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Three more persons were arrested in the sensational gang-rape and murder of the 41-year-old housewife here on Wednesday. The woman was sexually assaulted and strangled to death by six persons on March 15 at her apartment located at NSM School Road.
Two key accused Md. Subhani (27) and S. Gopi Krishna (24) were arrested by the Patamata police on Monday. On Wednesday Janapala Krishna (24), Lankapalli Ramana (29) and V. Durga Rao alias Kayya (21) were arrested. The hunt for the sixth accused is still on.
The main accused Subhani, who worked as a driver of the apartment owner, came along with two others on the pretext of repairing a water pipeline in the bathroom. He and the two others had raped her and then the other three subjected her to sexual assault, police said. They later strangled her to conceal their identity and hid the body in the adjacent flat belonging to the owners of the apartment complex. Subhani had the keys with him as the owners had gone out of town.
During the wee hours of Sunday, they dumped the body in an irrigation canal and it was fished out of the canal on March 17. The police maintain that Subhani was earlier involved in another gang-rape case in 2003 and had been obsesses with subject of sex. "His accomplices too had similar traits. After the murder, they packed the clothes of the victim, took her cell phone, gold ornaments and slippers to project as if she had eloped with someone. They had also cleaned up the house to make everything look normal, as if the victim simply walked away," he said.
The DCP also informed that Subhani even initially volunteered to find her and at the same time travelled to Guntur and other places like Palanadu and called from the victim's phone and informed the family members that she was safe and had eloped with the person whom she liked. "He would change his tone each time," said the DCP.
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i am rescuer. i have three dogs who my wife and i love very much. my problem comes when it rains. i have an average sized yard for a neighborhood house with no development other than a concrete pad with a shed on it and some nice trails my dogs have run into the ground around the perimeter and through the middle of the yard from my door to the shed which i have set up for them as a big dog house.
i am hoping to find some examples of landscaping that would help me reduce the amount of mud on my dogs. so far i have found ideas here to put pavers around my perimeter but i was wondering if any one had some ideas or sites i could check out with examples. also, i only plan on being in this house for 3 years at the most so i dont want to lay out a lot of cash to get it done.
Thanks for your help!
I do a fair amount of that rescue stuff myself; the current canine population here is 11, so you may consider this the voice of experience.
Short of confining the dogs to a small fenced-in "kennel" in an out of the way corner of the yard (*), the easiest way to eliminate the mud is to put a solid surface down where the dogs are running. If you aren't planning to set the dog trails "in stone" (or brick, or pavers, or whatever), then I'd go with pea gravel. It'll eventually pack into the soil and have to be added to, but it's actually good for the dog's feet, and is easy for humans to walk on too. Wood chips look nice, but dogs tend to play with them, scattering them all over the yard. (Not to mention the possibility of getting splinters or ingesting wood preservatives from mouthing them) If having teeny, tiny pebbles in the grass bothers you, or if you're worried about tossing stones while mowing, you can use an edging material to MOL keep them in place. But the key point is to put your surfacing down on the existing dog path; a dog will NOT use a winding, pointlessly meandering trail to get from point A to point B, no matter how artistic it is. Dogs always choose the shortest, most efficient route between two points, which is why you probably also have that tell tale "dog track" around the house. It veers out from the sides of your home because that's where gravity takes Sirius and Pluto as they're orbiting at full speed around the building. Anyway, build the path right down the middle of the dog trail and if possible, add about two feet on either side.
To break up the dog track around the house, put something out in the middle of it large enough that they have to go around it. Figure they will move the trail about a foot and half further out around each obstacle. Fat shrubs work, as long as the dogs can't just run under them. Large rocks (boulders) are good, so are big planters MOL staggered in a line across the path. People coming to your house will notice an informal grouping of planters, and not realize it's actually a puppy barracade.
(*) I like to call this the Zookeeper method of pet ownership; Picture an overfed, hyperactive black Labrador in a depressingly small, muddy, 8 by 4 foot chain link cage like a wild animal, endlessly running circles and barking, barking, barking, while the owner says "Oh yeah, we have a dog. It stays out here in this pen, and we nag the kids to feed it every day because we want them to grow up to be caring, responsible adults. Man, aren't dogs great?"
How to cure (well... lessen) the muddy yard syndrome.
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The law went into effect in October and it follows a nationwide trend of get-tough approaches to pet overpopulation. In Albuquerque, all cats and dogs older than six months must be microchipped and sterilized, unless owners pay an annual fee of $150 to keep their dogs able to reproduce  and another $150 for every new litter. Dogs can be restrained by a chain for only one hour every day, and people who want to have more than four dogs must obtain an additional permit. There is even a provision in the new law that requires dog owners to clean up after their pets in their own yards every week.
I have to agree, forcing EVERYONE to spay and neuter EVERY pet dog and cat certainly would take care of all those messy landscape problems eventually. (not to mention the wear and tear on home decorating)
But in the meantime, what do *you* suggest dog crazy do about the mud in his yard until his current pets die of old age?
I would recommend doing exactly what the mayor of the above mentioned Albuquerque does. He is a dog lover and takes his dog to work and is routinely seen all over town with pet dog in company. He doesn't tell people how much he loves pets -- he shows them.
My last garden started with a hugelawn around the house and a dog. I ended up after 16 years with almost no lawn and huge garden beds separated by paths about 3-5ft wide. The paths were designed by my dog, Freckles. She figured out the easiest way around the property and up and down the hill.
As for the poop issue, it was a large farm and she did it out in the field... unless it snowed, when the front walk was the most sensible place, of course.
if you happen to be the Mayor; unfortunately it's impossible if you own or work for an establishment that serves food, or are involved in health care, or public education, or retail sales, or happen to find yourself in any one of several hundred situations where you most certainly may NOT bring your pets with you, no matter how much you may love them.
In the real world, even the most pampered house dog can manage to get muddy in the yard when it rains because gosh darn it, most dogs just haven't mastered the flush toilet and have to go outside *sometime*. (But I have to say it sure is heartwarming to know that the city of Albuquerque is around to remind people when to pick up those doggy deposits)
At any rate, those folks who *aren't* the Mayor have to fall back on plan B, which MOL translates to "Keep the pet at home, and make sure the surroundings are safe and secure."
Now dog crazy has expanded on Plan B to ask "How can I make the surroundings in which I keep my pet halfway attractive?"
Just wondering if you have any practical suggestions for dog crazy's question? I mean, while it's a great idea in general, snipping off testicles and/or hauling your dog to work is really not a cure all for landscaping problems.
Seriously, as someone with more than a passing interest in the subject, I'd like to hear *your* ideas.
My 3 dogs spend their days on the concrete driveway or in their beds in their doors-always-open kennels. I take them for very long walks twice a day, so once they get back to the yard, it's time for a long nap, not for running around. Short of paths made of concrete or crushed stone (that will pack down and form a firm surface), I can't think of a good solution. If you can manage to cultivate a thick tough lawn, and take them for walks to reduce the mileage put on the yard, that might make things more manageable for the 3 years you have planned.
My compliments to Hoovb for providing an excellent example of personal responsibility in additon to displaying love, caring & compassion for our furry friends. This is obviously a person who leads by example. We need more folks like Hoovb.
No kidding. Short of being owned by the Mayor, that does sound like a perfectly idyllic life for a pet dog. I want to know how they taught the dogs to stay on the driveway. Other than the occasional nap in the early morning sunshine, I've never had a dog that preferred standing around on concrete to grass. I'm impressed that yours only want to hang out in/on approved areas.
My experience is that as long as it doesn't suffer from congestive heart failure (or more likely, have damage from a previous heartworm infestation), taking a dog on a long walk every day will make it sleep well when you first get home, but in the long term it builds stamina. Over time the dog is able to go for a longer, faster paced walk or otherwise spend a larger portion of the day being active. (playing in the yard, or romping through the house) This is part of how we rehab older, or injured dogs. How far are you walking, and is it someplace like a sandy beach or waterfront where the dog is also swimming?
We have many of the same issues. We have 2 larger dogs, with a large yard and a dog door, so lots of stuff gets tracked into the house. My solution...in the area near the dog door I have put down large flagstones set in sand, then filled in all of the gaps with 1/4 in gravel. Our lawn isn't perfect, and we do have a lot of muslched areas, which I think helps. Ilike littledog's idea of the fat shrubs and boulders. Sorry I haven't seen any pictures with examples. I do totally agree with not trying to alter the dog's paths, but trying to landscape around them. Good luck!!
dog_crazy: you have not provided enough detail for me to provide any specific ideas. I assume you have a fence. Are there any plantings along the fence?
My general approach to reducing mud on my dog is by reducing mud in my yard. Seems simple enough! I try to keep a thick lawn and reseed bare spots once or twice a year, to improve drainage to reduce standing water and to keep all open ground covered with a thick layer of mulch.
- Brent
I agree with Brent on keeping the barespots gone. I have 3 large dogs and 1 small "guest" dog (She's actually my dad-in-law's who just moved in with us this year, but a welcome addition to the pack).
My three were all shelter dogs where I worked. I learned hands-on that hay can be your best friend. We always sent someone to get a few bales of hay for us in the wet season to keep the mud down in the dog yard. We would generally hand cast some grass seed early spring before the hay. I've done the same thing here.
We recently began a major backyard remodeling project, which includes some grading. It rained soon after and I was faced with a real mud problem. There was no way that little "tape fence" was going to keep my busy monsters out of the mud.
My solution was to send dadinlaw and hubby after 3 bales of hay.
They also keep a constant "tread" around the perimeter of our fence and the leaves have been raked up against it this year. They really helped to keep the mud down there.
lol.. it's not "beautiful" now, but maybe this summer it will be when there is grass again and new plants. We interviewed a lot of landscapers and I'm really happy so far with the guy we chose. So far, at least the hay is keeping the mud down. We'll have the sod planted after the deck is replaced.
I read an article that says to use pea gravel. "it is easy on doggy paws and comes in colors ranging from almost white to deep browns and reddish tones. Cover any areas that get high canine (or human) traffic with pea gravel and iIn very little time grass will grow over the gravel creating a mud-proof mat for dogs, and people. In some locals the area may need to be reseeded but in my middle Tennessee back yard, the couch grass quickly covered the gravel by itself" It also mentioned it gives the grass roots a firm holding that is not easily disturbed by running doggies. I have english setters that love being out in the yard and running free chasing after birds. I love and care for my pets extremely and they are not happy walking on a leash - they want to run free and so my yard is also very muddy - and I have confined them to a half acre by seperating the yard with a picket fence on the top level so they lay on the patio or on the top level and still look down at the larger yard and they run after birds in the lower yard --muddy area...hopefully the pea gravel will work because I give a lot of baths to my dogs and my floors.... so I understand where you are coming from....I love them, so I will adapt the yard for them and still make it enjoyable for me to walk through while hanging out with them. Good Luck


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LONDON – "Like an arrow going through snow."
That's how 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh described rookie cornerback Darryl Morris' dash toward a Titans punt returner last week, which prompted a muff and a fumble recovery in the end zone. The fourth-quarter touchdown was San Francisco's final score and snuffed out a late rally by Tennessee.
The quote – which Harbaugh later admitted was lifted from his brother, Ravens coach John Harbaugh – aptly described Morris' remarkable speed. But it also was a fitting image for the calm, cool personality of this year's special-teams coverage units, which, as the 49ers hit the midpoint of the season against the Jaguars today, have begun to approach the level of the team's celebrated 2011 group.
Those units were marked by the gregarious personality of special-teams captain Blake Costanzo. The rest of the players naturally gravitated toward him, imitated him and were rallied by him. They bounced up and down to rap music before every kickoff and were one of the league's best.
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"It's quiet," said safety C.J. Spillman, perhaps the most talented of the coverage crew. "We're just getting our work done. We don't have to be vocal or nothing. We're just going out there and getting it done and going unnoticed."
Costanzo departed via free agency to the Bears in 2012, and the 49ers' special-teams' performance dipped. The team finished second-to-last in the NFL in yards allowed per kickoff return – 26.9 – in the regular season, then gave up a record 108-yard return against the Ravens to open the second half of the Super Bowl.
Spillman said Kassim Osgood, 33, and Ray Ventrone, 31, have helped close the gaps that opened last year and have set the tone in 2013. Both are multiyear veterans who have spent most of their careers on special teams.
"We've got two of them who have been playing special teams for a long time," Spillman said. "When you've got people like that, it makes your job that much easier."
Osgood pounced on the loose ball last Sunday, the second touchdown of his career in that fashion. He also is one of four newcomers to the main coverage units this year. Two other low-key veterans, Dan Skuta and Craig Dahl, are the others.
"We're starting to learn each other's body language and see the same pictures," Osgood said. "When guys are in one accord, you play off each other and make plays on the field."
Those plays have become more frequent, giving the specials teams – and the 49ers – a feel they had in 2011 when each of the three phases seemed to complement the other.
Opponents are averaging 20.7 yards per kickoff return, making the 49ers' coverage units fifth-best in the league in that category. The punt-coverage units rank eighth overall.
Individually, Spillman leads the team with 10 special-teams tackles, including six solo, and the team has won recent matchups with ace returners such as Arizona's Patrick Peterson.
"I've talked about it after each of the ballgames, especially the last three, four ballgames," Harbaugh said. "Special teams are playing very well – coverage units in particular."
And while he and his teammates may exude a veteran's cool, Osgood said it still feels good to pump up a crowd. There will be more than 80,000 fans in Wembley Stadium today.
"Over the last couple of weeks, we've made it a point in our meeting room to give our offense, our defense good field position," he said. "When you go out there and get a tackle inside the 10-yard line on a kickoff, it means your defense is going out there fired up. The crowd is into it. It puts the atmosphere of the game a lot more in your favor."
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Poll workers at one of two polling places set up at the Iglesia de Dios church in eastern Bell, a city that is more than 90 percent Latino, said this morning that it was too early to tell if voter turnout was any bigger than in previous election years, but noted that some voters had asked if they could vote for city officials in this general election.
They can't - a recall election for the mayor, vice mayor and one city council member is scheduled for March - but some voters outside the polling places in Bell today were smarting nonetheless. Voters said they were angry over the fiscal mismanagement and inordinately high salaries that landed eight city officials in jail earlier this fall, as well as the city's jacked-up property taxes, the second-highest rate in the county.
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New ads are part of same revenue push that's brought ads to Google Finance and Image Search. But they could raise publisher ire.
After Google News launched in 2002, some in the media world grew fond of saying the company had created a product it didn't dare monetize. The thinking went that Google News entirely relies on major media companies, and that these firms would certainly litigate if the search giant tried to make a buck off that content.
Well the thinking was apparently wrong. Google announced last night it had begun serving ads on Google News results pages in the United States. Queries that now turn up AdWords paid listings include thermos, Kindle, marketing and many others.
In a blog post announcing the move, Google business product manager Josh Cohen said the new ads are part of an ongoing initiative to introduce paid listings in more places. The fruits of these labors so far include the addition of ads to Google Finance, Google Image Search, and YouTube video search, as well as overlay ads on embedded videos from content partners. ComScore estimates traffic to Google News Search in January was 16.5 million, up 31 percent from the year-ago period, when it hit 12.5 million. Google News is now available in more than 40 regions and 19 languages.
Google did not immediately respond to questions on the possible legal ramifications of its News search ads. Sandra Baron, executive director at the Media Law Resource Center, suggested an "economic tension" exists between publishers and Google that could bubble up into legal action.
"A significant issue for content providers is whether or not what Google provides becomes a substitute for going to the actual content providers site," she said. "When that tension becomes too great, people seek legal solutions to it."
That said, she said U.S. legal precedent appeared to offer no obstruction to content aggregators and search providers compiling headlines or short summaries along with links, regardless of whether those pages contain ads.
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Legal issues aside, Google may face a big hurdle in achieving ad relevance in Google News search, where user intent can be very different from general search. In several tests of the new ad experience, Google's paid results seem a poor match for the apparent intent of a news query. For instance, a search for "Polo" turns up pages of news stories on the water sport, whereas the sponsored links are exclusively geared toward men's clothing.
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Here's how she looked when I brought her home on April 9th, 2013:
My winter "meats"...
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- Blacked-out Toyota logo
- Debadged
- Super White OEM front grill
- Super White OEM door handles
- Black head light mod (BHLM)
- Depot LED tail lights from eBay
- Intermittent wiper stalk
- Custom c-notch
- X-Runner Bilstein shocks & struts
- DJM 3" front drop kit, zinc + powdered coated black
- StreeTacos 3" Drop Blocks
- RoadMaster Active Suspension (Install details)
- Raybetos front rotors w/ black paint coating for rust protection
- Painted front calipers
- Painted rear drums
- Summer: TSW Spa (European) 19" x 8", +40mm offset
- Summer: Nitto Motivo 245/40R-19
- Winter: Toyota OEM RAV 4 17" Steelies
- Winter: Michelin X-Ice Xi3 215/60R-17
- Schrader EZ-Sensor cloned TPMS sensors
- Window tint
- VentureShield clear bra (purchased but waiting for paint to cure)
- G2 epoxy caliper paint
- Take your time on the Black Head Light Mod! It's not that difficult of a modification, but you can easily screw-it-up by rushing.
- Dupli-Color caliper paint and VHT high-temp caliper paint are both garbage. They flake off with the slightest tap. I recommend using an epoxy caliper paint like G2.
- StreeTacos lower blocks are not compatible with AIR LIFT 59564 Ride Control Rear Air Spring Kit. The blocks are too long, preventing the lower mounting bracket for the air bags from being able to hook around the u-bolt. One of the many reasons I opted for the RoadMaster Active Suspension kit.
- The RoadMaster Active Suspension Kit for 2wd Tacomas doesn't fit very well. It's almost impossible to get the mounting bracket to not rub the driver's side shock. To remedy this, you should contact "Nolan" at RoadMaster at either firstname.lastname@example.com or 800-398-5036 and order the brackets from the 2nd generation kit.
- Discount Tire Direct is one of the only tire shops that knows how to clone TPMS sensors, but be careful because many of their own employees don't know what "sensor cloning" is. See my post on TPMS Options for Multiple Wheel Sets if you, like me, have Summer and Winter tires and want to avoid the TPMS light but still want the system to work.


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Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, eliminating obligatory essays, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong and cutting obscure vocabulary words.
David Coleman, president of the College Board, criticized his own test, the SAT, and its main rival, the ACT, saying that both "have become disconnected from the work of our high schools."
In addition, Coleman announced new programs to help low-income students, who will now be given fee waivers allowing them to apply to four colleges at no charge. And even before the new exam starts, the College Board, in partnership with Khan Academy, will offer free online practice problems from old tests and instructional videos showing how to solve them.
The changes coming to the exam are extensive: The SAT's rarefied vocabulary words will be replaced by words that are common in college courses, such as "empirical" and "synthesis." The math questions, now scattered widely across many topics, will focus more narrowly on linear equations, functions and proportional thinking. The use of a calculator will no longer be allowed on some of the math sections. The new exam will be available on paper and computer, and the scoring will revert to the old 1600 scale, with a top score of 800 on math and what will now be called "Evidence-Based Reading and Writing." The optional essay will have a separate score.
Once the pre-eminent college admissions exam, the SAT has recently lost ground to the ACT, which is based more directly on high school curriculums and is now taken by a slightly higher number of students.
The new SAT, to be introduced in the spring of 2016, will not quell all criticism of the standardized-test juggernaut. Critics have long pointed out — and Coleman admits - that high school grades are a better predictor of college success than standardized test scores. A growing number of colleges have in recent years gone "test optional," allowing students to forgo the tests and submit their grades, transcripts and perhaps a graded paper.
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After 11 weeks, the striking DSO musicians have lost at least $21,450 each in wages, though each has received union strike pay totaling $2,700. Two players spoke last week about their experiences.
Contrabassoonist Marcus Schoon, 53, joined the DSO in 1992. He lives in Troy with his wife, a part-time teacher. The couple has two children, one in college and one just graduated. Principal bassist Alexander Hanna, 24, joined in 2008 right out of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. He lives with his girlfriend in Royal Oak.
Schoon has been filling his days practicing (especially jazz), teaching privately and at Oakland University and also teaching martial arts, a longtime passion. With nights free, he's also volunteering at his church. Hanna has been practicing bass and piano, teaching privately, exercising with his dog, giving bass master classes at universities and substituting on occasion with the Philadelphia Orchestra and others.
Here's some of what they had to say:
On finances
Schoon: "It's a hardship, but we've been surviving. I think all of us are finding a way to get through it. I actually had someone come up to me the other day who thought we were drawing a salary. They said to me, 'Isn't there a law that somehow you still have to get paid?' This was an intelligent person. No, we're not getting paychecks or benefits."
Hanna: "I'm not desperate, but I'm really stressed. Every month the bank account dips lower. If this goes on for a while -- we're in this lease, and in the last two years I've spent over half my salary on a musical instrument, so I have debt on that. I'm worried. If there was something I had to sell easily, that's what it would have to be, and that would be really bad."
On their feelings
Schoon: "Overall, it's a little hurtful. If you're a classical musician -- or anybody at the top of their field -- you know how difficult it is to reach the top. It takes a lot of commitment, dedication, time, money, paying your dues. And then it feels when you're there that you aren't being appreciated. Where is the support?"
Hanna: "It's so frustrating. I went to the best musical school in the world. I got the best job available right out of college. I don't regret coming here at all, but I surely didn't see this coming -- I guess I did see it coming at some point, but there was no way to imagine the reality."
On the possibility of leaving the DSO
Schoon: "I'm not sure what I would do. There are opportunities to audition for other orchestras, and I don't know if I would totally discount that. But when you get older you start to look at the full life, not just one part of it. You take into account a lot of things. My wife has a job. I have this nice martial arts school, I've got things I'm doing here, friends. Certainly I would not be happy or as musically fulfilled if the orchestra was any less than it is now."
Hanna: "I really want to stay. But to be perfectly honest, the direction that management is trying to take this orchestra would make it very hard for me to stay. I was just telling a colleague that if you would have asked me a year ago what job would I take over this, there would have been three jobs I might have considered in the whole world. If this contract is imposed on us, that number would go up to 120 positions in about 13 orchestras.
"I love playing here. I have great friends, and my family lives an hour away. But I can't turn down offers with the possibility of a much better contract."
Final thoughts
Schoon: "What do I miss the most? The joy of making great music with my colleagues -- I severely miss it, and playing in Orchestra Hall."
Hanna: "I've learned quite a lot of the tough efforts that go into maintaining a great orchestra like this and it's made me appreciate how hard my older colleagues have fought for these contracts. Had they not done that I probably wouldn't be here."


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There's above the line and below the line and then there's the 1st AD, who is the line." So says Artist Wynn Robinson, a longtime practitioner of the craft. "We balance the needs of the crew with the director, actors, and department heads and walk a political tightrope every single day."
Robinson, who has worked for directors such as John Carpenter, John Woo and Ang Lee in his 25-year career, says that "line" was never more stretched than on HBO's 8-hour period epic John Adams.
"I came on after having just done three features in a row," recalls Robinson. "My very first night I was charged with the Boston Massacre and running a crew of 700. When we left Richmond and moved to Hungary, all the other department heads except me had already scouted each location and I was leading the production."
Ensuring that 2,000 extras got through period make-up and were camera-ready by 7 a.m. was just one of the many logistical challenges on John Adams. Keeping out the "alien forms" (i.e. voltage lines, airplanes), as Robinson calls them, was also tough. "Even in a town like Colonial Williamsburg, where everything is period correct, you can have light kicking off a stop sign 200 yards away. Everything in John Adams' time was lit by candlelight, so hard light coming in from a streetlamp had to be taken out."
Safety was another key concern. Robinson held meetings before many large scenes, which called for moving cannons in the rain with children and animals, and numerous battlefield explosions. "Even after each safety meeting, I would do a walkthrough with the stunt and VFX coordinators without the director and DP present," he explains. "We had to establish clear visuals about exactly what was happening because it can get very dangerous out there."
Robinson learned about taking precautions shooting Rambo III in the Arizona desert, where mortar explosions were buried deep in the sand. Blue flags were raised for dirt bombs and red flags for gasoline bombs. "We had to pull the flags out of the ground right before we rolled camera, and all you could see was desert," he remembers. "People are screaming to keep things going, and as an AD you have to fight for your 'final moment' to make sure the set is truly safe."
Juggling safety and high-pressure situations is a skill Robinson picked up in his first career in restaurant management. His first movie job was as a PA on Perfect in 1985. "I served breakfast and lunch to Gordon Willis for 109 days, and thought, 'Wow, I got out of restaurant management to become a waiter in the movie business.'"
But the easygoing Texan didn't hang around craft services long, transitioning to a Key 2nd and 1st AD within a few years. Even with success, though, he didn't change his unusual first name. "As a kid growing up in Texas, I could not understand why my mother did that to me," he drawls. "Then I came out to Hollywood and it actually was a good thing. Everybody remembers me by one name, like Madonna."
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Keeping Turtles
This isn't so much a question as a suggestion, something I remembered while talking to my wife about nitrites and nitrates and why my son's aquarium never has algae, even though it's right next to a window.
Back when I was a teen, I was a huge turtle nut. Actually, I still am, but I have it much more under control now. In my father's backyard, I had a sunken kiddie pool that I used as my turtle pond. On a bi-weekly basis I would empty the pond, clean it and refill it. One of the things that didn't escape my notice, though I did not fully understand the 'why' of it back then, is that the pen area was more green and lush than of any other location of my dad's yard. My dad, being a 'gotta have a pristine green lawn' type of person was always a little baffled how the area around the turtle pen was always much nicer than the rest of the yard, even if I did have dandelions and other 'weeds' growing in the pen. We even ended up with two corn stalks growing up in the pen (the neighborhood used to be a corn field about 6-8 yrs prior).
Ever since then, when I had to clean a turtle tank I would always dump a gallon of the water onto a plant or an area of the yard that I felt needed a boost. Unfortunately, I do not keep turtles right now; two kids, two dogs and two birds and a growing garden are enough to keep me plenty busy. But you can rest assured, that when I have the time, money and space to put one in, I will build a backyard pond for the purpose of keeping turtles. And I will be using that water to keep my plants green and lush.
But in the meantime, I thought I would pass on the idea that if you have a backyard garden pond, you and your plants might benefit from adding a couple of turtles to the mix. Unless you also have aquatic plants in your pond... then you might not be as happy to have little munchers keeping those plants 'in check'.
Oh, and if you do plan on adding some turtles, do not get the cheap Red-Eared Sliders that many pet stores tend to carry. Red-Ears, while super cute, are not indigenous to Florida. Instead, I would suggest finding a breeder or attend a reptile show and look for someone who has River Cooters or, even better, Florida Red-Bellies. The babies are mostly carnivorous and will help to keep insect larvae and minnow populations down (two or even three babies would not be able to decimate a minnow population, they're just not that quick), but they will become more omnivorous as they grow older and will likely snack on plants rather than chase critters.
I live on a lake and one day I caught a turtle burying her eggs under a gate we drive through. We dug them up and put them in an incubator my daughter had and all 16 hatched. I put two in my 100 gallon pond by my front door but they disappeared in a couple weeks. Either a critter or one of my cats got them. I had the water too low for them to escape. When the water gets too high in it, I water my porch plants with it. I also use water from the lake on seedlings and put weeds from the lake in my compost bins.


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I am very uneducated when it comes to gardening so I'm looking for advice. I've experimented with air layering on a plant that I've seen near my parents home for years. I've identified it now as a Camellia.
I removed one of the experimental cuttings in November and planted it in a pot. It had a root ball on it but no hanging roots. In reading about Camellias someone had said to mix sand into the soil. We live in a sandy place so I gathered some and mixed with my potting soil.
I removed the second cutting just the other day (March) and it had what appeared to be a very nice root system. I also planted it in a pot. This time with no sand.
Then I looked back at the first experimental planting and was concerned that I hadn't really seen any growth since planting it in November. So I prepared another pot and moved it into the new pot using the same soil as with the cutting I had just made. In doing so I noticed the root ball still there but still no roots growing. The leaves are more of a yellowish green than the newer cutting that I just planted.
Could it be the soil? I used Osmocote potting soil.
They are planted in large plastic pots that I have drilled holes into the bottom for drainage. I had read somewhere that you could mix leaves in with the soil so having lots of leaves laying around I gave that a try. Not sure if it helped or hurt. Now that they have been planted for a few days and I've given it more thought, I'm wondering if maybe I used the wrong type of soil or if there is something else I should mix into the soil to help. I sure would hate to see the newer one take a turn for the worse because I did something wrong. And am wondering if there is something I need to do for the other one in order for it to grow.
Any advice is appreciated.
Hi crazymommaj I have been growing camellia here for a few months my self i started from seed though. wasn't very difficult at all to do and i ended up with very strong plants. However, i have been experiencing some yellowing my self but more of a leaf spotting green with yellow spots. i believe it might be close to what you are having happen. i tested my soil PH and it looked like it was at a 6 and 1/2 and it needs to be at 4-5 PH they like to be more on the acidic side and if they are not they will start yellowing. so i am going to mix up with this next watering some cold coffee make sure its COLD not hot. just pour a cup in there once ever two weeks or once every time you add a fair amount of water to the pot. it will balance the PH and make it just right. if you would like i have a youtube channel you could subscribe i will be doing a video on the yellowing this week and if my coffee experiment works with mine.
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There are a lot of variables that could be at play here, but you ask if the potting soil could be the problem, and I think it could be at least part of the problem. Osmocote is pretty high in nitrogen which is designed to promote foliage and flowers for established plants, but not root growth. For very young plants a low-nitrogen (or no nitrogen) fertilizer is recommended.
Or better still, an slow-release organic source of nutrients such as compost/cotton meal/liquid seaweed or an organic fertilizer (Holly-tone is an easy-to-find choice for camellias and other acid-loving plants).
Also, I think potting mixes probably won't provide a sufficiently acidic environment for camellias. I may be mistaken, but I think most potting mixes are fairly close to a neutral pH. You can easily test the pH of the mix with some litmus paper (available in soil testing kits if you don't happen to have litmus paper lying around the house).
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O'Bryant, Mickey Lead Men's Basketball Past Arkansas
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