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eBay vs Mazuma, Fonebank and Bowzowi: should I recycle or sell my old mobile?
Got an old phone lying around? You might be able to get the most cash for it on eBay - but will you get a better deal than going through a recycling site like Mazuma or Fonebank?
When it's time to trade in your old mobile, there's plenty of different ways to dispose of it. Don't just leave it languishing in a drawer because it could make you some serious money, especially if it is a popular smartphone.
Some iPhone models can command hundreds of pounds in resale value, and the best way of maximising your profits is to sell through eBay. In theory you can't go wrong. Set a reserve price for the minimum you will let it go for and let the bidding begin.
But, selling on eBay is not without its risks, and there has been an increase in the number of scams involving high value items like smartphones which might make you think twice.
Tips for selling your phone safely on eBay
Restore your phone to factory settings.
This will wipe all your personal data, which is clearly important for security reasons. If it's an iPhone, sync it with iTunes first so as not to lose all your data completely!
Unlock your phone.
Unlocked phones will fetch the best price as it gives the purchaser the option to go with whichever carrier they like. You can unlock a smartphone 'unofficially' using a method known as jail-breaking (take a look at this PC World article to learn about the pros and cons).
However, it is perfectly legal to unlock a phone and can be done with minimal hassle and cost. Take an iPhone, locked into an O2 contract. When that contract has come to an end (and NOT before, unless you wish to pay a hefty contract breakage charge) you can simply ring O2 and ask for the phone to be unlocked. They do not charge, and the phone is usually unlocked in less than three days. Other companies may charge for this, so check with your carrier.
Include original accessories.
Phones that come with their original wires and accessories will be most attractive, so include them with the purchase if you can.
Point out faults.
Even a scratched or cracked phone can fetch a fair price as long as it works - there is also a market for broken phones for spare parts. If you don't disclose faults you will have an angry customer asking for a refund and leaving negative feedback.
Use the right postal method.
The most basic of all scams is for the buyer to claim that they never received the package, that it has been lost in the post. While it is possible that this could be true, whether it is or not you as the seller must refund the buyer in full, including postal costs.
There is no doubt that eBay favours the buyer when there is a dispute and if you refuse to refund in such a situation then eBay will issue a charge-back and take the money from your Paypal account anyway. eBay's terms and conditions make it clear that the safe delivery of the package is the responsibility of the seller.
If a parcel goes missing the procedure is that you refund the buyer and then make a claim back through the Post Office. Depending on how you have mailed the phone, you will be entitled to different levels of compensation. Take a look at this Royal Mail table to work out the best way to send your parcel. Royal Mail also have a page dedicated to eBayer Users for extra help and advice.
Pack securely.
Go mental with the bubble wrap – you don't want to be contacted to say it has broken in the post as yes, you guessed it, you will have to refund.
Specify 'pick up only'.
Avoid 'postal mishaps' by stating that you won't post the item and people must come to you to collect it. They can either pay cash on delivery or by Paypal in advance. This negates the chances of the phone getting 'lost' in the post. It also means that you are restricting your potential buyers to those in your immediate area, so you may not get quite such a good price.
Don't forget to take into account eBay fees, Paypal fees and postage costs when calculating how much you will make. Depending on your phone type and model, it may not be worth the hassle and you might decide to use a recycling website instead.
Comparison with recycling websites
There are hundreds of mobile phone recycling websites who will offer you a wide variety of prices for your handset, so it is definitely worth shopping around. Try using a mobile phone comparison website like www.unlovedmobiles.co.uk to find the best deal for your handset.
But, how do they compare to the sorts of prices you could achieve on eBay?
Phone Type |
Possible price through eBay |
Best price through phone recycling site |
Non-working through recycling site |
Apple iPhone 4 16GB |
Between £250 - £350 |
£246 from MoneyForYourPhone |
£105 from Fonebank.com |
Blackberry Curve 8520 |
Between £50 - £100 |
£54 from MoneyForYourPhone |
£30 from Bowzowi.co.uk |
Nokia 5800 Xpress Music |
Between £49- £80 |
£45 from Phonehub.co.uk |
£20 from Mazumamobile.com |
HTC Desire |
Between £78- £121 |
£72 from Fonebank.com |
£35 from Fonebank.com |
Samsung S5230 Tocco Lite |
Between £25 - £55 |
£18 from Fonebank.com |
£9 from Fonebank.com |
The highest eBay prices were all achieved by unlocked, excellent condition phones with accessories.
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License: LLGPL
Source repository: http://common-lisp.net/project/xcvb/git/cl-launch.git
Download: http://common-lisp.net/project/xcvb/cl-launch/
cl-launch will help you invoke your Lisp software from the Unix command-line. It is a self-contained shell-script that will abstract away the details of the underlying Lisp implementation by generating the proper Lisp and shell code. Extensive automated testing ensures that it works in thousands of valid combined operation modes, Lisp and shell implementations.
Currently supported Lisp implementations:
Full support (including standalone programs): sbcl 1.0.22, clisp 2.48, clozurecl 1.2, ecl 0.9.6
Supporting everything but standalone programs: cmucl 19b, allegro 5.0, gcl 2.7.
Partial support: gcl 2.6 (no asdf), lispworks 5.1 pro (with limitations).
Here follows the output of /usr/bin/cl-launch.sh --more-help:
cl-launch.sh 2.15 -- shell wrapper generator for Common Lisp software Usage: cl-launch '(lisp (form) to evaluate)' evaluate specified Lisp form, print the results followed by newline cl-launch --execute [...] [-- arguments...] run the specified software without generating a script (default) cl-launch --output SCRIPT [--file LISP_FILE] [--init LISP_FORM] [...] generate a runnable shell script FILE from a software specification cl-launch --update FILE [...] same as above, but reuse software specification from previous FILE cl-launch [ --version | --help | --more-help ] display information (might be long, you may pipe it into a pager) Special modes: -h or -? --help display a short help message -H --more-help display a longer help message -V --version display cl-launch version and configuration -u FILE --update FILE update a cl-launch script to current version Software specification: -m IMAGE --image IMAGE Load Lisp image IMAGE -f FILE --file FILE FILE to be embedded or loaded -s SYSTEM --system SYSTEM asdf SYSTEM to be loaded -r FUNC --restart restart FUNC to funcall before initializations -i FORM --init FORM initialization FORM to evaluate after loading -ip FORM --print FORM evaluate and princ FORM after loading -iw FORM --write FORM evaluate and write FORM after loading -p PATH --path PATH register asdf systems search PATH -pc --path-current register current directory to asdf (default) +p --no-path do not register any asdf system PATH -l LISP... --lisp LISP... specify list of supported LISP implementations -w CODE --wrap CODE specify shell CODE to run in the wrapper -I PATH --include PATH specify runtime PATH to cl-launch installation +I --no-include disable cl-launch installation feature -R --rc try read /etc/cl-launchrc and ~/.cl-launchrc +R --no-rc skip /etc/cl-launchrc and ~/.cl-launchrc -b --clbuild use clbuild (see limitations in documentation) +b --no-clbuild do not use clbuild -v --verbose be very noisy while building software -q --quiet be quiet while building software (default) Output options: -x -o ! --execute no file creation, run the thing NOW (default) -o FILE --output FILE specify FILE name of output script -d DUMP --dump DUMP dump an image of the world for faster startup -X ... -- (see more help) use #!/path/to/cl-launch as script interpreter -- -- end of cl-launch arguments when using -x or -X INVOCATION OF CL-LAUNCH CL-Launch will create a shell script that, when invoked, will evaluate the specified Lisp software with an appropriate Common Lisp implementation. A suggested short-hand name for cl-launch is cl (you may create a symlink if it isn't included in your operating system's cl-launch package). The software is specified as the execution, in this order, of: * optionally having your Lisp start from a Lisp IMAGE (option --image) * loading a small header of code that provides common cl-launch functionality * optionally loading the contents of a FILE (option --file) * optionally having ASDF load a SYSTEM (option --system) * optionally having your Lisp DUMP an image to restart from (option --dump) * optionally having your Lisp execute a RESTART function (option --restart) * optionally evaluating a series of initialization FORMS (option --init) General note on cl-launch invocation: options are processed from left to right; in case of conflicting or redundant options, the latter override the former. The cl-launch Lisp header manages compilation of Lisp code into a fasl cache and provides uniform access to the invocation context. It defines a package :cl-launch that exports the following symbols: *arguments* getenv quit load-system compile-and-load-file compile-file-pathname* apply-pathname-translations *output-pathname-translations* apply-output-pathname-translations See below section 'CL-LAUNCH RUNTIME API'. The cl-launch header will try to load ASDF. It will first try to (require ...) it from your Lisp implementation, then will try a path provided through environment variable $ASDF_PATH if available, then it will look in your home directory under ~src/asdf/asdf.lisp and finally it will search for the default common-lisp-controller installation of it in /usr/share/common-lisp/source/asdf/asdf.lisp or /usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-asdf/asdf.lisp If asdf is not found, cl-launch will proceed but you won't be able to use it and the --system option will be unavailable. Only one input files may be specified with option --file. Now, if the specified filename is '-' (without the quotes), then the standard input is used. You may thus concatenate several files and feed them to cl-launch through a pipe. Or you may write Lisp code that loads the files you need in order. Only one system may be specified with option --system, because the right thing to do if your software depends upon multiple systems is to write a system definition that :depends-on several other systems. It may still be useful to combine options --file and --system, since you may want to prepare your Lisp system with proper settings and proclamations before you load your system. You may specify that a snapshot image of the Lisp world be dumped at this point with option --dump. Execution of the program will consist in restarting the Lisp implementation from that dumped image. See section DUMPING IMAGES. You may optionally specify a restart function with option --restart, to be called every time the software is invoked. If you are dumping an image, this function will be called right after execution resumes from the dumped image. If you are not dumping an image, it will merely be executed after loading the system from source or fasl. Only one restart function may be specified with option --restart. If you want several functions to be called, you may DEFUN one that calls them and use it as a restart, or you may use init forms below. Several instances of option --init FORMS may specify as many series of forms that will be read and evaluated sequentially as top-level forms, as loaded from a string stream after the rest of the software has been loaded. Loading from a stream means you don't have to worry about packages and other nasty read-time issues; however it also means that if you care a lot about the very last drop of startup delay when invoking a dumped image, you'll be using option --restart only and avoiding --init. Option --print (or -ip) specifies FORMS where the result of the last form is to be printed as if by PRINC, followed by a newline. Option --write (or -iw) is similar to --print, using WRITE instead of PRINC. When the various side effects from software invocation happen depend on how cl-launch is invoked. For the purpose of side effects, software invocation may be divided in two phases: software preparation and software execution. Software preparation consists in compiling and loading the software as specified by options --file and --system. During software preparation, object files are cached and will be loaded without being recompiled if a previous version exists that does not depend upon any modified sources. If no image is dumped, then software preparation happens at each invocation of the generated script. If an image is dumped then the preparation only happens at invocation of cl-launch, and the generated script will use the prepared software directly; with ECL, the load-time (but not compile-time) side-effects of software preparation are evaluated every time a dumped image is invoked. Software execution happens at every invocation, after the prepared software has been suitably loaded. First the --restart function, if provided, is called. Then, the --init forms, if provided, are evaluated. When option --execute is specified, the specified software is executed. Command-line arguments may be given to software being executed by putting them after a special marker '--', that ends cl-launch option processing. When option --output FILE is used, code will be generated into the specified FILE. The output file itself will be created atomically from complete generated contents and may thus have the same pathname as the input file. The restart function and init forms will not be evaluated, but kept for when the output file is executed. If '-' (without quotes) is specified, then the standard output is used. If '!' (without quotes) is specified, then option --execute is assumed. When no --output file is specified, option --execute is implicitly assumed. The last --output or --execute option takes precedence over the previous ones. If only one argument exists and it doesn't start with '-' then the argument is considered as if given to option -ip, to be evaluated and printed immediately. Multiple paths may be supplied that will be added to asdf:*central-registry* before any software is loaded, so that asdf may find the required systems. Each instance of option --path will specify one such path. The paths will be added in reverse order, so that the those specified earlier have priority over those specified later. You may also withhold any modification to asdf's central registry by specifying option --no-path. Or you may specify the current directory (at the time cl-launch is run) with option --path-current. The default if none of these options have been specified is --no-path. At each specification, an argument containing only alphanumerics and characters -+_,.:=%/ will be considered as a pathname; any other specification will be considered as an arbitrary Lisp expression (that will not be evaluated). You can also add things to asdf:*central-registry* in your system-wide or user configuration files for the startup of your Lisp implementation, but note that the default arguments used by cl-launch when invoking those implementations will disable system and user configuration files. See below how to change these arguments. Options --lisp and --wrap may be used to control the way that a Common Lisp implementation is found when the software is run. Option --lisp specifies the list of Common Lisp implementations to try to use; the list is whitespace-separated, and consists in nicknames recognized by cl-launch. Option --wrap supplies arbitrary code to be evaluated by the shell wrapper, after it has read its configuration and defined its internal functions, but before it tries to find and run a Lisp implementation. Such wrapper code is typically used to modify the variables that control the run-time behaviour of generated scripts, as documented below. Use of other internals of cl-launch is possible, but not supported, which means that it is your responsibility to keep a copy of the specific version of cl-launch with which your code works and to update your code if you later make an upgrade to an incompatible cl-launch. For instance, --lisp "foo bar" is equivalent to --wrap 'LISPS="foo bar"'. See below the documentation section on 'LISP IMPLEMENTATION INVOCATION'. Option --no-include specifies that cl-launch should generate a standalone script that includes the configuration, shell wrapper, Lisp header, and user-provided Lisp code (from --file). If the software doesn't use asdf, or if the asdf systems remain well located at runtime, then the script is pretty much standalone indeed an may be moved around the filesystem and still used. However the size of the output will be the size of the user Lisp code plus about 43KiB. Option --include PATH specifies that cl-launch should generate a very small script (typically under 1KiB) that when run will read the cl-launch shell wrapper and Lisp header from a specified installation directory PATH. Also, if option --include is used, and Lisp code is specified with --file and an absolute pathname starting with / as opposed to a relative pathname or to the standard input, then Lisp code will also be loaded from the specified location at runtime rather than embedded into the script at generation time. This option generates leaner scripts, but may not be applicable when the very same script is to used in a variety of situations that lack common coherent filesystem management. Which of --include or --no-include is the default may depend on your cl-launch installation. The version of cl-launch distributed by the author uses --no-include by default, but the version of cl-launch available in your operating system distribution may rely on a well-managed include path (this is the case with debian for instance). You may query the configuration of an instance of cl-launch with option --version. For instance, one may expect a debian version of cl-launch to use /usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-launch/ as a system-managed include path. One may also expect that Lisp implementations managed by the system would come with cl-launch precompiled in Lisp images. Since the cl-launch provides feature :cl-launch, and since the cl-launch Lisp header is conditionalized to not be read with this feature, this would make cl-launch startup faster, while still allowing non-system-managed Lisp implementations to run fine. You may create an installation of cl-launch with such a command as cl-launch --include /usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-launch \ --lisp 'sbcl ccl clisp' \ --rc \ --output /usr/bin/cl-launch -B install You can use command -B install_bin if you only want to configure cl-launch (with a different default for --lisp but no --include, for instance), and command -B install_path if you only want to create support files. Note that the --backdoor option -B must come last in your invocation. Option --no-rc or +R specifies that cl-launch should not try to read resource files /etc/cl-launchrc and ~/.cl-launchrc. Option --rc or -R specifies that cl-launch should try to read resource files /etc/cl-launchrc and ~/.cl-launchrc. These files are notably useful to define override the value of $LISP depending on $SOFTWARE_SYSTEM. A function system_preferred_lisps is provided so that your cl-launchrc might contain lines as follows: system_preferred_lisps stumpwm cmucl sbcl clisp system_preferred_lisps exscribe clisp cmucl sbcl Beware that for the sake of parsing option --no-rc, the resource files are run *after* options are processed, and that any overriding of internal variables will thus preempt user-specified options. A warning will be printed on the standard error output when such an override happens. Note that such overrides only happen at script-creation time. A script created by cl-launch will not try to read the cl-launch resource files. Files generated by cl-launch are made of several well-identifiable sections. These sections may thus be considered as distinct software, each available under its own regime of intellectual property (if any). In case of an accident, you may still retrieve the exact original code provided with option --file by stripping the wrapper, as delimited by well-identified markers. Search for the marker string "BEGINS HERE:". Every after it is not cl-launch. This can be done automatically with backdoor option -B extract_lisp_content. cl-launch uses this functionality implicitly when embedding a file specified with the option --file, so that you may process a script previously generated by cl-launch and change the options with which it wraps the embedded Lisp code into runnable software. As an alternative, you may also upgrade a previously generated script to use the current version of cl-launch while preserving its original wrapping options with option --update. In this case, software specification options are ignored. Output options still apply. Specifying '-' (without quotes) as the file to update means to read the contents to be read from the standard input. This feature might not work with scripts generated by very early versions of the cl-launch utility. It should work with versions later than 1.47. COMPILATION AND FASL CACHING A cl-launch generated program will compile the contents of the file supplied with --file the first time it is invoked. Note that this happens even when the file contents were embedded in the script, since compiling or loading the wrapped file is equivalent to compiling or loading the original file supplied. So as to avoid problems with badly interfering fasl files everywhere, cl-launch sets up a fasl cache to hold fasl files in a proper place. It will also modify asdf so that it too will put files in the same cache. This caching mechanism will be disabled if common-lisp-controller is present, since c-l-c version 6.0 and later already do a similar caching. The fasl cache is a per-user, per-Lisp-implementation, per-source-pathname, mapping of source files to compiled files fasl. The fasl for a file $DIR/$FILE with be stored in directory $HOME/.cache/lisp-fasl/$IMPL/$DIR/ Here, $IMPL is a unique string generated by cl-launch in a way similar to what SLIME does, and stored in cl-launch::*implementation-name*. You may specify an alternate cache directory instead of the default $HOME/.cache/lisp-fasl/ by setting and exporting the environment variable $LISP_FASL_CACHE You may also disable the cache altogether, by using the value NIL (uppercase). This path is stored in variable cl-launch::*lisp-fasl-cache*. Because the cache reserves a separate directory for every Lisp implementation, it prevents common problems due to a same pathname being used by several different and incompatible implementations or versions of a same implementation to store their fasl files, resulting in conflict. This makes it easy to share source code hierarchy among users, machines, implementations. As a variant, if you know for sure which implementation you're using and have set the variable $LISP, you can override the whole path with variable $LISP_FASL_ROOT so that fasls for code under $DIR with be stored under $LISP_FASL_ROOT/$DIR. This feature plays well with common-lisp-controller: the clc cache will take precedence when detected (tested with common-lisp-controller 4.12 to 6.6). Hopefully, upstream versions of cl-launch and common-lisp-controller will synchronize to prevent or quickly fix any possible breakage. Due to outstanding bugs as of clc 6.17, 0.9j-20080306-4, and gclcvs 2.7.0-84.1, the clc cache is disabled for ECL and GCL. Note that you may use symlinks to move ~/.cache/lisp-fasl/ to the place of your choice, and to equate NFS paths that vary across machines for a same directory. To distinguish paths between machines that share a common home directory but with varying directory contents mounted on given identical pathnames, you can use distinct values of $LISP_FASL_CACHE depending on the machine, and merge back whatever can be merged with symlinks. SUPPORTED LISP IMPLEMENTATIONS The implementations supported by current version of cl-launch are sbcl cmucl clisp ccl allegro lispworks ecl gcl Also defined are gclcvs openmcl lisp which are name variations for gcl, ccl and cmucl respectively. Fully supported, including standalone executables: sbcl: SBCL 1.0 (22.214.171.124 needed for standalone executable) clisp: GNU CLISP 2.44 (no standalone exec before 2.48, broken before 2.36) ecl: ECL 0.9l (Beware! cache needs be cleared before to dump asd images) Fully supported, but no standalone executables: cmucl: CMUCL 19b (recently only tested with 19d) ccl: ClozureCL 1.2 (support for OpenMCL 1.1 and earlier discontinued) gclcvs (GCL 2.7): GCL 2.7.0 ansi mode (get a recent release) Incomplete support: gcl (GCL 2.6): GCL 2.6.7 ansi mode (no ASDF so --system not supported) allegro: Allegro 5 (not tested on recent versions) lispworks: LispWorks Professional 5.1.0 (annoying banner, no personal ed) GCL is only supported in ANSI mode. cl-launch does export GCL_ANSI=t in the hope that the gcl wrapper script does the right thing as it does in Debian. Also ASDF requires GCL 2.7 so --system won't work with an old gcl 2.6. There are some issues regarding standalone executables on CLISP or ECL. See below in the section regarding STANDALONE EXECUTABLES. LispWorks requires the Professional Edition. Personal edition isn't supported as it won't let you control the command line or dump images. Dumped Images will print a banner, unless you dump a standalone executable. Additionally, cl-launch supports the use of clbuild as a wrapper to invoke the Lisp implementation, with the --clbuild option. LISP IMPLEMENTATION INVOCATION When a cl-launch generated script is invoked, the cl-launch shell wrapper will try to execute the Lisp code with the first Common Lisp implementation it finds in a given list, which can be specified through option --lisp. The runtime behaviour of the cl-launch shell wrapper is very configurable through a series of environment variables. These variables can be controlled by the user by exporting them in his environment, or they can be restricted at the time of script generation by using cl-launch option --wrap. If variable LISP is defined, the shell wrapper will first try the implementation named by variable LISP. If that fails, it will try the list of implementations provided at script generation time. The list of implementations generated will be the argument to option --lisp if specified. Otherwise, cl-launch will supply its default value. This default value for the current instance of cl-launch is: sbcl clisp ccl cmucl ecl gclcvs allegro lispworks lisp gcl This LISP selection only happens at system preparation time. If you dump an image then the script will always use the Lisp implementation for which an image was dumped. If you don't then the user may override the implementation. Note that these are nicknames built into the cl-launch shell wrapper, and not necessarily names of actual binary. You may control the mapping of implementation nickname to actual binary pathname to call with an environment variable. For a given implementation nickname, the environment variable will be the capitalization of the given nickname. Hence, variable $SBCL controls where to look for a sbcl implementation, and variable $CMUCL controls where to look for a cmucl implementation. If a binary is found with a matching pathname (using the standard unix $PATH as required), then said implementation will be used, using proper command line options, that may be overriden with an environment variable similar to the previous but with _OPTIONS appended to its name. Hence, $CMUCL_OPTIONS for cmucl, $CLISP_OPTIONS for clisp, etc. Sensible defaults are provided for each implementation, so as to execute the software in non-interactive mode, with debugger disabled, without reading user-specific configuration files, etc. If you want to insist on using a given implementation with given options, you may use option --lisp and --wrap, as follows: --lisp 'sbcl clisp' wrap ' LISP= # do not allow the user to specify his implementation SBCL=/usr/bin/sbcl # not any experimental thing by the user SBCL_OPTIONS="--noinform --sysinit /dev/null --userinit /dev/null \ --disable-debugger" # predictable Lisp state CLISP=/usr/bin/clisp # fall back on machines that lack SBCL CLISP_OPTIONS=" -norc --quiet --quiet" LISP_FASL_CACHE=/var/cache/lisp-fasl # assuming precompiled fasls there ' If you dump an image, you need not unset the LISP variable, but you might still want to override any user-specified SBCL and SBCL_OPTIONS (or corresponding variables for your selected implementation) from what the user may specify. Note that you can use option --wrap "$(cat your_script)" to embed into your program a full fledged script from a file. Your script may do arbitrary computations before the shell wrapper is run. It may make some consistency checks and abort before to run Lisp. Or it may analyze invocation arguments and make according adjustments to Lisp implementation options. This can be useful for setting options that cannot be set from the Lisp code, such the path to a runtime image, interactive or non-interactive execution, size of heaps, locale settings for source file encoding, etc. Reading the source code of cl-launch can be completely crazy. You may have great fun understanding why things are how they are and adding features without breaking anything! However, adding support for a new CL implementation should be straightforward enough: just search the sources for "clisp" or "sbcl" and mimic what I did for them. Be sure to send me what will get your favorite Lisp flavor of the month rolling. LIMITED CLBUILD SUPPORT cl-launch 2.12 and later support using clbuild as a wrapper to configure your Lisp implementation, with option --clbuild (which can be disabled with option --no-clbuild if it was enabled by default in your cl-launch installation). Note that you use clbuild, you can no longer override implementation options with say SBCL_OPTIONS, as clbuild takes care of the options for you. Any implementation banner will not be removed unless you instruct clbuild to do so. Also, you cannot use clbuild with a non-executable image different from clbuild's, which precludes image dumping with cmucl or allegro (allegro could probably be updated, but I don't have a recent licence to test and develop). clbuild support is not fully tested at this point. Please report any bug. SIMPLE CL-LAUNCH SCRIPTS In simple cases, you may create a Common Lisp shell script with CL-Launch without a script generation step, just because you'll spend a lot of time editing the script and distributing it, and little time waiting for script startup time anyway. This notably is a good idea if you're not spawning many instances of the same version of a script on a given computer. If that's what you want, you may use cl-launch as a script interpret the following way (stripping leading spaces): #!/path/to/cl-launch -X ...options... -- For instance, you may write the following script (stripping leading spaces): #!/usr/bin/cl-launch -X --init '(format t "foo~%")' -- (format t "hello, world~%") (write cl-launch:*arguments*) (terpri) The limitation is that the first argument MUST be '-X' (upper case matters, and so does the following space actually), the last one MUST be '--' and all your other arguments (if any) must fit on the first line, although said line can be as long as you want: the kernel has a limit of 127 characters or so for this first line, but cl-launch will read the first line directly from the Lisp script, anyway. Note that if you don't need Lisp code to be loaded from your script, with everything happening in the --file --system and --init software specification, then you may instead use a simple #!/bin/sh shell script from which you exec /path/to/cl-launch -x ... -- "$@". Also, in case you can't rely on cl-launch being at a fixed path, or if your shell and/or kernel combination doesn't support using cl-launch as a script interpreter, then you may instead start your script with the following lines (stripping leading spaces): #!/bin/sh ":" ; exec cl-launch -X -- "$0" "$@" || exit 42 (format t "It works!~%") In practice, I've found that machines with custom-compiled Linux kernels 2.6.15 and later supported #!/usr/bin/cl-launch fine with a wide variety of shells (I tried all of posh 0.4.7, bash 2.05, bash 3.1, zsh 4.3.2, dash 0.5.3 and busybox 1.01 ash), whereas other machines with a standard Linux kernel 2.6.11 from debian would not support it with any shell. 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Function cl-launch:load-system takes as an argument the name of an asdf system and the keyword argument verbose, and loads specified system with specified verbosity. Function cl-launch:compile-and-load-file takes as an argument a source pathname designator, and keyword arguments force-recompile (default NIL) and verbose (default NIL). It will arrange to compile the specified source file if it is explicitly requested, or if the file doesn't exist, or if the fasl is not up-to-date. It will compile and load with the specified verbosity. It will take use cl-launch:compile-file-pathname* to determine the fasl pathname. Function cl-launch:compile-file-pathname* is a variant of the similarly named ANSI CL function cl:compile-file-pathname that takes into account the fasl cache and also common-lisp-controller (if present). It works by calling cl-launch:apply-output-pathname-translations with the truename of the given source file. The specified source file must exist. Function cl-launch:apply-pathname-translations takes a pathname as an argument, and an optional list of translations (by default, it will use those from cl-launch:*output-pathname-translations*). It will scan the list of translations, where every translation is a list of a source pathname and a destination pathname. If the source pathname matches, then the file is translated to the destination pathname. Function cl-launch:apply-output-pathname-translations takes a pathname as an argument translates it into a pathname in the cache. If common-lisp-controller is present then the c-l-c cache is used. Otherwise, the cl-launch cache as specified by cl-launch:*output-pathname-translations* is used. Variable cl-launch:*output-pathname-translations* is the list of translations that apply-pathname-translations will use by default. asdf, if present, will have been configured to make use of this mechanism. Function cl-launch:quit will cause the current Lisp application to exit. It takes two optional arguments code with default value 0, and finish-output with default value t. The first is to be used as the process exit code, the second specifies whether to call finish-output on *standard-output* and *error-output*. Note that you should use (finish-output) and otherwise flush buffers as applicable before you quit, not just to be standard-compliant, but also to support ccl and any other Lisp implementation that do buffering. Additionally, environment variables CL_LAUNCH_PID and CL_LAUNCH_FILE will be set to the process ID and the script invocation filename respectively. VERBOSE OUTPUT MODE If the shell variable CL_LAUNCH_VERBOSE is exported and non-nil, then cl-launch and the scripts it generates will produce an abundance of output, display such things as the Lisp invocation command, compiling and loading files with :verbose t and :print t, etc. This is only useful for debugging cl-launch and/or your build process. Option --verbose sets this variable, whereas option --quiet resets it. USING CL-LAUNCH FUNCTIONALITY IN YOUR LISP DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT When you develop programs that you will use with cl-launch, you may as well use cl-launch during development, and benefit from its fasl cache architecture. To this end, you may explicitly include the cl-launch Lisp header from your Lisp source code or from the Lisp initialization file for your favorite implementation (~/.sbclrc, ~/.cmucl-init, ~/.clisprc, etc.): #-cl-launch (load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-launch/launcher.lisp") If cl-launch is not installed at a fixed system location, you may create a copy in your own directory with such a command as cl-launch -B print_lisp_launcher > ~/src/cl-launch/launcher.lisp Alternatively, you may include cl-launch itself instead of an extracted header, if only you tell your Lisp reader consider #! as introducing a line comment: (set-dispatch-macro-character #\# #\! #'(lambda (stream char arg) (declare (ignore char arg)) (values (read-line stream)))) #-cl-launch (load "/path/to/cl-launch.sh") Finally, if you use cl-launch from debian, or it was otherwise installed with cl-launch -B install or if you create the asd in addition to the header and declare it to asdf cl-launch -B print_cl_launch_asd > ~/src/cl-launch/cl-launch.asd then if your installed cl-launch.asd is properly symlinked from a directory in your asdf:*central-registry*, you may just have your software depend on the system :cl-launch (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :cl-launch) which in some implementations (sbcl) can be simplified into (require :cl-launch) You may also declare in the asdf:defsystem for your software that it :depends-on (:cl-launch ...) 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By the time your initialization forms are evaluated, the package may or may not have changed, depending on the fine-grained semantics of load. Be sure to use in-package if these things matter. There are lots of ways of making mistakes by improperly quoting things when you write shell commands. cl-launch does the right thing, but you still must be careful with the nested quoting mechanisms of make, shell, and Lisp. Here is a simple example use of cl-launch to quickly compare the result of a same computation on a variety of systems: for l in sbcl cmucl clisp gcl ccl ; do ./cl-launch.sh --lisp $l --execute --init \ '(format t "'$l' ~A~%" most-positive-fixnum)' ; done Internally, cl-launch includes many self-test functions. You may for instance try (from a directory where it may create junk) ./cl-launch.sh -l 'sbcl cmucl clisp gclcvs' -B tests
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Designing Information Communities for the 3D Environment
Date: 2002
Creator: Hastings, Samantha Kelly; Rowe, Timothy; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Lewis, Elise; Noot, Walter; Arroyo, Miguel Morales et al.
Description: This panel presentation provides a summary of current research efforts in 3D imaging technologies, including how metadata fit into the panorama of building information communities.
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Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Weidner, Andrew
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The Best Orange County Beach Photo Shoot Location // Seal Beach
Doing photo shoots at the beach in southern California isn't always the easiest thing in the world. State beaches require permits and the ones that aren't state beaches tend to have lines (literally) for the prime spots. Seal Beach is right on the border of Orange County and Los Angeles. It's somewhat of a hidden gem for photo sessions. What I love most about it is the wood pier, which is seen here and here.
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Texas assembles eight person search committee to help hire new coach
Sam Cooper at Dr. Saturday16 hrs agoTexas athletic director Steve Patterson has assembled an eight-person search committee and hired an executive search firm to assist in hiring Mack Brown's replacement as head football coach.
According to the University, the following eight people will make up the search committee:
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Bowling Green hires Dino Babers as new head coach
Sam Cooper at Dr. Saturday17 hrs agoBowling Green State University announced Wednesday that its new head football coach will be Dino Babers, who spent two years as the head coach of Eastern Illinois.
Babers was the runner-up for the Eddie Robinson Award for the FCS Coach of the Year this season after leading Eastern Illinois to a 12-2 record, a No. 2 ranking an appearance in the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs.
"We are so proud to have Dino and his family join Bowling Green State University," athletic director D. Christopher Kingston said. "Dino brings with him an incredible resume of successful experiences that absolutely fit the Falcon football program. He is a proven winner who is in the business of developing young men who desire success on the field, in the classroom and in the community. His ability to maximize talent through skill development is unmatched."
Babers posted a 19-7 record in two years at Eastern Illinois, taking over a last place team in 2011 and leading the Panthers to a first-place finish in 2012. He was named the Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year the last two years.
Marcus Mariota made the decision to return to Oregon before learning the results of his NFL draft grade
Sam Cooper at Dr. Saturday17 hrs agoOregon quarterback Marcus Mariota announced in a statement on December 3 that he intended to return to school for his junior year, but a report from NFLDraftScout.com came out Wednesday stating that Mariota went ahead and requested his draft grade from the NFL Advisory Committee.
That could suggest that Mariota might still be weighing his options and has not completely made his mind up about staying at Oregon or going to the NFL.
Former NFL scout and Senior Bowl contributor John Middlekauf reported on December 7 that Mariota did not request his grade before he announced his intentions to return. Soon after, Rob Moseley, the editor of Oregon's athletics website, refuted Middlekauf's report.
Report: Texas is the nation's most valuable college football team at $139 million
Sam Cooper at Dr. Saturday18 hrs agoForbes released its annual list of the most valuable college football teams Wednesday and for the fifth straight year, the newly coachless Texas Longhorns are worth more than any team in the country.
The Longhorns are worth a whopping $139 million, "almost 20% more than any other team in the country," the report says. The Longhorns are the only college football team to pass $100 million in revenue, a feat they have accomplished the last two seasons.
The team's value is "built on the back of the nation's most dedicated fan base, which has helped Texas lead all schools in merchandise sales and secure the most lucrative school-specific TV deal," the report says.
In a year where no team made more than $90 million, the Longhorns brought in an income of $109 million. The revenue came mainly from ticket sales ($34.5 million), while also collecting "$30 million from contributors and another $15 million from Big 12 and NCAA distributions."
Baylor's Ahmad Dixon cleared of suspicion of assault
Nick Bromberg at Dr. Saturday20 hrs agoBaylor safety Ahmad Dixon was arrested for assault in September but on Wednesday, a grand jury cleared him of the possible charges.
He was arrested for assaulting a man who Dixon had accused of breaking into his house and stealing his television set. The man said that Dixon had punched him in the head and face.
After the warrant was issued, Dixon turned himself in.
Instead of charging Dixon with a misdemeanor assault charge, the McLennan County District Attorney had a grand jury look into the charges.
Dixon, a second team AP All-American, was not suspended by coach Art Briles immediately following the incident. He finished the regular season with 70 total tackles, six pass breakups and seven passes defensed. The Big 12 champions play Central Florida in the Fiesta Bowl.
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D.J. Pettway returning to Alabama after February robbery arrest
Sam Cooper at Dr. Saturday20 hrs agoJust ten months after being dismissed from the Alabama football team, defensive lineman D.J. Pettway says he will return to Tuscaloosa.
Pettway was dismissed in February after being arrested for second degree robbery, but after a season at East Mississippi Community College, he has apparently re-signed with the Crimson Tide.
Pettway tweeted about the news. His community college confirmed it.
57 back, signed with Bama again today. nothing but God http://t.co/4CJhVIYxvx
— dj (@dpett57rtr) December 18, 2013
EMCC DL, All-American and 2013 national champion DJ Pettway @dpett57rtr is now officially an ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE! #PR1DE — EMCC Athletics (@EMCCathletics) December 18, 2013
Report: O'Bannon plaintiff Chase Garnham testified that he reluctantly signed likeness forms
Sam Cooper at Dr. Saturday21 hrs agoVanderbilt senior linebacker Chase Garnham was one of six NCAA football players in July to join as a plaintiff in O'Bannon vs. NCAA case concerning the use of college athletes' likenesses without compensation. Pieces of Garnham's testimony surfaced in a report in The Birmingham News Tuesday where Garnham "reluctantly signed a form before the season" that gave Vanderbilt "permission to use his name, image and likeness."
According to the report, testimony showed that Garnham testified on Oct. 11 that he was told by athletic director David Williams that he could not play without signing the aforementioned form.
"They told me that they didn't know how I would play if I did not sign those forms, that no one has ever not signed those forms before," Garnham said, according to court transcripts.
Tre Mason now has socks featuring himself
Nick Bromberg at Dr. Saturday22 hrs agoMove over, Robert Griffin III's Superman socks.
Auburn running back Tre Mason posted a picture to Instagram of two pairs of Nike socks featuring... himself.
One pair features just Mason and the other is an SEC Player of the Week commemorative version. You may notice that Auburn is an Under Armour school, so you've got to think that Auburn's apparel supplier is going to be upping the ante to recognize Mason's Heisman finalist worthy season, right?
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Former Iowa receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos calls out Kirk Ferentz on Twitter
Sam Cooper at Dr. Saturday22 hrs agoWhen he was playing receiver at Iowa from 2007-2010, Derrell Johnson-Koulianos did not have the best relationship with coach Kirk Ferentz. The two often butted heads and Johnson-Koulianos was eventually kicked off the team following a drug arrest in 2010.
With 173 catches (most in Iowa history) and 17 touchdowns over his four seasons, Johnson-Koulianos had a very productive career, but the run-ins with Ferentz and the law cut his playing days short. Now, Johnson-Koulianos wants to tell his side of the story. On Tuesday he took to Twitter to announce that he is writing a book about Iowa football while also offering some juicy tidbits about his time with Kirk Ferentz.
Would u like it if u slaved for someone 4 5 yrs then when you arrived @ adversity they abandon you & tell potential employers not 2 hire u?
— DJK (@coachkoul) December 17, 2013
Report: Jon Gruden would be 'open to hearing' from Texas about head coaching job
Nick Bromberg at Dr. Saturday22 hrs agoWould Jon Gruden consider leaving the ESPN Monday Night Football announcing booth for the sidelines at Darrell K. Royal Stadium?
A report from Orangebloods.com citing a source says that the Super Bowl-winning coach has Texas as one of the few opportunities that would make him think about leaving MNF.
Although Gruden has flourished in broadcasting with ESPN since his departure from NFL coaching, our source mentioned that the Texas job is one of the few offers that Gruden would consider, claiming that the Super Bowl-winning coach view the position as one a few "premiere" jobs that he would consider if approached about them during an opening.
Oh look, Texas is a "premiere" job. There we go inflating their egos once again. Gruden was mentioned as a big-shot candidate for the Tennessee coaching job (again) before the school hired Butch Jones.
Mack Brown announced his resignation as Texas coach on Saturday and will coach the Longhorns when they face Oregon in the Alamo Bowl.


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Volume 2 – Number 3
March 2003
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Coming Events - Spring into Workshops
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Tip of the Month — Advance Fee Loan Scams
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CELL-U-SHORT. Rexall Sundown to pay up to $12 million to settle FTC charges regarding unsubstantiated claims for its cellulite treatment product, Cellasene. The money will be directed to consumer redress. Press release at: www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/03/rexall.htm
HOW SWEET IT IS. FTC receives largest COPPA civil penalties to date in settlements with Mrs. Fields cookies and Hershey Foods. The companies each violated COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) by collecting personal information from children without parental consent. Press release at: www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/02/hersheyfield.htm
COMING EVENTS - Spring into Workshops
SPAM. The FTC will host a three-day workshop to address various issues surrounding unsolicited commercial email (spam.) The workshop, which is free and open to the public, will be held from April 30 - May 2, 2003 at the Federal Trade Commission's offices at 601 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. For more information: www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/02/spamforum.htm
PRIVACY. The FTC will host two one-day workshops on the role of technology in helping consumers and businesses protect personal information. "The Consumer Experience" will be held May 14; "The Business Experience" will be held June 4. Free and open to the public, both workshops will be held at the FTC conference center, 601 NJ Ave., NW, Washington, DC. For more information: www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/02/techwrkshp.htm
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Top 5: NYFW Moments
Wu-Tang, Cat sweaters, Lil Kim, Aussies on the runway & more.
As New York Fashion Week wraps up for another season, we recall our Top 5 moments. From Aussie models on the runway to a confusingly ladylike Lil Kim sitting front row to Bill Cunningham proving once more why he's the greatest, these are the things that defined our week.
Australia on the Runway
The Mulleavy sisters were inspired by the Australian outback for Rodarte's FW12 collection with an intricate dot print and earthy palette also referencing Aboriginal art. The beauty looks took a similar direction, with the show's make-up artist telling Into The Gloss, "there's this kind of rough, savage side to Australia - the outback, and then this very English, pale look of some girls there. Today, Kate and Laura wanted the girls to look like they'd been out in the sun." Faces were bronze and dusty, with pale matte lips and tousled, wind-swept hair.
It was also great to see a bunch of familiar Australian faces on the runway. Above, Abbey Lee Kershaw walks for Alexander Wang, Codie Young for Oscar de la Renta and Julia Nobis for Altuzzara.
The Opening Ceremony Cat Sweater
A product of Opening Ceremony's collaboration with Glamour magazine, a limited edition embroidered cat sweater was a street style favourite for fashionable feline fans. Some might even call it 'purr-fect' (sorry).
Weird Celebrity Appearances
We're used to seeing front row fixtures like Anna Wintour and the Olsen twins sitting pretty. But Lil Kim and Star Wars director George Lucas? Now that's a little more obscure. The controversial female rapper attended The Blonds show at NYFW, wearing a surprisingly normal clothing to skin ratio, while Lucas was seated next to Dakota Fanning at the Rodarte show. We wonder what they talked about.
Jeremy Scott's Hair and Beauty
Telling Oyster backstage before his show, "I really was just inspired by the internet and the computer itself" (and maybe even by stylist Ms Fitz) Jeremy Scott's make-up looks featured bindis galore including flashing, microchip-esque ones stuck smack bang in the middle of the forehead, bright blue lips and crimped hair with rainbow-coloured clip in extensions. See our video of the beauty looks backstage here.
Wu-Tang Clan Performing at Milk Studios' Party
Seeing Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon perform live at Milk Studios' 'Shotgun Vegas Wedding' party was the perfect way to kick-off NYFW where guests (including Jourdan Dunn and Pamela Love) sang along to all the Wu-Tang lyrics.
Bill Cunningham Hit by Car, Keeps Shooting
The legendary 84-year-old street style photographer was hit by an SUV outside of Reed Krakoff. If you've seen the documentary Bill Cunningham New York, you'll understand how this happened as his photography practice involves him dodging like a maniac between traffic. Fellow street style photographer Mr. Newton witnessed it all and Tweeted, "The Bill Cunningham incident was not serious thankfully. He seemed a little embarrassed by the attention it caused more than anything!" Cunningham kept shooting after the accident.
Shit Fashion Girls Say During NYFW:
After delivering LOLs in the form of Shit Fashion Girls Say, the hilarious parody of hilarious parody Shit Girls Say, Patrick Pope (P'Trique) and Jenny Fancy (P'Trique's best friend) bring us a new edition, just for NYFW. Plus there's a cameo by fashion writer Derek Blasberg. Awesome. "Is this a little too Cee-Lo Green?"
Stay tuned for our London Fashion Week coverage!
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Hey Richard is that the right link? Whenever I try to hit it I always get "a page cannot be displayed error" . In fact it appears as if the whole site is inaccesible. I have been trying to access it now for several days. Is this just me? I would be really interested in reading the paper... Thanks for any help Scott Shealy Message: 6 From: "RICHARD,BRUNO (HP-France,ex1)" <bruno_richard at hp.com> To: "'beowulf at beowulf.org'" <beowulf at beowulf.org> Subject: Paper showing Linpack scalability of mainstream clusters Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:45:01 +0200 charset="iso-8859-1" Available from <http://lib.hpl.hp.com/techpubs/2001/HPL-2001-206.html>: I-Cluster: Reaching TOP500 performance using mainstream hardware By B. Richard (hp Laboratories Grenoble), P. Augerat, N. Maillard, S. Derr, S. Martin, C. Robert (ID Laboratory) Abstract: A common topic for PC clusters is the use of mainstream instead of dedicated hardware i.e., using standard desktop PCs and standard network connectivity, with technology to organize them so that they can be used as a single computing entity. Current work in this "off-the-shelf cluster" domain usually focuses on how to reach a high availability infrastructure, on how to efficiently balance the work between nodes of such clusters, or on how to get the most computing power for loosely-coupled (large grained) problems. hp Labs Grenoble, teaming with INRIA Rhône-Alpes, teamed up to build a cluster out of 225 standard hp e-PC interconnected by standard Ethernet, with the objective of getting the highest computational performance and scaling from the simplest desktop PC to the most powerful computers in the world. As an additional constraint, we decided to use a cluster that models a modern enterprise network, using standard machines interconnected through standard Ethernet connectivity. This paper describes the issues and challenges we had to overcome in order to reach the 385th rank in the TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world on June 21st, 2001, being the first mainstream cluster to enter TOP500 ever. Also we provide hereafter some details about the software and middleware tuning we have done, as well as the impact of different factors on performance such as the network topology and infrastructure hardware.
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I saw this post on another group whose members are ex-Jehovahs Witnesses, and just had to share, with the poster's permission. I don't know whether Phil is an atheist or just "non-religious". The post is in reply to another message:
Phil from the UK here, I read your email to Tanya with some interest (I am set up to receive emails from the group). Sorry I don't contribute much but I always enjoy reading comments from members of the group. Your comments about the catholic church and their beliefs, as I said, I found interesting, and couldn't help but remember that just as Catholics, and of course, most all of Christian religions believe that homosexuality is wrong, using the bible as their authority on the matter, likewise, so-called Christians used the bible to justify slavery for so many, many years.
Maybe 'noteworthy' is a more accurate description. I'm ex-JW too, hence my membership in the group.
I just thought I'd share as this is a well-written comment which resonated with me. Now, I don't know whether he's still for God despite being against religion, but it's interesting to see such a secular viewpoint outside of a specifically secular community such as this.
A major part of my own 'awakening' was realising that most (if not all) religions deem themselves the only true religion, therefore it was statistically possible to be in the wrong one without realising. That, and the realisation that doubts and research are actually good things. And the clincher was pondering why it would be necessary to 'pick' a religion at all!
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It's a major challenge, all right, but after losing all the tomatoes in New York, we're trying to see if at least one of the Maine tomato patches can fight off late blight (Phytopthera infestans), one of the most devastating vegetable diseases. It's the one that led to the Irish potato famine and it's just as deadly almost two centuries later.
P. infestans is always around, but it came early this year, and more ferociously than ever before. Farmers and home gardeners from Maine to South Carolina -- and quite a way west -- have already lost their crops to what has turned out to be the most widespread outbreak in U.S. history.
If you see any signs of late blight, experts advise destroying all infected plants at once, to stop the spread of spores. And if you live in an area where there are gardens or farms that have not yet been hit that is the advice to take; late blight is highly contagious. But if everyone else already has it and yours is the garden that's hanging in, you might as well join us in employing:
The Organic Gardener's Arsenal:
And -- at least in our case -- Being a Procrastinator. If I'd done all the tomato grafting I'd planned to do, there wouldn't have been any leftovers in the greenhouse. Luckily, the tomato plants in the greenhouse (pictured) have so far escaped the blight.
* The Fungicide we're using is Serenade, available at well stocked garden centers or online at suppliers like Peaceful Valley Farm Supply. It's approved for organic gardening and is a fairly effective prophylactic as long as it's applied frequently. Late blight can't be cured, and if it's well established it can't be stopped. But if it hasn't yet taken hold it can be held at bay by Bacillus subtilis, the "good" bacteria that is Serenade's active ingredient.
Seven days is the recommended interval between sprays unless disease pressure is intense. We were only waiting 4 or 5 when the rain was incessant.
* The Fertilizer is mixed fish emulsion and liquid seaweed, alternating with half-strength commercial soluble 20 -20-20, to provide as much instant nourishment as the plants can use. (The 20-20-20 is not organic and can be replaced by more fish emulsion.)
In a good year tomato plants don't need much feeding, but this has not been a good year in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. Our long stretch of cold wet weather -- also a record breaker -- kept them small and weak, with poorly developed root systems, ill-equipped to fight the blight organically. Being robust is a plant's best defense no matter what your gardening style, and it's especially important if you don't want to use strong toxins.
* Being There is essential. I'm sure one of the reasons we lost the New York tomatoes is that we weren't watching over them. Here in Maine I'm monitoring the plants several times a day, removing leaflets that show signs of blight before the lesions can spread (far) or produce (gazillions of) spores. In rainy weather, leaves that looked fine in the morning can show definite signs of distress by late afternoon.
Standard advice is to remove whole leaves, and it's true that even the smallest spot spells doom. But I've been removing just the parts that show spots -- so they can't make spores -- and leaving the rest of the leaf to feed the plant for another day or two, or however long it stays clean.
Stems are another story; once they get black spots , everything above the spots will almost surely perish. It's best to cut off the whole branch below the spot so the plant can spend its limited energy making new growth. Of course, after a few rounds of this you may not have much plant left (see Being Realistic, below).
Everything removed should be bagged at once, then deeply buried or sent to the landfill. Don't put it in the compost or on the ground in the deep woods.
* Being Careful can minimize the inevitable spread of spores. Try to avoid working in the tomato patch when the leaves are wet or when there is a breeze. If you have multiple tomato locations, start your patrols in the least infected.
And when the diseased material is deep in the plant behind other, apparently healthy growth, try to cut back by degrees from the outside in, to minimize disturbance.
* Being Realistic can be painful, but it's a big part of being a successful gardener, organic or conventional.
It is now mid-August. Before deciding to keep diddling in an attempt to have some tomatoes, look honestly at each plant's size, general health and leaf cover as well as the number of blossoms and baby fruits.
Is it realistic to expect mature tomatoes from this thing before frost and if so, how many? In a lot of cases it's going to make more sense to simply destroy the tomato and spend the saved gardening time caring for the crops that are doing well -- or would be if they got a bit more attention -- and planting fall salads, cooking greens and roots.
* Procrastination isn't really a virtue, even if it did give us some plants better protected from blight and thus the opportunity to test a (presumably) vulnerable heirloom alongside a (presumably) tougher hybrid. The leftovers were from a spring plan to graft 'Lilian's Yellow,' a very fussy heirloom, onto the rootstock of 'Big Beef,' a sturdy hybrid if ever there was one.
The successfully grated plants in New York died. The ones I was going to graft in Maine languished for months in not big enough pots until the blight drama started.
Now they are in bigger pots. If they keep on being healthy for another week or so I'll run strings to the greenhouse rafters and start having hopes.
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Its a graffiti name, not a career choice. Just change it if you want.
I've decided to name change from NORD to Skee (Skeemer) now, my old letters didn't really have any flow to them so I changed it up. Granted though cred you've written for a lot longer and your shit is actually nice :P
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