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Skip Prosser coached at Xavier for 15 years.
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CINCINNATI –-- Wake Forest University and Xavier University have agreed on a 10-year basketball series starting next season that will be known as the Skip Prosser Classic.
Prosser was at Xavier University for 15 years from 1985-2001, including as the Xavier head coach from 1994-2001, and at Wake Forest as head coach from 2001 until his death in 2007. His legacy remains strong at each school.
The 10-year series will begin during the 2009-10 season with the first game scheduled to be played at Wake Forest. Over the course of the series, five games will be played at Wake and five at Xavier. The exact dates have yet to be determined and will be announced at a later time.
The series should provide outstanding competition for each club. Xavier (19-2, 6-0 Atlantic 10) is ninth this week in each poll. The Deacons (17-2, 4-2 ACC) are ranked sixth in the nation in the USA Today/ESPN coaches poll and seventh in the Associated Press poll.
"I'm pleased that we will play this series in honor of Skip Prosser, a great gentleman and an outstanding basketball coach," said Xavier Athletics Director Mike Bobinski. "Skip's influence at both Xavier and Wake Forest continues to be felt every day and this series is a fitting tribute to the legacy he left in our respective communities."
"This series is a tribute to a great coach and a very special man, and it is a terrific way to keep Skip in our thoughts and prayers," said Wake Forest head coach Dino Gaudio. "Both Xavier and Wake Forest are indebted to Skip for the contributions he made to the students, community, basketball program and student-athletes of each school.
"The games will be a difficult challenge, both in preparation and emotion," said Gaudio. "Our staffs have a close relationship and we pull for Xavier in each and every game. We have tremendous respect for Sean (Miller), Chris (Mack), James (Whitford) and the entire program. This will be a great game for the fans but a difficult one in many ways for the coaches."
Every member of Wake Forest's coaching staff has a direct connection to Prosser. Current head coach Dino Gaudio was an assistant to Prosser as far back as 1981 at Central Catholic High School in Wheeling, W. Va. Assistant coach Jeff Battle served on Prosser's coaching staff at Xavier and at Wake while Pat Kelsey played at Xavier under Pete Gillen and Prosser. Mike Muse was a long-time high school coach in the Winston-Salem area before being hired to the Wake Forest staff by Prosser. Walt Corbean, Wake Forest's director of basketball operations, played at Xavier under Gillen and Prosser.
Xavier's staff is headed by Sean Miller. Assistant coach Chris Mack was an assistant at Wake Forest under Prosser from 2001-04 and a two-year captain as a player for the Musketeers under Gillen and Prosser. Xavier's director of basketball administration, Mario Mercurio, also worked under Prosser at Xavier.
Prosser posted a 148-65 record in seven seasons at Xavier and took the Musketeers to four NCAA Tournaments and two NIT appearances. He was 126-68 in six years with the Deacons, taking Wake Forest to four NCAA Tournaments and one NIT.


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stay at 4.1 and do bannerbomb, you gain nothing by going to 4.3... if you do some reading on the forum you would of known this...
Nice work!
One question though. I have a black wii with 4.1E running on it.
I'm thinking about updating to 4.3 and then softmodding my wii using letterbomb and the softmod any wii guide.
But I've read in several places that I should not to update my wii to 4.3.
So now that this letterbomb hack is out, what is the best way to go?
Leave it as is and use bannerbomb, or update to 4.3 and then use letterbomb?
What could be a reason not to update my wii to 4.3 now before starting to softmod?
Does bannerbomb have any benefits over letterbomb?
stay at 4.1 and do bannerbomb, you gain nothing by going to 4.3... if you do some reading on the forum you would of known this...
I have done some reading. I wasn't asking whether I gain a lot by updating.
Currently my shopping channel is not working, because it needs an update. If I upgrade to 4.3 I assume it will work again without a hassle.
Not that I care so much about the shopping channel, but hey, if I can fix it easily with an update and then start softmodding without any extra limitations compared to when I don't update, why not update?
I want to know is whether there is a more important reason not to update to 4.3.
Does it have more limitations compared to 4.1?
What are the benefits of bannerbomb over letterbomb?
if the upgrade fixes the shopping channel, that is great. when you do the mauifrog guide it will downgrade the SM back to 4.1
i see no reason to NOT upgrade first if that is what will fix the shopping channel
There is no legitimate reason to update to 4.3. The only reason I did it is to test this hack.
4.2 and 4.3 system menu revisions exist to break homebrew. 4.1 is easily hacked (bannerbomb), and anything in 4.3 that can be deemed useful (ios58, new shop channel) can be downloaded separately and installed. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by moving to 4.3. Stay at 4.1, if you want the shopping channel you can install it with MMM or I'm guessing there might be a guide on how to do that somewhere.....
If you haven't already, I spent a considerable amount of time documenting lots of stuff, click the Introduction to Wii Hacking in my sig to read. Explains a lot of this stuff.
Added- There are no "benefits" to letterbomb or bannerbomb. They're both fairly easy. The whole point to any exploit is to achieve a goal - launch a piece of unsigned software.
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& zefronators? /: i thought we were 'Zefronites' /:
It would be more 'fair' if nominations were PM'ed. That way no one knows who nominated them/no one will be upset if they don't see that their friend hasn't nominated them or something they really wanted, and so that the list of people nominated for that award aren't shown otherwise you should just give the award now. |:
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Both sides are satisfied for now after a state inspector visited Vance County's animal shelter to verify some measures that were taken to improve conditions.
Frankie Nobles, the director for the shelter, said on Tuesday that following up on a Jan. 2 visit, Joe Bloomquist from the state animal welfare division made a complaint-related visit on Monday and Friday of last week, ending the week on a positive note.
"We passed on all points," Nobles said.
The Humane Society of Eastern North Carolina filed the complaint with the N.C. Department of Agriculture's animal welfare division, specifying more than a dozen problems that prompted the additional inspections by the state.
Peter MacQueen, the president of HSENC, said he was happy to see the work being done on what could be done in the near term, but larger problems continue that the small shelter can't solve. MacQueen is hopeful work on moving to a new planned facility will be urgent.
"I believe the state is required to send an inspector out when there is a complaint," MacQueen said. "I think it is good that they went over there and that the county did make some changes that needed to be made."
Some problems that shelter workers were able to implement last week include flat surfaces for cats to walk and rest on, new plastic food and water containers and better sheltering for cats.
"They moved them over to a covered carport area," MacQueen said. "While it's warmer than they were before, it is still near the dogs. They did make some changes, including a fix for those guillotine doors."
"The ones we have now are like pet doors you have in a house," Nobles said. "The dogs can come and go as they please."
Heating was another area of improvement met by an additional heating element.
A couple remaining problems include the stacked kennels and a substandard quarantine procedure because there is no isolation facility, according to MacQueen.
Nobles acknowledged the points, even as another quarantine dog came in on Tuesday. The procedure is to keep the dog, there from a rabid raccoon fight at 440 Rowland St., in Henderson, separate from other animals.
Because of the small facility, contact with people is possible, but signs are posted as a warning.
"The problem with our facility is the public still can have contact with animals under quarantine," Nobles said. "In a new facility, there would be no contact possible with animals separated for quarantine reasons."
"The facility does not maintain a proper isolation or quarantine area," MacQueen said. "That is an acknowledged violation of the animal welfare act."
Nobles said the state understands small older animal shelters lack up-to-standard quarantine conditions, and passes on enforcing the point because of that recognition.
"We just don't have the area for that," Nobles said.
County Manager Jerry Ayscue has indicated preparations are under way for a new shelter to be built on donated land, and the county will act to make sure that a sunset clause of four years on the land availability does not pass.
"Vance County is moving in the direction of building a new facility," Ayscue said.
The quarantine dog represents the first finding of a rabid animal in Vance County for 2013. A rabid raccoon was killed by two dogs at 440 Rowland St. The other dog was up to date on rabies shots, requiring only a vaccination boost.
The rabies test on the raccoon came back positive Tuesday afternoon.
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These are utter jokes! I KNEW it, I fucking KNEW it. I am not one for crowing, but I called this one the second the shooting was over.
This is a total win for gun owners and does absolutely nothing to address the problems from Sandy Hook. Nothing.
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These are utter jokes! I KNEW it, I fucking KNEW it. I am not one for crowing, but I called this one the second the shooting was over.
This is a total win for gun owners and does absolutely nothing to address the problems from Sandy Hook. Nothing.
I still am hearing about a AR ban and clip size but apparently hes letting congress decide that without an executive order?
Like ive said im pro gun but still think somethings could be done, this seems to be farely mutual compromise with keeping the 2nd amendment intact. If they still do the AR ban ill be a little pissed about it.
Here's a good link for information about "assault rifles"
Found a G22, just put a deposit on it to get it Saturday.
OBY launches biggest gun control bill in a decade.
23 executive actions/orders will be also be enacted.
There's no way this bill pases unless Boner
caves in again. Newt just blasted him on the debt ceiling debate and warned him about caving in.
I heard PA and NY passed some state laws though that would be by far the most strict in the country. I hard it on the radio about PA and cant seem to find a source that backs it but apparently similar to NY. NYs govenor is democraric but i know corbett is republican as is our house/senate so i find that odd. Maybe were not out of the water yet.
Im hopeful that congress denies the AR ban but i have no idea. Honestly a lot of republicans seem to be alright with it at the moment.
The NRA will do what the NRA always does -- scare up the base. It's my lone complaint about them but that's what they do to go along with the safety and training programs that are top notch.
The President knows he's in a hole here and cannot afford to take on Congress on this issue. As I said before, it would never get out of committee in the House and there's enough gun friendly Senators to make it's passage there questionable as well. He had to punt that part to Congress.
You weren't even here when we hit W for the first TARP money and now Im thinking he's one of the worse Prez's ever.
I give credit where credit is due man but this is a gun thread where the libbies are trying to take away our guns - again.
I don't even own a gun. Knives are my weapons of choice and I was pretty good wielding one as a kid growing up
behind Memorial Stadium. Still got a switch blade I took off a kid.
But I'm all for the 2d amendment. It was a great DEM, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the 2d amendment and his party
is trying to destroy it now. If a nut wants to kill a bunch of kids all he has to do is throw some gas on the school and
light it up with a match or have a suicide bomber walk in and push a button - BOOM!.
People are still gonna die guns or no guns. A rock was the first weapon to kill a man when Cain killed Abel.
Another famous DEM Prez said - GIVE ME A MILLION ARMED CITIZENS AND NO COUNTRY CAN DEFEAT US.
They would hate this party today.
So watching the Daily Show last night, Stewart brought up something called the Tiahrt Amendment to the Patriot Act (which i was unfamiliar with), which was written by Todd Tiahrt and the NRA that basically hinders the ATF of ability to actually police. Its amazing to me that the group that keeps saying we dont need more laws just to enforce the ones we have is also behind the reason for those laws not being properly enforced. I guess its not ridiculous to think that the NRA doesnt want any laws so saying enforce the ones we have that are conveniently not being enforced due to legislation they wrote isnt a stretch on their agenda but it still doesnt make it right. I think they didnt do themselves any favors as part of the ATFs failure is the reason were introducing more legislation, when enforcing the laws we have the last 8-10 years may have greatly taken away any thought of more legislation.
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this is a big one which i think we all agreed would be the most simple way of helping the actual sale of illegal firearms. Stewart brought up a stat that 57% of illegal firearm sales can be traced to roughly 1% of firearm dealers. Yet, with this amendment, theres little local police can do to actually find and shut down that 1%. Mayors against illegal Guns was formed to fight the Tiahrt Amendment for this reason.Quote:
The amendments restrict cities, states and even the police from fully accessing and using Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) gun trace data, which can show where illegal guns are coming from, who buys them and how they get trafficked across state lines and into our communities.
I know Obama got a lot of flack for this, although I think the ATF and other agencies do things like this regardless who is at the head, but seems its also stopping our own investigation of the matter. relying on Mexico for information in an investigation doesnt seem like its ever a good thing.Quote:
The Tiahrt restrictions are blocking Congressional oversight of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives & Firearms (ATF) and its controversial "Operation Fast & Furious." According to allegations, ATF allowed guns to be illegally trafficked to Mexico, possibly putting law enforcement officers in danger. ATF is prevented by Tiahrt from releasing trace data connected to Fast & Furious, forcing Congress to request the data from the Mexican Government.
why stop them from doing inventory checks and deleting background check before more than a few or not even a few have seen them? Another comment made by Stewart citing another source was that although the ATF can check in on shops once every 12 months, due to circumstances and the smaller size of the ATF (2500 officers) its more like once every 17 years. Thats insane to me, that you can do business for 17 years roughly, illegally even, before getting even checked on, let alone if they actually find anything wrong.Quote:
The Tiahrt provisions require the Federal Bureau of Investigation to destroy certain background check records within 24 hours, making it nearly impossible to use those records to help solve crimes or to identify gun buyers with criminal histories who were mistakenly approved. Learn More
The Tiahrt Amendments also block ATF from requiring gun dealers to conduct inventory checks to detect loss and theft, which law enforcement says is a dangerous back channel source for criminals who are in the market for illegal guns
The whole thing is kind of laughable to me. The fact that it got thrown into the Patriot Act which was suppose to strengthen our intelligence is even more odd.
I'll look more into this when I have time (although HR might already know what's up with this) but, I used to watch Jon Stewart even though he's biased, he is funny.
I stopped though because he's beyond biased, he's a hack. I watched a few episodes where I thought he unveiled something where I was like "Man, that's crazy the news reported it that way, when this is how it really is" come to find out Stewart was twisting it. He's just as bad as Fox (who he almost exclusively pokes fun at).
So my point is, take what he says with a grain of salt on this.
I do think he and Colbert are funny, so i watch but typically as anything else i do look into what theyre saying if its true or up for interpretation.
Gun "tracing" equals a defacto gun registry.
And it's not as though the Government doesn't know who buys weapons. That's an exaggeration from the administration. Every time you purchase a weapon, you have to fill out an ATF transfer form that lists all of your information, certain declarations as well as the make, model and serial number of the weapon. This is required for every gun purchase.
What I don't agree with is a national requirement for me to go through that process if say I want to sell a weapon to a friend or pass it down to my kids.
And if I purchase a Class III / NFA weapon, I have to sign away my 5th Amendment rights, allowing the ATF to inspect (and in some cases, seize) the weapon.
Again, it hinders legal gun owners further than they already have been hindered, requiring us to inform the government that I no longer have said weapon.
For example, my father gave me a Savage 24H over/under for Christmas. It was from the 1960's and is a rare, gorgeous weapon. He would have had to fill out an ATF transfer form just to give it to me.
So when the NRA says just enforce the laws we already have, the are looking at situations like Fast & Furious, where gun laws were ignored in favor of a different strategy. Instead of tracking guns, go after the fuckers that bought the weapons in the first place. The guns used were part of a mass straw purchase and, IIRC, the DoJ knows who made the purchase and have yet to file charges.
and this kind of stupidity is why I think their are things we can do to get rid of irresponsible gun owners. A simple argument turns into a gun fight where multiple people get hurt.
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Although the US has now returned some smuggled priceless Nigerian antiquities, there are still pending questions especially regarding the perpetrators of the smuggled of those artifacts which were returned on Thursday by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Nigerian Consulate in New York, Empowered Newswire reports.
The 10 Nok statues and one carved tusk were legally returned to Nigeria, but neither the US nor Nigerian officials were willing to divulge the actual identity of those who are behind the looting of the Nigerian antiquities two years after they were initially feared stolen by French authorities
Since 2007, HSI has repatriated more than 2,500 items to more than 23 countries. For instance in March 2010, the HSI returned a 3000-year old Egyptian coffin, citing a US importer and Spanish Gallery as those behind the stolen Egyptian sarcophagus.
But efforts by US and Nigerian reporters at the handing-over ceremony on Thursday in New York to get even the nationalities of those involved were gently parried as Nigeria's Consul General in New York, Habib Baba Habu explained that the identities were known but would not be divulged as yet.
Habu signed the legal papers returning the artifacts on behalf of the federal government at the downtown New York office of the US Homeland Security Investigations, HSI.
Also, while the smuggling of the artifacts had been detected and foiled since April 2010, US officials at the press conference said no arrests had been made as yet, further adding to the number of unanswered questions about the case. US agents tried to suggest that determining motive for such items may be tricky because some of those involved may be unaware of the significance of the items which were simply called handy crafts and personal effects.
When asked why it took so long since April 2010 till now, to transfer the artifact, the US Customs Border Protection's Director of Field Operations in New York, Robert Perez, said investigations in the last two years have focused mainly on identifying and ascertaining the "rightful owners," of the about 2000 years old antiquities.
Perez noted that "we had to take detailed procedural steps, which was a very deliberative process along with ongoing investigations," He said even though "we know some of the perpetrators," investigations are still going on to determine whether there are broader networks involved in the national and international crime.
In determining the rightful owners of the artifacts, the American officials sought assistance from French authorities, the Louvre in Paris, Interpol and the International Council of Museums, HSI special agents. A statement from HSI said it was "determined the Nok statues were in fact antiquities and not just handy crafts and personal effects as was disclosed on the importation documents provided to U.S. authorities."
But Nigeria's Consul-General, CG, in New York disclosed that the artifacts apparently had been stolen from the National Museums in Nigeria for which the Director-General is now being investigated.
Said Habu, the CG "these were stolen from the National Museum, but there was no such report from Nigeria that the items were stolen. Now the DG of the Museum is being investigated because the items were in storage, inventories under his care."
Habu however disclosed that before heading to France where French officials detected the artifacts, the looted antiquities came from Senegal, suggesting that after they were looted in Nigeria, these artifacts were headed to Senegal from where it was sent to the US, enroute France.
No one is certain as to the timing of the artifacts' looting in Nigeria, even US officials could only speak of it begining from when the French security officials alerted them to the shipment, implying that the artifacts may have left Nigeria long time ago, or just about the time it was first feared stolen in France.
Without the alarm raised by the French, Habu lamented that there was no Nigerian alert about the loss of the "priceless antiquities." According to him at a press conference in New York on Thursday "we want to get to the root of it. We know the identities of the shippers, but we are not disclosing it yet"
Some local US media reported that an unnamed Manhattan Gallery owner is the importer of the artifacts into the US, even though US or Nigeria agents did not as much as declare the nationalities of those involved.
On their part the US government officials said they have not started prosecution of the shippers as yet, and no arrests made in the last two years. But they also added that once they have now been able to return the artifacts to Nigeria, they will now determine the next phase of the investigation, assuring that both the US and Nigerian government are committed to the eventual prosecution of the perpetrators in the future.
The artifacts described as priceless by both the US and Nigerian officials were seized by HSI special agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers after the importers surrendered the artifacts, according to a statement by the HSI.
The statement added that HSI special agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) first learned of the stolen Nok statues in April 2010 after receiving information from French customs officials.
It was in France that French authorities first detained "a shipment of what they identified as Nok statues from Nigeria that were destined for the United States."
HSI added that "French officials alerted HSI and CBP who met the shipments when they arrived in New York. Chicago HSI had also previously seized two Nok Statues and a carved ivory tusk at Chicago O'Hare International Airport."
According to James T. Hayes Jr., Special Agent of HSI in New York, "the recovery of these statues is a testament to the collaboration between HSI and our United States and foreign law enforcement partners who devote countless resources to protect the cultural heritage of all nations."
He added that "smugglers who thrive on greed place very little interest in the preservation of cultural property when they plunder ancient artifacts to sell to the highest bidder."
Also Gary Hartwig, Special Agent in charge of HSI Chicago in his own comments noted that with the return of the looted antiquities both the US and Nigeria "are celebrating the fruitful collaboration of all our agencies in protecting the cultural heritage and history of Nigeria,""The antiquities we are returning are remarkable treasures of untold historical significance that belong with their rightful owners. HSI will continue to investigate and seize national treasures of other countries that find their way to the Unites States under false pretenses."
Habu had thanks for the US government.
"On behalf of the government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the consulate general, New York, would like to seize the opportunity of this ceremony to, once again, convey its appreciation for this friendly gesture, from its American friends," said Consul General Habib Baba Habu, at the event in New York.
According to him, "the ten figurines and one carved Tusk will be returned to the national museum for display, at a ceremony to be presided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs."
It was noted by the US government that the Nok statues are of great importance to the people of Nigeria, since the Nok culture civilization was discovered in 1928. In 1943, the first terracotta discoveries were accidentally unearthed at a level of 24 feet in an alluvial tin mine in the vicinity of the village of Nok, near the Jos Plateau region, which lies in the central part of Nigeria in West Africa.
It was noted by the US government that the Nok statues are of great importance to the people of Nigeria, since the Nok culture civilization was discovered in 1928. In 1943, the first terracotta discoveries were accidentally unearthed at a level of 24 feet in an alluvial tin mine in the vicinity of the village of Nok, near the Jos Plateau region, which lies in the central part of Nigeria in West Africa.
As a result of natural erosion and deposition, Nok terracotta's were scattered at various depths throughout the Sahel grasslands, making it difficult to date and classify the mysterious artifacts. Luckily, two archaeological sites, Samun Dukiya and Taruga, were found containing Nok art that had remained unmoved. Radiocarbon and thermo-luminescence tests narrowed the sculptures' age down to between 2,000 and 2,500 years ago, making them some of the oldest in West Africa.
Most historians and archaeologists agree that the Nok culture spanned a period of time between 1000 B.C. until its sudden disappearance sometime around A.D. 500. The artifacts found seem to be the forerunners to styles utilized by later African culture in the area.
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I read this news a short while ago on the internet elsewhere. I'm actually surprised its being reported here.....as if Nigerians give a shit.
>>Habib Baba Habu explained that the identities were known but would not be divulged as yet<<
Is the Country itself not stolen and already sold?
Why the identities of the looters would not be revealed noweither by Nigeria authority,French authority,US authority etc sounds funny and really annoying.
The question we shouldall be asking is;whyare all those in possession of the hidden truthsinging the same song - not now? Habba! Not now,since 2010?But when? Maybe never.
Would the identities of such crooks not have been revealed if the artifacts were stolen from Britain's museum and brought across to USA? Who would stopFranceor any other Western country from revealing the identities of such looters of their artifacts when discovered?
But when racist Botha threwit to our face that we blacks are not as intelligent as whites,people were asking for his head. Where is our intelligence in this case? I mean why will our own Government not tell us who looted our Museum? Why was the looting not discovered by our Government through inventory?Is it then not safe to agree to it that certain Western country or countrieshave much to do with the looting, hence France,USA etc are not revealing the identities of the museum looters?
Trust me,how unintelligent we black people maysometime be is showcased here again. We as usual let them do to us what they would not let us do to them.
Deepthought sir,
Nigeria was not stolen and was not sold. The reason for my opinionis that;Nigeriaremains the personal property of those who dubiously created Her for their commercial returns and Nigeria as at today is in the pocket ofthat same creator.
How are we going to set ourself free fromthis shameful captivity is what should be Nigerians greatest concern.
Looting our own treasury,museum etc and taking the proceeds across the water tosafe keep in white peoples' Banks thus boosting theireconomy atthe expense of ours set us out as unintelligent people as racist Botha said.
My question is who are those highly influential Nigerians who sold these artefacts to those foreigners. Some Nigerians colluded with these people. Did they not?
My respects sir.
I don't think we're saying things that different. Maybe we have different ways of saying similar things.
I can't say I know all your views but I'm sure it must be especially painful for a person like you who fought in the Civil war for a united Nigeria to see the crazy way Nigeria has now turned out.
I have my ideas on this......but its not what people want to hear so I generally keep my gadem mouth shut. But they say there is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come. When(if) the time comes, there will be no need to say anything, much less preach to anyone
@ Deepthought
We are actually not saying different thing.I'm only expressing your view from my own standpoint.
I'm saying that you are rather toogenerous in saying that Nigeria may have been sold.I'm saying that it is even worst than that.
While I never regret fighting on our Federal Gov't side during the civil war,I'm however so sad to see what Nigeria turned out to be today. I'm so sad about my colleagues that losttheir precious lives in the combat and those that are permanently disabled.
The services rendered by those luckless but gallant men have been forgotten as looters loot the treasury in turn.
What we have today is not the type of Nigeria we fought to keep as one and to enjoy after the smoke is cleared..
@ Ewuro
I'm also asking the same question;who are those Nigerians that colluded with foreigners in looting our museums?
Hmmmm! They must be from among those well connected crooks in our high places.


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5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece,
Brian G Hedges (South Bend, Indiana) - See all my reviews
This is C. S. Lewis's spiritual autobiography and it is a masterpiece. Lewis was raised in a somewhat nominal Christianity, which he threw off as a school-boy. But as Lewis says, "A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There were traps everywhere - 'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and strategems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." And this book is Lewis's chronicle of God's strategems and nets and the surprises which eventually converted Lewis back to Christianity. Central to this process was Lewis's experience of joy, which he defines as "an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction." As a boy and as a man, Lewis was stabbed by this desire, yet never able to satisfy it. By a process of elimination, he came to realize that (as he says in another book) "if I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." The desire led him to the Objective Other - the Absolute - Spirit. At first, Lewis viewed this Other as an impersonal and objective absolute. But, God strategically boxed him into a corner (Lewis uses the analogy of check-mate in a game of chess) where he was forced to acknowledge that this Other was God Himself, and beyond that, God enfleshed in Jesus Christ. Woven into the story are the events of Lewis's childhood, education, and intellectual development. Quite a lot of the discussion centers around his reading, from Beatrix Potter as a child, to Keats, Herbert, MacDonald, and Chesterton as a young adult. This is a fascinating book and one cannot quite hope to fully appreciate Lewis without reading it. I highly recommend it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece: One Man's Journey to God,
R. Morris "Rob & Matt Morris" (Idaho Falls, ID USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Surprised By Joy (Paperback)
C.S. Lewis has written a masterpiece on the subject of one man's conversion to Christianity. Not only that, it is a must-read for any fan of Lewis, for it sheds a great deal of light on his early life and biography. It follows Lewis from childhood to his conversion to Christianity as an adult professor, tracing the influences on his philisophical and religious thinking along the way. It is in my mind a modern Augustine's "Confessions". Lewis writes, as usual, with great candor and his usual lucid, easy to follow prose that takes complex issues and makes them understandable to everyone. This style has made him one of the finest Christian authors. His 'Mere Christianity' and 'Screwtape Letters' are other examples of his books that challenge a reader's religious philosophy. Of course, Lewis is more famous in most circles for his 'Narnia' books, which are also great, but it is his philisophical and deeply personal treatment of Christianity that makes him one of the greats.
Highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to see how one man made his journey to belief and/or wants to learn more about C.S. Lewis, the man.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "It brings God nearer, or near in a new way.",
Cipriano "www.bookpuddle.blogspot.com" (Planet Claire) - See all my reviews
This is the firsthand account of how C.S. Lewis passed from Atheism through to Theism, and onward to Christianity. Lewis says in the Preface that he knew of no autobiography in which the parts devoted to the earlier years were not by far the most interesting. As such, the entire first half of his own consists of a detailed recollection of childhood and adolescence. The second half is devoted to tracing his adult intellectual interests and particularly to recounting the thought processes which led him in his thirtieth year to a profound conversion experience.
Lewis said "How far the story matters to anyone but myself depends on the degree to which others have experienced what I call 'joy'." By "joy" he was referring to his concept of "sehnsucht" a German word that came closest to the sense of yearning or longing that Lewis felt as early on as six years old. Sehnsucht is an experience difficult to define... it is a longing for an object which is never fully given, coupled with a sense of alienation or displacement from what is desired. Perhaps another way of describing it could be a ceaseless yearning which always points beyond itself. It is this elusive nature of sehnsucht that Lewis had in mind when he (in typical brevity) coined the phrase "our best havings are wantings." At any rate, sehnsucht or "joy" was such a crucial element in the development of Lewis that we find it here in the title of his life story, and the "surprise" for him was in the gradual realization that joy (as such) was not foreign, contrary to, unaddressed by or otherwise OPPOSED to theism. In fact, Lewis began to see that the most religious writers (Plato, Aeschylus, Virgil, Spenser, Milton, Sir Thomas Browne, Herbert, Donne, Chesterton, MacDonald) were those in whom he found the most kinship in this respect, while those who did not "suffer from religion" (Shaw, Gibbon, Voltaire, Wells, John Stuart Mill) seemed as nourishing as old dishwater. He concluded that "A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
Even though the book is never preachy, I believe that the above conclusion applies to any atheist that reads Surprised By Joy through to the end. As with other writings by Lewis, Christianity emerges as something that actually makes a lot of sense. It's not until the last page that Lewis takes this final step, and his theism becomes "not a god, but God." My title for this review is taken from that last page, where Lewis describes what happens when one accepts the Incarnation.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for the Lewis admirer,
Benjamin A Gastel (Brownsburg, IN United States) - See all my reviews
The Lewis admirer will greatly appreciate this book and its depiction of the early life of this Christian genius. He describes his slow transformation from stanch athiest to devout Christian in the complicated simplicity that only Lewis can achieve. However, be weary of this book if you have never previously read Lewis. The development of the story is rather slow and lethargic and the non-Lewis fan may find it difficult to get through the early chapters. Yet, for the Lewis admirer the lax early chapters are well worth the culminating transformation in the late portion.
5.0 out of 5 stars Introspective and Informative,
Dr. W. G. Covington, Jr. (Edinboro, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
Lewis says the two families from which he sprang were extremely different in both temperament and origin. On his dad's side there was the Welsh lineage. He describes them as being sentimental, passionate, and rhetorical. While the Hamiltons, on his mother's side were less passionate, more critical and ironic. On both sides, his parents were "bookish" people. He says his brother was a blessing to him, although the two of them were different also.
I love the description of the house full of books in which he grew up. He writes: "My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interest..."
He talks about staking out his claim in the attic and making it his study. Early on he became a reader and writer. It was a love affair with communication. He discovered his gift and pursued it from then on.
This book traces the stages of his spiritual journey as well. He is very straightforward in describing what was going on in his mind at various stages. In reading about his unique experiences one acquires insight that can be beneficial in reflection on one's own life.
5.0 out of 5 stars The auto-biography of Believers.,
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"Surprised by Joy" is C.S. Lewis' auto-biographical book about the early, formational years of his life, which began with a vaguely religious upbringing, led into devout Atheism, and ended in Christ's drawing Lewis home. This book is excellent as auto-biographies (Christian or non-Christian) go as C.S. Lewis was one of the 20th Century's best story-tellers and an amazingly well-read professor at Oxford as well. Whether the reader is a Christian or not, C.S. Lewis makes this story entertaining and thought-provoking.
For those readers who have come to believe in Jesus Christ as Man's only possible salvation, this book will leave them marvelling repeatedly at how Christ works in the lives of those he calls. Any Christian reader of "Surprised by Joy" will find numerous similarities in the path C.S. Lewis' salvation took him down, and a Christian reader can't help but want to join him in praising Christ for his awesome goodness in the lives of human beings he touches.
One fascinating element in C.S. Lewis' life, which is so encouraging for Christians in a post-Christian era, is that Lewis was raised by brilliant men to be constantly curious but always logical... always seeking the truth. One of the men Christ used the most in saving C.S. Lewis was a staunch Atheist; a dry, pensive, professor who demanded a rigid adherence to logic in any belief or action. This man, the "Great Knock", as Lewis, his brother, and their father called him, was so influential in Lewis' mental development that Lewis devotes a whole chapter ("The Great Knock") to discussion of him. How fascinating that whereas many today believe a rigorous pursuit of knowledge and facts leads to agnosticism, in the life of the greatest Christian apologist of the 20th Century it led to a belief in the sovereignty of Jesus Christ.
This is a book that I would recommend to anyone, but as "a must" to any Christian. While "Mere Christianity" is C.S. Lewis' best-selling book, and arguably has initiated more paths to Christ than any other book outside the Bible, "Surprised by Joy" presents a more complete understanding of those paths and their ultimate result.
5.0 out of 5 stars Mere Joy,
Joshua M. Clark (Seattle) - See all my reviews
As much as C.S. Lewis hems and haws in his preface about how suffocatingly subjective and uninteresting this book will be to many readers, there are few books in Lewis' corpus that I have gleaned more joy and help from. Lewis takes us on a tour through his adventures in joy, that peculiar longing for something that is itself more enjoyable than the thing longed for, this desire that he found ultimately only has its fulfillment in Christ, as joy is merely a longing for the heavenly. He brilliantly analyzes his earlier life, exposing his childhood follies and rejoicing in his youthful literary loves; several times I found myself laughing out loud about similar mistakes and mishaps I had fallen into. He scatters his typically brilliant social commentary and theological insight throughout the work, and a chapter never goes by without gaining a preciously helpful understanding of some important topic. This book is easily among the top three autobiographies I have ever read.
"I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what they are in for and close the book with the least waste of time." Go ahead and read that first chapter. You won't want to stop.
4.0 out of 5 stars Strikingly honest description,
As many have noted, there are parts of this book that tend to drag a bit and are less than gripping. These parts, found mostly in the middle chapters, are the most important descriptions that Lewis gives us in explanation of his conversion. These chapters methodically, if somewhat dryly, layout the thought patterns that Lewis went through in his various stages philosophy. They are the equation of how he got from A to B (including the detours that he took to C, G, and F). If the reader will force himself to read them slowly and methodically, he/she will be rewarded with a much deeper understanding than without.
On the whole, Lewis's account of his conversion is raw and honest. He spares himself no punches in describing his own arrogance and 'priggishness'. The author is upfront in admitting that his memory may be flawed on some items. Some readers may be struck at the author's deep humility at always portraying everyone in his story in the best possible of lights, regardless of any 'deservedness'.
For sheer entertainment value, I found his descriptions of his early childhood, his relationship with his brother and father, and his home and surroundings quite charming. Having never been to Britain, I felt that I was treated to a slice of life I will likely never experience the likes of. His accounts of his life at Wyvern (school) should give all parents pause in considering their own children's education, both academic and social. If there is an "Ah, ha!" moment in this book, for me it is near the end where Lewis proposes that could we (as humans) strip God of all his powers to 'punish' us, that we should still worship and adore, simply because God was God - not because we could be punished (sent to Hell) for doing otherwise. Indeed, Lewis makes clear that Hell is not about geography, but about separation from God, separation from God being the definition of the nature of Hell.
If I have any complaints about this book, it is only one, and is perhaps forgiveable. I was sorely disappointed that Lewis did not include an account of his becoming Christian. While Lewis explains that he felt still too close to explain it, I felt disappointed in some measure. Still, this does not detract from what the book does have to offer, which is quite a lot. There are lessons to be learned and I have little doubt that I will aquire new perspectives upon successive re-readings.
5.0 out of 5 stars The world according to CS Lewis--a masterpiece,
bixodoido (Utah, USA) - See all my reviews
CS Lewis never ceases to amaze me with his sincerity and utter humility. His genuine goodness is clear in all his works, but even more so in this. Surprised by Joy is an autobiographical book in which Lewis relates the events of his early life--particularly those which led to his eventual return to Christianity. As usual, he is frank and very analytical of all that happened as he first lost his faith, and then found it again.
Lewis talks about many events which led him to question the existence of God, and he explores what may have motivated his way of thinking. His candid analysis of these events provides some wonderful insights. He also explains how he gradually was brought back into the fold of Christianity, and how he reluctantly embraced God once again as "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
Though this is an autobiography and strays considerably from the format of Lewis's theological works, there still is a significant amount of theology involved. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in theology, especially Christianity. For fans of CS Lewis, this is a must have!
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic C.S. Lewis.,
Scott Hay "Music Junkie!!!" (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) - See all my reviews
I'm a huge C.S. Lewis fan, however like most people who reviewed this book, I did start to trail off when reading the middle chapters of this book. In the first 8-10 chapters of this book Lewis focuses on his life as a child and the pages seem to fly by.
The same thing goes for the last 4-5 chapters where we finally get the details of his coming back to Christianity. However, the few chapters in the middle of the book are filled with Lewis' definitions and opinions on a lot of different topics and though they are relevant to the mindset of Lewis' thoughts, the chapters do not follow along with the story-telling element he so well utilized in the other chapters of the book. Not that that's a bad thing, but for those reader who were expecting to read a certain type of book from beginning to end (myself included), it's kind of confusing to adjust to and is probably a major reason why some people don't recommend this book.
Now don't get me wrong, this book is very touching and is a very worth-while read. However, if you plan to read this book, you may also want to make sure you're ready to read two different types of writing in the same book.
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"Thank you voters for the hard work that you did getting those ballots turned in and keeping this project moving forward," said KCMO City Councilmember Russ Johnson, who chairs the transportation committee.
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Stephanie Price from Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum says, "coffee talk is about the history of coffee from the first cup that started in Ethiopia, to how it made it's way to America and how it's brewed today."
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Palace Coffee, and Evocation Coffee teamed up to make coffee talk.
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Patrick Burns says, "it's not just how to make a cup of coffee, but really the whole story of coffee. The history of it from conception all the way to the farmers that we use and why we choose to use the coffee that we do."
Stepanie Price says, "I can't start my day some dayswithout a cup of coffee. So it's a very important part of the economy of the world, but also the local economy here. Coffee is a big deal."
From the very first cup of coffee, to cowboy coffee, no coffee been was left behind in this chat.
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Around 50 people showed up sharing their love for lattes.
"How long coffee has been around. I think he said 800 AD."
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"500 billion cups of coffee are drank evey year here in the world and 25 millions people are tied directly to the coffee industry," he says.
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But the juniors resume wont be complete until she leads her team to the Region 7-AAAA championship and, perhaps, a state title. Cohen and the Wildcats took a big step toward both with a 48-40 over the Goose Creek Gators on Friday night.
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Williams stressed Cohen would need help, and the Wildcats provided support. Jue McLemore stepped up with 10 points.
Williams says she never knows about Cohens numbers until after the game when she checks out the scorebook.
Twenty points and 20 rebounds, thats Dekeiya, Williams said. We knew they would try to key on her. We knew her points and rebounds could be limited. But she does what Dekeiya does best and thats playing with passion.
Ashley Fields also played a complete game. She was the only Gator in double figures with 18 points.
West Ashley (48): Wesoliek 4, Cohen 20, Stokes 12, Mclemole 8, Hardaway 4.
Goose Creek (40): Frasier 2, Ludwig 3, Ashley Fields 18, Broughton 2, Pringle 2, Jones 9, Joy 4.
West Ashley 6 13 14 1548
Goose Creek 9 12 6 1340
Records: West Ashley 13-1; Goose Creek 11-6. Next: Goose Creek at Wando Tuesday.
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The gifted and talented K-8 school in Bensonhurst — known for progressive teachers who eschew textbooks in favor of hands-on experiences — received more than 3,100 applications for just 66 spots in its sixth-grade class last fall. Nearly all of those spots went to kids who were already attending the school's fifth grade.
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Last month, the city issued a Request for Proposals for a new SHSAT, which is the sole determinant of whether a student gets into one of the eight academically elite high schools. The current contract with Pearson runs out in 2016 so the city must put the test out for bids and sign a new contract with someone to create a test for fall 2016 and beyond.
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By the second week of 3rd grade, however, it became clear that she would have problems. The rapid implementation of Common Core Standards combined with an unsympathetic classroom teacher made her deteriorate—academically, emotionally and socially. The principal told me that an integrated co-teaching (ICT) class—with two teachers, one a special ed expert—did not exist for her grade. I tried to switch to a nearby public school with more services, but because of 2011's special ed reform, I was told she now had to be served by her zoned school, and they were giving her all that they could.
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In households of high school seniors across New York City right now, (including my own) there's likely a good deal of procrastination—along with frustration and anxiety about the endless array of essays and electronic forms to fill out. Tasks include the dreaded and still over-complicated federal FAFSA, a federal form with 108 questions and 72 pages of instructions that determine financial aid—all guaranteed to take weeks off your life. (Here's a tip, though: For help, check out this how-to guide from the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School.)
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Two years ago, I documented my elder son's attempt to penetrate the exciting, if somewhat notorious world of gifted and talented testing in New York City. Several Pearson debacles and rejection letters later, our son ended up happy and thriving at a wonderful neighborhood school. And although the G&T testing experience taught me a great deal and yielded a few laughs, I secretly vowed then that unless my youngest son was clearly a savant—say, reciting Chaucer and analyzing Bayesian statistics—I'd spare him the hours seated with strangers asking him weird questions.
My husband disagrees. In his opinion, "Delta Force"—my sweet little powerhouse of a 4-year-old—gets the shaft in everything. He wears his brother's old shoes and gets less attention, so how dare we deny him this opportunity. "And besides," he explained, "I want to know how smart he is."
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Now is the time to sign up for school tours and open houses! The Department of Education website lists some open house dates here. If you don't see the school you want to visit listed, check its website or call the school to find out. In some popular schools, especially in Manhattan where there is active school choice, many tours are already fully booked. If you're shut out, try contacting the parent coordinator to see if additional tours will be added. Be sure to ask about admissions requirements when you visit schools. The directory listings are not always specific.
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A: It all depends upon the school. Part of the answer is in the vocabulary you use: university and college. A university has an undergraduate program and also graduate programs. It is very common for experienced graduate students to teach introductory classes in many departments. More advanced courses should be taught by full-time, permanent members of the faculty. But schools should not use graduate students or other part-time faculty to teach a majority of classes. You will have to do some serious research to learn if this is the case.
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Any one have problens with these?
How do you get rid of them?
JJ Lawn
Haven't seen an earwig in years so can't help you there.
But what kind of problem could you possibly be having with lady bugs?? They are one of the best natural predators of other insects there is. IMO.
John DiMartino
We had a infestation of lady bugs last year in a developement about 5 miles away-there were literally millions of them,inside and out of the house,on any one wall there were at least 1000 of them.On of my friends had them-I have never seen them like that-and honestly if it were my house id spray them too-i cant see the food supply being there for that many of them.
Depends on where the earwigs are - inside or outside. With ladybugs you just wait a few days and they`ll be gone. Ladybugs are by nature solitary, but they hibernate as a community. If they are visible now and moving, they are just waking up for spring, and will disappear in a few days.
Thanks for the replies.
I personal don't have any problem them but there are alot of people in the area that do.
I don't know anything about earwigs, but you don't want to get rid of the lady bugs, they are the most benificial insect there is to have in a garden.
I always say to the ones that cant take the sight of ladybugs to suck them up with a vaccum and empty the bag far from the house.
What you are seeing MAY not be ladybugs. They are a close relative called the ladybeetle. They look just like the ladybug except for the spots on the back of the head. The beetle has a white spot formation on the back of their head, while the ladybug does not. Thay are also just a teeny bit different in color, too. The ladybug is very beneficial to the gearden, as they feed mostly on harmful insects. The ladybeetle, on the other hand, does not feed on most harmful insects, and as a matter of fact, they BITE! I have never in my life been biten by a ladybug, and this past year, I was bit a few different times. That is when I did a little research, and found out what was happening. Here in Michigan, we were being overrun by these little imposters and they were found EVERYWHERE! Shortly after I found this out, there was a story on the news about them explaining the situation. This has been a public service announcement. :)
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Earwigs are beneficial insects also They eat Mostly other insects. But get a bad name cause of how ugly they are. We have a problem with lady bugs here too but not the native ones. The european lady bugs (i think that is where they come from) are more orange in color rather than dark red as are the native lady bugs. Turns out they breed like crazy but are wimps when it comes to the cold. They swarm around my house in fall and you cant be outside without them all over you on cold days. The floor of my garage has hundreds of dead ones that just cant survive the cold.
We had lots of Earwigs last year in central NC. I read a few things about them last year because everyone was calling the Ag agnet here and asking about them. I've got a lawn workshop to attend Sat. I'll try to ask about them. We had them in our house. You don't want to know how they got their name. I couldn't sleep for a few nights after hearing it.
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We have a log cabin down in the Dale Hollow area that is not tightly sealed and Ladybugs are a HUGE problem! I mean HUGE PROBLEM!!!
Going to the cabin after a few weeks of being gone, there are literally thousands of LB's dead on the floor. We spend the first couple of hours with a vacuum to clean up.
Next trip, I'm going armed with some of the stuff recommended here.
PS - Prior to emptying your vacuum outside, spray some bug killer in the bottom (shop vac) to kill the live ones off before you empty.
Oh, I didn't mention there's scorpions also in Southern KY.
Ladybugs (a.k.a. lady beetles, ladybeetles) are mainly predatory beetles in the family Coleoptera. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of different ladybugs/ladybeetles/lady beetles in numerous genus and species. One single species will be predatious on very specific insects at specific life stages. The first use of biological controls in the USA was the import of a certain ladybug species from Australia to control a scale insect problem in CA orange groves. Was over 110 yrs ago.
Perhaps there is an insect that people confuse with ladybug/beetles that does bite. Perhaps this is just another urban legend. Perhaps there is a better name for the insect you refer to. Common names are often a problem in understanding.
Please post a link to your information so we can learn more. Ladybugs/beetles are about the most beneficial natural controls of damaging insects. Disparging comments about them are usually grossly incorrect.
Here is a bunch of stuff from gardening message boards:
I had good luck one year by spraying the foundation of my house with really soapy water. They don't like that at all. Also, I make some small 8"x 10" boards, cut cracks in the bottom and laid them, crack side down under the steps. each morning i would drop the boards into a bucket of soapy water.. the earwigs didn't like that at all.
Earwigs can be controlled without chemicals by rolling up 2-3 newspaper pages into a long tubular roll. Lay it (or several) on the ground where you saw the earwigs. Wet newspaper throughly, & leave overnight. There will be many earwigs inside it in the morning. Place it with bugs inside in a plastic bag and tie or seal (or double bag it) so they can't escape, then dispose.
The key is, you MUST make sure they don't crawl out! Do this each night, until they're gone.
However, if you want to shift the balance without having to cop out with chemicals, you can use short lengths of that leaking hose that was never thrown out. Leave pieces around the plants and in the morning, they're jammed with earwigs that you can just tap into a bucket of soapy water (20:1)Reusable and easy.
Go out again at night with a sprayer filled with soapy water (2-3 TB per gallon of Murphy's Oil soap, or even better, buy Safer's and mix according to directions.
The earwigs will be out and doing their munching. Hit them with the soapy water and they will die very quickly.
During the day, you can go out with the soapy water and spray crevices and cracks (especially in wood fences, wood siding, etc.) with soapy water. The earwigs will die.
Drench wood or bark mulch with soapy water. The earwigs will die.
Make earwig traps with bits of small-diameter plastic tubing or cut pieces of hose. Carry a small bucket of soapy water around to the traps and knock the earwigs out into the bucket. The earwigs will die.
Get some old plastic food tubs. Make one ortwo holes half-way up the side of the container. Barely cover the bottom with a bit of soy sauce. Add enough vegetable oil to float a layer over the soy sauce. Nestle these into shady areas. The earwigs will crawl in and die. (Fasten them to a stake or put a brick on top of them to prevent larger, furrier creatures from knocking the tubs over.)
- 1 tbsp each of vegetable oil, molasses, and soy sauce. I put some in two cans, and placed the cans in the garden. This morning, both to my horror and delight, both cans are FULL of dead earwigs!!!
We had the same problem and tried all sorts of tricks. Finally we put out small plastic containers (one set with vegetable oil and another with beer). The next morning they were full of a collection of dead earwigs, snails and slugs. Yuck.
Now that we have been doing this for a few weeks the problem has almost gone away. Yeah!
http://www.atlanticextermco.com/Earwigs.htm (Earwigs, by Whitney S. Cranshaw - Colorado State University Cooperative Extension entomologist and associate professor, entomology)
http://www.extension.unr.edu/MGnews/MGnews4.html (University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, Master Gardener's Newsletter, Earwigs Article)
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/bugreview/earwigs.html (University of Illinois Cooperative Extension, "The Bug Review", about earwigs)
http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~insect/veg/ringlegged_earwig.htm (ringlegged earwig, Introduction - Distribution - Host Plants - Life Cycle and Description - Damage - Natural Enemies - Management - Selected References )
Re: The multicolored asian ladybeetle
By Doug Landis, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University (Adapted from a 1995 Pennsylvania State University fact sheet by Steven B. Jacobs and Daniel A. Emmén.)
In September and October homeowners may notice lady beetles found clustered on exposed, south-facing walls and occasionally entering houses or other structures in large numbers. The species most frequently aggregating in structures is the multicolored Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis. A native of eastern Asia, including Japan and Korea, the multicolored Asian lady beetle was first noticed in Michigan around 1993. During the summer months this beetle is primarily arboreal (tree dwelling) where it is an important predator of aphids and scale insects. Although attempts were made by the USDA to introduce this beneficial insect in the 1970' and 80's, those attempts failed and the population we now have is thought to have naturally spread from a source accidentally introduced from a ship in the port of New Orleans, LA.
Multicolored Asian lady beetles adults measure approximately 9/32 inch (7 mm) long and 7/32 inch (5.5 mm) wide. They are oval or convex in shape, and yellow, orange or red in color (with or without black spots on the wing covers). The beetles' spots, which can vary in size and pattern, numbering from no spots to as many as nineteen. The head is usually concealed beneath the disk-shaped pronotum, which is cream to yellow in color with a black 'M' design in the center.
In its native habitat, the multicolored Asian lady beetle spends the winter in crevices along vertical cliff faces. Lacking such habitats, they frequently congregate on the vertical surfaces houses, sheds, and other buildings during the fall in search of overwintering sites. The beetles seem to prefer light-colored surfaces on the sunny side of the structure. If unsealed crevices are present, they may enter structures in search of protected overwintering sites. Once inside, they enter voids in the walls, wander on various surfaces or hang in clusters in the corners of ceilings. These beetles do not bite, sting, or carry human diseases; nor do they feed on wood, clothing, or food. Despite this, they cause concern among homeowners. Overwintered multicolored Asian lady beetles become active again during warm, sunny days in the spring. In attempting to exit the house, they may instead find their way into the dwelling where they again cause a nuisance.
Mechanical exclusion is the best method to keep multicolored Asian lady beetles from entering homes and buildings. Cracks around windows, doors, siding, utility pipes, behind chimneys, and underneath the wood fascia and other openings should be sealed with good quality silicone or silicone-latex caulk. Damaged screens on doors and windows should be repaired or replaced. Attics, fireplace chimneys, and exhaust vents should be covered with number 20 (or smaller) screen mesh.
If beetles are already in a house, they can be removed by using a vacuum cleaner or shop vac. Insecticides are not recommended for two reasons. Beetles dying in the walls or attics of house may encourage other pests, such as carpet beetles which feed on dead insects as well as natural products such as wool and dried plant material. Secondly, because of the valuable pest suppression they provide, multicolored Asian lady beetles should be picked up and then released in a protected area outside the building. Fencerows, wood piles and hollow trees may all serve as adequate overwintering sites for multicolored Asian lady beetles.
Scott Campbell
Very informative PlyValiant, that is some interesting reading. To you and Jim, I have to agree with Runner though. Last year especially I know around Central Indiana we had a pretty good infestation of LadyBug, LadyBird, LadyBeetle what ever you want to call them.(inside home's) They appear to be in the LadyBug family. The one that I am thinking of specifically was kind of yellowish green in color, didn't exactly count or look at the spots all that close. But, I do know that is what was taking a little chunk out of me from time to time.
I thought I was going crazy at first when I felt that zap and looked down to see what I thought was just a LadyBug. LadyBug's don't bite!! Wrong!!! At least this variety does. I have been nipped by about every kind of bug around here from crawling to flying, and some of these little AKA: LadyBug's felt like some deer fly's that I have had the displeasure of meeting before. So, maybe they aren't exactly a LadyBug, but they sure look like them. And these dainty little wonders have some teeth to them. ;)
Jim, What you said about the numbers of different varieties of these insects is definitely right on! The information I obtained was through your local Cooperative Extension Service. Above, I see Plymouth posted a few sites, including an extension service site. I know it sounds awkward, but I DID get bit by these things on numerous occasions, and there were no other bugs around or on me at the time.
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Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney read the menu at a Culver's fast food restaurant, in Johnson Creek, Wis., on April 1. The two joined forces campaigning before the state's April 3 primary, where Romney defeated Rick Santorum by 7 percentage points. (Photo: AP Photo | Date: Apr. 1, 2012)
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