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A gun is a product just like anything else, when an entity enacts tighter control of any good a black market opens up. People hell bent on obtain such goods will find a means to get them. Tighter control equals black market profit margins and that's all legislation on the subject does. The United states government has proved this principal time and time again. When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.
Hi US masters of war (Bob Dylan) congratulations,
1} More than 50% of worlds weapons have a stamp "made in the US" on it.
2} Most illegal weapons originate from a legal source.
3} The US is anti legalisation of drugs, yes it is ready to fight these drug traffickers with their "the war against drugs" slogans( by the way, a good market for US weapons)
4} The US is anti gun control because, it is our basic right (a right that originates from a completely different era.(but, talking with red necks about this "right" is like talking with Arabs about "women" rights anyhow, again, it is good market for US weapons too)
5}Guns do not damage the user, drugs do.. So why the F..K, should a society care about drug use and not about gun use?
Good market for US weapons I guess..
That is why, US masters of war lobby, congratulations.
Very poor reporting. I would expect better from the Economist. States with half the US population are the source of half of the guns involved in crime.
Regarding Mayors Against Illegal Guns, in June, Hartford (CT) Mayor Eddie Perez was was convicted on five of six felony charges, including taking a bribe and attempted extortion. He was sentenced to three years in prison, and three years probation. He joins luminaries such as Baltimore's Sheila Dixon, Detroit;s Kwame Kilpatrick, Gary Becker, Larry Langford, Samuel Rivera, Jerramiah Healy, the late Frank Melton, Will Wynn, and David Della Donna among group members that have been indicted or convicted of felonies.
That bunch of corrupt career pols ought to clean up their own acts instead of trying to shred the Second Amendment.
There are very few countries in this world of ours that allow their citizens the right to hold firearms legally. Most of the violent crime seems to be in those countries that do. If a person is shot & killed in the UK it makes national headlines because it is a rarity. If it happens in the US, its just another gun crime. Purely from a safety standpoint, where would you want to raise your children?
After reading the overwhelming majority of comments I started not to comment since the thesis of this article has been thoroughly discredited and the author assigned a dunce cap...however the comment
"State reinforcement of federal penalties for providing false information when buying a gun, running background checks on buyers at gun shows, allowing local discretion to police when issuing concealed-carry permits, requiring purchase permits for handguns and allowing municipalities to set their own gun laws are all associated with lower gun-trafficking rates."........
warrants comment.
Lumping all of these "additional hurdles" hides the fact that individually, NONE of them reduce gun trafficking and that only a couple of the states employ all of them...typical statistical BS that this anti-firearm/Anti 2nd Amendment "Mayors" group routinely employs. Currently, 40 of the 50 states have "shall issue" handgun carry permits instead of "discretion of local police" translation: only VIP's or "friends of politicians" can obtain and the data in those 40 states is a statistically LOWER crime rate in the 9 states who "allow discretion" and the 1 state that completely prohibits, Illinois...Obamaland with Chicago, the Murder Capital of America.
Having uniform "gun laws" within a state is rapidly being abandoned....why should someone in city X be denied what city y allows about a CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED MATTER. Chicago found this out in June when the Supreme Court invalidated their BAN on handguns (since the BAN, murder rates in Chicago compared to 24 other largest Metro Cities was +70% above the average!).
Both the "gunshow background check and local permit for handgun" HAS no STATISTICAL CORRELTION WITH REDUCTION IN CRIME.
The topic of "gun control" is rapidly regaining the same "meaning" as it did prior to the 1970's when politicians jumped on the issue for their failure to control crime by enforcing laws following the "radical 60's.........and that is Gun Control = hitting your target!"
I get that the Economist is based out of Britain, and the editors are relatively ignorant of the US. But really, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, and Arizona (5 of the top 10) are hardly considered "southern" states in the US. But I guess that doesn't fit with the caricature that southern ignorant rednecks are responsible for the gun violence in the rest of the country.
I am very disappointed with The Economist; I expect better.
The oft repeated 90% figure is a misrepresentation of the facts. Here is an accurate contextualization of the figure:
In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced — and of those, 90 percent — 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover — were found to have come from the U.S. But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.
[underlying source: DOJ Statement of William Newell, Special Agent in Charge ]
As noted in other comments, this does not speak to the origin of those arms traced to US sources. These arms could originate from either commercial or military sources.
While any number of guns flowing south is unacceptable, this number is minuscule compared to gun sales figures (last year over 1 million new firearms were purchased).
Also the ATF seems to be aware of the "bad" gun dealers:
"ATF officials say that only about 8% of the nation's 124,000 retail gun dealers sell the majority of handguns that are used in crimes."
[source: Frontline, "How Criminals Get Guns"]
Why not enforce the law?
The 90% figure used in the article was discredited months ago. It was found that 90% of all traceable firearms at Mexican crime scenes could be traced back to US dealers. The vast majority of found firearms are not traceable and thus not included in this figure. If I recall correctly, it was estimated that around 15% of all firearms at Mexican crime scenes were of US origin. Perhaps if Mexico would make an effort at securing our shared border that figure could be lowered.
California is "lax" when it comes to gun sales? Hogwash! California is the most strictly regulated state when it comes to gun sales. This "report" is a joke: it's mostly capturing states with large populations that, unsurprisingly, would be overrepresented in interstate traffic of any kind.
You are correct, there are obviously 500 very silly American mayors who wasted tax payer money for this worthless study.
The other silly Americans have better things to do with their time such as:
The silly Americans who produced so much war material during WWII that they not only supplied themselves but also the British and Russians
The silly American troops that fought through Africa, Italy, and Europe to help eliminate Hitler
The silly Americans who did 90+% of the fighting to push the Japanese back to Tokyo
The silly Americans who spent billions to rebuild Western Europe after WWII
The silly Americans who spent trillions keeping troops in Europe during the cold war to prevent the Warsaw Pact from taking over, thus allowing western Europe to dedicate more resources toward economic growth
Yes, we are very silly.
All it takes is one loon with a gun to shut down a university campus for a day, is quantity really the problem? As the stellar results of the war on drugs can attest to, it is going to be impossible to keep "just one joint" out of the hands of a junkie.
As for NZ PM - the only reason your country doesn't look like Mexico is because the criminals have decided to spare you. Or maybe you just don't have that many criminals to begin with, did that thought cross your mind? Something tells me you could deluge NZ with guns and still woudn't see a crime wave. Do you get the heebie-jeebies in Switzerland or Finland too? They are pretty gun-happy.
You are afraid of criminals, not guns, and we have lots of both. If I lived in NZ, I probably wouldn't feel the need to carry a gun. But I live here, among the depraved beastial creations of a "diverse" welfare state, so I do.
I find it amusing that this article showed up in the 3 quick link articles Economists posts on its home page, but was removed within a couple hours. I suspect it got placed there initially as it was supposed to support the anti-gun Economist position. But then someone suddenly realized how stupid and superficial the data and analysis were, likely after reading the first few postsed comments. They then decided to get it off the home page before listing it did anymore damage to their journalistic credentials.
Well all this shows is how silly Americans are.
Excellent point. However, while the Economist seems to have missed this distinction, the authors of the study itself did not. Had the Economist read further, it would have found:
"States with larger populations can be expected to be a source of more crime guns. Therefore, to more precisely identify the states that are disproportionately large suppliers of interstate crime guns, this report controls for state population."
The study then goes on to do just that. So, although both California and Georgia are in the top ten on an aggregate basis, Georgia exports 28.3 crime guns per 100,000 inhabitants while California exports just 4.8.
The study may have its flaws, but at least they made it through the fallacy that you have astutely pointed out.
P.S., for the commenter who wondered about VT and NH, they fall in at 22.8 and 18.3, respectively.
"90% of the guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico and traced led back to American dealers."
A cynic might joke that the NRA's stance on this statistic would be to suggest that Mexico simply needs more guns to make it safer. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that IS their stance on the issue.
"Arizona, California, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia" where is Vermont? Vermont has the most permissive laws regarding gun ownership. No Permits period! You can have a handgun if you want one and you can carry it so long as you do not intend to hurt anyone. Thats more permissive that these other 10 "culprit" states. Why are they not on the list? New Hampshire too for that matter.
i spend much of my time in 2 countries that have very tight gun control and you could count the number of firearm incidents on 1 hand in a year. Wake up USA and take a look at New Zealand & Australia and you will realize THOSE PEOPLE THAT LIVE BY THE GUN WILL DIE BY THE GUN.
Everytime i go to the States i get that same phobia that i experience in Third World Countries about staying in after dark, and definetly keeping off the streets, not what i expect from a modern developed society.
Thank you for that comment. You really destroyed the authors simplistic and moronic article. 50% of the population can be expected to contribute to 50% of the guns at crime scenes.
In fact, it shows that it makes no difference whether or not the state has gun laws. The state with the most lax gun laws have the same number of guns at crime scenes as states with more strict laws.
There was an ironic line in the article:
"Another released this month found that 90% of the guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico and traced led back to American dealers."
A percentage of the guns that can be traced back to US dealers were guns given to the Mexican Army & Police by the US Government to aid in their efforts against the drug dealers, only to have those guns go missing and find their way into the hands of said drug dealers.
Other observations:
- To echo a previous commentator, much of the source of drugs came from the states with the biggest populations like California. California is responsible for much of the production in all areas of the economy for the US. Why should guns be different?
- The article didn't mention that these were illegal gun sales. It allows the reader to assume that. It's really just noting a legal product and where its sources are.
- We should encourage more trade in legal products and services. I don't understand why the Economist is discouraging economics.
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Due to the limited sensitivity of early photographic processes, exposure times were exceedingly long, even in the daytime. The oldest existing photograph, which was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827, is a scene from his window in Le Gras, France. Although it is not a night photograph, the materials he used required an exposure of many hours to record the image on a pewter plate coated with a light-sensitive layer of bitumen of Judea. As the Sun moved across the sky during the long exposure, shadows were recorded on both sides of his house. The first commercially available photographic process was the daguerreotype, and when the process was introduced in 1839, exposure times of 10 minutes or more were required to take a photograph in sunlight. Although exposures were generally reduced to 5–10 seconds within a few years, photographing at night in the weak artificial light of the time or by moonlight was still impossible. The wet-plate collodion process was a tremendous technical advance over the daguerreotype when it was invented in 1851. However, because collodion plates had to be exposed and developed before the emulsion dried on the plate, the lengthy exposures required at night made nocturnal photography essentially impossible. In 1871, Richard Leach Maddox, an English physician and photographer, proposed combining gelatin with light-sensitive silver nitrate and cadmium bromide to make dry glass plate negatives. In 1878, Charles Harper Bennett, who was one of the first to produce dry plates, discovered that by heating the emulsion to 90F, it would become dramatically more light sensitive and stable. With this advance, plates were soon manufactured in Europe and North America and were widely available by the end of the decade. It was this introduction of the gelatin dry-plate process with its inherently greater sensitivity that once and for all opened the doors to night photography.
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During the 1850s, Thomas Easterly was the first to record lightning strikes on a daguerreotype plate. There were numerous efforts to photograph in low-light conditions with artificial light sources beginning about 1860. The French photographer Félix Nadar photographed the catacombs and sewers below Paris, making about 100 plates between 1861 and 1862. Nadar used both magnesium lamps and electric lights powered by primitive batteries for these photographs, and he employed mannequins to represent workers because of the lengthy exposures. In 1863, Whipple experimented with electric lights to photograph a fountain on Boston Common at night. He determined that an exposure that would require one-half second in sunlight required 90 seconds by the electric lights. In April 1865, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, made use of magnesium wire to photograph the interior passages of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
It wasn't until Paul Martin in London and William Fraser and Alfred Stieglitz in New York began to photograph at night at the very end of the 19th century that anyone produced a significant body of true night images. Beginning in 1895, Martin photographed London street scenes, starting to work just before the last hint of twilight faded away to shorten the lengthy exposures required at night. Martin attracted the attention of passersby who wondered what he could possibly be doing out at night with a camera. The police also took notice and questioned his motives on more than one occasion. To this day, many night photographers find themselves faced with similar experiences.
William Fraser began photographing New York at night about 1896, but there are very few existing prints of his work because he preferred to exhibit his photographs in the form of projected lantern slides. An article in Scribner's Magazine from 1897 stated that Fraser "has succeeded in taking some remarkable park and street scenes on snowy and rainy nights [that] show with surprising distinctness and truth, very picturesque and interesting aspects of New York." It was also noted that Fraser took advantage of the "moon's diffused light" for these photographs. The light of the Moon no doubt made more of a contribution to these images than it would if the same scene was photographed today because the nighttime level of artificial illumination was much lower at the end of the 19th century.
Alfred Stieglitz is one of the most important figures in the history of photography, both for his images and for his promotion of photography as an art form. He was perhaps the first person to record recognizable figures in a night photograph, and he used exposures of about 1 minute to photograph New York street scenes in 1897. One can't help but notice that all three of these night photography pioneers chose to photograph in poor weather conditions. Wet pavement, rain, snow, and fog all tend to add drama and atmosphere to night photographs (something that is not lost on contemporary night photographers). They were also no doubt aware that wet surfaces reflect lights in the streets. The image from 1898 reproduced here, "Icy Night," is a perfect example of how foul weather can yield spectacular results, as Stieglitz later wrote about this image:
One night, it snowed very hard. I gazed through a window, wanting to go forth and photograph. I lay in bed trying to figure out how to leave the house without being detected by either my wife or brother.
I put on three layers of underwear, two pairs of trousers, two vests, a winter coat, and Tyrolean cape. I tied on my hat, realizing the wind was blowing a gale, and armed with tripod and camera—the latter a primitive box, with 4×5 inch plates—I stole out of the house. The trees on the park side of the avenue were coated with ice. Where the light struck them, they looked like specters.
The gale blew from the northwest. Pointing the camera south, sheltering it from the wind, I focused. There was a tree—ice covered, glistening—and the snow covered sidewalk. Nothing comparable had been photographed before, under such conditions.
My mustache was frozen stiff. My hands were bitter cold in spite of the heavy gloves. The frosty air stung my nose, chin, and ears. It must have been two o'clock in the morning. After nearly an hour's struggle against the wind, I reached home and tiptoed into the house, reaching the third floor without anyone hearing me.
The next day I went to the camera club to develop the plate. The exposure was perfect.
Stieglitz had been suffering from pneumonia at the time and had been ordered to take care of himself. His success is all the more remarkable in the face of such adversity.
The preference for photographing in rain, fog, or snow was probably influenced by the pictorialist style that was prevalent at the end of the 19th century. Pictorialist photographers used soft focus and manipulation in their prints to create idealized, romantic images that evoked the impressionist paintings that were popular at the time. Photography had not yet achieved widespread acceptance as an art form, and another decade would pass before photographers had the confidence to present photographs that truly represented the new medium's mechanical potential to convey reality.
Stieglitz would go on to inspire his colleagues at the New York Camera Club to brave the night with their cameras. These photographers included Alvin Langdon Coburn, Karl Struss, Paul Haviland, W. M. Vander Weyde, and most notably Edward Steichen, who all created significant numbers of night photographs between 1900 and 1910. Although other photographers outside of New York and London most certainly were experimenting with night photography at this time, it is mostly the images of Stieglitz and his colleagues that survive today as a record of these early endeavors. There was some rivalry between club members, particularly Coburn and Steichen, and they both made twilight studies of the famous Flatiron Building. Steichen's version is considered one of his masterworks, and he made some truly remarkable gum over platinum prints of this image, three of which are housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Steichen made another significant contribution to the genre with his series of 1908 photographs of Rodin's sculpture of Balzac that were taken entirely by moonlight. Although there had been various other efforts to photograph by moonlight before Steichen, most notably by John Frith of Bermuda, who made moonlit exposures of up to 6 hours in 1887, it is the Balzac photographs that are the best extant examples of early moonlight photographs. Because there was no precedent for determining exposures, Steichen made a series of exposures of varying lengths over 2 nights. He had gone to France to photograph at the invitation of the sculptor himself, who commented that the images would "make the world understand my Balzac through these pictures." Steichen brought three large prints back to America, which were exhibited at Stieglitz's 291 Gallery in 1909. Steichen made exposures by moonlight, at dusk and dawn, and even one by flash, but the three he exhibited were all taken by the full light of the Moon. Stieglitz was so taken with them that he bought them for himself.
Inspired by their better-known contemporaries, many other photographers began to photograph at night shortly after Martin, Fraser, and Stieglitz. There is a remarkable record of the development of style and technique in the photographic journals dating roughly from 1898 to 1916. Writing in response to an 1897 article in Scribner's Magazine that praised the night photographs of Stieglitz and Fraser, a Detroit photographer by the name of Edward Van Fleet expressed his desire for recognition of his own night photographs taken from the roof of the Detroit Tribune Building in 1896. A photographer by the name of A. H. Blake proposed and organized the Night Photographer's Society of England in 1908. Blake shared his night photography experiences with the American audience in the journal American Photography in 1910. Undoubtedly, there were many photographers experimenting with night photography at this time aside from the few who are mentioned here.
The new century brought a significant change in the style and subject matter to many of these photographers' work as the romantic sensibilities of Pictorialism gave way to the more objective and sharply defined aesthetic of Modernism. Beginning around 1910, there was a shift from impressionistic pictorialist images to crisply focused modernist photographs that is evident in the work of each of these photographers. This change seemed to be an appropriate response to advances in technology and changes in attitude that came with the dawn of the 20th century. Although Modernism was well established by 1920, there were those like Adolf Fassbender who employed pictorialist sensitivities well into the 1930s.
Although the photographic record seems to indicate that early night photography was limited to Europe and North America, this was not at all the case. The photo historian Peter Yenne has worked diligently to promote the remarkable photographs of the Vargas Brothers of Arequipa, Peru. Carlos and Miguel Vargas Zaconet opened a commercial photography studio in Arequipa in 1912 after apprenticing with a photographer named Max T. Vargas (no relation). Their timing was incredibly fortunate because Arequipa was just beginning to blossom with newfound prosperity and the influence of European culture and ideas. Their studio flourished, and in addition to their portraiture business, they created a remarkable body of night images through the 1920s. Yenne says that "the influence of Pictorialism is clearly evident in the nocturnes, their most self-consciously artistic work." Yenne surmises that it was advances in photographic technology and the advent of electric light that led to this body of work. In an article accompanying an exhibit of the brothers' work titled The Vargas Brothers, Pictorialism, and the Nocturnes, Yenne writes that "taking a cue from the silent screen, they concocted a series of elaborate tableaux using moonlight, lanterns, bonfires, flash powder and street lamps. These theatrical scenes required exposures of up to an hour, and meticulous attention to detail."
In contrast to the theatrically staged images of the Vargas Brothers, some photographers photographed at night for journalistic or documentary purposes. Lewis Hine was a sociologist who worked as a photographer traveling the country for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) during a 10-year period beginning in 1907. Hine documented the cruel conditions of child labor in factories and children who worked in the streets selling newspapers and as messengers. Unlike the pictorialist photographers, Hine was not concerned with making art, but instead with recording working conditions to aid the NCLC in its aim of ending child labor in America. That he made many of these photographs at night was only incidental to the fact that children were being forced to work late into the night. Most of Hine's night images are portraits of children working in factories, as newsies, or as messengers, and were primarily lit with flash powder.
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Introduction: Why Night Photography?
Chapter 1: The History of Night Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital
Chapter 2: Night Photography Equipment
Guest section- access, security, and trespassing- Troy Paiva
Chapter 3: Basic concepts of Night Photography
Chapter 4: Film Based Night Photography
Guest section- large format color film, Tom Paiva
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Guest section- In The Absence of Light, Scott Martin
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Since "Going My Way" is one of my all-time favorite movies one might reasonably expect that I would not be quite as enthused about the sequel. Most critics back in the day agreed. While "The Bells of St. Mary's is a decent film in its own right it is just not as compelling as the original. Bing Crosby reprises his role as Father Chuck O'Malley and Ingrid Bergman does a workmanlike job portraying the Mother Superior (Sister Mary Benedict) of St. Mary's School. Having attended an inner-city Catholic school as a child it is a storyline that I am all too familiar with. The plot revolves around Sister Mary Benedict's heroic efforts to save her beloved St. Mary's. It seems that the building has fallen into serious disrepair and only a miracle will prevent the school from having to close. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Much to the chagrin of Father O' Malley, Mother Superior hatches an improbable plan to get a miserly businessman named Horace P. Bogardus (played by Henry Travers) to donate a brand new school building. Bogardus dismisses the good Sister's request out of hand but as time goes on he begins to realize that he just might have met his match. The main problem with "The Bell's of St. Mary's" is that the storyline is much too predictable. It is your typical sequel. Fine performaces by Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman make this film reasonably enjoyable in spite of it's obvious flaws.
Since I am a big fan of movies from the 1940's I still do enjoy viewing "The Bells of St. Mary's" every now and again. With all due respect to younger folks compared to the trash that's being released these days "The Bell's of St Mary's" is a classic! Recommended. .
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I totally agree with you on ignoring "done" comments. I understand getting riled when someone steals a concept detail for detail, but to assume the people/agencies can continue to come up with idea after idea that has never been done similarly somewhere in the world over decades is unreasonable. I've heard songs and read books that have similar elements but have enough differences to make them completely stand apart in my mind. I didn't automatically assume it was stolen or ignore its worth or effectiveness. "Done' comments are absolutely useless unless there's a link attached showing a complete ripoff of someone else's work.
This campaign provides a very strong visual of child abuse in way I think of often, but don't see every day in advertising. Well done.
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Growing Baptisia australis seed need advice
What is the best method and what needs to be done to get them to grow?
DO they need any special treatment, like cold, or scarificing? I have tried a few times with these, dircet platning and baggie with no luck.
I managed to get some more a few days ago from a GWer again I really want these to grow.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for any help!
Are these fresh this season then? When someone shared fresh seeds with me last year, I just planted in potting soil, (approx 1/4" depth) kept the container moist and outside....all germinated. But - the late summer seedlings didn't winter well. They were on a semi-protected porch right next to zonal geraniums that sailed through winter, go figure.
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Baptisia australis, leucantha, and leucophaea , Pour hot water over seeds, let soak 1-3 days until swelling noticeable. Sow at 20ºC (68ºF) for germination in more than two weeks. Sensitive to damping-off
My seeds were received in trade and were dried. I held on to them for a while so they had to be more than one year old. My baptisia seeds took months to germinate. I put them in the fridge using the baggie method for half a year or so. Once in a while, I would try some warm without results. The seeds were still firm so I continued. Eventually some started putting out a root. I planted the bunch and they all sprouted over the next several weeks. Unfortunately, I tried pinching them and that seems to have been a mistake. Oh well. I have some yellow batisia that is just starting to sprout in the fridge after the same treatment.
I've grown thousands of B. australis from seed at this point, and I never bother to stratify them. I store my seed in the fridge at about 40 degrees and they remain viable for at least 4 years, perhaps longer -- that's the oldest seed I've dealt with and it came up like gangbusters, so I think longer is a real possibility. When I'm ready to sow I just hot water scarify them overnight and sow the next day. But I do make sure to use inoculant -- they are legumes, and they appreciate it. With inoculant I get better growth after germination, and I never get damping off, although my habit of using Banrot may have something to do with that. Germination is in 10-14 days, BTW, and I only sow in the spring to give them a growing season to get established.
Winter sowing is the way I grow them too. The first year I ended up with 3 plants (75% germination) and this year, 8 plants (100% germination). I really have enough for my small yard but the truth is, I'll probably do a few more this winter too! They really are easy to grow using Winter Sowing.
I scarify the seed with sandpaper and add inocculant. The most recent sowing from 3 weeks ago is about 5 inches tall right now and germination was excellent with no blank cells. The seed was from last year and had been in cold storage. Make sure the seeds are well covered or they get kinda funky and floppy. Definately sensitive to damp off. If you are ahving diffuculty I would doubt the quality of the seeds. They may have not been harvested at the proper stage. Baptisias resent transplanting. I would sow them in a 3" or 4" pot or in large plugs.
I have some seed which I got from J. L. Hudson, Seedsman, in CA, and it must be 4 years old. I have planted it from time and time and it still comes up. I only hope that when they get big enough to bloom, that they do well here. I just planted it in dirt and set the pot outside, no protection.
Just came across this post as a result of a search enquiring about transplanting or starting Baptisia from seed. We are moving in a few months fromw SW PA to north central Ohio. I have one well-established plant and the seeds I collected from it this past season so wanted to find out which would be the best option for carrying it to my new garden. I will try sowing the seeds, since I have time.
Some questions for anyone who is inclined to answer if you see this:
1. Do you feel that pre-chilling the seed is necessary, or at least helpful, and if so, for how long?
2. Which legume inoculant did you use? I know there are a number of differnt ones, from pea & bean inoclulant to various kinds for clover & alfalfa...
3. How deep did you cover the seeds in the cells?
Actually (unless I recieve a definitive answer) I think what I will do since I have a fair number of seeds is try the various methods (stratifying, scarifying, etc.), compare results, and post the info.
Whenever I presoak seeds, by the way, I do so in a kelp solution. I also use this to pre-moisten the planting medium and also to bottom-water newly planted cellpacks. I think the kelp and bottom-watering both are very beneficial in avoiding damping-off. I have not had any of the wide variety of seeds I plant each year damp off since I began using this technique. CK
The seeds I collected this fall were half dark (dk brown) and half pale yellow. After chilling all winter and soaking (presently) the dark seeds are sprouting but nothing from the lighter seeds. These seeds all came from seed pods on the plant. What is the difference?


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Byte by Byte, Sensible is rising again. 4D interactive Coordination Projection. Preparing for ISMAR 2012
Still no perfect Kinect plugin to use... so i'll use them all for one day.
Music is originally built for a 6-channels setup, made with Csound, Max/MSP and Reaper.
Video made with VVVV and Max/MSP connected via OSC.
credits students: fabian kreuzer markus lorenz schilling academics: prof. hans krämer prof. steffen süpple
Goal of the project is to simplify the process of food management. Our main focus was the technical and the communicative aspect.
And a short video of the 2nd level.(not resolving it) More soon!
Some press coverage:
Remember, Jump & Run //
Himmel & Hölle is a realtime realworld Jump & Run experience in space.
You need good memory, balance & physical fitness to master the 9 levels and make your way to heaven.
At the beginning of each level the fields you must jump on start to rotate in random combinations
(i.e. 1,3,6,7,8,7,8).
You must jump the correct combination into heaven and then back to start. The difficulty increases with every level while you make your way from a friendly blue to a fearful red environment. Jumping on a forbidden field results in destroying the gamefield for the entire level. If you miss a field and set your foot on the floor the Marelle collpases. You must jump on one foot only.
Rich realtime 3d graphics with physical behaviours, augmented chalk drawings, black light, 3-d sounddesign, super fast tracking with Radar Touch by Lang AG, a 7m x 3,50m wide gamefield....
Designed & programmed @ DeinLieblingsgestalter Studio Frankfurt am Main by Jannis Kilian Kreft, Sounddesign Simon Sanchez & Jannis Kilian Kreft, Patched in vvvv, Tracking device used: Radar Touch by Lang AG, Shot @ Nuit Blanche 4 Metz. Thank yous go to: NB4, Lang AG, Satis&fy, DeinLieblingsgestalter staff, Markus Berger, Tobias Schwirten, Simon Sanchez, Pscherry, Phlegma, the Irrklang implementation team, Severin Pscherer, Kalle, Luc Fachetti, Julien Floria, Ecôle Gaston Hoffmann Metz, supporters & my friends!
credits concept, patching ((user:bo27)) | shaders coding ((user:unc))
New KIA RIO 3D car painting. This time with interactive reflection map, which made a party. We made this in beta25.1 with genius unc panoramic texture trick. But you do not need this anymore since beta26 has realtime CubeTextures rendering.
More athttp://videofabrika.ru
Music byhttp://soundcloud.com/fiocz
credits Jan Barth, Roman Grasy
PenCon stands for "pen constructor" and is an alternative way to use a
CAD application. We've tried to revive the feeling of drawing while
using CAD software.
credits students: Julia Stäbler Fabian Kreuzer Markus Lorenz Schilling academics: Prof. Hans Krämer Prof. Steffen Süpple
"Watchful" deals with the question how a wristwatch can facilitate one's everyday life.
credits Students Jan Barth, Roman Grasy Support Prof. Hans Krämer Prof. Steffen Süpple
Data or data-streams are not tangible for us at all. We just see graphical abstractions of ones and zeros, visualized as folders, files or loading bars on our screens. Also the capacity or the used space on our hard- or flash drives is just visualized digital. We never know for sure, how much memory is used on the data storage, we carry around with us.
We have seen the opportunity to intensify the existing abstraction of real objects, through the haptic channel. This way, we are able to create new metaphors and make technology feel more human.
Using as title a Ludwig Wittgenstein formula, this composition deals with references, meanings and similarities. Is there something that is completely identical to another? How far you can make copies without changing the original? Do the copies themselves change the meaning of the original? Questioning tautological concepts, the performance aims to show in sound and image, this relationship. The work is performed using video-mapping techniques, creating illusions of three-dimensional depth to the viewer. On two symmetrical screens, shapes and objects are opposed, seeking to analyze, through images and sounds, the relations of equality, reality, their significant and meaning.
The composition is divided into five parts, each one dealing with a theme in some way related to the work title. In the first part, the images speak of identity. Something or someone can be exactly like another? what characterizes the identity? Why do people constantly seek an identification with a group, trying to fit into labels that would ensure an identity "itself." The second part deals with the relationship between signifier and signified. Testing the limits of language, a poem is spoken beginning with phrases that have meanings and logic and, over time, deconstructions in the syntax and the creation of neologisms lead to a search for the ineffable, the whole that is beyond language. The next part subject is the illusion of the senses. Optical illusions suggest that what we see is not always the truth, if it really exists. In the fourth part, are treated opposites (x equal to not x). With minimal use of colors, graphics will fight for a space on the screen. The final part is about the limit of use of the words. There are no words sufficient to noun everything that exists, so gaps are formed. In an attempt to create a utopian spectrum that could name everything, words and phrases are broken down, leaving its original form and seek to belong to a continuous thread that connects all that exists.
more info: http://hol.1mpar.com
credits timelapse/(Mnemosyne) - world premiere Choreography, Concept and Staging David Dawson Music Scanner Set Design Eno Henze Costume Design Yumiko Takeshima Light Design Bert Dalhuysen
In the meantime, this has happened. Here some stage images:
(Het Nationale Ballet, Amsterdam. Photography Eno Henze)
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Quite soon I will be releasing my website project and, before it sees the light of a day, I'd like to prepare some kind of "updating model". I am using Debian with Apache, PHP 5.3 and MySQL (latest I think), not installed as one package but rather separately.
I came up with my simple idea of carrying out the process, so please take a look and point out weak spots:
- Testing - I found somewhere that it is common practice to deploy a test version of site to a beta.mysite.com subdomain an carry out tests from there. The tests would use the same database as the live site. After an initial release, each new Testing candidate would be a separate branch (merged upon deployment, still know nothing about branching anyway).
- Deploying - If everything works correctly on the beta phase, copy and overwrite the old version of page.
Problems I can spot immediately:
- Tests would be fine as long as the database remains unchanged. What to do if it gets changed after all?
- I would like to be the update as transparent as possible, without any Maintenance Modes nor anything, but I am afraid that copying the files will result in problems in that matter.
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Dark Knight Massacre: LAPD Sends Undercover Cops Into Area Theaters
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The LAPD today said it was sending "undercover" officers to area theaters as a precaution in the wake of the massacre of film-goers at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado.
"In regard to what happened in Colorado, there will be spot checks," an officer told the Weekly.
In a statement the department said uniformed cops would also be a high-visibility presence at theaters and other public events in the wake of the tragedy:
Today, and in the immediate future, the LAPD will be providing hi-visibility patrol to major theaters in Los Angeles, as well as other sporting events, concerts and crowded venues. Our presence will be both uniformed officers as well as undercover officers.
... Even though there is no apparent connection between Los Angeles and the incident in Aurora, we will be increasing both uniformed presence and undercover surveillance at Movie Theaters and other venues where large crowds gather.
The move to put undercover cops in theaters and at other events wasn't entirely unprecedented, a department official told us. She noted that plain-clothes vice officers do regular spot checks at adult theaters.
Today LAPD Chief Charlie Beck reacted to the Colorado massacre, stating:
I am outraged by the cowardly attack on innocent movie patrons in Colorado last night. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those innocent victims. Since Los Angeles is the entertainment capital of the world, it is important that we all remain vigilant and do everything we can to prevent incidents like this from occurring in our Communities. Remember, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.
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Family Support Time! + Finrod's WeddingGreetings family! It's me again, Nelyo from Himring.
I would like to make some announcements about :iconavi17: and :icondreams-of-arda:.
Pretty much the title says it: I'm sure most of us know that :iconavi17: has entered the cosplay contest in :iconthe-love-of-elves:.
Here's her photo, dressed as Galadriel: http://fav.me/d4e75p9
Beauty isn't it?
The voting has started, and you don't have to be a member to vote, so please spare her 5 min and vote for our dear Anarie!
I haven't made any announcements officially yet, but I already told the TEAS and some others already about it: We're going to have a wedding of our dear :icondreams-of-arda: with his love Amaire!
We all know that he's been missing his dearest love ever since we Noldors (well, most of us) left for Middle Earth (and to our doom...
Wedding Ceremony:iconrose5plz::iconrose6plz::iconrose7plz::iconrose1plz::iconrose1plz::iconrose1plz::iconrose1plz::iconrose1plz:Wedding Ceremony3 years ago in Personal More Like This
To those who are not in my icon family/doesn't know about it.
This is a wedding project done for my icon family, so you apply to the above, please ignore this journal.
However, if you care to congratulate my dear cousin's marriage with his love, we will very much appreciate a word of congratulation
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in the sight of Eru and Valar, and before these friends and family, to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony, which is an honorable and beautiful estate, instituted by Eru and therefore is not to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly, but instead with love, respect, friendship, and honor. Into this estate these two persons present come now to be joined.
Greetings family. This is Nelyo, the host of this ceremony speaking
Best Man SpeechThis is the first times I've ever made a speech like this, so forgive me for any mistakes I make. To my dear new sister-in-law, I welcome you to this family. To my brother, the best wishes for your married life. Though I may joke about it at times, and I've yet to introduce any of you to my wife, my marriage is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. May you both experience that joy in life!Best Man Speech3 years ago in General Fiction More Like This
To the rest of the guests, well, this has been a long time coming, hasn't it? From the very first time any of us saw Finrod and Amarie together, we all knew this day was coming. They are perfect for each other, and I've been expecting this day from the very first time they saw each other. No matter how much he blushed when I teased him about it, Amarie, it was clear that he loved you and you him. Now, I'm trying not to cry as I say this, but Amarie…I think you were what gave him hope through those long difficult years, and as a younger brother,
Wedding (preparations are over):icondreams-of-arda: :iconkawaiipinkukokoroplz: :iconnfs-amarieplz:Wedding (preparations are over)3 years ago in Personal Journal More Like This
I still can't believe it... I'm going to marry Amarie! I wrote a letter to her, and asked her for her hand:
and she said "yes"!!!
So the wedding preparations are underway! The big day is November 22nd.
- :iconkittykatkanie: will host the ceremony
- :iconninquetari: already sent the invitations
- :iconladybrookecelebwen: is my best man, and organizes a bachelor party: He wrote a wonderful best man speech as well:
- :iconpurpleluchia: will host the rehearsal dinner
- :icontalktob3cks: is our maid of honour and organizes a hen night for the girls
- :icondragonrider3: took care of the menu and cookies for all
- :iconavi17: and :iconninquetari: are prepared decorations:
- :icongwenniel: baked an impressive wedding ca
I hate my brothersDay one MaitimoI hate my brothers4 years ago in Humor More Like This
It was a bright sunny day on the streets of Tirion, and that was depressing. The sun got in your eyes, blinded you, and made you feel like you were wearing a thousand layers. The birds never stopped chirping, making it hard to hear what your brother was saying. The streets were crowded, and navigation was virtually impossibleall one did was hope for the best, which was to not get separated.
This, unfortunately, is exactly what happened to me.
I was caught out in these dismal conditions because Maitimoyes, the Maitimo ... no need to swoon, ladiesforced me out here. Apparently father realized that I, unlike his previous sons, did not specialise in a certain fieldso clever of himand as a result, he has invited each of my brothers to show me his tools of the trade in an attempt to entice me to one field.
This is what my schedule looks like:
Monday Maitimo Tirion (this is supposed to be 'what we're doing', b
Hello Ladies!This is an invitation for all of my female family members at :iconNoldorinFamilyStore:Hello Ladies!3 years ago in Personal More Like This
As you know, :icondreams-of-arda: is FINALLY getting married to his long suffering fiancee', Amarie. As maid of honor, the responsibility of organizing a hen party has fallen to me. Therefore, all the Noldorin ladies are invited to attend .
After much brainstorming, and a bit of Googling, I propose that we meet for a fun, carefree night of girl-bonding time. Most of us have spent too much time lonely, dead, or both, so it's time for some pampering! Let's break out the fingernail polish and jello shots.
I thought it might be fun to play a couple of games, such as "Never have I Ever." Does anyone have any questions they want t be sure are asked?
:iconGlorrosaelin: has generously offered to bake a cake. Any other help or suggestions are welcome!
ooc: I liked :iconLadyBrookeCelebwen: 's idea of writing a story, but I am not going to promise anything spectacular.
Icon family plzs + FEANORYes... I am gonna die in this tempo XDIcon family plzs + FEANOR3 years ago in Personal More Like This
Here they are! ( till now , more will come) are:
Amras by VisAnastasis
Earwen by VisAnastasisFeanor by VisAnastasis
Oh, my Eru, Finarfin turned out perfect! I am becoming better and better with every new one!
NOTE FOR FAMILY MEMBERS: Since I don't know which one of you would like to have his icon done, please, if you are family member and you would like one, FAV this journal. I can't read minds sincerely that would be cool XD . Thank you :iconawplz:
Icons made in similar style:
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Noldorin Agony[CELEGORM]Noldorin Agony3 years ago in Songs & Lyrics More Like This
None could subdue her,
This siren in white-
Her face always haunting me.
Though I pursue her
It seems, out of spite,
She revels in taunting me!
What's an elf prince to do?
When the one thing you want
Is a thing that's related to you.
I've met a maiden,
By leadership laden,
Her circumstance dire.
That form, full of power-
(More tree trunk than flower)
Sets my heart afire!
Oh, great Valar above!
Why must this lovely woman be
Far too stubborn to love?
Oh, the torture they teach!
What's as intriguing-
Or half so fatiguing-
As what's out of reach?
Am I not sensitive,
As kind as I'm handsome
And heir to a throne?
No, you're not and you know it, so stop that!
(sarcastic) How clever.
You're making me mad!
(darkly) You know nothing of madness
Til she's und
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I love the fairy-tale quality of this beautiful side table. It would be fantastic in a girl's room, but just as at home in a family living room. Sturdy in form (just like a tree), this table would definitely draw some attention.
Add some texture and depth to your space with this affordable table that demands attention. I love the natural feel and the ease of this design. I think it would be amazing in a room filled with draping fabrics as a smooth and streamlined contrast.
"Sexy" is the word that comes to mind when I see this table. It's simple and understated, yet it will draw in every eye in the room. I would love to add this beautiful piece to my own home.
I am in love with Lucite. The sheen, airy quality and endless form possibilities make it a showstopper for me. I adore this Illusion end table that hints at traveling trunks of old. Gorgeous.
Add some fun and gutsy color for a no-doubt showstopping side table. I love the added bonus of a removable tray on this fun piece.
Simple in concept and extraordinary in impact, this side table is truly showstopping. Of course, I adore the gold, but it is actually the form that draws in the eye. This would be an amazing investment piece to take a room from "blah" to wonderful.
The Marrakech side table is a gorgeous piece of global beauty for the home. It has intricate floral bone inlay and hand-carved quatrefoil patterns on the sides. I think it would add warmth and romance to any space.
What is more gorgeous than a stump table? A golden stump table, of course. This piece is right up my alley, as it's the perfect contrast of simple and natural against high-gloss glamour.
The Essey Illusion side table by John Brauer is an iconic stunner. I have always loved this. Its ghostly effect is modern, crisp and witty, but a brave homeowner could make it at home anywhere. It is particularly amazing if a light source is placed beneath it.
Occasional table? Bar cart? Both? Either way, this is a unique and gorgeous surface to set any accessory or drink on. I think it's perfect for a spot that just needs a little something special. It would prove both useful and eye-catching.
Well isn't that handy dandy? This awesome table separates into four pieces, so everyone can pull over a section and enjoy their own beverage or book right by their side. I think this would be perfect for a media room or a family space where lots of lounging is done.
This West African wooden accent table is hand-crafted from native Sese wood. The pattern on the three legs is said to represent strength and humility. This is a conversation piece as well as a beautiful addition to a room.
This capiz shell table would give any room a soft glow. I would love to see two of these flanking a contrasting sofa, such as a masculine piece with square lines. It has such a simple form but is still elegant.
Hardy Aspen twigs make up this fantastic side table. I love how this piece would instantly soften a space and bring in natural elements. Also to be noted is the modern square form.
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According to a recent Gallup Poll, 73 percent of Americans feel that our country is "on the wrong track." In "The Beginning of the End," the first message in the bold, biblical series, "Twilight's Last Gleaming," Dr. Robert Jeffress gives biblical evidence that America's days are numbered, while also sharing how America's last days can be our best days.
Series: Twilight's Last Gleaming
Growing Stronger in Christ is a 172-page book by Dr. Robert Jeffress. Dr. Jeffress wrote this book for you to help nurture your relationship with the Lord. Your grasp of His Word. Your connection with Him — and others. And how all of these important things work together to transform your everyday life. It's highly practical. It's honest and straightforward. In this day of chaos, turmoil, unrest — politically, spiritually, financially, and relationally — this book is meant to be a respite...filled with practical encouragement for your life and Biblical hope.