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There's a window of time when things must happen. If we let that window close, it's gone and we don't get it back.
Fasten your seatbelts as we blast off for Colonial Players' 66th season with Rocket Man, Steven Dietz's 1998 serious comedy about the road not taken.
Act I counts down like a comedy sketch with a disturbing undercurrent. Act II is a space shuttle with frequent stops between grim reality and a fifth dimension of beautiful and bittersweet extremes where life runs backward and youth presages the end of possibilities.
In this surreal postcard from another dimension, you'll meet Donny (Ben Carr), a landscape architect in the midst of a midlife crisis; his ex-wife Rita (Laura E. Gayvert); their resentful teen Trisha (Paige Miller); Donny's best friend Buck (Timothy Sayles), a widower with a Noah complex; and Donny's unacknowledged soul-mate Louise (Shirley Panek), a former co-worker turned divinity student.
Donny thinks that in another world it could have all turned out differently. To make the most of his remaining time, he has quit his job and jettisoned his worldly possessions to dedicate himself to studying the stars through his attic skylight. He is strangely calm for a man on the brink.
Given a second chance at life, Rita thinks we'd all make the same mistakes in new and interesting ways. She rants about Donny's self-centered forgetfulness, while Trisha rants about finding her possessions strewn across the lawn for strangers to take.
Who is right, Donny or Rita?
Does he travel to another world, another time or a dream? Does our personality destine us to repeat history?
The playwright isn't saying, but everyone has a theory, the cast included. That's why all are so invested in their roles.
Carr doesn't so much act the character of Donny as inhabit him, his face a palette of moods and thoughts that transcend words.
As Donny's friend, Sayles is sweet comic relief with perfect timing and a quirky manner to foil the sad insanity that surrounds him. He is miscast only in that his full head of hair lends absurdity to his bald jokes.
As the insomniac sage Louise, Panek appreciates her character's inability to transcend the careful detachment she cultivates.
As daughter Trisha, Miller melds maternalism with emotional distance. As ex-wife Rita, Gayvert demonstrates an unexpected girlishness in her reunion with Donny, though before that change of personality in Act II, it's hard to understand why Donny might miss her.
In life "we demand the illusion of involvement," Donny says, and that's what the technical aspect of this show provides. With a set deliberately barren and depressing, designers achieve stunning moods with a soundtrack of space-inspired hits from Donny's youth and a light grid that debuts with this show. When Donny blasts off into the heavens to the title tune, bathed in a visual wash of dancing galactic blue pinpoints, the gasping audience is also transported.
In this trip to the road not taken, we are encouraged to "travel further, dig deeper, live more and sing life." If you can handle ambiguity, you'll love the play. If not, bring a philosophical friend to help resolve questions.
You never know what's going to happen on the Chesapeake
I had done well on my last three sorties. Now my first bite came in less than a minute.
I had hooked a frisky spot of about four inches just in front of the dorsal with a size-4 black nickel treble hook and sent it over the side. It headed straight down to the Bay Bridge piling I had selected.
A strong fish took the bait as it neared bottom. Setting the hook, I felt immediate resistance, a strong headshake, then nothing. I reeled my line back and found that I had lost my spot. Hook, leader and swivel had been cut off cleanly as well.
Either a toothy bluefish had hit the swivel when the fish I hooked started its struggle. Or the striper had run to some kind of bottom structure immediately after taking my spot and fouled my line on something sharp. I opened a fresh pack of trebles, red nickel models, bent one onto a section of fresh 20-pound fluorocarbon leader and replaced the lost swivel connection.
I had been experimenting with these rather small treble hooks for a couple weeks, finding that they were excellent at mouth-hooking the rockfish eating my live spot baits. I could come tight much sooner than when using J hooks.
Over the next three hours, however, my bait count got ever lower as I released spot after spot that had become exhausted swimming down in the varying currents. I couldn't find a rockfish of any size to take my bait.
Heading to the Eastern Shore, I redoubled my efforts. Drifting and fishing a wide area, I marked few fish but garnered nothing.
Skunked, I headed back toward the Sandy Point ramps and home. As I passed by the previously unproductive bridge supports on the western side, I decided on one last try. I had just three baits remaining.
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Amazingly, with the first drop at the support where I had started the day, I was quickly fast to a strong, fat and healthy 25-inch rockfish. Netting and burying that fish in ice and with renewed optimism, I prepared to hook my next-to-last bait and send it down.
At the last moment, that little fish squirmed in reaction to the prick of my treble and squirted out of my hand and over the side. Now I had the last bait at the last moment, back at the same place I started out. This was going to be very poetic or a major disappointment.
I took extra care with this bait, then flipped it out next to the concrete pier. As it swam down toward the bottom I could feel it spurt ahead in panic. Something was chasing it already.
The fish below quickly engulfed my bait and started running. I set the hook, and a very careful battle ensued.
The fight went my way. Eventually easing the net under a powerful 24 incher, I was relieved to have limited out. But when I pried open the rockfish's mouth to remove my hook, I noticed something odd. My red treble hook was stuck firmly in the corner of its jaw, just as I expected, but on the other side of its mouth was another embedded treble, a black one.
It was my original hook cut off on that fish I lost, still attached to the leader and swivel.
You never know what will happen on the Chesapeake.
Mountain laurel, blueberries and other acid-lovers, too
September is the best time of the year to transplant azaleas, rhododendrons, mountain laurel, andromeda, blueberries and other plants that thrive in acid soils. This is because these species have stopped growing new stems and leaves and are starting to generate and elongate roots.
So take advantage of fall garden center sales. If your existing plantings are too dense or wrongly placed, now is a good time to dig and transplant.
Here's how to assure success in transplanting plants that prefer acid soils.
First, make certain that the soil you will be transplanting into is adequate. Acid soils are generally deficient in calcium and magnesium, but only a soil test of the area will correctly identify soil conditions. Each soil test should be made from a composite of five or more core samples. I rely on A&L Eastern Agricultural Laboratories in Richmond for all of my soil testing.
Plants like these also need well-drained, high-organic soils. Even if the soil test indicates an ample amount of calcium, I make it a regular practice to mix one-half cup gypsum (calcium sulfate) to the planting soil. To assure an abundance of organic matter, I also blend one-third by volume of compost or pine fines with the existing soil while blending the gypsum with the backfill. Compost adds not only organic matter but also slow-release nutrients.
Never amend the soil with peat moss, especially when transplanting rhododendrons. Peat moss holds too much water, making conditions favorable for water-borne fungi that attack the roots of rhododendrons.
All species that grow in acid soils are shallow-rooted. So never dig the planting hole deeper than the depth of the root ball. There is no need to place compost or back-fill under the root ball because of the shallow-rooting nature of these species.
If you are digging plants that need more space to grow, the outside edge of the root ball you are digging should begin mid-distance between the drip line of the branches and the stem of the plant. If the soil is dry, irrigate the plant well at least two days before you dig.
After digging, lift the plant by the root ball and not by the stem. If you are transplanting container-grown plants, after removing the plant from the container, use a sharp knife and slash the outside edge of the root ball an inch deep from top to bottom making the slashes two to three inches apart. Since most container plants are grown in soilless rooting media, slashing the root balls and pulling out some of the roots will hasten new root development.
The top of the root ball should be visible at the surface of the finished grade. Before mulching, water the plants thoroughly to settle the backfill around the roots and eliminate air pockets. A good heavy watering helps to firm the soil in place.
Apply no more than one inch of compost or pine bark mulch. Never use hardwood bark mulch because it is basic in nature and contains high levels of manganese.
Azaleas, rhododendrons, mountain laurel, andromeda, blueberries and other acid-lovers will tolerate light to medium shade, but they will produce more flowers and be more cold-tolerant in full sun. In commercial nurseries, all of these species are grown in open fields and sometimes covered with light shade in late fall simply to give the plants a better appearance for sale in the spring.
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Neither scary nor inventive, this horror should have stayed buried
Deep below the streets of Paris is a city of bones. Most of the catacombs are well mapped out tourist spots, but a secret section of the tunnels obsesses alchemist professor Dr. Scarlett Marlowe (Perdita Weeks: The Invisible Woman). She believes these tombs house Nicolas Flamel's famed philosopher's stone, which holds the key to knowledge and immortality.
Scarlett's father spent his career searching for the stone before committing suicide when his theories were mocked. She has dedicated her life to proving his beliefs. To take her into the catacombs, she recruits language expert George (Ben Feldman: Mad Men), documentary filmmaker Benji (Edwin Hodge: The Purge: Anarchy) and three French spelunkers.
In uncharted parts of the crypts, a cave-in forces the team into a cavern declared sinister by locals. As they crawl among the bones searching for a way out, Scarlett notices odd things. As team members die, she acknowledges that they may have descended into a realm of evil.
Will they realize in time the Philosopher's Stone is really at Hogwarts? Or are all destined to add new piles of bones to the crypts?
Yet another mockumentary horror film, As Above, So Below deals with themes of hell, mysticism and guilt. Unfortunately, each is handled poorly. Director John Erick Dowdle (Devil) substitutes shaky cam action for tension. Whenever the team comes across a scare, he whips the camera back and forth so that we see blurred images. It's an endurance challenge for viewers with weak stomachs.
Dowdle squanders even the most inherently frightening part of his movie: the setting. Claustrophobic sequences are few; if Paris were built on such a spacious sewer system, the City of Love would be at the same elevation as Denver.
The actors do what they can with weak material. As the fanatical leader, Weeks' Scarlett is eerily calm in the face of disaster. She manipulates, cajoles and forces her group to bend to her will. Weeks also convincingly sells Scarlett's haunted past and her determination to clear her father's name.
As a mildly claustrophobic nerd who has a crush on Scarlett, naturally charismatic Feldman has little to do.
With no scares, poor cinematography and a weak script, the only thing frightening about this movie is paying to see it.
See this flick and you might wish you were dead
In the bowels of Basin City, there are no happy endings. So don't look for any in these four stories of sex, death and violence.
Barfly thug Marv (Mickey Rourke: Java Heat) hasn't made a man bleed in days. It's starting to get to him. As his impulse toward violence grows, he seeks an outlet to vent his rage.
Gambler Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Don Jon) is looking to make a score. Never having lost a game of chance, he buys into the richest card game in the city, playing police chiefs, senators and high rollers to take home millions.
Private Eye Dwight (Josh Brolin: Guardians of the Galaxy) meets his long-lost love Ava (Eva Green: Penny Dreadful) at a bar. She promises love and fidelity if Dwight helps extract her from her marriage to the rich sadist for whom she left him.
Stripper Nancy (Jessica Alba: The Spoils of Babylon) lost the love of her life because of the threats of a powerful senator (Powers Boothe: Nashville). Now an alcoholic with a tenuous grip on sanity, she vows revenge.
Director Robert Rodriguez made the first Sin City film — adapted from Frank Miller's popular graphic novels — in black and white so it looked ripped from the pages of a comic book. In this sequel, he seems to have forgotten what made the original a success. This sequel is so bad that it taints the memory of its predecessor.
Despite graphic violence, near constant nudity and plenty of pulpy dramatic dialog, this movie is so dull that it could be used in a sleep study.
The four story lines are smashed together rather than interwoven. The painterly quality so visually arresting in the first is replaced with shots of naked women framed as high art.
Actors could save this one — were not most of them woefully inept or miscast. Jessica Alba continues to prove she's one of the worst actresses working today. Gordon-Levitt's slight frame is dwarfed in Miller's world of hulking men.
Only Rourke understands how to work with the pulpy dialog and plot. His Marv — who impressed in the first Sin City — is a sweet lunk who happens to be a dangerous psychotic. Rourke generates both sympathy and fear.
With nothing but Mickey Rourke's 20 minutes of screen time to recommend it, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For fails on three counts: film, action and cheap pornographic thrills.
Close as Mercury, far as Neptune
The moon waxes through our evening skies from a thin crescent at week's end to first-quarter Tuesday September 2. Friday Luna shines just two degrees above the first-magnitude star Spica low in the southwest.
Sunday the moon appears farther east at sunset, forming a tight triangle with Saturn to the west and Mars to the south. The two planets appear equally bright, shining at magnitude 0.6, but Saturn's golden glow and Mars' red hue make them easy to tell apart.
Monday evening the moon shines at the head of Scorpius, which is marked by three slightly mis-aligned stars. The moon is just one degree above the northernmost of the three, Graffias, shining at magnitude 2.5. Ten degrees southeast of the moon is the red giant Antares, the heart of the scorpion.
As the sun dips beneath the horizon around 7:40, look in its wake for Mercury low in the west. Binoculars may help you pinpoint this elusive planet. When most people spot Mercury, they are surprised by its brightness, shining around zero magnitude, brighter than most stars. But the innermost planet orbits so close to the sun that it never appears more than a dozen degrees above the horizon during dark hours.
Mercury has been a fixture of our night sky since the dawn of civilization. The first telescopic observations of the planet were made by Galileo in 1610, but unlike his viewing of Saturn, there was no eureka moment. It was not until more than 350 years later with the fly-by of the Mariner 10 space probe that astronomers learned much more about this elusive planet.
You may be able to see the farthest planet from the sun, Neptune, before dawn this week. On Friday the outermost planet reaches opposition, when earth is directly between it and the sun. Even with binoculars or a small telescope it will appear as little more than a small blue dot low in the west-southwest amid the dim stars of Aquarius.
Venus and Jupiter will greet you in the east before dawn amid the glow of the coming sun.
It's a little late to start seeds but just right to plant seedlings
The best sauerkraut is made from fall-grown cabbage. The best kale and collards have been frosted a few times, growing sweeter with each frost. Fall-grown spinach and lettuce are more tender. Carrots, beets, turnips, rutabaga and kohlrabi are at their best when grown in late summer and harvested in the fall. Both cauliflower and broccoli form tighter heads in fall than in spring. I also harvest many more fall peas than spring peas. If you love Brussels sprouts as much as I do, you must get them started now to harvest a bountiful supply.
There is more gardening ahead, and now is the time to start sowing seeds. If you planted onions this past spring, they should all be harvested by now — as well as the cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and spinach. So you now have room to start planting your fall crops.
I have stopped planting peas in the spring because I can make many more harvests from peas planted in August. The cooler fall temperatures promote continuous growth until the killing frost comes late in fall. Spring-planted peas stop producing pods as soon as the heat comes on.
August is also a good time to make a planting or two of snap beans. If you make two consecutive plantings about two to three weeks apart, you will be harvesting snap beans until the frost kills the plants.
If you sowed your seeds of broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts and cabbage the first week of August, the plants will be ready to be transplanted into rows by the end of the month. Seeds of spinach, lettuce, kale, collards, turnips and rutabaga should have been sown by mid August. To grow the sweetest carrots this side of heaven, the seeds should also have been planted before the middle of August, as should a row of beets for greens as well as for the sweetest roots.
If you haven't started your seeds, check the garden centers for seedlings of these cool-weather crops.
Your soil most likely still holds a plentiful supply of nutrients not utilized by the remaining summer crops. Since the soil is warm, the compost you added to the garden is also releasing nutrients. A fall crop allows you to maximize the uptake of the nutrients already added as well as those released during the decomposition of organic matter.
If you are not going to plant a fall crop, sow a cover crop of winter rye to absorb all of those free nutrients into their roots and stems. Next spring when you plow the rye back into the ground, the nutrients will be there for that crop.
What kind of doublespeak is that?
Sometimes I feel heartfelt compassion for the very difficult job of Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Many citizens and not just a few commercial entities demand endless access to the resources of the Chesapeake, while the wise conservation and management of these resources are the sole responsibility of DNR.
The blue crab is one such resource. One of the more desired, the more profitable and most celebrated of the Bay's treasures, it has also been over the last 20 years or so one of the Bay's species most often in trouble. I sympathize with the pressures the Department has to constantly endure in attempting to protect the crustacean from over harvest and depredation.
Then, DNR destroys my empathy with pronouncements that seem to defy credibility, common sense and logic.
On a recent occasion, officials stated for the record on a local radio program and in a subsequent newspaper article that any form of moratorium would cause the species more harm than good.
That ranks up there with the Department's earlier statement "crabbing harvests remain at a safe level for the sixth consecutive year," while revealing the blue crab population had plunged 70 percent also during that period.
Is that not doublespeak? DNR's own safe harvest levels imply proper population protection that has obviously not been happening. In the case of "more harm than good," how can not killing some 30,000 pounds of crabs hurt the overall population?
Unlike the successful rockfish moratorium, a crab moratorium wouldn't work for several reasons, according to DNR: the short life of crabs (three years or so); the diminishing fertility of females over time; and the increased natural mortality of cannabilistic crabs when the population is dense. DNR also cites the economic harm to Maryland's blue crab industry.
I can understand the Department's reluctance. Every cutback affects the livelihoods of not only 4,000-plus watermen but also the bottom line of many restaurants and seafood markets. But don't try to tell me that continuing to kill off a resource is really helping it.
I can understand unpredictable natural mortality and how cold-weather kills and how poor recruitment causes unanticipated short-range population swings. But to continue to allow optimistically calculated harvest levels year after year while that population free falls defies common sense.
The near future looks grim for the blue crab. Local crabbers report very difficult catches, fewer and smaller crabs and a continuing dearth of females, indicating more population trouble for the future. This assessment is not scientific, but it seems to reflect reality better than anything coming out of Annapolis.
I respectfully request the Department reconsider its basic resource philosophy because whatever we have been doing is not working.
Insisting on species health and abundance above all seems wiser and more realistic than any maximum-sustainable harvest policy by any name.
Paying closer attention to the recommendations of scientists from Bay conservation foundations could also be wise, as they are free from most political and commercial manipulations.
That is if Maryland officials are committed to the conservation of the blue crab and share the belief that a consistently large and healthy population will naturally result in a flourishing commercial fishery, a satisfied recreational sector and a happy consuming public.
If, on the other hand, our representatives are primarily committed to short-term commercial-industry stability — fulfilling market and political demands — then we're on the right track.
Policy for success takes more than good luck
Labor Day is just another day off — albeit the one that closes summer — unless we know our history. Our work-free first Monday of September is in fact "a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our country," according the U.S. Department of Labor.
Dating back to 1882 when labor unions were gaining strength, the holiday was celebrated for many years with parades to demonstrate "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations." Festivities followed.
You don't see many Labor Day parades nowadays, so Bay Weekly stages our own annual Labor Day Parade of Working People.
Work brings us our livelihood, supports for our families, endows our futures and defines our identities, I write introducing the story.
That's what we like to think.
If you're among the 3.3 million Americans earning minimum wage, your truth is likely closer to the James Brown line in "Living in America": Everybody's working overtime.
Federal minimum wage is $7.25. Lots of workers earn less. The minimum wage for tipped workers, for example, is $2.13 an hour.
States can choose to pay more. Washington pays the highest minimum wage: $9.32, with inflation adjustments.
Starting in the new year, Maryland's minimum wage of $7.25 rises to $8, with staged increases topping off at $10.10 on July 1, 2018.
That's a big deal — except in perspective. At 1968 levels, $10.77 would be 2014's minimum wage.
Work a full-time year at today's minimum wage and you'll earn just over $15,000.
At that level, Labor Day is black comedy.
A bell-shaped curve made the prosperity this day celebrates. People of enormous earnings are one end of the flat base from which the bell rises. People who earn little or nothing are the opposite end of that base. The bell is the middle class — producing, exporting and buying our way to a strong economy.
"How do we expand the middle class?" Congressman Steny Hoyer asked at a Women's Equality Day lunch this week honoring the 94th anniversary of women's suffrage. "A ladder of opportunity from poverty to the middle class."
Each of the 13 people you'll meet in Bay Weekly's Labor Day Parade climbed an opportunity ladder. Many built their own. Of these fascinating stories, my favorites are the two men whose work in good, stable jobs bring them livelihood and identity, support for their families and their futures. A good company, good luck and good contacts built their ladders.
We love success stories, but a problem as big as our deflating middle class takes success policies. An almost liveable minimum wage is one part, and it depends on employers.
Workers have their responsibilities, too, gaining skills that make them employable.
Schools are also part, filling our minds, training our hands, then showing us how to use what we know and do. Encouraging creativity is another part of the curriculum for success.
Good luck is a great thing; it helped many — maybe all — of this year's parade of people find their work. Skilled creativity fueled by ambition is your part.
Sandra Olivetti Martin
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Escape urban lights to see this sight
Each August, as the kids head back to school, the galaxy is tilted in such a way that the Milky Way stretches overhead in full glory. With Monday's new moon, this may be the best week of summer to gaze on this river of stars. To fully appreciate it you'll need dark skies away from any urban glow well after sunset. Give your eyes a few minutes to get accustomed to the darkness, tilt your head back and get lost in the glow.
From Perseus and Cassiopeia in the north-northeast, the Milky Way flows down through Cygnus the swan onto Aquila the eagle. From the eagle's tail, the glow of stars splits, one section continuing to Sagittarius, the other to Scorpius in the southwest; the dark space in between is called the Great Rift. But this patch of the heavens is not bereft of stars. Our view of them is blocked by masses of interstellar gas and dust. Of course it isn't just the flowing river of stars that make up the Milky Way but almost every star we see with the unaided eye, including our own sun. All are part of the same spiral galaxy. Our solar system is at the end of one of the spiral's arms. When we look at the river of stars, we are looking toward the center of the galaxy, through layers of light that combined form the glowing band that we see on a beautiful dark night.
As evening twilight gives way to darkness, Mars and Saturn appear in the southwest. Mars has been inching toward the ringed planet night by night and will pass below it over the weekend, coming within three degrees. The two planets appear equally bright, but you should have no trouble telling Mars' reddish hue from Saturn's golden glow. While you're comparing colors, look a few degrees to the north of the two planets for the star Zubeneschimali in the constellation Libra. This is the only star with a greenish glow visible to the unaided eye — at least to some. What about you?
Venus and Jupiter rise in the east-northeast before dawn. Jupiter is first to crest the horizon, but once Venus appears a few minutes later you'll have no trouble telling the two apart, as the morning star is six times brighter than old Jove. The two planets are joined by the ever-so-thin waning crescent moon early Saturday morning.
The last of the naked-eye planets returns to view late this week. Look for Mercury Wednesday the 27th immediately in the wake of the setting sun and just a couple degrees from newly emerged waxing crescent moon.
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Many pet owners don't understand how pervasive pain is (acutely and chronically), pets' ability to hide pain, the effect untreated pain can have on the nervous system or the fact that pain is a leading reason for euthanasia in older pets, says Dr. Robin Downing, CVPP, CCRP, DAAPM, owner of Windsor Veterinary Clinic and The Downing Center for Animal Pain Management in Windsor, Colo.
So, first things first: "We must educate, educate, educate. And that means speaking to our clients in language they understand and using verbiage that gets their attention," says Dr. Downing.
There are a few approaches you can use to effectively communicate the necessity of pain control to skeptical clients depending on the type of pain the pet is experiencing:
Acute pain. Use analogies. Explain to clients that because pets' nervous systems are similar to ours, anything that is painful for us will be painful for them—even a minor surgery. In many cases, they need pain medicine to prevent unnecessary suffering, much like humans do following an injury or procedure.
There's also scientific evidence that failure to manage pain as soon as possible can have a negative impact on the nervous system, potentially causing persistent pain long after the injury or surgery occurs.
"The more involved the surgery, such as an orthopedic procedure, the more likely this is to happen," says Dr. Downing. "I have dealt with dogs that cannot use their leg years after ACL surgery because they didn't have appropriate pain management early, and now the leg hurts all the time and they can't use it normally."
Chronic pain. Perform a careful palpation exam to show clients their pets' reaction when pressure is applied to certain areas.
"At my practice, I always demonstrate the pressure I will use on the patient by pressing on the client's forearm with their permission," Dr. Downing says. "That way, they know that the pressure I'm using should be perceived as pressure, not as pain. If the pet reacts—they consistently do—the client can see that the pet is truly hurting."
She also recommends using phrases like, "Your pet is suffering," or "Your pet deserves to be comfortable and relieved of pain." Choosing words with emotion tied to them makes it all the more likely that the importance of pain control will resonate with clients.
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This grass for the more refined lawn, has a 14mm pile of closely spaced curled yarn, resulting in a surface not only very pleasing to the eye but with a soft luxurious feel. Designed to be laid with a low sand infill, which quickly disappears into the pile
From only £17.99 per Mtr2
With a 20mm open pile; this is the "tough guy" of the bunch! Infilled with 20 Kg/sqM of dry silica sand (block paving sand is excellent). It will provide a lawn for the kids to play football and the pets to run riot on, whilst remaining attractive for relaxation when the action is over!
From only £15.99 per Mtr2
Verdegrass has a 9mm "curled" pile in an attractive green colour with a soft feel, which makes it a favourite for conservatories, patios and balconies. It is also an excellent putting surface for those wishing to improve their golf and is an attractive and practical surround for swimming pools and other features.
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Developed from the most advanced sports specifications, a no-compromise, unrivaled leisure surface. Ideal for luxury lawn installation, superior quality for discerning landscapers and garden lovers - looks better than the real thing!
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A 6mm loop pile needle-punched polypropylene surface, economically priced for indoor or outdoor use. Available in a choice of 2 shades - Mid Green & Dark Green. Ideal for mini golf, balconies, conservatories and exhibitions stands.
From only £8.49 per Mtr2
This is a heavyweight closely tufted long pile surface, well suited to situations of heavy traffic in public places such as parks, sports club corridors and dressing rooms, etc. It makes excellent walkways in heavily used areas and is great in gardens and play areas, where the presence of sand may not be desirable.
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An 8mm loop pile needle-punched polypropylene surface. The dark green heavy-duty surface is ideal for bowling green banks, cricket practice facilities, crazy golf, balconies and verandas.
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This superior quality grass has a multi-length pile which is 45mm high and extremely hardwearing. Not only does it provide the 'uncut' appearance for gardens, road verges and landscaping but it is also a top selling product for golf tees, football touchlines and other sports.
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The Groovy Grass is a new artificial grass designed to offer a whole new dimension to luxury and trendy indoor/ outdoor living. A range of vibrant colours are available, however additional colours can be made to order but minimum quantities may be required.
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A needle-punched polypropylene carpet with a loop pile supplied in a wide range of colours for multi-purpose indoor and outdoor applications. Not only is VerdePlay 100% UV and colour stabilised, it has also been treated with a special permafresh non-toxic integral agent.
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The Verde ProPlay Tile is a unique safety solution, offering optimum fall protection and an impact-absorbing surface which minimises the risk of injury to children who fall from play equipment.
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For all-over bonding artificial grass to hard surfaces. Easy spreading with hand trowel; Secure weather resistant bond; High initial grab; Good temperature resistance. Approx. Coverage: - 10 - 12 sq.metres£59.99
For all-over bonding artificial grass to hard surfaces. Easy spreading with hand trowel; Secure weather resistant bond; High initial grab; Good temperature resistance. Approx. Coverage: 40 - 50 sq.metres£174.99
Evo-Sport AWA Cartridge 310 ml. Excellent stability, Easy application. Strong bond for seaming or spot adhering artificial grass; May be applied to damp surfaces in wet conditions. Approximate coverage - 10 bead. Each cartridge of adhesive is sufficient for 3m of seam. Cartridge Gun Required.£7.49
Plastic backed to prevent adhesive penetrating to base; Lays flat to substrate when rolled out; Impervious to moisture ingress from the base; Forms strong bonds to carpet with Evo Sport Adhesives. 300mm wide cut to lengths as required. (Sold per linear metre)£0.99
Cartridge Gun to use with Evo Cartridges for gluing artificial grass from the Verde range. Verde supply a comprehensive range of adhesives, seaming tapes and binders for all-weather sports surfaces.£6.00
How much grass do I need?
Verde grasses are manufactured in rolls 2 metres (6 feet 6 inches) or 4 metres (13 feet) wide and are supplied in lengths to suit your requirements. It is necessary therefore to carefully work out the lengths and widths you will require, to minimise wastage. It may help to work out your requirements on squared paper. Verde artificial grasses are easily joined and, due to the long pile, carefully made seams are invisible.
For simple shaped areas it is relatively easy to work out your requirements. For more complicated areas it would be advisable to accurately draw a plan of the area to be covered. Send your plan to your supplier, who can advise on your requirements.
How do I make joins?
|Joins are made by sticking the underside of the artificial grass to a special seaming tape by means of polyurethane adhesive. The edges to be joined should be trimmed carefully, removing any excess "selvedge" material. Adjacent panels should be laid together ensuring that straight cut edges are butted close together (fig 1).
As all grasses have a directional pile, check and ensure all panels are running in the same direction. The edges are then folded back and the seaming tape laid,plastic side down, centrally along the joint (fig 2).
Adhesive is applied from a cartridge gun to the top surface of the seaming tape, two "worms" of adhesive being applied to each side of the joint, one close to the point where the carpet will meet and the other about half way between the join and the edge of the tape. The carpet is now folded back and pressed down to spread the adhesive (fig 3).
The strength of the join will be improved if the seam can be weighed down during the curing time of the adhesive. Seaming tape and adhesive cartridges may be ordered when ordering the grass. Each cartridge of adhesive is sufficient for 3 metres of seam.
What sort of base do I require?
The grass may be laid on a wide variety of bases, but it is very important to understand that problems such as poor drainage, etc cannot be overcome simply by covering them up with synthetic grass.
Hard (bound) surfaces - Macadam, asphalt, concrete, etc.
All artificial grasses may be laid directly onto any suitable hard sub surface.
If a new sub-surface is being constructed to take artificial grass a slight fall (1:200 is ideal) should be incorporated to assist drainage. Porous (open textured) macadam is particularly suitable as a sub base for all types of Verde artificial grass.
Paving slabs are not satisfactory, since after a period of time the pattern of the slabs will show on the surface of the grass. The slabs should be removed or covered with a thick layer of coarse sand.
Unbound surfaces
Well compacted unbound aggregate (stone) bases are ideal for artificial grasses and if an artificial lawn were to be built from scratch, this type of base would be our recommendation. Any unbound surface, which drains and is stable and reasonably level however, is perfectly satisfactory. If the surface is too rough it may be screeded with coarse sharp sand, prior to laying the grass.
Natural surfaces
Whilst artificial grass may be laid directly onto an existing lawn, provided the drainage is satisfactory, this is not always very satisfactory in the long term. The natural grass will die off and the roots will decay, causing unevenness in the surface. Removal of the grass and compaction of the resulting soil base will overcome this problem, particularly if the soil is covered with a layer of compacted grit sand. Builders sand is not suitable. How do I hold it in position?
If installed on a hard surface indoors or out, these surfaces may be loose laid or spot stuck to a hard solid surface such as concrete, timber, decking, tarmac, fibreglass or plastic. (see illustration)
Super Verdegrass
As with Verdegrass, the Super quality may be loose laid or spot stuck. On an unbound surface it need only be secured at the edges.
Verdeturf / Coloured Grass
Dry, coarse sand (block paving sand is excellent) brushed into the pile of the Verdeturf is sufficient to hold the grass in place (approx 20 kg per square metre)
SuperVerdeturf / Verdeluxe
As with Verdeturf, sand is used to hold the grass down. Due to the closer fine tufting, Super Verdeturf and Verdeluxe only require approximately 8 kg of sand per square metre. The sand should be evenly distributed to ensure no excess appears on the surface.
If alternative fixing is provided, both surfaces may be installed with no sand infill.
Super Verdeluxe
Super Verdeluxe should be dressed with a mixture of sand and/or rubber to suit your requirements. We would normally recommend a dressing of sand (approx 15 kg/sa.metre), which will settle in the bottom of the pile and hold the product in place. In addition, you may want to dress this product with an infill of rubber crumb (approx 8kg/sq.metre). the rubber crumb provides additional support for holding the pile of the Super Verdeluxe upright, whilst also creating a soft feel underfoot.
How do I form the edges?
1. By butting against an existing wall or upstanding kerb.
2. By fixing to an edge board - tanalised timber 100mm x 25mm located by wooden pegs 50mm x 50mm x 300mm is ideal.
3. By placing the edge of the grass under paving stones or similar fence.
4. By burying the grass edge under adjacent natural turf.
What do I need to do to maintain it?
Artificial Grass is a low maintenance but not a no maintenance surface. The rules are simple - remove debris, particularly leaves or pet droppings, since otherwise these will compost into the surface and allow moss to grow. Debris may be removed by sweeping, and in dry conditions may be vacuumed with a domestic appliance. Do not vacuum sand filled grass - your machine will fill with sand!
If moss does form in the pile, it should be treated with a proprietary moss killer and swept thoroughly to remove the dead material. A bass broom or similar stiff brush is best for maintaining a 'fresh' appearance. Odd weeds which may seed themselves in the surface may be removed by hand or spot-sprayed with a general weedkiller.


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Vic Livingston (scrivener)
Dec 26th, 2008 at 10:51am
It's NOT just the poor who are being victimized by draconian measures justified under the banner of the "war on terror."
DOMESTIC TORTURE VIA RADIATION WEAPONRY has spawned a silent holocaust that has gone largely undetected and unchallenged.
The reality of domestic torture delivered by ideologically-driven, cold-hearted agents of government and their vigilante citizen operatives is finally gaining public exposure by way of first-hand accounts -- including that of this correspondent, a mainstream journalist with a recognized body of work.
In a matter of weeks, operatives who have been involved in the purposeful "dosing" of American citizens with radiation emitted from widely deployed "directed energy weapons" and hand-held devices will begin to come forward, confirming reports of what's been euphemistically labeled as "electronic harassment" by victims of so-called "community stalking" or "gang stalking."
The "gang stalking" moniker trivializes what is an extensive, multi-level government campaign of extrajudicial targeting and punishment.
The "targets" are not limited to "terrorists" or drug traffickers. They include individuals who have been labeled by persons in positions of authority as "dissidents," "radicals," "whistle-blowers" or undesirables, perhaps due to their lifestyles, their ethnic heritage, or their religious or political beliefs. Many find themselves slandered and unjustly accused of wrongdoing (but, notably, not charged with any violation of the law). Journalists are among targeted classes; but many don't realize they are subject to pervasive surveillance, physical harassment and career sabotage until they are already ruined, professionally and personally.
These targeted persons -- and their families -- are subject to relentless harassment, with surveillance data about their whereabouts and personal daily routines funneled to "community stalkers" who are recruited under the cover of government-funded community policing, town watch, and business-related anti-terrorism programs. The operations of these civilian vigilantes are supervised by agents of government, ranging from local police personnel to federal intelligence and security agents under whose direction these programs have been institutionalized.
Under the guise of performing "surveillance," the "targets" are subject to electromagnetic radiation of various forms -- ranging from microwave energy, sound waves, even X-rays and gamma rays. The government publicly claims that these "directed energy weapons," or "D.E.W.", are still in the experimental stage, or that working equipment is large and bulky, such as the Army's recent demonstration of a microwave weapon tagged with an innocuous-sounding sobriquet, the "Active Denial System." The government describes these weapons as "non-lethal" -- when in fact, depending on the dosage of radiated energy delivered, they can stun, maim, induce illness, or kill.
These D.E.W. have are being widely deployed, as noted in an article in the April 2008 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. The article discusses the potential adverse health effects of D.E.W. fire. The article also states that law enforcement personnel themselves may fall victim to these effects, should criminals or terrorists obtain D.E.W.
What the article does not state is that victims of "community stalking" have complained for several years that they are being tortured by painful D.E.W. radiation attacks, and that their health has been degraded by the cumulative effects of exposure to silent and potentially lethal beams of radiated energy.
These weapons share a characteristic that explains why few people outside of law enforcement are aware of their widespread deployment and usage: The energy the weapons emit is silent and invisible, making possible "the perfect crime" -- the covert application of potentially lethal force.
Victims of D.E.W. attack have tried to appeal to law enforcement for justice, but to no avail. Indeed, that's part of the "M.O." -- when victims complain, they are routinely written off as delusional or mentally ill. Some may even find themselves subject to attempts to commit them to psychiatric facilities, thus accomplishing the underlying goal of extrajudicial targeting and punishment -- the removal of "targeted individuals" (and by extension, their families) from mainstream society.
There is no rational or moral defense for this horrific domestic torture, which is happening right now in cities and towns across America. The "targets" typically pose no danger to society. They are victims of a political system that has institutionalized -- and has attempted to legalize -- extrajudicial punishment. The "war on terror" is the pretext that has been employed for a wholesale bypass of the judicial system, and of constitutionally protected rights.
This is the transformation of American democracy into a fascist police state -- an American Gestapo, a frontal assault on our constitutionally guaranteed civil rights and liberties.
When the pervasiveness of this officially sanctioned and funded domestic terrorism and torture is confirmed by "official sources" -- in recent times, the only sources that much of the mainstream media considers sufficiently credible -- any excuses for the excesses that heretofore have come to light will be exposed as evil sophistry.
That day is coming, and very soon. In the meantime, please read my articles at http://members.NowPublic.com/scrivener and help me secure the legal assistance of the ACLU and/or any other organization capable of bringing justice to the untold thousands of victims of extrajudicial targeting, punishment, and TORTURE in America 2008.
OR members.nowpublic.com/scrivener
-- Vic Livingston, former business reporter, Fox TV Phila., NY Daily News, Phila. Bulletin, St. Petersburg Times
Vic Livingston (scrivener)
Dec 26th, 2008 at 1:24pm
Can someone at ACLU please explain why the often indicate there are "no comments" -- but when I click on the comments -- days later -- see a post that I have written, with the message that the post is "awaiting moderation."
The last time I posted, the "awaiting moderation" post stayed up a couple of days, then the post was taken down entirely.
Is ACLU doing this... or is a third-party hacker with an ideological mission CENSORING political posts here and else -- using remote computing software and the insertion of "spoofed pages" into the datastreams of persons "targeted" by warrantless surveillance programs?
I believe that a powerful third party may be using sophisticated technology to exercise prior restraint and outright censorship on the political posts of those targeted via warrantless surveillance.
I've seen articles how "spoofed pages" are used in online scams... but I have not seen any journalism about the technology being employed to censor free speech in America. But that is what I believe is happening.
Does the ACLU have any technical experts who could investigate this?
And please tell me why the "no comments" message persists when readers have indeed posted. Thank you.
True American
Jan 6th, 2009 at 12:13pm
Do you psychos really believe this moronic babble that you type. Oh my god, the only person in the government right now that has anything to do with domestic terrorism is Barrack Obama, he supports domestic terrorist and is friends with them. My god I will never know how you poeple make it through each day your freaking idiots.
Tie your shoes morons.
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I'm building a game using HTML5 Canvas and Javascript and I'm using JSON formatted tile maps for my levels. The tiles render correctly in FireFox, but when I use Chrome, the JSON fetching fails with a "Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin." I was using jQuery's $.ajax command and all my files are in one directory.
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Recovery.gov's revamp impressed with its new mapping capability; the only catch is the incomplete data
Data without context is meaningless to anyone but a specialist. But context without data is not so helpful either. Such was the dilemma presented by the Obama administration's revamp of the Recovery.gov Web site, which was unveiled last week.
On the one hand, public policy experts and transparency advocates were impressed with the site's new mapping capability, which lets users see how stimulus funds have been spent in their states, counties, congressional districts or even their own ZIP codes.
By displaying information on a map, the site makes it possible for even the most casual users to see at a glance how stimulus spending affects their neighborhoods. No advanced degree in statistics needed, just a computer with a mouse.
"While individual states have been experimenting with the use of GIS for tracking and reporting stimulus spending, the level of detail and the use of GIS to visually present the data for a spending program of this size is unprecedented," wrote Computerworld blogger Robert Mitchell.
The site also gives a nod to policy wonks, giving power users the option of downloading the raw data so that they can do their own number crunching.
The only catch is the data. A lot of data is still missing because the site only shows data reported by federal agencies, not from the state and local level where a lot of the action is. That data should be available by the end of October, but experts wonder how accurate it will be.
One concern is "the Office of Management and Budget's lax rules dictating how frequently [updated] and detailed the expenditures and jobs reports need to be," Aliya Sternstein wrote at Nextgov.com.
OMB Watch, a transparency advocate, found numerous problems with the site. For example, it includes a special section that lists noncompetitive contracts that have been awarded, but "the list is in a PDF and provides no links to further information about the contracts," Craig Jennings wrote in his review at OMBWatch.
The Denver Post's Miles Moffeit notes a number of other information gaps, including data on subcontractors, stimulus expenditures worth less than $25,000 and administrative costs paid by nonfederal agencies.
The last one hits close to home for Denver Post readers. According to Moffeit, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter apparently paid $40,000 to his former law firm "to help advise the state's stimulus-oversight board." Such a payment won't show up on Recovery.gov "because the Recovery Act doesn't require reporting of administrative costs," Moffeit wrote. "Those expenses include consultant fees, according to the governor's office."
The net result, some experts seem to feel, is a great map for displaying questionable data.
Nonetheless, the Obama administration did win some kudos, even if grudgingly.
"Even with these flaws, it's still a timely reminder of how much federal data is locked away from the public (either intentionally or through obscurity and bizarre data formats), and how much more easy it is to navigate with a map-based interface," wrote CBS News blogger Declan McCullagh.
An added bonus, noted by the Wall Street Journal's Louise Radnofsky: The site can be translated into numerous languages, even Latvian.
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Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) trafficked in the culture of allegations of the "un-American." He was censured by the United Senate and died disgraced.
Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is engaging in misconduct comparably shameful: "redbaiting" those with red state values. He deserves censure for such misconduct. If the Democrats will not provide it, if the Republicans regain the majority in the U.S. Senate the censuring of Harry Reid deserves to be the first order of business next year.
Leader Reid has cast himself as the point man in a campaign by the left to vilify Charles and David Koch. As recently inventoried by The Washington Free Beacon, and as noted by The Washington Post, Reid has vilified the Koch name, at last count, 134 times.
This is not a random act by Reid.
This vilification appears orchestrated with a campaign of calumny against the Kochs now being prosecuted across the left. It is being pushed by such sinister figures as former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, by the increasingly petty and reactionary MoveOn.org, in The Nation, the Progressive, Nation of Change, and by other self-styled progressives showing themselves not averse to dabbling in totalitarian measures.
This campaign very much appears to be the left's appropriating the 13th (and possibly most famous) Rule of Saul Alinsky (himself a noble foe both of injustice and totalitarianism). Alinsky:
The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. (Rules for Radicals, p. 130)
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Americans would make changes in the 2010 Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) but do not want to kill health care reform, according to a new Bloomberg News poll released on the eve of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on challenges to the law. "A plurality of Americans, 43 percent, say they want to retain the […] [Read More]
Pearl Jam tickets for smoking out congressman
If you are first to locate the Saturday night whereabouts of Montana's Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester has two Pearl Jam concert tickets waiting for you. Rehberg pulled out of a Montana Broadcasters Assn. debate with Tester, scheduled for Sunday morning. The congressman's campaign claimed he hadn't received an invite, although […] [Read More]
Same-sex marriage in substantial lead: poll
A new statewide survey by Public Policy Polling indicates that Washington may become the first state in America to approve same-sex marriage, a cause that has gone 0-for-32 in previous statewide votes. The survey by PPP found marriage equality with a 51-42 percent lead: In polling on statewide initiatives and referendums, 50 percent support is […] [Read More]
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The upstairs Studio Apartment is independent of the main house, with forest & garden views from the one bedroom. A comfy and warm feel is the atmosphere that will make you feel at home. The room has one full size bed and one single bed. A fridge, microwave, small toaster oven, coffee maker and all needed kitchen utensils. It has complete bath / shower with hot water.
The gardens are nice all over this area, including our home. Drive way entrance & private parking with a gate to the main road, the location is a plus, quite and peaceful, very easy to get to all the attractions in Monteverde, the town of Santa Elena is only 1 (one ) mile away, easy walk. On the road to The Biological Reserve of Santa Elena, very beautiful area.
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Monteverdeis a magical place for Wildlife hiking in the cloud forest is unique. This area is home to three very important reserves in Costa Rica, the biological Reserve of Santa Elena, the reserve of Monteverde and the Eternal Children's Rain Forest, they all make up to over 30,000 hectares of protected primary forest in the Tilaran mountain range.
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The apartment was huge! King sized bed with extra blankets, big fridge, multiple parking spaces in case other guests had cars as (website hidden) worked well even though it wasn't really needed. Had trouble with the hot water at first but Oscar remedied that quickly.
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We really enjoyed the large studio and beautiful view. The place is located just outside the city center and is about 1/3rd of the way up to Santa Elena's Cloud Forest reserve (which is pretty close by car).
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Oscar was a great host and even met us in town when we arrived. He also set up a great horse back riding experience. The land is beautiful and peaceful. Thanks Oscar!
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The property is located a short distance up the road from Santa Elena on the route to Selvatura Park (zip lines etc) and the Santa Elena cloud forest preserve, within a small bowl-shaped valley. Horses graze on the hill nearby, and we saw numerous birds including two resplendent quetzals within minutes of our arrival.
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unicode possibilities
It would be nice if cl-user would display unicode input for CJK text. With PCL and On Lisp getting new printings in Japan, it might be beneficial to attract more brain-share from that side of the world. Would this be considered out of cl-user.net's scope?
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Perhaps it would be interesting to open up a "universities" category (or subcategory of Organization) to list universities that teach lisp?
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I don't mind some other language content though.
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