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Tarty treats
I love trying out Yankee wax tarts, and there is such a range on offer that I am sure there is something for everyone! Although Yankee candles come in a range of formats, it is these tarts I really like. Simply pop one into the top of an oil or tart burner, light a tealight underneath and wait for the wax to melt - and the fragrance to be released! Tarts cost around the £1.20 mark (although you can get them for about £1 each if you buy in bulk as I tend to), and will give you around 8 hours of fragrance.
A bit of a change
This was a real departure for me from my usual Yankee tarts, as I tend to go for fruity scents, and I had never tried a "spicy" one out before. I definitely wasn't sure what to expect. The fragrance is described as being akin to "crisp, slightly tart apple slices sprinkled with freshly ground cinnamon".
The tart itself is a dark red shade, and it definitely smells of cinnamon, but sweet too, even before it is unwrapped. I wasn't really sure if the cinnamon may be too overpowering, but once this got going in the burner, I was pleasantly surprised...
Fruit and spice
You can definitely smell the cinnamon spice, and I think this is the first thing you smell from this tart once it has melted. However, there is a lot more to it than that as it has a lovely fresh sweetness. The cinnamon is at just the right level for me - it can be detected easily, but it isn't too strong or overpowering. And the sweetness helps to keep it from being too spicy. I think the balance of sweetness and spice is just right. Even my husband commented on how much he liked the fragrance!
In summary
I really like this wax tart and I may well buy it again - although in all honesty I am always going to prefer the fruity ones! I think the balance of the scents is perfect and it is a nice, autumnal scent. I would recommend this to anyone who likes something a little different!
Macintosh Spice is a Yankee fragrance I wasn't sure I would like, due to it having cinnamon included in its fragrance and my past experiences with the Yankee fragrances which include cinnamon, clove or pine have not always been too favourable.
So Macintosh Spice was a wax tart I avoided when looking through the vast amount available in my local branch of Collectables. Aware of its existence, I never bothered to pick one up and smell the fragrance.
On a recent trip into town however, I made a conscious effort to have a look through the fragrances I had not yet tried instead of going for my favourites and this decision led to me picking up a Macintosh Spice wax tart for the first time.
Not expecting to like this one at all, I was pleasantly surprised when on holding it up to my nose I actually quite liked its scent. Whilst the cinnamon fragrance was evident, it was not as strong as I feared it would be and instead it was the scent of apples mixed with a subtle cinnamon scent which I could smell and I found it very appealing. I love the fruity Yankee scents and suitably impressed with this one I decided I would purchase the wax tart.
Macintosh Spice is an attractively packaged wax tart, as the orange-red wax compliments the apples and cinnamon on the label. An autumnal or festive fragrance springs to mind as you smell Macintosh Spice and it conjures up images of cosy dark evenings in front of a fire with this spicy apple fragrance melting in a burner.
Yankee describe this particular fragrance as simply delicious... crisp, slightly tart apple slices sprinkled with freshly ground cinnamon and indeed this is one of the occasions where I can say that Yankee have named one of their candles appropriately as the name and packaging matches the fragrance perfectly.
I placed the tart into my burner and lit a tealight underneath. As soon as the wax began to melt the aroma from the wax began to fill the room with a spicy fragrance. The cinnamon was evident right away and I hoped it wasn't going to be too overpowering, but then the apple scent began to filter through and together they blended to provide a strong fruity apple scent with subtle hints of cinnamon.
I could smell the scent from my wax tart in my downstairs rooms and it also wafted up the stairs a little too. The fragrance also hangs in the air for a long time after you extinguish the tealight or when it has burned out.
In terms of longevity, I found the fragrance released from this wax tart exceeded the eight hours suggested by Yankee and I found I actually achieved around ten hours of fragrance from this wax tart before the fragrance began to fade. It is definitely a great value for money fragrance.
By buying these wax tarts or the tealights or votive sampler candles from Yankee, it is an inexpensive way to sample the many fragrances Yankee offer, before splashing out on the more expensive glass jar candles and tumblers. I personally prefer buying the wax tarts to the glass jars as I think they represent great value for money.
I also find that these wax tarts make ideal drawer scenters too. If you leave them in their packaging and place them in a drawer they will provide long-lasting fragrance.
Overall, 'Macintosh Spice' is a fragrance I am happy to recommend and I shall certainly be buying this one again. I wish I had actually tried it sooner instead of thinking I wouldn't like it. It just shows how wrong you can be.
Yankee wax tarts and other candles are available to buy at branches of Clinton cards and Collectables as well as other card and gift shops and department stores. They can also be found online at many retailers including www.yankeedirect.com and Amazon.
Yankee Candle is an American brand who produce a wide range of fragrance products for your home.
*Macintosh Spice*
This particular scent is available in various sized jars, votives, tealights and also wax tart form. I will be discussing the wax tart which is a small, tart shaped piece of wax to be placed in a tart burner. A tealight should be lit underneath and as the tart melts, the chosen scent will be lifted into the air. Each tart is said to contain 8 hours of essential oil scent.
Macintosh Spice is a deep red tart. It is shrink wrapped and labelled with a picture of fresh red apples and cinnamon sticks. Yankee describe the scents as :
"Simply Delicious..Crisp, slightly tart apple slices sprinkled with freshly ground cinnamon"
Macintosh Spice wax tart can be bought on Amazon, www.yankeedoodle.co.uk and from local shops. It is available for around £1.00. Jars are priced from around £7.00.
*My Thoughts*
I have sampled various spicy scents from the Yankee Candle range and this is one I have tried recently. I bought mine for 60p during a sale in Clintons which is an absolute bargain. I enjoy creating a cosy atmosphere in my home and love it to smell welcoming - Yankee tarts allow me to do this and I am rarely disappointed with them.
Macintosh Spice appealed to me as I adore apple scents and cinnamon is a true favourite of mine so what better scent to experience than a combination of both? A quick sniff of the wrapped tart and I was hooked as it was very tempting and powerfully scented. I popped the full tart in my burner but you could split the tart and use only a small amount depending on your tastes and the size of your home. I have a large living room and long hallway so like the spicy scents to travel through our flat and fill the whole house.
*All Things Spicy....*
After lighting my tealight, the tart melted quickly and I was able to experience a growing scent within a few moments. The scent intensified and became really overpowering at first. As it filtered around my home, the scent settled to a beautiful level and any other homely scents were abolished. The deep red/purple wax within the burner gives this tart a festive appearance.
The scent of Macintosh Spice is simply divine and Yankee have blended the scents well to offer a full bodied scent. The scent combined with the flicker of the tealight, creates a welcoming, cosy ambience within my home and I was pleased to be treated to this scent whilst relaxing in the front of the television. It may be too powerful for some but it was just right for my own tastes.
I would say that the cinnamon is the most prominent fragrance and adds the warmth and depth to the overall scent. It is very spicy and filters around my home filling every corner with a tempting aroma. What I appreciated about this scent is that the scent alternated. Whilst the cinnamon lingered, the apple added a sweet undertone. After a few moments, the apple would take over offering a vibrant, crisp and sweet aroma. At this point, the cinnamon would slip in and add a warm, spicy undertone. Very natural and at times, rather mouthwatering.
The changing scents meant that Macintosh Spice never lost its vibrancy and never became boring. My nose would pick up one scent and before it had a chance to get too used to it, the scent would change. This really appealed to me and I loved both combinations for different reasons. I do feel that with the apple alternating with the cinnamon, it stopped the scent from becoming too heavy or overpowering.
I was very impressed with this tart. As always I burned it for a few hours on different occasions and the scent remained consistent each time. As the wax turned solid, the spicy scent hung in the air for a good hour or so. I would say I received around 12hours of consistent, flat-filling scent from this particular tart which leads me to say that it is of a high quality and well worth even the £1.00 cost.
I got a bargain and I will be heading back to stock up. This one could be burned in the kitchen to give an alternating food smell as it does smell like real apples and cinnamon - simply delicious and homely.
Recommended - 5 stars
Thanks for reading x
I have used both the Yankee Candle Macintosh and the Yankee Candle Macintosh Peach fragrances in the past with differing results. The Macintosh fragrance was nice enough, but I couldn't smell it when burning and the Macintosh Peach smelled amazing and was strong and vibrant. When I spotted Macintosh Spice, I was intrigued and wanted to know how it measured up.
I bought this fragrance in the form of a wax tart. For those uneducated in the ways of Yankee Candle, I should explain that this is a wickless disc of scented wax which should be placed in a 'tart burner' (think oil burner but with a deeper cavity) and melted under the flame of a tea light. If this doesn't sound like it's for you, you can also purchase a votive candle, a glass wax filled jar (3 sizes are available), tea lights or glass tumblers, all carrying the same fragrance.
The colour of the Macintosh Spice candle is beautiful. It's a very deep and intense red and it immediately makes me think of Christmas. The label on the front of the candle tells me that this is from the 'Food and Spice' range and it depicts juicy red apples alongside cinnamon sticks.
When I first took a sniff of this candle I was impressed. It does just smell like apple and cinnamon and I feel that I can smell both of these things in equal measure. Somehow Yankee has yet again managed to capture the smell of Macintosh apples - not just any old apple scent, but specifically Macintosh apples. Despite the spiciness of the cinnamon, I don't feel it overpowers the apple at all, and the two scents compliment each other well. The overall scent, like the colour, reminds me of Christmas and I do think this is a perfect warming scent to use over the winter months.
When I lit the tea light, I found that the scent of the candle took a while to come out. After around fifteen minutes of it burning I realised that I could smell it. The intensity of fragrance was perfect - I could clearly smell it, but it wasn't sickly or overpowering. The smell when burning was the same as when solid. The scent did travel quite a bit and even though I was burning it in my living room, I could smell it in the neighbouring kitchen and hallway. The tarts are designed to give approximately eight hours of fragrance and I found that to be an accurate estimate in the case of this one.
The wax tarts have an RRP of £1.10, but can be found slightly cheaper if you look around. For those who would like to try the fragrance but do not like the idea of a wac tart, I have included a list of approximate prices and burn times below.
Wax Tarts - Burn time 8 hours - £1.10
Votives - Burn time up to 15 hours - £1.60
Small Jar - Burn time 25-40 hours - £7.45
Medium Jar - Burn time 65-60 hours - £15.45
Large Jar - Burn time 110-150 hours - £18.45
I would definitely recommend Macintosh Spice. It is a beautifully fragranced candle and the apple and cinnamon combination makes it perfect for Christmas.
I burn scented wax tarts all year round but somehow they always seem that bit more special at Christmas time. One of my favourite fragrances this year has been Yankees Macintosh Spice. I should just say that I'm actually reviewing the Wax Tart in the Mackintosh Spice fragrance.
I bought my wax tarts from Yankee Direct on line. They have large selection of Yankee products on there. The wax tarts are 99p each which is pretty much the going rate. Wax tarts are also known as wax potpourri.
Wax tarts are round flattish discs of wax with a fluted edge, a bit like a mince pie. Each one comes wrapped tightly in cellophane but you can still smell the fragrance through the wrapper. Handy if you are buying them from a high street store. The tarts have a small picture on the front of the wrapping depicting the fragrance within. My Macintosh Spice tart has a picture of lovely red apples along with cinnamon sticks. The fragrance is also written underneath the picture.
The wax is a lovely dark red colour and smells exactly as its supposed to, apple and cinnamon. Gorgeous! I would say the cinnamon is the dominant smell but the fresh fruity apples can still be smelt.
All Yankee wax is made with real ingredients so there's no artificial smell to their candles and tarts.
To use a wax tart you need an oil burner. Yankee do their own but any oil burner can be used. You simply unwrap the tart pop it in your oil burner as it is, never add water, and light a tea light underneath it.
It doesn't take long for the wax to melt and the smell to filter round the room. The Macintosh Spice is a nice warming homely fragrance. Not too overpowering but still strong enough fort the smell to creep round my whole house, upstairs and down.
Yankee claim their tarts will fragrance your home for 8 hours. I cannot say if this is accurate because I never burn mine for that long at any one time. I tend to let the wax melt and once the smell has crept around my home I blow the burner out. I find the smell lingers well after the burner has been out, but I would imagine 8 hours would be correct. Of course you can melt and re melt the wax several times before the smell fades.
I use wax tarts in drawers and cupboards too, wrapped of course. Its lovely to open a cupboard or your wardrobe and have a waft of fragrance puff out. In my opinion wax tarts are a great way to fragrance your home anytime of year. They are not too pricey and they do give a good long lasting fragrance.
The Macintosh Spice is a particularly nice one for the Festive Period, it creates a lovely warm cosy atmosphere, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it any time of year.
Yankee Candle is a famous American company dealing in scented candles and fragrant accessories for the home. I've been a fan of Yankee Candle since 2004 when I had just stopped working in a summer time job at a coffee shop that more or less took over my life for a three year hiatus between becoming a teacher and doing other jobs in my skilled career. However much I loved coffee, one of the greater aspects of the job was caring for and selling candles from companies like Yankee Candle and Colonial. The first scent that I ever bought was Mackintosh scented candles and at the time Yankee Candle had two strong apple scents on the market under the latter name and also "Granny Smith," which were green in colour as opposed to red and had that "La Crunch" smell of green apples. Mackintosh on the other hand has a deep red baked apple smell and it paved the way for my own senses later that year when I discovered their cinnamon candles.
This time however and perhaps for the new season just coming out of Summer and into Autumn, Yankee Candle have a new twist on a old formula. It is called Mackintosh Spice and like the name it has spices mixed with the deep red Mackintosh classic scent, thus the original colour of bright red changes to a deep red with orange tints. However the spice isn't just of brown sugar, but as you've guessed it being American in origin, it's back to being Cinnamon yet again!
In all variants I've tried from the plug in plugs (average £5-95) to air fresheners (average £1-95/£3-95 for triple packs) and reed diffusers (average £11-95) the best formats of this candle fragrance lie in the wax tarts and medium/large jar house warmer jars. The tea lights as shown here on Dooyoo aren't worth the usual price of £5-95 to £8-95 as they don't seem strong enough on their own (most of YC scented tea lights rarely are) and I have never liked them as they are always contained in see through clear acrylic caps that are rather too hot to the touch compared to metal caps that hold usual unscented tea light candles. For the purpose of strong scent, both the wax tarts and the medium/large jars are worth it on price alone and for longevity of strength as well as longer burning times, either a couple of wax tarts at the time of purchase or one glass house warmer jar will suffice. Although the tarts for example have a burning time of 8 hours on average (90p to £1-20), the 14.05oz medium jar has an average burning time of 65 to 90 hours and costs on average £12-95 to £14-95 whilst 22 oz large jars have an average burning time of 110 oto 150 hours and on average costs between £17-99 and £21 although currently there is a seller online I've dealt with in the past who are fast on delivery and have this current scent on offer at £13-50 for the large jar.
Generally prices for all the Yankee Candle scents are usually the same save for very special scents such as Pumpkin Pie / Pumpkin Patch or Witches Brew for Halloween - but it does pay to shop around! This is why I made a saving and got the large house warmer jar of Mackintosh Spice.
The scent of Mackintosh Spice isn't as unique as YC would like to think it is, because Apple Cider has also come onto the market from YC and the two scents are fairly similar even though Apple Cider is quite strong by its very name and does have a few overtones of cinnamon just like this one. The difference is though, Mackintosh Spice emulates the same style as "Home Sweet Home"; it has a beckoning spirit to relax or wade in the aroma of warm baked apples to, with a sweet cherry lining that hovers and the base notes of cinnamon coming through at the end. The cinnamon additive reminds me much of YC's other new scent, "Sparkling Cinnamon," because the spice that has been added here isn't as peppery or creamy like "Home Sweet Home" and not as earthy as the original "Cinnamon Stick," fragrance. Here, Yankee Candle have been wise here to level out both the spice and apple extracts but with an added dimension of colour no doubt due to the sweet cherry undertones. It isn't intoxicating but it does serve up a scent that is cosy, warm to the heart and almost romantic IF you enjoy spicy apple scents. Once the candle is blown out, there is no after tone of paraffin which is another welcomed aspect, but be sure to trim the wick once the candle has cooled down as it will allow the candle to burn more evenly when you use it the next time as well as being easier to light.
Similar to Mountain Lodge and Home Sweet Home, Mackintosh Spice is quite a strong candle but that's where the similarities lie. Compared to the latter, Mackintosh Spice takes a fair bit of time for its triple oils to take effect, bringing a rainbow effect of scent after an hour has passed whereas the tarts take a lot shorter to pervade rooms. It isn't as strong as "Home Sweet Home,' however because the candle scent doesn't overtake the entire house like "Home Sweet Home," can and this is a good aspect for those who may feel the latter scent is too strong. The glass candle jar format provides a better (and safer) look when it is being used since you don't need anything else to get the scent going unlike wax tarts and associated oil burners with tea lights or electricity. For safety reasons the glass jar's rubber sealed country style lid seals the jar effectively once the candle is extinguished and when always lit I find it better to have a coaster to hand to place under the jar. Although YC jars are usually heat insulated at the base, the glass perimeter gets extremely hot in use, so it's always better to be safe than sorry!
A downside to the jar type is that once the candle starts to get low, it gets extremely difficult to light. This is where long stemmed matches come into their own and there are three tips here that I use when my little lighters don't go far enough into the wide mouths of the jars. Firstly, if you have household kitchen matches, these are okay until one quarter of the candle wax at the bottom is left and you may well find it difficult to get the flame going. Get a cotton bud and light the bud making sure that it is extinguished immediately after you have lit the flint. Another option is The White Company, as they sell long stemmed matches at around £1-99 and they're worthwhile to keep around. The other option is long stemmed butane gas filled lighters that can usually be found in the BBQ sections of supermarkets or hard ware stores. Pound shops also sell them and these are worthwhile (and the safest way) to light the candle once the flint and wax starts to lessen.
After the candle has completely finished, the jar is so handy to use as a storage jar thanks to its air tight seal. Line the jar with lukewarm or hot water and the wax at the side should lift off and pour out. I tend to put mine in the dishwasher to get the jars pristine looking before used for storage and they make excellent storage jars for unscented tea light candles!
One of the optional considerations of the house warmer jars be them medium or large in sizes is the added advantage of using Yankee Candle patterned shades which gives the jar a lantern look or an old fashioned desk top lamp look. I have a black metal shade which I've used for quite a few years now and seems to be a well sought after limited edition shade that originally cost me £10 complete with a metal base plate. Sometimes I don't even need to switch on my desk lamp when I'm busy writing reviews as the light that the medium and large jars put out through the shade is effective and bright enough for illumination. The shades also create a cosy ambiance even if the jars themselves, when lit also create similar feelings.
In all, Mackintosh Spice is a perfect candle for apple and cinnamon fans. The scent that the candle produces is not sneeze inducing and neither does it produce coughing fits. It can mask pongs fairly well although it is a scent I don't often use because I love lighting it to relax to rather than rely on it to clear a room after friends have visited. However, this is an immediate upside to most Yankee Candle scented candles on the market and they really are worth checking out, be it in wax tart form or the stronger and longer lasting house warmer jars. Just avoid the small jars as these are normally far too expensive and don't have as much burning times. Thanks for reading! ©Nar2 2010


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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Research Center
Glucosamine and Chondroitin Effects on Arthritis
How does glucosamine and chondroitin work for arthritis and what is its value. Is it worth taking or is it just a passing fancy.
Research from Europe - where Glucosamine has been used for several years - showed that Glucosamine is useful to control pain in patients with osteoarthritis (mainly of the knee). It was shown in some studies to be as good as antiinflammatories in controlling pain and much safer. Recently a larger study from Europe was published showing that Glucosamine might prevent joint space loss in knee osteoarthritis. The substance is studied now also in the US. For the moment we just explain to the patients that it is a safe substance, that can help with pain in the knee osteoarthritis. Not being controlled by the FDA we do not know for sure what each bottle contains, how pure it is, if what is on the label is also in the bottle. If after research in the US the substance will be approved as medication and controlled by FDA we will be more comfortable in advising patients.
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Raburn back with Indians after daughter's birth
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Ryan Raburn and Mike Aviles have neighboring lockers during Spring Training and similar utility roles on the Indians' bench during the season. It is a situation that has led to plenty of good-natured ribbing over the past year for the teammates.
That continued Tuesday, when Raburn rejoined the Indians in Arizona after spending the past five days in Florida with his family after the birth of his second daughter. Raburn arrived to the hospital just 20 minutes before Raelyn Grace arrived at 10:30 p.m. ET on Thursday.
"I was able to get there in the nick of time," said Raburn, who then smirked. "The only problem was I was trying to hold her off until at least midnight. Now she's got Aviles' birthday. Me and him are forever linked together."
Raburn said it was great to have a few days with his wife and daughters, but he was happy to be back in camp with Cleveland. The versatile utility man has not played since crashing into the right-field wall at Cubs Park on March 7 and is still dealing with soreness in his left knee.
The current plan is to work Raburn into Wednesday's game as a designated hitter and then he will likely garner some at-bats in a Minor League game during Thursday's off-day for the Indians.
"I was ready to get back and get back after it," Raburn said. "I'm still sore. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but I can still run out there and everything. It just still hurts. I'll keep getting treatment every day and hopefully by the time Opening Day comes around, it's out of there.
"Right now, we're just trying to get through it and get as many at-bats as I can in the process."
Last season, which was Raburn's first with the Tribe, he hit .272 with 16 home runs and 55 RBIs in 86 games (243 at-bats). Barring any setbacks, the 32-year-old Raburn projects to begin the year on the bench, serving as an backup option for first, second and third base, as well as the corner outfield spots.
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bauer turns to old-school training over break
DETROIT -- The All-Star break is a time of retreat for many big league players. They might head home to relax or take their family on vacation. During this year's four-day break, Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer stayed in Cleveland and found a fence.
Bauer, who started the last game of the first half and then opened the second with a start in Detroit on Friday night, wanted to stay on his regular throwing program on Monday during the intermission. Progressive Field was unavailable for playing catch due to preparations for Friday's country music concert.
"I just found a fence," Bauer said. "I took four baseballs out there and threw them into the fence. Walked and picked them up."
The chain-link fence ran along a pool on the southern edge of Lincoln Park in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood. Bauer simply wanted to simulate playing catch, so he turned to the method he used during his high school days. Back then, the right-hander would use the fence for his school's tennis courts.
"I didn't have some tennis instructor trying to steal my baseballs [this time]," Bauer said.
Bauer was unable to warm up on the field at the Tribe's ballpark on Wednesday, so the pitcher did his workout and mound session in the team's bullpen. Bauer overcame the unconventional conditions on Friday, when he held Detroit to three runs over six innings en route to the first road victory of his career.
"I'm usually able to find a way to navigate through things," said Bauer, who admittedly fought command issues. "It's very rare that a start spirals out of control for me. So, I'll take it on a night that I don't feel good, for sure, especially six innings, three runs and the team comes up huge [with seven runs] in the seventh like that. It was good."
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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We have a gorgeous old ash tree in our yard that has a 67" diameter. I got quotes from a few companies yesterday to take care of some work on other trees in our yard, and one of the consultants (a certified arborist) mentioned that there's an infestation of Emerald Ash Borers that started in Michigan and is reaching our area in southeast PA. He gave us a quote for $335 for treatment, and I definitely knowd that this would be vastly cheaper than trying to take down a huge old tree near streets and power lines. Has anyone dealt with this with ash trees (or similar infestations) that is willing to share their experiences? If so, does this quote seem reasonable?
It sounds reasonable, but I need more info:
What chemical will he be applying?
How will he be applying it (method)? Basal injections, soil drench, etc.
How many treatments, over what period of time?
In EAB treatment cost analysis, one thing we know for sure is that treating the tree is cheaper in the short term than removal and replacement. And in the long term, treatment is the best choice for preserving the environment benefits provided by such a massive tree. Plus, a tree that large could appraise at many thousands of $. If it were mine I'd have it appraised and insured.
Why weren't you thrilled? What chemicals did they use?Read2Me:The city I live in treated all the ash trees against emerald ash borer last year. They came around and injected them. I wasn't thrilled about the chemicals but I really didn't get any say in it and I know it's for the best because those borers can really do some damage. Call your local parks department and see if they treat- it may be less or free.
The Emerald Ash Borer is in the village our old house is in- the village's way of treating them is to remove all ash trees. However, if you can prove that you have treated it, then it can stay. We have an Ash tree- smaller than yours maybe 24 inches. We did a self treatment that we bought at a home improvement store.


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Always Feeding, Never FilledScience brain teasers require understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
I can be born of a star, but it must be ultimately large.
This can only be so, if the fuel has been discharged.
I can be born in a merging, but my parents will be killed,
I'm always found feeding, but I can never be filled.
I'm the center of galaxies, so my nature is bestial.
I'm gravity intense, and in these clues I'm celestial.
AnswerA black hole.
A celestial object of such extremely intense gravity that it attracts everything near it and in some instances prevents everything, including light, from escaping. It's only those stars greater than three times the mass of the sun that become black holes upon collapse. There are two main processes constantly going on in massive stars. Nuclear fusion which tends to blow the star's hydrogen outward from the star's center and gravitation which tends to pull all hydrogen back in the direction it had come. These two processes balance one another until all the star's hydrogen is exhausted, allowing gravitation to take over. Once gravitation dominates, the star becomes unstable and starts to collapse. Once the star starts to collapse, it does not stop, and the star and ultimately its atoms will cave inward upon itself, resulting in the formation of a black hole. In addition, a collision of two older black holes or two neutron stars will also result in the creation a new black hole. Astronomers have also recently learned that the center of our Milky Way galaxy harbors a black hole and have found three other galaxies that also each harbor a black hole as well.
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Right-hander matches Sale for six innings before decisive blasts
ARLINGTON -- Rangers manager Ron Washington was honest and blunt after a 5-2 loss to the White Sox on Wednesday night. He pointed the finger at himself for leaving rookie pitcher Nick Tepesch in the game for one batter too long instead of bringing in left-handed reliever Joseph Ortiz.
"A bad decision by me," Washington said. "I stayed with Tepesch one batter too long. I stayed with Tepesch instead of bringing in Ortiz. I'll take the blame for that."
The one batter was left fielder Alejandro DeAza, a left-handed hitter at the top of the White Sox lineup. He hit a two-run home run off Tepesch with two outs in the top of the seventh inning that proved to be the finishing blow in the Rangers' loss at the Ballpark in Arlington.
It was not the game-winning hit. That was delivered by Conor Gillaspie, who led off the seventh with a home run off of Tepesch. Up to that point, Tepesch was was holding his own against White Sox All-Star left-hander Chris Sale in a pitching duel that started slowly but was picking up steam.
"I felt strong," Tepesch said. "I felt strong going into the last inning. I felt good overall."
The game was 2-2 going into the seventh before Gillaspie put the White Sox ahead. Tepesch retired Alexei Ramirez on a grounder, gave up a single to Tyler Flowers and then struck out Dewayne Wise. That brought up DeAza with Ortiz ready to go in the Rangers bullpen.
"I just second-guessed myself," Washington said. "My intention was to go get [Tepesch]. I decided to see if he could get out of the inning. It was a bad decision on my part."
That turned out to be the case because DeAza hit a 3-2 slider into the right-field seats. DeAza actually came into the game hitting .348 against left-handers and .192 against right-handers. But his four home runs were all against right-handers.
"One pitch .... he left it up a little bit," catcher Geovany Soto said about Tepesch. "Otherwise he did a great job and used all his pitches."
Soto also willingly took full blame for a baserunning mistake in the second inning that may have cost the Rangers a chance to take an early lead against Sale. Tepesch had struggled through his first two innings but was able to minimize the damage so that the Rangers only trailed 2-0 going into the bottom of the second. That's when they had their best shot against Sale.
Sale, who has now won three straight starts against the Rangers with his funky left-handed delivery, gave up a one-out home run to Jeff Baker. The Rangers then loaded the bases on a walk to Mitch Moreland and singles by Soto and Craig Gentry. That set up the key play of the inning.
Ian Kinsler smashed a line drive over DeAza and off the left-field wall. Moreland scored easily, but Soto hesitated between second and third. By the time he realized DeAza wasn't going to catch the ball, it was too late for him to score on what should have been a two-run double and he stopped at third.
"I read the ball wrong," Soto said. "I thought it would top-spin. I misjudged it bad. I should have scored. I should have done a better job."
Sale was more worried about giving up a grand slam.
"I thought it was going out," Sale said. "It looked like a good swing. Just, 'Stay in, stay in, stay in, stay in, stay in.' I talked it into staying in the park."
Sale, with the score 2-2, then fell behind 3-0 to Elvis Andrus but came back with six straight strikes. Andrus took one, fouled off four and then missed the last one for a big strikeout.
"He's killing me," Andrus said. "Deception ... it feels like the first baseman is pitching instead of him. He throws hard and has control of his breaking ball. He has always been tough. He's not a comfortable pitcher to face."
Sale retired Lance Berkman on a grounder to end the inning and allowed just two runners over the next five innings. That put him in position to get the victory when the White Sox broke through against Tepesch in the sixth.
"I just had to keep pushing and keep fighting and it worked out from there," Sale said.
Sale left after seven innings. Jesse Crain took over in the eighth, giving up leadoff singles to Andrus and Berkman. But Crain got Adrian Beltre on a fly to center -- moving Andrus to third -- and struck out Nelson Cruz. Left-hander Matt Thornton then came in to face David Murphy, who had replaced Baker on defense in the top of the seventh. Thornton got Murphy to ground out back to the mound to end the inning.
In the ninth, White Sox closer Addison Reed retired the first two hitters, then hit pinch-hitter A.J. Pierzynski with a pitch and gave up a single to Kinsler. But Andrus struck out for the third time to end the game.
"We had some opportunities and we didn't cash it in," Washington said. "I thought Tepesch threw the ball well and kept us in the ballgame. One mistake he made … the one where I left him in the ballgame too long."
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Mission awareness trip to Nicaragua
Aug. 15-22, 2009
Ever since I visited the Christian Brothers in Bluefields in 1961, I have regarded Nicaragua as a country of poets, musicians, artists, gentle people and good baseball players. I am delighted that we are able to work with and walk with close to 10,000 Nicaraguan families. We also work with a large number of Nicaraguan refugees in Costa Rica. I am privileged to be on this trip, and I look forward to our walk through Nicaragua in 2010.
Listening to Nicaraguan staff
Even though about half our group got to the Palmera Retreat House quite late last night, we were all up bright and early this Sunday morning for prayer and orientation. We reflected on
1 Corinthinthians: ìLove is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud or rude. Love isnít selfish or quick tempered. It doesnít keep a record of wrongs that others do. Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil. Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful and trusting.î
A good breakfast featuring gallo pinto (rice and beans) sent us on our way north 2.5 hours to the subproject in San Lorenzo.
San Lorenzo
The families of the 316 sponsored children and 15 aging appreciate the program very much.
Arielís testimonial is an example of this gratitude: ìI am the son of humble parents. I have been sponsored since 2007. I am in my first year of secondary education. In order to reach school, I have to walk one half hour and ride a bus another half hour. My dream is to become a professional in order to serve my community, without neglecting the parents who have given me life.î
We have been movingÖ
Monday found us visiting the subprojects in Chinandega and Tuesday in Leon. On Wednesday, we visited the areas of Masaya and Granada, and on Thursday Ö on to the the city dump area of Acahualinca. CFCA began serving in the Acahualinca neighborhood nine years ago.
There are so many stories of inspiration in this neighborhood. On the part mothers and grandmothers, I would call it heroism. We have three children sponsored in a family of 12 (ages 8 months to 17 years). The father, Juan, 45, works as a helper in a restaurant at the Oriental Market, earning the equivalent of US$100 per month. The mother, Leticia, also worked at a restaurant until the birth of their newest baby. They face the harsh reality of sometimes not being able to make ends meet, but harboring in their hearts great love and a drive for self-improvement that encourages them to keep trying. They are a united and loving family, who show qualities of responsibility and honesty. We are honored to have the family as part of our CFCA family in Nicaragua.
Shortening distances
We spent this beautiful day in Project Masaya, celebrating Mass with sponsored families and staff. A cultural program followed, featuring poems and folk dances. One poem written by famed Cuban poet Jose Marti and recited by 9-year-old Laura stole the show:
"Cultivo una rosa Blanca
En junio como enero
Para el amigo sincero
Que me das su mano franca.
Y para el cruel que arranca
El Corazon con que vivo,
Cardo ni ortiga cultivo;
Cultivo la rosa blanca."
"I cultivate a white rose
In June and January as well
For the sincere friend
Who offers me his honest hand.
And for the cruel person who rips out
The heart with which I live,
I cultivate neither thistle nor nettle;
I cultivate a white rose."
Visits to families resulted in the shortening of distances between sponsors and children and the sponsorship of one new little girl, 7-year-old Neyling. We met 10 of our scholars at the attractive CFCA center in Masaya.
We say "hasta luego" to Nicaragua with many prayers in our hearts. May the Lord bless the people of Nicaragua and our sponsored families. May the Lord bless these dear sponsors on their journey forward and in their advocacy efforts, and may the Lord bless each of you, our beloved CFCA family.
Bob Hentzen


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FREEDOM -- A 19-year-old man suspected of shooting several shots from a car on Larkin Valley Road was arrested after he ran from authorities on Friday.
About 2:20 p.m., someone reported shots fired from a car near Larkin Valley and White roads, said Santa Cruz County sheriff's Sgt. Mike MacDonald. No one was injured, and the targets appeared arbitrary, MacDonald said.
Minutes later, deputies spotted a gray four-door Hyundai that matched the caller's description near Freedom and Airport boulevards.
It was stopped at a traffic light when deputies saw a passenger in the car get out and run toward Airport Boulevard, MacDonald said. Deputies relayed a description of the man on law enforcement radio and a Watsonville police officer stopped the man on Airport Boulevard.
The officer said he saw the man ditch a handgun under a car during the chase. The gun was recovered.
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A record number of University of Colorado Boulder students have received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding graduate students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Thirty CU-Boulder students were among the 2,000 fellowship winners announced by NSF earlier this month—the greatest number of fellows from any school in Colorado. Last year, 21 current CU-Boulder students won fellowships, setting the previous record. Twenty current students were awarded fellowships in 2012.
NSF fellows receive three years of support from the agency, including a $32,000 annual stipend, a $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the institution, international research and professional development opportunities, and access to a supercomputer.
"We are delighted that the number of CU-Boulder students who receive these sought-after fellowships is continuing to rise," said Stein Sture, vice chancellor for research. "It reflects the success of our continued efforts to attract the best and brightest students to CU-Boulder for their graduate studies."
The students awarded graduate research fellowships nationally this year come from all states and the District of Columbia, as well as commonwealths and territories of the United States. The national winners also are a diverse group of individuals. Among the 2,000 awardees, 1,069 are women, 382 are from underrepresented minority groups, 55 are persons with disabilities and 37 are veterans.
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sleepy wrote:corey115 wrote:Now whenever there is a tree even remotely close to the area where I follow through, I instinctively curl up after I release, resulting in poor shots. I just can't see to shake it from my mind.
Have you tried looking for a shot other than the traditional backhand that doesn't involve the tree at all? Something like putting your left foot behind your lie and leaning out to the left to give your backhand more room, or leaning out to the right for a flick shot.
I try to avoid it as much as I can with footing and forehands but sometimes I just can't avoid it.


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Montero shows support for Gibson, Towers
CHICAGO -- The question was about Mike Bolsinger, but D-backs catcher Miguel Montero used it instead to defend the performance of general manager Kevin Towers and manager Kirk Gibson.
The pair have been under fire lately with the D-backs off to a slow start.
"First of all, I just want to say that I've been reading all the comments about Gibby and KT and I just would be very disappointed if something happened to them," Montero said referring to either or both of them losing their jobs. "The bottom line is, it's our responsibility to go out there and take care of business. I just wanted to say that, because the blame should be on us. It should be on the players, it should be on us, because we haven't played the way we are supposed to play."
The D-backs were at 5-18 before winning the final two games of the series with the Cubs and with losses in 10 of their previous 11 games.
That prompted speculation that one, or both could be dismissed in the coming week.
"I read all the articles and we see what's going on," Montero said. "We're smart, we know how the game goes, we know how the business goes and obviously I just feel bad. Because you know the bottom line, it's our responsibility to come here and do our job and we haven't been doing it. We can't put the blame on them. Nobody can put the blame on them because they've been the guys that have been coming here working their butt off every day, day in and day out with the best attitude."
The D-backs coaching staff has also done its job according to Montero.
"There's no blame for any of the coaching staff," Montero said. "They've been here busting their butt and they've been doing their job. We have to go out there and execute."
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Strip tillage is a conservation tillage system that was developed for row crops grown in heavy, poorly drained cool soils in the northern corn belt states, but which some Pacific Northwest farmers are adapting to their local conditions. Strip tillage is designed for row crops in which only a 9- to 12-inch wide strip is tilled and planted, and the ground between the rows is left undisturbed (figure 1). The depth of tillage varies with producer and equipment but can be up to 14 inches deep. Growers are currently adapting strip tillage technology to a variety of row crop production systems in the Pacific Northwest.
Strip tillage, also referred to as zone or vertical tillage, offers many environmental and economic advantages to growers over conventional tillage, including the following:
• Increased profit per acre by eliminating several tillage operations.
º Decreased fuel costs.
º Decreased labor costs.
º Decreased machine maintenance costs.
º Decreased time per acre, allowing more acres to be farmed or allowing more personal time.
• Ability to deep band during the strip tillage operation, reducing phosphorus and potassium losses via surface water runoff.
• Benefits of less soil movement (soil stirring).
º Increases water infiltration rates, which decreases runoff due to greater aggregation of soil particles and increased number of large water flow paths created by roots and worms.
º Increases organic matter levels of the soil (improving soil tilth) by incorporating less oxygen in the soil and slowing microbial breakdown of organic matter.
• Benefits of increased residue on surface of the soil (percent residue cover).
º Residues decrease soil sealing caused by energy of raindrop impacts tearing soil particles apart.
º Creates irrigation water savings by decreasing soil water evaporation by residue reflecting sunlight, thereby cooling the soil and slowing air movement over the soil surface.
º Reduces plant loss by blowing sand (wind erosion).
Strip Tillage Maintains Yield Levels
Strip tillage is a relatively new farming system, especially in the Pacific Northwest. Local research conducted on a farm in 2009 near Jamieson, Oregon, by Jensen and Norberg showed that yields of corn grown under strip tillage planted into wheat residue matched conventional yields and that six separate field operations, including two diskings, one field cultivation, fertilizer application, and a dammer-diker, were replaced with a flailing and a strip tillage operation (table 1). In Minnesota, research showed that strip tillage in a continuous corn rotation slightly reduced corn grain yield by 4 bu/a compared to conventional tillage and increased grain yield by 7 bu/a compared to no tillage (table 2; Vetsch and Randall 2002). After soybeans, corn yields grown under strip tillage matched conventional and no-tillage yields.
Research from Iowa found no difference in corn yield between strip tillage, no tillage, and conventional tillage in a corn-soybean rotation (Al-Kaisi and Licht 2004). Research from 2004 to 2008 in Montana showed strip tillage in sugar beets after cereals maintained sugar beet yield (figure 2), sugar content, and sucrose yield as compared to conventional tillage (Evans et al. 2009). Five to seven tillage trips were eliminated by changing tillage systems to strip tillage in this study, showing that strip tillage is more economical. In summary, research has shown that strip tillage matches conventional yield levels.
More about Strip Tillage
Strip tillage and planting can be done separately in a two-pass system (figure 3) or in a one-pass system, often using a caddy to connect the strip tillage unit to the planter (figure 4). Auto-steer systems are generally used with both one- and two-pass systems.
If planting is done in a two-pass system, strip tillage can be done in the fall or in the spring, right up to planting. As with any tillage, do not till when soils are too wet, because compaction may occur and reduce the effectiveness of strip tillage fracturing the soil. One advantage of the two-pass system is soil temperature. Strip tillage before planting moves the residue to the row middles, allowing the soil to warm up for planting. In heavy, wet soils it will take longer for the soil to warm than in dry, sandy soils. Strip tillage done in the fall may allow for an earlier planting if soils remain wet in the spring. When considering timing of the strip tillage, consider issues like work load and cattle grazing. You do not want livestock in the field after strip tillage, as they will compact the soil in the strip and create problems.
Planting the seed accurately in the center of the tilled strip is essential to establishing a successful stand. With the one-pass system, the strip tillage unit is physically connected to the planter and makes this task easy. With the two-pass system, accurate planting can be precisely accomplished with the aid of an auto-guidance system. Currently, the most accurate method of accomplishing this is the real-time kinematic global positioning system (RTK GPS), which uses satellite and ground-based radio signals together to provide the differential corrections, which, depending on the system, can enable sub-inch accuracy (figure 5). However, less technical approaches (e.g., traditional marker strips placed on the soil surface) can be effective in some situations (figures 6 and 7). As with any tillage system, all components of the system must be in place to be successful.
When dealing with high-residue irrigated environments in the Pacific Northwest, handling the residue in a way that allows for successful seeding is a must. When harvesting the previous crop, using a chaff spreader to spread chaff back over the width of the combine header reduces problems with seedling emergence (figure 8).
Advantages of Strip Tillage Compared to Conventional Tillage
Compared to conventional tillage, strip tillage reduces water and wind erosion, especially in sandy soils, where stands can be lost each spring in wind storms. Strip tillage can greatly reduce this problem by leaving wheat stubble upright or by growing a cover crop and killing it prior to planting, both of which reduce soil movement and protect young seedlings (figure 9).
Strip tillage reduces soil stirring compared to conventional tillage, which improves soil organic matter content and reduces CO2 losses from the soil (USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service n.d.). Keeping residue on the soil surface helps prevent snow from blowing away and reduces soil evaporation to the atmosphere. Reducing tillage reduces the labor and fuel required per area cropped. Crop residue provides food and protective cover for wildlife. Some day you may even get sellable carbon credits associated with strip tillage and carbon retention.
Water savings is another potential advantage of strip tillage. Research from the arid state of Texas on strip tillage in cotton production showed that strip tillage compared to conventional tillage reduced water loss from the soil (evaporation) by 39%, saving 2.5 inches of water (Lascano et al. 1994).
Disadvantages of Strip Tillage Compared to Conventional Tillage
To be successful, strip tillage will require more management, skill, and planning than conventional tillage. Conventional tillage stirs the soil more thoroughly, incorporating more residue than strip tillage and making planting easier. Conventional tillage does not require as precise driving when planting. Conventional tillage may allow more flexibility in timing for weed control; however, if herbicide-resistant varieties of crops are available, this is not much of an issue. Thus, for strip tillage, different management practices and knowledge will likely be required in the areas of residue management, weed management, and seed placement with planter (figure 10).
Cooler soil temperature in the spring is one of the problems with leaving residue and not tilling. However, fall strip tillage can eliminate this problem. Research has shown that removing residue has a larger impact on warming soils than tillage (Kaspar et al. 1990; McGuire 2009; figure 11). Row cleaners put on the strip tillage unit and planter can help move any residue away from the seeding area (figures 6 and 12).
Further research needs to be done to determine the influence of timing of strip tillage on crop growth and yield for different soil types and residue levels. In the one-pass strip tillage system, soil temperatures may be cooler during germination, resulting in slower plant emergence. Under these conditions, plant stress may increase seedling diseases and nutrient deficiencies.
Strip Tillage Joins Benefits of No Tillage and Conventional Tillage
Strip tillage offers a compromise that retains most of the advantages of no-till planting but also addresses conditions that local farmers cannot control, such as compaction and nonuniform residue distribution caused by harvest, compaction-prone sandy soils, and short-term land leases. Strip tillage enables deep ripping to remove hard pans and provide an area for the roots to penetrate vertically. It also allows fertilizer to be applied below the surface. If the strip tillage operation is done before planting, soil temperatures are higher compared to no-till soil and provide better stand establishment (figure 13).
Strip tillage does not stir the soil as much as conventional tillage, but does so more than no-till. In general, tillage should be done only when necessary, because tillage negatively impacts desirable soil properties (e.g., soil structure), decreases surface soil moisture, decreases water infiltration rates, and increases sealing of soil by rainfall or irrigation.
Why Intensely Irrigated Areas Have Been Slow to Adopt Reduced Tillage
Residue can interfere with water movement in corrugates or furrows, causing irrigation management problems, nonuniform irrigation, and likely reduced yields. Sprinkler-irrigated areas do not have this problem. Strip tillage works with furrow irrigation when all the residue is removed with crops such as alfalfa and corn silage. Small-seeded high-value crops require better seed to soil contact than large-seed crops and require more management when considering strip tillage.
To help keep residue from reducing seed to soil contact, consider placing row cleaners in front of the strip tillage shanks (figure 6), as well as in front of the planter (figure 12). To reduce risk associated with the strip tillage, start with a small acreage until you have worked out system issues. This may mean borrowing equipment or contracting with someone with experience until you get the problems worked out.
Pointers That Will Lead to Success
• Select suitable fields. Strip tillage is not suitable when proper residue management has not been done on the field. For example, significant piles of chaff will likely reduce stands. Fields that were left in bad condition, such as those with deep ruts from a wet harvest, may require conventional tillage before or instead of strip tillage. Strip tillage after other tillage may not work as well, since it was designed to work in a firm field.
• Manage residue. Planning your future crop rotations will help you avoid problems. When harvesting the crop previous to strip tillage, ensure that residue is evenly spread. Many times leaving the residue attached to the ground will aid in reducing plugging of strip tillage equipment. Residue levels may become more than strip tillage and planting can handle especially in small-seeded crops. In these situations, consider grazing, baling, or use of a rolling stalk chopper or turbo till to reduce size and total amount of residue. All these methods are accomplished without stirring the soil aggressively and will assist in keeping residues to a workable level. If you are going to graze cattle on the residue, be aware that volunteer wheat root mass may be significant enough to cause issues with spring strip tillage. A timely herbicide application may reduce problems next spring.
• Power needed. Up to 30 horsepower per row may be required. Horsepower requirements depend on the type of tillage unit, shank depth, soil moisture, and speed of tillage. For best results, follow manufacturer recommendations.
• Invest in a quality machine. Strip tillage is still a relatively new concept and advances in machines may help your strip tillage succeed. Also, if a large area will be covered, a RTK GPS system will likely be beneficial, since tolerances are less than 1 inch.
• Allow more time for learning a new farming system. Start with managing the residue of the previous crop and then work out your whole crop rotation.
• Stay on the row. Planting in the center of the strip tillage row will be worth your time, effort and money.
• Apply fertilizer in row. Producers should take advantage of being able to deep-band nutrients, especially immobile nutrients in the soil, such as phosphorus and potassium. Deep banding will increase efficiency and reduce phosphorus losses in runoff to surface water. Application of immobile nutrients can be done in the fall, when more time may be available. Tubes for liquid (figure 14) or dry fertilizer (figure 6) are placed down each ripper shank.
• Avoid compaction in strip tillage row. When applying herbicides or other applications after strip tillage, avoid compaction in the row as much as possible, because you will have a strong impact on your seed bed. When applying herbicide, consider applying it perpendicularly to the strips in the field.
• Row cleaners on planters. Use residue managers to move any residue off the row.
• Don't conduct strip tillage or plant when it's too wet. Conducting stripping tillage when it is too wet will cause compaction (at the depth of the shank). Planting when it is too wet will cause sidewall compaction (smear the sidewalls), which may inhibit root growth and reduce yields.
• Anticipate new weed problems. You may need to select a different herbicide to combat weeds that were normally controlled by tillage. Especially keep an eye out for an increase in perennial weeds.
• Crops to consider under strip tillage. When just starting strip tillage, it is easier to start with a large-seed crop, such as corn. Sugar beet and other small-seeded crops require a cleaner strip to plant. Cutting wheat or barley stubble 8 to 12 inches and baling is helpful when growing sugar beets.
• Clay soils. Strip tillage on clay soils, when soil moisture is too dry, causes clods. Strip tillage when soil moisture is too wet causes compaction and smearing. Fall strip tillage allows time for clods to break down and for the strip to become mellower with freezing and thawing over winter. Clods may be an issue where wheel traffic has compacted soils.
• Planters seeding depth gauge wheels. Depth wheels should be close to the place of seed drop. For small-seeded crops, depth wheels should be less than 8 inches from the seed drop to help adjust planting depth for undulations in strip tillage areas.
• Seek information of producers who are already using strip tillage. Finding producers who are currently using strip tillage will accelerate success by reducing the number of mistakes made during adoption.
Economics of Strip Tillage
The calculations below illustrate how producers planting corn after wheat under a sprinkler irrigation system would compare the savings of strip tillage to conventional tillage. The example assumes that (1) the producer exchanges a rolling stalk chopper or turbo till and a glyphosate application for one disking to kill volunteer wheat after wheat harvest and (2) strip tillage eliminates plowing, another disking, fertilizer application, cultivation, and a dammer-diker operation. In addition, the cost of tillage and spraying used in this example came from the Malheur County Custom Agriculture Operators (Jensen 2010). Since no custom rate for strip tillage has yet been established, fuel and labor costs for operating a strip tillage unit were estimated, as was the calculated savings toward purchasing and maintaining a strip tillage unit. I estimate the cost of a six-row (30 inch rows) strip tillage unit at $30,000 plus an additional $20,000 for RTK GPS.
Yearly payments including GPS would be $13,192 for five years (total cost $65,960), which includes 10% interest. An eight-row unit would probably be a better fit for 500 acres, but we used a six-row unit for our example. Strip tillage, the number of rows, and the width per row must match your planter and the horsepower of your tractor.


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An evening of socializing and golf takes a dark turn after a body turns up in the drawing room of the host, in Agatha Christie's "Spider's Web," now on stage at Coach House Theatre in Akron.
Coach House has had a tradition of staging one Agatha Christie mystery every season, and this one won't disappoint mystery fans. The cast is excellent and the pacing is on target. Also, the storyline and setup is not typical of most Christie tales.
"This is a little lighter," said Andrew Cruse, who directs. "The humor is almost farcical at times. We tried to find a balance between the mystery and the farcical elements. When Nancy [Cates, co-artistic director] showed me the script, and I saw it opens with two men in a contest drinking port, I told her I knew this was a script I could get behind," he added and laughed.
What also makes this play different is the audience is concentrating not just on the whodunit (and I for one was completely off), but on how the guests and occupants of the house will deflect the questions of the police and avoid a scandal.
Sir Rowland Delahaye (Timothy H. Champion), Hugo Birch (Mark Stoffer) and Jeremy Warrender (Derrick Winger) are meeting in the home of Henry Hailsham Brown (Henry Bishop) and his young wife Clarissa (Kyra Kelley). Henry is away on business, so the imaginative Clarissa plays hostess. The evening takes a dark turn with the appearance of Oliver Costello (Dane Lee performs in some shows, Cruse on Feb. 7 through 9), the current husband of Henry's first wife, who threatens to take Clarissa's stepdaughter Pippa (Snezana Jelic) away.
The night gets stranger after Clarissa finds a dead body in the drawing room. She has every reason to keep this information from the police, but that becomes difficult when Inspector Lord (Richard Worswick) and Constable Jones (Michael James) show up, saying their received a phone call about a murder at the residence. Clarissa's penchant for telling tales, which exasperates her husband and friends, might wind up being the thing that saves everyone.
Also in the cast are Karen L. Wood as gardener Mildred Peake, and Michael Cranston as the butler Elgin.
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"Spider's Web" can be seen through Feb. 16.
Curtain times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.
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MONTREAL — Statistically, child sexual abuse is no more or less common among haredi Jews than any other part of the population.
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The trouble, argues Amy Neustein, is that to come forward about it within the haredi community and its insular enclaves almost invariably means ostracism, shunning, shame and even banishment.
Those were among the points made by Neustein, who is Orthodox herself and an expert on child sexual abuse, in an interview she gave for a Jewish-focused episode of Sex Scandals in History, a four-part series by Cogent/Bender Productions that aired in Canada last month on Vision TV.
The second segment, directed by Toronto's Alan Mendelsohn, was called Wall of Silence and centred on allegations of pedophilia that occurred within haredi communities in Winnipeg and Brooklyn.
"These are issues that upset the balance – the homeostasis – of those communities, and that is why they cannot be tolerated," Neustein said in a recent telephone interview from Fort Lee, N.J., where she lives. "The worst thing you can do is to disrupt that balance."
Neustein, who has a PhD in sociology, has personal experience with the subject. In 1986, she lost custody of her six-year-old daughter in a court system that she says punished her for "trying to protect my daughter from abuse" allegedly committed by her father.
Since then, Neustein spent years overcoming the trauma and has written a book, 2005's From Madness to Mutiny: Why Mothers are Running from the Family Courts – and What Can Be Done About It, which she co-authored with lawyer Michael Lesher, also an Orthodox Jew, and edited 2009's Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals, a collection of essays by rabbis, educators, lawyers and psychotherapists on sexual abuse by Jewish clergy.
Both are considered landmark works.
Within haredi communities, Neustein said, child sexual abuse and pedophilia can happen anywhere: at home by a parent, in yeshiva by a teacher, in shul by a rabbi or bar mitzvah tutor, or even at the mikvah.
"In nine out of 10 cases, if the child tells a parent, the parent will say: 'You're making up stories!'" Neustein said.
And in the rare case where the child is believed, it's the whole family that is punished, Neustein said. "Insular communities have to work smoothly, so they cannot tolerate anything that might disrupt or divide them."
Neustein said families that threaten to go to the police to report sex abuse are coerced into having a rabbinic court deal with the charges, but such courts invariably force the families to back down or face total community approbation and/or banishment.
The result?
"The perpetrator is protected," Neustein said, while the abused go on to live in torment, shame and guilt, or perhaps even to eventually become abusers themselves.
Or, she said, they might have severe marital troubles and other problems, such as substance abuse.
"I've been scolded many times," Neustein said. "They ask: 'Why are you scolding us, washing our linen in public?'"
Neustein was encouraged that in Canada, at least, a "first big step" was being taken by having a TV documentary bring the issue to light. Last February, Rabbi Nachum Rosenberg, a haredi rabbi from Brooklyn who has spent the last decade fighting sex abuse within his own community, spoke in Montreal. Neustein was certain that considering the significant number of haredi Jews who reside in Montreal, the very same issues of child sex abuse that exist in her country, Israel and elsewhere, exist here, too.
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What does a mom with a healthy baby say to a former supervisor who lost her infant son to SIDS?
The Hardest Condolences
Dear Condolences,
There's a tradition that says you shouldn't invite people to a bris because you don't want to put anyone in the position of having to say no to doing a mitzvah. It's a mitzvah to welcome a new baby into the world, and it's a mitzvah to comfort mourners. The former is easier and implicates you in sharing happiness instead of sorrow. Easier certainly doesn't equal more important, though. You could make the argument that it's unfair of your friend to have brought this tragedy to your attention when it wasn't clear if you would be in a position to provide comfort, but life can be unfair, as your former supervisor has now experienced all too painfully.
You might not have anything you want to say to her. You might think she'll resent hearing from you. You might feel like it's weird to get in touch now because you've been out of touch for so long. You might worry that she'll think it's out of place. You might even resent being put in a position to think about how you'd feel if you were in her shoes because, well, it's just unspeakable to consider. Your hesitation to comfort her because of your own child is both self-centered and completely understandable, but you're overthinking the situation. When someone is suffering, you comfort them, even if you're not entirely sure how much comfort your words can actually provide.
Realistically, nothing you say will make her pain go away, but you can let her know she's not alone. Perhaps hearing from you from a somewhat distant part of her life will provide a positive connection to a time prior to this tragedy. She may or may not be Jewish, but regardless, you can consider the sentiment of the traditional Jewish words to say to a mourner: "May God console you among the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem." Yes, the individual is mourning, but there is a communal context that allows someone at their darkest moment to know that others before them and among them have survived and moved on with life. A very helpful article on mourning from myjewishlearning.com says the following about these words: "Jewish tradition understands the quandary of those who want to comfort mourners but cannot articulate words of comfort, so it provides a formulaic religious response to what is essentially an inexpressible emotion."
Send her a card. It can be simple. It can just say, "Thinking of you." It's the right thing to do both for her and for you. We can hope that our collective futures include more opportunities to welcome babies into the world then to mourn for those who have left. If you hear about this woman having another baby, maybe even having a bris, send a card then, too.
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The 66th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference will be held September 30 to October 4, 2013 in Princeton, NJ at the Westin Hotel. Princeton is located halfway between Philadelphia and New York City accessible by train from the 4 major international airports. Princeton climate is especially pleasant in early October with the mean temperature at 60 F (15 C). Princeton has a vibrant scientific and cultural community and is the residence of the Princeton University and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
- Receipt of postdeadline abstracts: Monday, August 26, 2013
- Nominations for GEC Student Award for Excellence: passed
- Requests for student travel assistance: passed
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- Late online registration: Friday, September 13, 2013
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LAKE COUNTY -- Registration is now open for new students for the spring semester at Mendocino College. The schedule of classes is available for download on the college's website.
The 53-page schedule contains details for every class offered through Mendocino College for the Spring 2013 semester, which begins Jan. 22. This includes classes held at the Lake and Willits centers in addition to those held at the main campus in Ukiah. Prospective students will also find classes offered online.
Basic skills classes are available in math and English and are designed to meet the needs of new students. Placement tests are available through the college's learning center.
Transfer-level classes can be applied toward a degree at a four-year school.
Career and Technical Education courses are for students who seek employable skills.
Guleff added that "There seems to be a misconception" that arts classes were cut from the college's offerings. According to Guleff, more than 60 courses are offered in Arts and Theater sections of the schedule. Classes range from from painting, drawing and ceramics to dance, acting and costume construction.
Information is available online at www.mendocino.edu. The website features an online application, online registration and information about services such as orientation, counseling and financial aid.
The Mendocino College Lake Center is located at 1005 Parallel Drive in Lakeport. For more information, call 263-4944.