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Nate McMillan fined $35,000 for ripping officials after Game 1
Apr 18, 2011, 4:52 PM EDT
Nate McMillan might as well have pulled out his checkbook while he was talking to the media after his Trail Blazers' Game One loss to the Mavericks Saturday. The amount to write in — $35,000. That's what the league announced. That's pretty steep, but NBA Commissioner David Stern had warned that after last year (where…
NBA admits officials blew it, but that won't help Denver now
Apr 18, 2011, 4:28 PM EDT
One day after a Kendrick Perkins tip in ended up being a key part of Oklahoma City's win over Denver, the league has admitted the referees blew it. Never should have counted. I'm sure that makes George Karl feel so much better. You can see the video here, but let us set the stage: The…
Shaq out for Game 2 of Celtcs vs. Knicks series
Apr 18, 2011, 3:50 PM EDT
This isn't a shock — the Celtics said he was out "indefinitely" and that usually means more than one game — but we thought we'd pass along the news: Shaquille O'Neal did not practice with the Celtics Monday and it out for sure for Tuesday's Game 2, according to a tweet from A. Sherrod Blakely…
Orlando loss casts shadow over Dwight Howard's future
Apr 18, 2011, 3:36 PM EDT
Magic fans don't want to draw the line connecting the dots. You can't blame them. But the loss to Atlanta seemed to move those dots toward being in a straight line. And if things don't change Dwight Howard could connect them himself and devastate the Orlando franchise. The starting point is here: every time Dwight…
Kobe Bryant starts annual playoff pushing of Pau Gasol
Apr 18, 2011, 2:23 PM EDT
Every late April the weather starts to warm, flowers start to poke their heads out of the ground, birds undertake their migrations and Kobe Bryant starts pushing Pau Gasol to be more aggressive. It is one of the rights of spring. It started Sunday night, when Gasol struggled to score or defend the pick-and-roll, two…
Dwight Howard named Defensive Player of Year. Again.
Apr 18, 2011, 1:33 PM EDT
UPDATE 1:33 pm: It's official, Dwight Howard has a three-peat as the NBA Defensive Player of the Year. "I want to thank my teammates for allowing their men to get to the basket again, forcing me to block shots and pick up fouls, and sometimes technical fouls," Howard joked at the press conference. Or half…
Big Baby, Stoudemire take gentle verbal shots at each other
Apr 18, 2011, 12:47 PM EDT
Amare Stoudemire had 28 points, 11 rebounds and a few key baskets for the Knicks down the stretch in Game 1. (He might have had more if the Knicks hadn't inexplicably stopped feeding him the ball.) Stoudemire looked like the force he was earlier in the season. It looked like Boston couldn't really stop him.…
Knicks' Chauncey Billups "very questionable" for Game 2
Apr 18, 2011, 12:20 PM EDT
UPDATE 12:20 pm: Billups sat out practice and Mike D'Antoni called him "very questionable" for Game 2 Tuesday, night, according to a tweet from Alan Hahn of Newsday. That could be real trouble for the Knicks. In that game and in the series. 8:11 am: The Knicks could have used Chauncey Billups at the end…
Wade at shootaround, expected to play in Game 2 Monday
Apr 18, 2011, 11:59 AM EDT
After Dwyane Wade missed Sunday's practice due to a migraine headache, there were questions about if he would play in Game 2 Monday. Yes he is, according to a tweet from our man Ira Winderman of the Sun Sentinel. Dwyane Wade at shootaround today, so it looks like a go tonight despite the migraine, but…
PBT Monday morning one liners
Apr 18, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT
Roy Hibbert of the Pacers says no way the Bulls will sweep them. That sure felt like the Pacers best chance in Game 1, though. Shane Battier hits the game-winning three early in the day, his wife had their baby daughter that night. Damn, that's a day. Congrats to him. Great story on why Matt Barnes…
Harrison Barnes to return to North Carolina, not enter draft
Apr 18, 2011, 10:12 AM EDT
The Tarheels are going to be stacked next season. After an up and down freshman season, Harrison Barnes was considered a sure-fire lottery pick, but he announced that he is going to head back to North Carolina for his sophomore season (via Draft Express on Twitter). "Opportunities, both beneficial and life changing, can seem to…
Tony Parker says he will play in native France if lockout lasts
Apr 18, 2011, 9:45 AM EDT
There have been plenty of players saying they would consider playing in Europe if the NBA lockout that is coming this summer drags out into 2012. A lot of those you may not want to take seriously. The Spurs Tony Parker going back to play in his native France? That you should take seriously. Parker…
Video: Shane Battier, Ray Allen drop game-winning threes
Apr 18, 2011, 8:50 AM EDT
You expect this kind of thing from Ray Allen. I'm not sure of the exact number, but I think Sunday was clutch game winning three number 142,684 in his career. But Shane Battier is a little quieter, a guy better known for his defense than clutch shooting. He's a career 38 percent shooter from three…
Lakers, Spurs losses shouldn't have fans nervous. Yet.
Apr 18, 2011, 2:11 AM EDT
This is not a changing of the guard in the West. Not yet. The day is coming when Oklahoma City and maybe New Orleans or Memphis are going to be whooping the Lakers and Spurs in the playoffs and it will not be an upset. There will be a passing torch (or more likely, the…
Heat's Wade misses practice with migraine, questionable for Game 2
Apr 17, 2011, 11:28 PM EDT
There was mocking by teammates and rulings from the league office when Dwyane Wade played a few games with sunglasses this season. But those glasses were there for a reason — Wade suffers from migraines and bright lights can trigger or aggravate it. The kind of bright lights Wade plays under in the NBA. Now…
Grizzlies reach extension with Zach Randolph
Apr 17, 2011, 10:35 PM EDT
Sunday morning you saw how valuable Zach Randolph is to Memphis as he had 25 points and 14 rebounds in a big Game 1 win over San Antonio. Sunday night they paid him for it. Memphis has reached a four-year contract extension with Randolph worth at least $66 million, according to the Commercial Appeal. The…
Spurs Ginobili out for Game one, after that who knows
Apr 17, 2011, 1:15 PM EDT
Again, this is why you don't play your stars in meaningless late regular season games. Manu Ginobili will be out for Game 1 of the Spurs first round series against the Grizzlies due to a sprained right elbow. Which sucks. But it may not hurt them that much this series. What they need is a…
Who is the leader of the Bucks? That was part of the problem.
Apr 17, 2011, 11:59 AM EDT
The Bucks had a lot of problems this year. They started with injuries which pushed the team's offense on a downward spiral that ended at a point where they couldn't throw a pea in the ocean (to steal an old Chick Hearn line). The Bucks could defend, as all Scott Skiles teams do, but their…
Nate McMillan on his way to fine after venting about refs
Apr 17, 2011, 10:41 AM EDT
In the fourth quarter Saturday, the Dallas Mavericks shot 19 free throws, the Portland Trail Blazers 2. That was key to the Dallas win. After the game Blazers coach Nate McMillan sounded like a guy who wanted to avoid getting a fine for questioning the officiating, but he couldn't help himself, as reported in the…
Video: Derrick Rose carving up the Indiana Pacers
Apr 17, 2011, 8:15 AM EDT
The Pacers seemed to knock down every outside shot they took. Yet that was not enough because Derrick Rose went MVP on them. Part of the fun of him is not just the scoring but how he gets there. Oh, just watch for yourself.
Shaq out "indefinitely" for Boston
Apr 16, 2011, 2:03 PM EDT
One of the keys to Boston being in this in June — one of the reasons that Kendrick Perkins could be traded — was that Shaquille O'Neal could do the job in the middle. The Celtics will not have Shaq for game one against New York and maybe longer, Doc Rivers and Danny Ainge told…
Hawks coach Larry Drew begins quest to save his job tonight
Apr 16, 2011, 11:36 AM EDT
Larry Drew's seat got hot fast in Atlanta. Which is on one way unfair — they gave him the exact same team that had been making the playoffs, getting to the second round and getting crushed and expected him to turn that water into wine. Not happening. But those were the expectations because the Hawks…
Warriors set front office up for future, which leaves coach in limbo
Apr 16, 2011, 11:10 AM EDT
Last summer, before he even took control of the team, new Warriors owner Joe Lacob started to make changes — Don Nelson was out, Keith Smart was in for a year (it was a one-year contract) and they went out and got David Lee. The Warriors got 10 games better. But now Lacob is starting…
This year, can an underdog win the NBA title?
Apr 16, 2011, 3:25 AM EDT
Bill James, the legendary baseball statistician, has said the problem with the NBA is the best team almost always wins. In baseball, the summer-long 162-game season gives you the best teams in each division, but the best-of-seven playoff series involves a lot of luck and favors hot pitchers and bullpens. In the NFL the playoffs…
Video: Derrick Rose's best plays of regular season
Apr 15, 2011, 8:25 PM EDT
Has there been a better show this season than the one Derrick Rose put on? Make your argument for Blake Griffin if you want, but Rose's show came with a team on its way to the best record in the NBA. That is special. And it's worth watching his highlights from the regular season. Just…
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sap in roots from silver maple cut down in November
Last fall we had a 70 year old silver maple removed that had become a safety hazard. The stump was ground and I dug out the wood chips and filled in with a topsoil/compost mixture (I had a truckload delivered to make flower and vegetable beds and to fill in the maple pit). I planted grass and while doing the watering last week noticed a strange spot a few yards away from the maple stump area. Last month my husband had chopped on a root there so the lawn mower wouldn't have to bump over it. I had put some of the soil mixture there to fill in the depression made from his chopping. The dirt there now was soupy with air bubbles in it and had a foul odor. I scooped it into a bucket and dumped it on the ground in the alley by the trash can. I was concerned about what was going on and inquired at the soil forum. It was suggested that it might be hydrogen sulfide caused by an aenerobic situation of waterlogged organic matter. I also wrote to the lawn forum and someone suggested it might be rotting maple sap. Hydrogen sulfide is a poison. I'd much prefer it be sap. Since I took out the dirt last week, exposing the root to the air, it has remained wet and has little bubbles in the liquid over the root and sides of the root, even though Wednesday through Friday were warm breezy days. So I think the liquid is coming from the root and is not a drainage problem, as I thought at first. Would it be normal for a silver maple root to exude sap in the spring if the rest of the tree is gone? Is it normal to smell bad? There's a stink in the general vicinity and it's coming from the root. The goopy, smelly dirt I put in the alley dried out and does not smell now but the smell remains at the root. If this is sap, how long will the liquid continue to come out? If this is sap, why is it a problem just at this one spot and not everywhere else where the stump grinder left severed roots? I live in Richmond VA, zone 7a.
No dead animals, no gas line nearby. I have had the root dug out, exposed to air for several weeks now. The smell has gone. The air bubbles are still there and the root remains wet even in dry weather. So I think sap is still coming from the root. I'm going to leave it alone until it all dries up. Then I think I'll fill it with sand. At least now I'm not afraid of having a health hazard in the backyard.
Perhaps you'd be interested in pictures of what the root looks like now. On the root exposed to air, there is black, white, and orange stuff growing on it and it is constantly wet where the cut was made, so sap is still oozing. The smell has gone away.
There was another root that we cut to make it easier to mow grass and I left that one alone. Here's how it looks now. The dirt is soupy with white air bubbles and the surrounding soil has turned orange. It too smelled bad but the smell is not as strong as it was a couple of weeks ago. Lesson learned: when a tree is cut down, don't mess with the remaining roots.


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Resurfacing project on Tower Road to start Wednesday
Published: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 2:40 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 2:40 p.m.
Motorists who drive on Tower Road in Thomasville will encounter lane closures starting Wednesday when the N.C. Department of Transportation begins resurfacing the road. The work will take place between Fuller Mill Road and Liberty Drive.
Crews will grind 2 inches off the existing pavement, replace it with 2 inches of new asphalt and put down new pavement markings. This project will improve safety, extend the life of the road and make the ride quality better for motorists.
Weather permitting, crews will start at 8:30 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. They will continue this schedule Monday-Friday through June 10, when the project is expected to be complete. They only exception is May 30, when construction will pause for the Memorial Day holiday.
While construction work is under way, one lane of Tower Road will be open to traffic, and one lane will remain closed. Drivers should follow the direction of the flagger on site to know when and how to proceed through the work zone. To ensure everyone's safety, NCDOT urges motorists to slow down and pay attention.
Hanes Construction Co. of Lexington will do the work on this project, which is estimated to cost about $300,000.
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Worrying is connecting to the idea that something bad will happen. It's a lot like having expectations. You connect to an idea of what is going to happen and you allow that thought to impact your current state of mind and behavior. It causes sadness, depression, and anxiety all because of expectations.
However, it is possible to think something bad is going to happen and not connect to that thought. Thinking something does not necessarily mean you are connect to it, but you know you are connected to a thought based on your emotions. Our lives are dictated by our connections. Controlling your connections controls your emotions, and ultimately controls your behavior. Our mind controls our connections and our mind seeks out things that make us feel comfortable. We connect to our worrying thoughts to prevent us from doing something that may make us feel uncomfortable. For example, I use to have terrible fear of presenting to a large group of people. I would worry that I would make a mistake and look foolish. My mind, by design, was only trying to protect me as I continue on with my human experience and keep me in my comfort zone. Through my experiences I learned to not put so much trust in my mind because while my mind is guiding and protecting me, keeping me in my comfort zone hinders the valuable experiences I can have. Being comfortable will prevent us from getting other life changing experiences.
It's not wrong and it's not right.
To move past worrying, you can do two things:
- Not trust your mind any longer. Know that your mind loves you unconditionally but it is guided with the purpose of trying to find you comfort. Seeking comfort delays the change needed in our lives to get an enriching human experience. Make a conscious decision to not listen to what your mind is telling you. Be consciously aware you're your mind is lying to you to protect you. This may help you keep the right perspective as you deal with the things you worry about.
- Reduce the connection you have to negative thoughts. Where we place our energy dictates the intensity to our connections. You can either place your energy connecting to the idea that something bad will happen or you can connect to something else. For example, before giving a presentation I don't allow my emotions to connect to the idea that I will make a huge mistake and, conversely I don't connect to the idea that I will do a great job. My connections are not based on any sort of fantasy or expectations, but I connect to the message of my presentation. I focus on the ideas that I am trying to convey. I am connecting to the actual content of the presentation and how best to deliver it. So this makes me want to reread the presentation and think of funny jokes before going on stage, instead of wasting energy worrying so much that I forget to appropriately prepare.
Whatever you focus your energy on is what you will be connected to.
If you are a big time worrier, that's okay. It is what it is. Just know that your human experience is based on the thoughts you connect to. While it may go unnoticeable, a big change could be in store for you once you decide to detach yourself from worrying thoughts.


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Ohio State Completes Day One at NCAAs
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Ohio State athletes set to compete in six events
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Championship meet scheduled for March 13-14 in Fayetteville, Ark.
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2014 Outdoor (Sophomore) Earned Honorable Mention All-America honors with a 20th-place finish in the 110-meter hurdles at the NCAA championships ... ran a PR of 13.70 in the 110-meter hurdle semifinals at the NCAA East Prelims, finishing seventh overall; placed 14th in the 4x100-meter relay ... Big Ten silver medalist in the 110 hurdles (13.85); also finished fourth in the 4x1 and 12th in the 200-meter dash at the Big Ten championships ... first place in the 4x1 and fourth in the 200 at the Jesse Owens Classic ... runner-up as a member of the 4x1 relay at the Red Wolf Open ... also competed at the Spec Towns National Team Invitational, LSU Battle on the Bayou, and Dave Rankin Invitational ... All-Big Ten selection.
2013 Outdoor (Freshman) Represented Ohio State in the 110m hurdles at the NCAA East Regional Preliminaries ... placed fourth in the 110m hurdles at the Big Ten championships; ran a personal-best time of 14.06 in the prelims... achieved first place in the 110m hurdles and second in the 400m hurdles (personal-best time of 52.20) at the Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invite ... placed fourth overall in the 110m hurdles at the Jim Click Shootout (14.17) ... member of Ohio State team that placed second in the 4x400m relay at the Jesse Owens Classic; posted fifth individually in the 110m hurdles.
2013 Indoor (Redshirt) Did not compete for Ohio State ... earned runner-up honors in the 60m hurdles at the Buckeye Tune-up with a time of 7.84.
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Workings of a Virtual Private Network, Part 1
Commercial Virtual Private Network (VPN) products are becoming widespread. They let confidential data safely take the "free ride" offered by the Internet, compensating for the Net's intrinsic lack of security. A Linux VPN can be constructed several ways. One is outlined in the clever but spare VPN mini-HOWTO by Arpad Magosanyi. I implemented it for a business and present some of the insights gained.
Part 1 of this article is theoretical and explanatory, Part 2 practical. I first define VPNs and describe technologies they employ. I discuss the combination of Linux building blocks used by the HOWTO for constructing one. In Part 2, I show log and screen output depicting the results of actually running the script that constructs the VPN.
A VPN uses a public transport—the Internet—for private communications. It applies encryption to preserve privacy. Traditionally, companies have used private transport to do that—dedicated phone lines. The two ways of keeping an electronic conversation private are to make the line private and the data private. Dedicated lines are private because the line is private, i.e., inaccessible to others. VPNs are private because the data is private, i.e., rendered unintelligible by encryption—different means, same result.
VPNs are most commonly used to connect two networks at different sites of the same company. The technique in effect plugs the remote computers into the local network, consolidating the two physical nets into a single logical one. Remote computers have access to the same local resources as local ones. At the same time, remote machines enjoy the same degree of privacy as local ones. All this is location-transparent in terms of operation (though not performance) as if they were attached to the local network. This combination of full participation plus full privacy between networks, while using a link that isn't private, is the hallmark of a VPN. The compelling appeal of the VPN is that it's cheap. Dedicated lines are expensive, so displacing them with a free transport is economic.
The VPN in the HOWTO is fashioned from two main ingredients: the secure shell (ssh/sshd) and the point-to-point protocol (pppd). One machine (the "local" one in my terminology, "master" in Mr. Magosanyi's) runs the HOWTO's script to call another (my "remote", his "slave"). I'll call these VPN servers. The idea is that they belong to the two networks to be joined and serve as the contact points or data conduits between them, on behalf of any remotely situated pair of workstations that want to converse.
The diagram in Table 1 depicts the layout and addresses in section 4.1 of the VPN HOWTO. For the public Internet addresses (fellini-out, polanski-out), I have substituted those actually in force when I generated the screen captures and log snippets shown later in this article for agreement.
To construct the VPN, the script on the local VPN server must execute four main commands, two of them on the remote VPN server:
pppd remotely, triggered somehow on the other VPN server
pppd locally, on the VPN server where the script runs
route locally
route remotely
The pppd commands establish a working connection. It's strictly a bilateral umbilical cord between the VPN servers that extends no mutual connectivity to workstations on the networks. That is done by the route commands. Once these commands have been executed, the two networks have been transparently pooled into a single group of machines, all mutually visible via Internet addresses.
Privacy comes through the tool used by the first computer to trigger commands on the second, because that tool also does authentication and encryption. It's called the secure shell program, which is a remote command executor and an encryptor. Actually, it's a pair of programs, ssh and sshd, deliberately crafted to work together on the client-server model. Other familiar programs that use the model are ftp/ftpd, telnet/telnetd and any browser/httpd.
The "d" in sshd, ftpd and httpd stands for daemon, a synonym for server. Server programs are like genies that grant categories of wishes to their client/petitioners. So, ftpd grants file wishes to the ftp client and the httpd grants web-page wishes to a browser client. Likewise, sshd grants remote-command wishes to the ssh client. Additionally, ssh and sshd are written to encrypt and decrypt all traffic as it passes between them.
As a command executor, ssh can process a single command and exit. Alternatively, it can set up an open-ended login session where the user submits commands ad hoc. In both cases, ssh delivers back to the local machine the standard output from commands it tells sshd to run in the remote machine. The user sits physically at the local machine, logically logged in and functioning as one of the remote machine's users. All command or session output is delivered from the remote machine to his local monitor. This is much like telnet. Unlike telnet, everything gets encrypted and decrypted on the fly during the session.
The first sentence of the ssh man page highlights these roles:
ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure channel.
The syntax for setting up a remote login session is
ssh -lThe syntax for executing a single remote command is
ssh -l-l stands for "login" and specifies the user name for the remote computer login. The first command form gets you logged into the other machine as remote-user, with his login prompt on your screen. The second also logs you in and launches command on the remote machine all at one stroke. When the command terminates in the latter case, so does your connection. If command is ls /home, the listing of the other machine's /home subdirectory will be delivered to your screen. Here's an actual screen capture of it:
# ssh -l slave 220.127.116.11 ls /home david ftp httpd panderson samba slaveThe login prompt is that of the local machine, where the user is seated. The output comes from the remote machine, where ls was run (as a user on that machine called slave), but appears here on the local monitor. It shows the contents found in the remote directory /home.
Notice execution was unimpeded by password challenge. This is surprising for a program that's supposed to provide security. However, ssh did authenticate in an alternative, transparent way; its technique uses public-key cryptography and is called RSA authentication. I'll show you the evidence from the remote machine's log file, then explain how the keys work.
Concurrent with the above local activity, these entries appeared in the remote machine's log file (/var/log/messages):
Nov 7 20:15:54 localhost sshd[1400]: log: Connection from 22.214.171.124 port 1023 Nov 7 20:15:57 localhost sshd[1400]: log: RSA authentication for slave accepted. Nov 7 20:15:57 localhost sshd[1402]: log: executing remote command as user slave Nov 7 20:15:58 localhost sshd[1400]: log: Closing connection to 188.8.131.52 Nov 7 20:15:58 localhost PAM_pwdb[1400]: (ssh) session closed for user slave
Note that these entries were authored by sshd, the server half of the secure shell tandem of programs. That's reasonable, since the calling program on the local machine was the client half, ssh. By design, ssh calls and asks for the sshd process, hooking up to it by TCP port number where sshd runs, 22 by default but configurable. sshd then swings into action and they proceed to do their thing: authenticate and encrypt. We just saw secondary evidence of the authentication, although so far we've seen no evidence of the encryption. Both rely on the use of keys, in particular the matched pairs of keys that characterize public-key cryptography. Let me describe the essential theory and how you configure ssh with keys, before explaining how authentication results from their use.
First, here's a good nutshell summary from the README.SSH file:
When started, ssh connects sshd on the server machine, verifies that the server machine really is the machine it wanted to connect, exchanges encryption keys (in a manner which prevents an outside listener from getting the keys), performs authentication using...RSA authentication.... The server then (normally) allocates a pseudo-terminal and starts an interactive shell or user program.
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"My heart is overflowing, and my soul is grateful," said an emotional French President Charles de Gaulle in fluent German, shortly after he and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysee Treaty in January 1963.
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I used to have a lamp fitting that exact description. I love old lamps.
If you didn't make notes or diagrams when you dismantled the lamp, you're kind of stuck. But typically you have a keyed socket for the top, which just connects across the line. The base nightlight just has a switchloop to a SPST turnswitch in the collar. The multilevel lights are wired to a 4 position (off, 1, 2, 1+2) turnswitch, still a standard hardware store item. Switch position 1 connects to one of the lights, position 2 to the other two. Switching is all done on the hot side of course and neutrals are all tied together.
If none of that makes sense, no offense, but maybe you don't have the basic electrical grounding to do this and should take it to a pro. A lighting store is a possibility, or an old fashioned electrician. Younger ones could surely do it too but won't remember these things and won't want to bother, while the old guys are more apt to get a kick out of it.
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Hello I have a similar question as the original question! The only difference is my lamp is a Night Light Table Lamp and while changing the bulb and putting the lamp back together I seem to have bared wires which in turn shorted it out! I think the only thing I really messed up is the wires near the socket! I am wondering exactly what kind of socket I would need to get and if it is possible that I just rewire the socket without having to rewire the entire lamp!
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If your lamp is tripping the circuit breaker then it's quite likely that it's miswired or damaged. However I don't quite understand how you could have bared wires while changing the bulb.
If you took it all apart, the trouble spot could be almost anywere. In that case you'll probably have to take it all apart again, and this time (1) make sure it's wired exactly as it was before; and (2)make absolutely sure that no bare wire is showing anywhere.
Make your wire-to-wire connections using small wirenuts. Ask the hardware store counterman for help with getting the right size - I hope you have a good hardware store nearby. Again make sure no bare wire is showing when you've screwed the wirenut on.
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I am new into hostas and simply cannot afford to spend all the money for new plants. I was given two starts a couple years ago when bought our first house, they have done well in my back yard, and I would love to get some variety back there. If anyone has some, I do have some iris and glads to trade, not much available yet for me to trade.
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Hi Jackie,
This post probably should have been submitted in the Exchanges portion of this forum. Although there are some extreemely generous people on this forum, don't set your sights too high on getting takers on your request to trade. Many who frequent this site have hundreds if not thousands of dollars invested in their collections, and if they were going to do a trade, would rather trade for a hosta they do not have rather than your offerings of Glads and Iris. I for one do not feel it fair for one to play on anothers' emotions for your gain, and I'm not accusing you of this, but I've seen it happen in the past. The fact that "you simply cannot afford" these plants is akin to me saying "I simply cannot afford a car, can I have yours?" I have no intent of hurting your feelings, nor am I questioning your sincereness, but requests such as yours have been the butt of jokes in the past on another forum. When I was new to this addiction, I had little knowledge of the value of some of the specimens available, and when I first inquired about a particular rather rare and somewhat expensive plant, I was told in no uncertain terms: "If you want to play with the "big dogs"......", and I instantly came to the realization that the person I was dealing with had no intention of belittling me, he simply was telling it like it was. Occasionally I glance through the "exchanges" section of this forum and see a "want" request of a plant in the "Dorothy Benedict" class (a rather expensive hosta, if you can find one for sale) and the trader states they have plenty of "Diamond Tiara" (a fast multiplying, rather inexpensive hosta that probably over 90% of the collectors have in their collection) to trade, and it makes me laugh. The trader simply is uniformed. For little more than the cost of the postage you would spend to ship your trader your excess Glad's and Irises, you can purchase many of the older, time tested and diverse varieties of hostas from any of a number reputable online vendors, some of which even offer free or reduced shipping early in the season. Again, this reply is not intended to slight you in any way, but "I simply cannot afford" to collect antique cars, rare coins, valuable prints, etc., so I collect Hostas. :-)
I hope someone takes you up on your offer.
(anyone else out there feel the same way I do, or am I totally outta line here?)
Hi, Jackie. I don't see any way to contact you in your member page. I don't know if I'll have anything to offer yet until I see what survived the winter, and I know many of us are in the same boat. Maybe if you wait a couple of weeks, and add an email or something to your member profile, and use the Exchanges area, you'll have better luck. I see some folks are posting there already, so saying "wait a couple of weeks" may be bad advice! :) Yes, most of us hosta folks want more hosta, but I wouldn't turn my nose up at iris and glads.
Since you're new, take a look around the Hosta Library below and see what you like. Read the "Virus X" warning but don't let it scare you to death. Once you have a "shopping list," come on back here and ask for advice on what the ones you want should cost; sometimes you can get a trade offer that way, too. Good luck! Welcome!
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Hey, Jackie, I'm new to hostas too, just got started last fall, so I definitely have nothing to trade. However, I've discovered the real advantage to being new is that it's easy to fall in love with common hostas that everyone has and are old news to everyone else. That means the price is generally in the $6 to $10 range. So you can get gorgeous hostas - like June or Paradigm - fairly cheap. Last year I got beautiful Royal Standards for $4.99 a gallon. And they were big enough that I could divide them when I planted them. So I got 2 for $4.99. Can't beat that with a stick.
People have also generously shared seeds and starter plants with me. So between cheap taste on my part and extremely generous people, I am now looking for places to plant all the hostas.
I think your comments are both accurate and compassionate, very nicely said.
It reminds me of my start in collecting, when a friend of mine invited me to see her garden with an 'enormous' collection of about 50 varieties (I have about 470 now).
At the time almost all of my landscaping had come from pieces of other people's plants.
She gave me starts of about 7 plants which included Gold Standard, Golden Scepter, Venusta, Gold Crown...
My favorites that she had but wasn't willing to divide were Frances Williams and Great Expectations.
That year I decided to give myself permission to actually pay for a plant (Frances Williams from Pete and Jean Ruh) and then I started shopping big time.
What a ride!
Jackie - as others have said you may have better luck at Exchanges. And if money is tight, you might not want to get too interested in hosta because as many of us know it can fast become an addiction!
Mike - I think what you wrote was well intended as well as well put.
Julie_grow - I see you just registered at the forum a week ago. Your comment "Mike - You are sure full of yourself" is out of place. I don't think you will last long at this forum with an attitude like that.


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Mauritania with its capital Nouakchott is located in Africa (Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean). It covers some 1,030,701 square kilometres (slightly larger than three times the size of New Mexico) with 3,364,000 citizens. Arabic, , , French, and Wolof are some of the languages used by the majority in Mauritania (consider regional differences). Senegal, Algeria, Western Sahara and Mali are bordering countries.
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Green with a yellow five-pointed star above a yellow, horizontal crescent; the closed side of the crescent is down; the crescent, star, and color green are traditional symbols of Islam; the gold color stands for the sands of the Sahara.
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Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976 but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed TAYA seized power in a coup in 1984 and ruled Mauritania with a heavy hand for more than two decades. A series of presidential elections that he held were widely seen as flawed. A bloodless coup in August 2005 deposed President TAYA and ushered in a military council that oversaw a transition to democratic rule. Independent candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh ABDALLAHI was inaugurated in April 2007 as Mauritania's first freely and fairly elected president. His term ended prematurely in August 2008 when a military junta led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel AZIZ deposed him and installed a military council government. AZIZ was subsequently elected president in July 2009 and sworn in the following month. AZIZ sustained injuries from an accidental shooting by his own troops in October 2012, but has continued to maintain his authority. The country continues to experience ethnic tensions among its black population (Afro-Mauritanians) and white and black Moor (Arab-Berber) communities, and is having to confront a growing terrorism threat by al-Qa''ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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