship until this year," Roush said. "Now I think he can go head to head with Jimmie or Tony or anybody else out there. He can close the deal."Edwards isn't so sure he was ready three years ago."I don't agree 100 percent, but I get Jack's point," Edwards said. "I had some other issues. But I'll say this: I feel I'm better as a racecar driver than I've ever been. I feel like I've learned a lot. And I do understand things better."Apparently so, even if it takes a little disagreement with his crew chief to reach that understanding. Terry Blount covers motorsports for ESPN.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
But not by much. Johnson's gas tank was bone dry when he headed down the frontstretch for the final time, coasting across the finish line.Points leader Kyle Busch wasn't so fortunate. He was running fourth, but ran out of fuel with three laps to go and had to pit. The team couldn't get the car restarted as he rolled down pit road after the stop. He finished 36th.
-- Jack Roush
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Horton likely to be named Arizona Cardinals defensive coordinator
It looks like the Arizona Cardinals will have a new defensive coordinator who spent the 2010 season as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers' coaching staff. It just won't be either of the names that were heavily touted for the job over the last month.
According to multiple reports, Steelers' defensive backs coach Ray Horton, not Keith Butler or Dick LeBeau, is expected to be named as the Cardinals' replacement for Bill Davis, who was relieved of his coordinator duties in early January. He has spent the last three seasons working with Pittsburgh's secondary, a position he was promoted to in 2007 after Mike Tomlin was hired as head coach.
Head coach Ken Whisenhunt and the Cardinals weren't the only NFL franchise to have interest in hiring Horton as their defensive coordinator. It was reported that the Dallas Cowboys also reached out to the Steelers about interviewing him before eventually deciding to hire Rob Ryan at the position.
Prior to joining the Steelers organization, Horton was a defensive backs coach for the Cincinnati Bengals from 1997-01. His first coaching job came as an assistant defensive backs coach for the Washington Redskins from 1994 to 1996.
Horton also had a ten-year NFL career where he played cornerback for the Bengals and Dallas Cowboys appearing in Super Bowl XXLL and XXVII. He attended the University of Washington where he earned All Pac-10 honors.
NFL defensive player of the year, six-time Pro Bowler and Pittsburgh Steelers' safety Troy Polamalu seems to think Horton would make a great defensive coordinator.
"First of all, he's got the toughest job on this team, coaching the secondary," Polamalu told the Philadelphia Daily News last week. "The reason I say that is, we're always a run-stop defense first. There's always a lot of pressure for the secondary to tackle, but our responsibility is not to get beat deep. That's a lot of pressure for the players and the secondary coach. He's been here a long time and he's handled that. He has an in-depth understanding of the defense coach (Dick) LeBeau teaches, and he has an in-depth understanding of what the offense is doing, personnel groups, percentages."
The potential hire comes as a bit of a surprise as many believed Butler and Miami Dolphins secondary coach Todd Bowles were the likely candidates to land the job.
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ALLEN, Texas — One day after Rick Santorum's startling breakthrough in the presidential race, his few aides decamped to distant states to start building campaign organizations from scratch. It was evidence of his challenge in converting sudden momentum into victories in the rush of contests ahead.
"We definitely are the campaign right now with the momentum, the enthusiasm on the ground," the former Pennsylvania senator said Wednesday, hours after capturing Republican caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a non-binding primary in Missouri.
"We feel like going forward we're going to have the money we need to make the case we want."
To replenish his coffers, Santorum arranged a weekend of fundraising events in California. He plans to start campaigning in Washington state on Monday, and then Ohio and Michigan in the following days
At the same time, aides conceded he was making little or no effort in the caucuses in Maine that end this weekend, and they are still working on plans for competing in primaries in Michigan and Arizona on Feb. 28, as well as the delegate-rich, 10-state Super Tuesday a week later.
Santorum's caucus successes vaulted him ahead of Newt Gingrich into second place in the competition for Republican National Convention delegates. The Associated Press count showed Mitt Romney leading with 107 delegates, followed by Santorum with 69, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 32 and Texas Rep. Ron Paul with 9.
"I believe that conservatives are beginning to get it, that we provide the best opportunity to beat President Obama, Santorum said, a jab at both Romney and Gingrich.
Yet he came under fresh attack during the day from Romney as a supporter of earmarked federal spending, and a resumption appeared likely soon in the ad wars that so far have worked to the advantage of the better-financed former Massachusetts governor.
"We're always going to have a huge spending gap, but money can't buy people's hearts," said Ron Carey, an unpaid volunteer who was Santorum's chief adviser in Minnesota and whose car served as travelling campaign office.
"He has a huge upside when people get to know him," added Carey, a former state party chairman.
Even so, an AP analysis of year-end spending reports showed Santorum may have to stretch to cover all the states that vote in the next few weeks.
While current figures are not available, he reported that at year's end he had a 10-member campaign payroll at a quarterly cost of $49,000 — the smallest of any of the Republicans in the race. He also is helped by paid consultants and unpaid volunteers, as are other candidates.
By comparison, Romney reported a 92-member staff and a quarterly payroll of $1.3 million. Gingrich said he had 23 paid aides, at a cost of $279,000, and Paul, who has yet to win a primary or caucus, paid $381,000 for a staff of 33.
President Barack Obama reported a 430-person campaign staff, which cost $4.7 million for the final three months of 2011.
While Santorum plotted his next moves, Romney spoke with reporters in Atlanta, where he said he expects to do better in future contests in winning the votes of conservatives who delivered Santorum his triumphs on Tuesday night.
The former Massachusetts governor said the tea party movement was created to fight Washington insiders who spend too much. Santorum and Gingrich "are the very Republicans who acted like Democrats" when it came to spending in Congress, he said.
For his part, Paul hoped for a breakthrough of his own in Maine, and Gingrich campaigned for a second straight day in Ohio, one of the Super Tuesday states.
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What are you doing this month in your yard? Putting in or taking out hardscape, landscape, veggies, flowers, cacti & succulents or whatever, Please share with the rest of us what kinds of things you do this month.
My sweet alyssum is tired, so I got a six-pack each of Nierembergia "Purple Robe" and Thymophilla tenuiloba "Golden Fleece" to replace it.
We're also planting a dwarf myoporum in the hot northeast corner between some cacti. There is lots of reflected heat there. Is that a good or bad idea? There are other spots I could put it if that would be too stressful.
Vigna caracalla is going on a west-facing patio pillar where it will get sun all morning till after noon. There seems to be confusion about this plant. I called ahead and asked for fragrant "corkscrew vine" Vigna Caracalla. Instead I got a "snail vine" Vigna Caracalla. Apparently there are two distinctly different plants with the same Latin name. I wanted fragrance but reading more about it, maybe it is better to have this one, because apparently the fragrant one attracts ants and wasps as well as bees.
The flowers are pretty and I think we'll like it.
I am not - repeat: NOT - going to buy anything else that I'm not sure will live here, there or anywhere in the coming heat. So... my question is: Can anybody recommend a fast-growing vining plant with large leaves that can take full sun? I don't care if it blooms or if it's decidious - or if it's considered a weed, for that matter. I just need something to provide some shade in a critical spot between shade structures.
I planted my Hardenbergia violacea in the summer a few years ago and it has done well. Winter before last, the freeze hit it hard and I ended up cutting it to the ground but came back even happier than before. I don't know if the leaves are "large" but they are dense in the canopy and give good cover.
Kathleen, I planted two cat claw vines on one side of my kitty habitat to provide shade on the east side. They are now up to the second story and headed for the tower (yes, this crazy house has a tower!). I don't think I want to let them loose on the other side. I'm actually thinking of planting one or two gourds. A few years ago, two gourds took over that side of the yard. It might be just the ticket as, unlike cat claw, it's not going to live forever. ;o)
I have to agree, hardenbergia is a good choice. Handles the full sun/heat and a normal winter (does get damaged on our rare hard freezes). Nice dark green, dense foliage and nice clumps of small purple flowers. Not overly messy. Drought tolerant once established.
I love the look of hardenbergia; I've just never been successful getting it to grow. I'll look for it and give it another try. I need a few vines on a fence facing west. Think it would work there? And how fast do you think it grows? I need to skip the sleep, creep, leap phases and go straight to leap. Or is that asking too much?
... and really, *anything* that you put in now, unless it's a true-certified-dyed-in-the-wool desert plant is really going to have a rough time of it. It's so much easier on the plants to wait until late Sept. or so.
I used to plant Nierembergia every year - I love it.
I try to be as inactive as possible this time of year! I can't tolerate direct sun in this kind of heat. (Why do I live here again??) If I decide I have to get some kind of work done during the summer, I bust out my stand light and head lamp and work at night. Mostly I will just maintain what I have all summer long, maybe plant a few heat-loving veggies or spread some mulch.
I planted a yam that went bad at Lake Havasu two years ago. It grew into a beautiful vine and, as I recall, it even had little flowers. I placed it under another newly planted fig tree and it also worked as additional ground cover (I had allready mulched with straw), and as a moisture meter. Whenever the yam vine looked a little wilted I watered both. My one plant yielded 7 lbs of yams, which I harvested in October.
The yam was in almost full sun and it did real well. And it was cheap. (I think yams are under a buck a pound right now).
YIKES Batman!! I just noticed a new upload field for placing pictures. Finally. I'm going to try it. Let's see, what's the subject line here? Oh yeah, June Garden Activities....let's see if I can find something appropriate....how about my sweet potato vine in a container by the front door? This was a couple of months ago. The lobelia and the purple petunia gave it up but the vine is much bigger now. I'm going to look for a yam to plant. Thanks for that idea Centurion.
And a big thanks to the forum hosts for the new easy post picture link.
So... Do you still need to have your pics online somewhere - or can you upload from your own files?
Veddy pretty pot, McP. Centurion, I'm going to get a sweet potato. I didn't have much in the way of harvest last year, but the year before was a humdinger. Btw, everything in the grocery store is a sweet potato. There are no true *yams* at the grocery and you wouldn't eat it if there were.
Earlier in the month we planted the snail vine and so far it is doing well. There are buds, flowers and new growth, so I take that as a good sign, since the vines were in shade at the nursery. That spot is very well drained. There's a good layer of mulch topped with flagstones to retain moisture and moderate temperature.
I'm very excited about my new little tree, Chilopsis linearis Art's Seedless. I've liked the look of this tree except for the ugly long pods that hang on the bare tree all winter long. The other day I discovered there is a seedless variety so we went and picked up one in a 15 gal pot. Just planted it yesterday in the yard's northwest exposure. This should help a lot. :)
No seedpods! And I've already seen a hummingbird come to investigate.
Thank you tomatofreak, we think so too!
azant, that shade structure is really nice. I would love to have something like that, and it looks like you've built it with PVC pipe and shade cloth? Really good idea. How is it secured for windy days?
good question. (I like the furball known as 'Hani' too. Sweet lookin' pup. You should bring him over for a play date next time you come for tomato starts.)
I like that structure too. I need to re-plan my garden area, it's too scattered to easily cover for pest and sun control.


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February, 10, 2014
By Edward Aschoff | ESPN.com
What a historic moment from former Missouri defensive end Michael Sam. Hats off to one of the SEC's best players in 2013.
- Sam goes from football star to pioneer, writes Sam Mellinger of The Kansas City Star.
- Sam, his teammates and coaches prove that gay athletes shouldn't have to choose secrecy, writes Joe Walljasper of the Columbia Daily Tribune.
- Former Alabama punter Cody Mandell supports "courageous" Michael Sam.
- Mississippi State tight end Rufus Warren tweets that he looks "down on gay football players."
- Tennessee linebacker A.J. Johnson and defensive lineman Danny O'Brien were arrested on alcohol-related charges and resisting arrest.
- Tennessee graduate assistant Cody Kempt has been hired at Montana State.
- Dwight Collins of The Gainesville Sun, gives us a quick pre-spring practice perspective in the SEC.
- Check out where each SEC team got its 2014 signees.
- ESPN 300 wide receiver Cameron Sims of Monroe, La., was one of the first Louisiana-based dominoes to fall Alabama's way for its 2014 class.
- Auburn is looking to restock along the offensive line in its next recruiting cycle.
- Auburn signee Kalvaraz Bessent was arrested on marijuana-related felony charges on Friday.
- Auburn defensive line coach Rodney Garner overcomes negative recruiting to flip Georgia recruit Dontavius Russell.
- Georgia defense's defense will be "varied" and "multiple" under new coordinator Jeremy Pruitt.
- Utah quarterback coach Brian Johnson is expected to join Mississippi State's staff.
- Kentucky's webcast raises the bar for the Wildcats' 2015 signing day.
- Recruiting rankings mean nothing to Arkansas' coaching staff.
- Clemson might win recruiting battles, but South Carolina wins on the field.
- ESPN 300 defensive back Quincy Wilson's commitment to Florida was solid from the beginning.
- With transfer offensive tackle Christian Morris undergoing surgery to repair an injured Achilles, Ole Miss is now searching for a right tackle this spring.
- How much did former Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin hurt the Commodores' 2014 recruiting class?
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Cholera could be contained in Haiti by vaccinating less than half the population, University of Florida researchers suggest in a paper to be published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports.
The work places UF's Emerging Pathogens Institute in the pro-vaccination camp in an ongoing international debate over how best to contain the two-year-old epidemic that has claimed thousands of lives.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been skeptical about the effectiveness of vaccination against cholera in this setting. It has instead emphasized cleaning up the water supply and improving sanitation as the best ways to check the spread of the disease.
EPI's Zindoga Mukandavire and J. Glenn Morris Jr., in collaboration with David Smith of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, conclude that vaccinating 46 percent of Haitians could arrest the spread of cholera. They also noted the importance of using mathematical models to target immunization campaigns, so as to gain optimal results from the effort involved in vaccination in resource-poor settings.
"You don't have to immunize everybody. Even if we could get an immunization rate in the range of 40 to 50 percent, it should be possible to control recurrent cholera outbreaks," Morris said. "That should be enough to tilt things in your favor so that you can start getting control of the disease in these areas, to where, hopefully, rates of transmission will slow and numbers of cases will gradually die off."
Morris, director of the EPI, points to the "herd immunity" concept – which proposes that immunizing a significant portion of a population breaks a chain of infection -- in support of the efficacy of less than universal vaccination.
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been infected since a catastrophic magnitude-7.0 earthquake occurred near Port-au-Prince three years ago.
The newly published work by Mukandavire and Morris is the latest contribution in what has been more than two years of efforts by the University of Florida to combat cholera in Haiti. At the beginning of the epidemic the university sent thousands of oral rehydration packets to Haiti, as a gift from the students at the College of Pharmacy. UF researchers also have honed a molecular fingerprinting technique that helps scientists determine whether the disease is spreading from the contamination of food and water or being transmitted from person to person. UF now has a permanent research laboratory in Haiti, providing ongoing monitoring of the epidemic.
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that causes dehydration, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. It can be fatal if untreated. It is most commonly spread through contaminated drinking water.
There also has been a dispute over the source of the cholera outbreak in Haiti after a century-long absence of the disease in the country. UF researchers do not point fingers at what triggered the outbreak. They are intent on checking its spread. The latest EPI work relies on a mathematical model that advances previous analyses by refining the way environmental sources of the bacterium that causes cholera are factored into calculations.
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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are typically composed of low-cost sensors that are deeply integrated with physical environments. As a result, the sensing performance of a WSN is inevitably undermined by various physical uncertainties, which include stochastic sensor noises, unpredictable environment changes and dynamics of the monitored phenomenon. Traditional solutions (e.g., sensor calibration and collaborative signal processing) work in an open-loop fashion and hence fail to adapt to these uncertainties after system deployment. In this paper, the authors propose an adaptive system-level calibration approach for a class of sensor networks that employ data fusion to improve system sensing performance.
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What's the story?
In Adam Green's low-budget slasher spoof, buddies Ben (Joel David Moore) and Marcus (Deon Richmond) are visiting New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Because Ben is despondent over a recent breakup, good buddy Marcus accompanies him on a scary boat ride. They're quickly entranced by fellow boat riders Jenna (Joleigh Fioreavanti) and Misty (Mercedes McNab). The ride leads the foursome -- along with several other victims-to-be -- into the bayou, where they're soon beset by a deformed, unkillable monster. He turns out to be Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder, who's usually hidden under other makeup, such as in the sequels to Friday the 13th); tormented as a child, Victor now seeks vengeance on everyone who happens into his swamp. Ho hum. As Ben and Marcus do their best to keep each other alive through Victor's barrage of attacks, they're aided by Marybeth (Tamara Feldman), whose father and brother were offed at the beginning of the movie and who is now a walking repository of all monster lore.
Is it any good?
Over the top and awkwardly paced, Hatchet isn't very clever for a spoof; it explains or repeats too many plot points. Most of the jokes come in the casting (they're all good sports, these aging slasher-movie stars). But the slasher films were already spoofy, with Freddy Krueger's one-liners and Jason Voorhees' implacable plodding and chopping. And that makes this movie's comedy feel old.
Families can talk about...
Families can talk about what draws people to this kind of movie. Why do people enjoy scary and/or gory movies? Does this fall into the "torture porn" subgenre? Why or why not? Does the quality of the production affect how scary (or not) a horror movie is? Families can also discuss whether this movie is innovative or conventional -- how is it similar to and different from other horror movies? Are you looking for creativity in a horror movie, or just blood and guts? Why or why not?
Movie details
|Theatrical release date:
|September 7, 2007
|DVD release date:
|December 18, 2007
|Deon Richmond, Joel Moore, Tamara Feldman
|Adam Green
|Anchor Bay Entertainment
|Run time:
|93 minutes
|MPAA rating:
|MPAA explanation:
|strong bloody horror violence, sexual content, nudity and language.
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