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This may be done because you have an
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Plans to double the number of homes on a Dove Holes development from 58 to 120 have been rejected by the council, to the relief of villagers.
Ten out of 11 councillors voted to refuse the application for land to the rear of Hallsteads at High Peak Borough Council's development control committee meeting in Chapel-en-le-Frith on Monday.
The proposal, submitted by Jonathan Critchlow, of Jalo Enterprises, of Thailand, in November, relates to a site bordered by The Meadows housing estate, Black Brook and former quarry Ridgeclose Rocks.
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PRETORIA, South Africa The defense and prosecution both completed their arguments Friday in Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing, with the magistrate soon to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he must stay behind bars pending trial in the shooting death of his girlfriend.
The ruling is expected at what works out to be later Friday morning, Eastern Standard Time, report CBS News personnel in Pretoria.
The prosecution vehemently opposed bail to Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair.
Pistorius is charged with one count of premediated murder over the Feb. 14 killing of Reeva Steenkamp. He says he accidentally shot her, thinking she was a dangerous intruder inside his home, lurking in a toilet stall off his bedroom.
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Pistorius' hands trembled as he said, "Good morning, your worship" as the session began in Magistrate's Court in Pretoria, South Africa's capital.
For the first time in the hearing, two representatives of the Steenkamp family were present in court, sitting behind and to the left of Pistorius in the public gallery.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel called Pistorius' version that he shot Steenkamp accidentally improbable and argued that Pistorius did not have to have planned the killing for days in advance for it to be premediated.
"He planned it that night when she (Steenkamp) locked herself in (the toilet)," Nel said in response to a question from the magistrate on why Pistorius hadn't staged a break-in at his home to make his story look more believable. "The fact that we have only one survivor of that tragic night is difficult for the state."
Pistorius' defense lawyer, Barry Roux, brought up culpable homicide as a possible charge for the first time in the case when answering questions from the magistrate.
"He did not want to kill Reeva. He had no intent to kill Reeva," Roux said as Pistorius began weeping again, as he has done for much of his bail hearing.
Roux said it was impossible for Pistorius, as famous as he is and with his prostheses, to escape South Africa before trial.
"Let me tell you how difficult it is for this man to disappear from this world," Roux said.
Prosecutor Nel earlier countered that everyone, whether disabled or famous or otherwise different from the majority, should be treated equally under the law. Nel noted that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is famous but is now holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sex-related charges.
Pistorius' longtime coach, Ampie Louw, had said before proceedings began that he is considering putting his runner back in training if he is granted bail to allow him to "get his mind kind of clear."
Louw said he realizes that the Olympic athlete might not be emotionally ready to give any thought to running.
"The change is that he is heartbroken, that is all," Louw said in the courtroom, surrounded by reporters and television cameras. "For me it is tough to see that. Not to be able to reach out and sit next to him and say, 'Sorry, man, it was a terrible accident.' But I cannot do it, I must just sit here in court and that's all.
"The sooner he can start working the better." said Louw, who was the person who convinced the double amputee to take up track as a teenager a decade ago.
Nair will decide if Pistorius can be freed with conditions or if he is held until trial. Pistorius faces the sternest bail conditions in South Africa because of the seriousness of the murder charge, meaning his defense lawyers have to prove there is an "exceptional" reason for him to be freed.
He has been held at a police station in Pretoria since last week, but suspects who are denied bail are typically held in a prison.
Roux argued on Thursday that the evidence backs Pistorius' statement that he shot through a toilet door at his home because he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder, killing her by accident.
"I think there will be a level of shock in this country if he is not released (on bail)," Roux said in court.
Opposing bail, Nel argued that Pistorius was too willing to shoot. The prosecution says Pistorius planned to kill his 29-year-old girlfriend, a model and budding reality TV star, after an argument in the early hours of Valentine's Day.
"The reason you fire four shots is to kill," Nel said.
Louw said he might put Pistorius, who overcame the amputation of his lower legs as a baby to compete at last year's London Olympics, back on a morning and afternoon training routine if he is freed, believing it might help him to be able to run track again.
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Developing and producing a preprint line of garments takes time and effort, but as Trimingham explains, a foundation made of solid plans and the right mindset can build up to success.
A wise art teacher once told me, "Good ideas are everywhere, like fossils waiting to be found. But the truly rare thing—the thing that makes them precious—is the patience to carefully dig them out." This mentality is perfect when developing a preprint line of T-shirts.
Like many pursuits, developing a successful preprint garment line largely depends on the way in which we engage the process. One of the critical steps in the very beginning is to define the specific goals you wish to achieve with the preprint line. Is it enough to move shirts into some stores and receive some positive feedback? Must you sell a certain number of shirts or meet a particular ROI? Defining success and what you want to happen will help you drive the effort in the right direction right off of the starting line. The more specific your goals are from the beginning, the better your chances of reaching them.
The sheer volume of graphic ideas thrown into the T-shirt market creates a lot of competition for the retail customer's attention, so making an initial impression is a big challenge. Some buyers for large retail outlets see dozens of new lines a week presented by a wide variety of companies. The majority of the new T-shirt lines that printers bring to buyers fail for many reasons, but perhaps the most important one to keep in mind is that the people behind these designs likely didn't have the patience and dedication to make their preprint ideas successful over time.
The other huge ingredient and perhaps the biggest indicator of likely success is the developer's attitude, including honesty about the viability of the products, flexibility, and adaptability. Developers tend to design a line of shirts from the inside out, or as one experienced screen printer told me, "Designing preprints is often done in a bubble. The designer or developer of the shirt line only asks feedback from friends, employees, and family—all of whom are unlikely to give brutally honest opinions."
With these concerns and issues in mind, consider the following ten tips to raise your odds of success when creating a preprint line of garments. Note that these ideas will change considerably depending on the market niche you target, but they should give you a basic foundation for bringing a line to market and making some sales.
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HIGH-SPEED AND RECONFIGURABLE ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR PHASE AND AMPLITUDE MODULATED SIGNALS by Salman Khaleghi A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Ful llment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) August 2013 Copyright 2013 Salman Khaleghi
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Touchscreens take lead in smartphone biz
Bumper year for finger-friendly phones
The world's smartphone makers shipped more touchscreen models in Q4 2009 than at any time in the past - and more touchphones than devices with buttons.
During the quarter, 55 per cent of all smartphones shipped had touchscreens. That's just under 30m touchscreen handsets altogether, market watcher Canalys said today.
Touchscreen shipments were up 138 per cent year on year, compared to overall smartphone shipment growth of 41 per cent.
Q4 accounted for almost 40 per cent of the touchscreen smartphones shipped during 2009, a year that notched up total shipments of 75.9m, the researcher said. Some 166.27m smartphones shipped in 2009.
Canalys spoke to 4,000 consumers late in 2009 and found that 60 per cent of them wanted a touchscreen interface on their next phone. While some existing touchphone users said they will switch back to a different interface, Canalys said it expects the overall shift toward touchscreens to continue during 2010.
It said it expects 166m touchscreen smartphones to ship this year.
It comes as no surprise that Apple topped the chart of touchphone vendors, shipping 25.10m smartphones in 2009, just ahead of Nokia's 22.36m. HTC managed 7.73m and Samsung 4.84m. Everyone else, together, racked up shipments totalling 15.82m units.
From a marketshare perspective, they divide up this way: Apple 33.1 per cent, Nokia 29.5 per cent, HTC 10.2 per cent, Samsung 6.4 per cent and everyone else 20.9 per cent.
Not a good result for RIM, but then its touchscreen BlackBerrys aren't as widely seen as the Qwerty models. But a look at the OS figures shows its position to be strong, for now. Symbian was in 47.2 per cent of the smartphones shipped in 2009, followed by BlackBerry (20.8 per cent), iPhone (15.1 per cent), Windows Mobile (8.8 per cent), Android (4.7 per cent) and others (3.4 per cent).
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Point-of-purchase graphics are an effective way to deliver an impactful message to consumers. This graphics-display showcase highlights an assortment of the numerous opportunities screen and digital printers have found in the retail marketplace.
By Lori Leaman
Grabbing customers' attention in retail environments and sparking their curiosity about a particular product or promotion requires the presence of unique, eye-catching displays. Point-of-purchase and other retail graphics can be relatively simple to produce, quick to turn around, and presented by hanging from, adhering to, or mounting on virtually any horizontal or vertical space in a retail setting. This showcase highlights how today's innovative print shops are using technology, specialty substrates, and special-effect inks to screen print and digitally produce an array of display graphics that really stand out.
P-O-P Graphics Freshen Up Boots Cosmetics Stores
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When Boots Cosmetics began plans for a promotional campaign in more than 3000 Target and CVS stores nationwide, the company enlisted the help of Everett Studios, a design and production company. The project, which involved a product launch, called for as many as 75-150 different graphics pieces or elements of various sizes to be printed, cut, and packed in individual kits that would be delivered to participating Target and CVS retail locations. Boots knew that the team at Everett Studios had the expertise and capabilities to produce the job and deliver it in a timely manner.
Everett Studios has been in business for almost 50 years, during which the 25-employee company has evolved into an operation that offers marketing and graphics services, including large- and small-format digital printing and finishing.
For this particular job, the team at Everett produced a majority of the graphics on its three HP DesignJet 5500 printers. Other portions of the job, including large-format posters and graphics, were printed on the company's two Canon 8000 and 9100 printers and a Xerox DocuColor iGen3 digital press. They used LexJet's Sunset Satin media.
Jayme Lawnsby, digital manager at Everett, says the media was ideal because it is a heavy archival paper that does not need to be laminated. The folks at Everett can easily print the graphics, cut them using automated cutters, and sort them for kitting. He says they've been able to make it a very streamlined process.
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In 2007 on the island of Bali in Indonesia, governments from around the world agreed to start negotiating an agreement for long-term action to address climate change. Three years and 15 negotiation sessions later, in a conference room in Cancun, Mexico early Saturday morning, 193 countries (all members of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, except for Bolivia) made a historic series of decisions.
The Cancun Agreements represent a critical step for reinvigorating the international climate change policy process after a disappointing lack of agreement in Copenhagen last year. However, they are only the skeleton of a policy and financial framework that will be necessary to ensure that greenhouse gases are reduced to a level low enough to avoid severe impacts and to make sure countries can deal with current impacts and preparing for future ones.
The Cancun Agreements set forth a balanced package of decisions that include:
- A framework for a partnership between developed and developing countries to halt deforestation. Protecting tropical forests (or — as it's known by international climate negotiators — REDD+) is set up to allow countries the flexibility to participate on sub-national levels while building a national program. This would enable conservation of critical, carbon-rich forests to begin now. The REDD+ framework also includes important protections for forest peoples and biodiversity. The success of REDD+ in this agreement is due in part to the significant efforts by countries (both developed and developing), the private sector and civil society on the ground and at the national level, which demonstrated the readiness of REDD+ activities to go forward.
- The Cancun Adaptation Framework, which raises the profile of adaptation in the policy dialogue, acknowledging the reality of climate impacts that people and ecosystems are already seeing. This framework establishes an adaptation committee and a work program which will consider approaches to loss and damage linked to unavoidable climate impacts in vulnerable countries. It also highlights the elements countries should be considering in adaptation action: building resilience of ecological systems; conducting impact, vulnerability and adaptation assessments; engaging vulnerable communities in participatory processes; and valuing traditional indigenous knowledge and the best available science.
Another notable achievement in Cancun is that the United States is supporting this agreement — unlike 1997's Kyoto Protocol. In the upcoming years, all countries must flesh out their actions, articulate binding emissions cuts, and provide substantial finance and technology transfer to support the mitigation and adaptation actions of the developing world.
Multilateral processes aren't easy; that was obvious in Copenhagen. But Cancun has shown us that the UNFCCC is still alive and kicking. And that's a good thing, because we're never going to solve a problem like climate change with action by just a few. Although many details need to be worked out on our way to the next major negotiating session in South Africa, finally, there is a pathway forward.
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Christina Aguilera Travels In Style to Michael Jackson Tribute Concert
Christina Aguilera performed at a Michael Jackson tribute concert this past weekend in Cardiff, Wales, and her travel arrangements weren't exactly low-key.
The British tabloid the Daily Mail reported that Aguilera traveled by train from London's Paddington Station to Cardiff with an entourage of at least 22 people, and her welcoming committee included representatives from the train company and two uniformed British Transport Police officers.
Prior to boarding, Aguilera and her entourage were allowed access to the Queen Victoria Lounge at Paddington Station, which is used by Queen Elizabeth and other members of the Royal Family. The pop star requested that the lounge be decorated with candles and white roses and that chilled champagne be available. She reportedly got the roses and the bubbly, but was refused the candles because of safety concerns.
While in transit, Aguilera and company snacked in style — according to the paper, she requested Belvedere vodka, chilled champagne, bottles of chilled Pinot Grigio, Fiji mineral water flown ten thousand miles from the South Pacific, Fuji apples, unsalted almonds and a pot of pure honey.
She reportedly spent 6,000 pounds (about $9,300) to reserve part of a first-class carriage but did not opt to hire the entire train, which would have cost 25,000 pounds (about $39,000).
A source told the paper that Aguilera did not make any "diva-like demands" of the train staff during the trip — she just enjoyed the view.
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Terrifying News: Canada and China to Discuss an Extradition Treaty!published on Thursday, September 22, 2016
As well it is no secret that China is one of the worst human rights violators in the world with the highest rate of execution per capita in the world. There is serious concern surrounding China's judicial process including rule of law and due process. The Chinese Government systematically arrests, imprisons and tortures peaceful Falun Gong practitioners and there is credible evidence that China may be killing Falun Gong practitioners in prison, and selling their organs for profit!
China is also known for its execution of non-political prisoners including those accused of "economic crimes". Agreeing to an Extradition Treaty with China will put Canada in the position of sending people back to face torture and even execution which goes against Canada's obligations not to extradite people who would be facing the death penalty.
Perhaps the most terrifying aspect of the possible Extradition Treaty is that Prime Minister is doing it for economic gain only. Canada will not gain anything from an extradition treaty as China's extradition law does not allow anyone of Chinese nationality to be extradited to a foreign country. Canada is only considering the extradition treaty in order to gain more favorable terms around Canola Imports!
If Justin Trudeau is willing to send people to their death for favorable terms surrounding Canola Import what is to stop him from agreeing to have an extradition treaty with a dictatorship like Iran for economic gain, and endanger the lives of Iranian Canadians like myself who are considered to be "criminals" by the Regime in Iran for our political activities against the dictatorship?
Today it's Canada China, tomorrow it might be Canada Iran or Canada Saudi Arabia or any other dictatorship in the world. We need to speak up now to make sure human lives are not traded for economic gain at least in Canada.
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Financial Markets and Institutions *
Name of module: Financial Markets and Institutions *
Exam number: 2520
Semester/Trimester: Semester
Form of the module (i.e. obligatory, elective course): Wahlpflicht
Frequency of module offer: Summer semester 2012
Applicability of module for other modules and study programmes:
Serviceveranstaltung für Studierende der Kultur- bzw. Rechtswissenschaften
Person responsible for module: Prof. Dr. Maria Gomez (Universidad del Oviedo, Spanien)
Name of the professor: Prof. Dr. Maria Gomez (Universidad del Oviedo, Spanien)
Language of teaching: englisch
ECTS-Credits (based on the workload): 5
Workload and its composition (self-study, contact time):
Kontaktzeit (Vorlesung, Übung, Seminar etc.): 37,5 Std.; Selbststudium: 112,5 Std.
Contact hours (per week in semester): 3
Methods and duration of examination:
It is possible to earn a course requirement (Prüfungsschein).
Your grade will be determined from one final exam and a number of class exercises. These class exercises will provide you an opportunity to earn 30% of your grade. If you are absent from class for any reason, you won't be able to take these exercises. All borderline cases will be determined on the basis of attendance and class participation. Final Exam 70%; Class exercises and essays 30%.
Emphasis of the grade for the final grade: Eins
Aim of the module (expected learning outcomes and competencies to be acquired):
This Financial Markets and Institutions course is designed to provide students with knowledge of the basic concepts of financial markets and institutions. The course introduces students to the financial system, covers money and capital markets, as well as foreign exchange and international financial markets, the role of Central Banks and monetary policy as well as the financial industry. The topics covered in the course are necessary for understanding financial markets and other finance classes you may take later.
Contents of the module:
Review of syllabus, Review of Basic Financial Concepts , Introduction, Overview of the Financial System
Fundamentals of Financial Markets: interest rates, risk and term structure of interest rates, financial markets efficiency
Financial Markets: money markets, the bond market and the mortage market
Financial Markets: The Stock Market
Financial Markets: Foreign Exchange Markets and International financial markets
Financial Institutions: why do they exist? Why do financial crises occur?
Central Banks and Monetary Policy
Financial Industry: Banking industry
Financial Industry: The mutual fund industry, insurance companies and pension funds
Financial Industry: Investment Banks, Security Brokers and Dealers and Venture Capital Firm
Teaching and learning methods:
Literature (compulsory reading, recommended literature):
Course material:
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Controls for Greenhouse Ornamental Insect Pests
ENTFACT-421: Controls for Greenhouse Ornamental Insect Pests | Download PDF
by Ric Bessin, Extension Entomologist
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture
The warm humid conditions and abundant food in the greenhouse are ideal for pest build up. Problems can be chronic unless recognized and corrected. While insecticides are important tools, successful control of greenhouse ornamental pests relies primarily on cultural factors. Proper cultural practices can minimize the chance for initiation and build up of infestations. Early detection and diagnosis are key to greenhouse pest management, as well as, the proper choice and application of pesticides when pest outbreaks occur.
Cultural Controls
Pests may enter the greenhouse in the summer when the ventilators are open. Others may be brought into the greenhouse on new plant material or in soil. Many are able to survive short periods of time between harvest or plant removal and production of the next crop. Cultural controls are the primary defense against infestation.
Proper cultural practices which will help prevent pest infestations include:
- Maintain a clean, closely mowed area around the greenhouse to reduce pests that develop in rank growth.
- Remove all plants and any plant debris, clean the greenhouse thoroughly after each production cycle.
- Keep doors, screens and ventilators in good repair.
- Use clean or sterile soils or ground media, tools, flats and other equipment.
- At the conclusion of the season remove all plants and any plant debris, clean greenhouse thoroughly and fumigate.
- Inspect new plants thoroughly to prevent introduction insect or disease infested material into the greenhouse.
- Watch for leaks or pooled water that can lead to fungus gnat infestations.
- If possible allow the greenhouse to freeze in winter to eliminate tender insects like whiteflies.
- Avoid wearing yellow clothing which is attractive to many insect pests which can be carried into the greenhouse from outside.
- Eliminate infestations by discarding or removing heavily infested material.
Pest Monitoring
Early detection and diagnosis of pest infestations will allow you to make pest control decisions before the problem gets out of hand. It is good practice, therefore, to make weekly inspections of plants in all sections of the greenhouse.
Insect monitoring devices are also available. Yellow sticky cards (PT Insect Monitoring & Trapping System, Whitmire) are highly attractive to winged aphids, leafminer adults, whiteflies, leafhoppers, thrips (blue cards can also be used with thrips), various flies and other insects. These can be used to alert you to the presence of a pest and identify hot spots in the greenhouse. One to three cards per 1000 sq. ft. in the greenhouse is recommended and should be changed weekly. If you cannot identify a trapped insect, contact your county extension agent for assistance. Mass trapping products such as sticky tapes are also available for thrips, whitefly, leafminer and fungus gnat detection and management.
Insecticide Resistance Management
Many of the most serious greenhouse pests tend to be small insects (or mites) with short life cycles and high birth rates. This includes spider mites, aphids, whiteflies and thrips. Development of insecticide resistance is a potential problem with these pests. Susceptible individuals in a pest population are wiped out when chemicals with the same mode of action are applied repeatedly. The proportion of resistant individuals in a population increases and they become more difficult to control. Unfortunately, a grower may increase usage of the pesticide in response to this until it no longer provides control.
As a greenhouse manager, there are several tactics to prevent, delay or reduce insecticide resistance. Countermeasures include reducing the frequency or extent of insecticide treatments, reducing the use of insecticides with long residual action, avoiding treatments which act upon both larva and adults, and including nonchemical methods of biological and cultural control into an integrated pest mangement program.
Phytotoxicity to Pesticides
Not all varieties of each plant species has been tested with these registered pesticides. Plant response to these pesticides may vary in your greenhouse. Specific environmental factors in your greenhouse greatly affect phytotoxicity. All pesticides should be tested on a small group of plants to be treated at the recommended rate under anticipated growing conditions for phytotoxic symptoms. Signs of phytotoxicity may take 1 to 14 days to develop.
Alphabetical listing of common insecticides (trade names), the pests they control, and a listing of safe and sensitive plants, comments also.
Using the format below:
- Common Name (Trade Names)
- Pests controlled
- Safe plants
- Sensitive plants
- Comments
- Common Name (Trade Names): Abermectin (Avid 0.15EC)
- Pests controlled: Spider mites (all motile forms), leafminers
- Safe plants: Various ornamentals
- Sensitive plants: Do not use on ferms or conifers.
- Comments: Insecticide/miticide: May require 3 to 4 days to achieve maximum
- effectiveness.
- Common Name:Acephate (Orthene Turf, Tree and
- Ornamental Spray, PT 1300 TR, Orthene, PT 1300 DS Orthene)
- Pests controlled:Aphids, cabbage loopers, lacebugs, leafminers, leafrollers, mealybugs, plant bugs, scale crawlers, sweet potato whitefly, thrips, whiteflies
- Safe plants:Roses, orchids, anthuriums, cacti, poinsettia, carnations, chrysanthemums, impatients, marigolds, petunias, geraniums, snapdragons, fuchia, lantana, New Guinea impatiens, ivy, geraniums, boston fern, dracaena, ficus, schefflera, philodendron, lillies, african violets, hibiscus, begonia, azalea, viburnum, yew
- Sensitive plants: Do not apply to american elm, flowering crabapple, sugar maple, and cottonwood.
- Comments: An organophosphate insecticide. Do not apply to roses or chrysanthemums with open flowers.
- Common name (Trade name): Bacillus thuringiensis var azawai(XenTari)
- Pests Controlled: Armyworm, loopers, Heliothis
- Safe plants: Flowers, bedding plants, herbs, and ornamentals.
- Comments: A biological insecticide that attacks the gut and must be injested. Does not kill adults. Toxic to the predatory mite Metaseiulus occidentalis and green lacewing.
- Common name (Trade name): Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki(Dipel 2X, Javelin WG, Steward)
- Pests Controlled: Armyworm, loopers, Heliothis
- Safe Plants: Flowers, bedding plants, herbs, and ornamentals
- Comments: A biological insecticide that attacks the gut and must be injested. Does not kill adults.
- Common name (Trade name): Bacillus thuringiensis Serotype H-14 (Gnatrol)
- Pest controlled: Fungus gnat larvae
- Safe Plants: Ornamentals
- Comments: A biological insecticide that attacks the gut and must be injested. Apply as a soil drench. Does not kill adults.
- Common name (Trade names): Bendiocarb (Dicarb, Turcam)
- Pests Controlled: Aphids, thrips, mealybugs, greenhouse whitefly, black vine weevil, scales, collembola
- Safe Plants: Ornamental plants including: african vioiet, ageratum, aglaonema, aralia, asarina, asparagus sprengeri, begonia, calathea, calendula, camellia, carnation, celosia, chrysanthemum, coleus, cottoneaster, Croton,daffodil, dahlia, dianthus, dieffenbachia, dracaena, epipremnum, episcia, fatsia, ferns, ficus, fountain grass, fuchsia, gazania, geranium, gladiolus, gloxinia,hydrangea, hypoestes, impatiens, iris, ivy, ixora, leucothoe, lily of the vailey, maranta, marigold, mondo grass, nandina, nasturtium, nicotiana, pansy, peperomia, petunia, philodendron, photinia, pieris, poinsettia, portulaca, pothos, primrose, rose, sago palm, salvia, sansevieria,schemera, shasta daisy, sinningia, snapdragon, spathiphyllum, spirea, sycamore, verbena, viburnum, vinca, wandering jew, and zinnia.
- Comments: A carbamate insecticide.
- Common Name (Trade Names) ::Bifenthrin (PT 1800 Attain,
- Talstar T&O 10 WP, Talstar T&O Flowable)
- Pests Controlled: Aphids, armyworms, brown soft scale, caterpillars, fungus gnats, cutworms, loopers, mealybugs, plant bugs, scale, whiteflies, spider mites, thrips, leafminers
- Safe Plants:Ornamental and flowering plants
- Comments: A synthetic pyrethroid insecticide. Apply during early evening when foliage is dry and temperature is between 60 - 80 F. Use an alternate class of chemistry in a treatment program to delay or prevent resistance.
- Common Name (Trade Names)::Chlorpyrifos (Dursban 50 WP, PT 1325 ME Duraguard, Pageant DF)
- Pests Controlled: Ants, aphids, beetles, caterpillars, centipedes, crickets, leafhoppers, mealybugs, plant bugs, scale, sowbugs, thrips (exposed), whiteflies
- Safe Plants:Ornamental and flowering plants
- Sensitive plants:Do not use on croton, schefflera, zebra plant, copperleaf, black olive, papayas, cissus, ficus, weeping fig, Cuban laurel, yellow hibiscus, red/Chinese hibiscus, impatients, Boston fern, petunia, and some roses.
- Comments: An organophosphate insecticide. Direct spray to some open blooms may cause petal drop. Do not use additional wetting agents, spreaders or
- stickers.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Cyfluthrin (Tempo 2, Tempo 20 WP, Decathalon)
- Pests Controlled: Armyworms, cutworms, flies, crickets, fungus gnats, sowbugs, ants, aphids, flea beetles, leafhoppers, plants bugs, mealybugs, thrips, scales, whiteflies
- Safe plants: Ornamentals
- Comments: A synthetic pyrethroid insecticide.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Cyromazine (Citation 75 WP)
- Pests Controlled: Leafminers
- Safe plants: Container grown chrysanthemums
- Comments: An insect growth regulator. It has some systemic effects, but should be applied as a high volume spray.
- Common Name (Trade Names): Diazinon (Knox-Out 2FM PT 265, Knox-Out PT 1500R)
- Pests Controlled: Ants, aphids, caterpillars, crickets, fungus gnat larvae, leafminers, loopers, mealybugs, millipedes, mites, scales, thrips
- Safe plants: Various ornamentals
- Do not use on bella palm, dracaena, hoya, maidenhair fern, neath, poinsettia, and prayer plant.
- Comments: An organophosphate insecticide.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Dibrom (Naled 8 E)
- Pests Controlled: Spider mites, adult whiteflies, aphids, leafrollers, mealybugs
- Safe plants: Roses and other ornamental plants. Often used as a vapor treatment when applied on heat pipes.
- Comments: An organophosphate insecticide.
- Common Name (Trade Names): Dicofol (Kelthane 35, Kelthane 50)
- Pests Controlled: Mites
- Safe plants: Ornamental and flowering plants
- Comments: A miticide.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Dienochlor (Pentac Aquaflow, Pentac WP)
- Pests Controlled: Two-spotted spider mite, European red mite, broad mites
- Safe plants: Most ornamental plants including: roses, chrysanthemum, carnation, gardenia, poinsettia, snapdragon, zinnia, delphinium, palms, maranta, zebra plant, schefflera, dieffenbachia, aphelandra
- Comments: A miticide.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Endosulfan (Thiodan T&O 3EC, Thiodan T&O 50WP)
- Pests Controlled: Aphids, whiteflies, cyclamen mite
- Safe plants: Ornamentals
- Sensitive plants:Do not use on 'Bnafon Deluxe', 'Fred Shoesmith' or 'White Knight' chrysanthemums.
- Comments: A chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide. On chrysanthemums, apply before plants flower for best results.
Common Name (Trade Names):Fenoxycarb (PT 2100 TR Preclude)
Pests Controlled: Whiteflies, thrips, scale, aphids
Safe plants: Bedding plants, cut flowers, potted plants, foliage and flowering plants, and ornamentals
Comments: An insect growth regulator. Apply during early evening when foliage is dry and temperature is between 60 - 80 F.
Common Name (Trade Names):Fenpropathrin (Tame 2.4 EC)
Pests Controlled: Aphids, beet armyworm, mealybugs, greenhouse whitefly, lace bugs, leafhoppers, two-spotted spider mite, sweet potato whitefly
Safe plants: Ornamental plants including: Anthurium, bedding plants, chamomile, chrysanthemum, crossondra, columbine, foliage plants, geranium, gladiolus, impatients, liriope, lilly, mrigold, poisettia, snapdragon, azalea, croton, camellia, cotoneaster, gardenia, hibiscus, rose, viburnum.
Comments: A synthetic pyrethroid insecticide.
Common Name (Trade Names):Fluvalinate (Mavrik Aquaflow)
Pests Controlled: Aphids, thrips, mites, whiteflies, flea beetles, leafhoppers, plant bugs, leaf-feeding caterpillars
Safe plants: Ornamentals
Comments: A synthetic pyrethroid insecticide. May work slowly on some species. Allow 3 to 4 days to evaluate performance. Piperonyl butotoxide will aid in the control of some pest species such as whiteflies, aphids, thrips, and mealybugs.
- Common name (Trade name): Horticultural oil (SunSpray Ultra Fine Spray oil)
- Pests controlled: Aphids, fungus gnat, leafminers, mealybugs, scales, spider mites, whiteflies
- Safe plants: Azaleas, begonias, camelias, chrysanthemums, Easter lilles, ferns, gardenias, hibiscus, jade plant, New Guinea impatients, palms, philodendron, portulaca, reigor begonias, zinnias, poinsettia, dieffenbachia
- Sensitive plants: Do not use on coconut palms or maidenhair ferns. Blooms of chrysanthemums and geranium may show injury at higher rates. Do not use on poinsettia
- bracts. Some bleaching and spotting has been observed on open blooms.
- Comments: Most effective on whitefly during immature stages. Kills insect by suffocation. Complete coverage is necessary. Is incompatible with pesticides containing sulfur.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Imadacloprid (Marathon 1G)
- Pests Controlled: Aphids, mealybugs, thrips, whiteflies
- Safe Plants:Ornamental flowering, foliage, and bedding plants
- Comments: A systemic insecticide. Do not apply to soils which are water-logged, or saturated which will not allow penetration of water into the root zone of the plants. Do not over-irrigate or allow excessive runoff to occur following application.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Insecticidal soap (M-pede, Safer, Ringer Attack)
- Pests Controlled: Aphids, lace bugs, leafhoppers, plant bugs, mealybugs, mites, scales, thrips, whiteflies
- Safe plants: Flowers and bedding plants
- Sensitive plants:Do not use on azaleas, begonias, bleeding heart, camellias, crown of thorns, fuchias, gardenia, impatients, jade plants, lantana, lillies, palms, or sweet peas. Do not use on transplants or root cuttings. Test on euphorbias, chrysanthemums, dracaena, dieffenbachia, ivies, palms and succulents before using. Do not apply to open blooms.
- Comments: Avoid application when temperatures exceed 90 F.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Kinoprene (Enstar 5E, Enstar II)
- Pests Controlled: Immature whiteflies, aphids, soft and armored scales, mealybugs, fungus gnats
- Safe plants: Ornamental plants including: aluminum plant, azalea, Boston fern, bromeliad, chrysanthemum, devil's ivy, dianthus, dracaena compacta, emerald gem nephthylis, English ivy, epipremnum aureum, exotica perfection dumbcane, false aralia, fluffy ruffles fern, fuchsia, geranium, gerbera, gloxinia, heartleaf philodendron, hydrangea,kalanchoe, lantana, lily, marigold, pelargonium, petunia, purple passion plant, red-veined prayer plant, Sanders dracaena, snapdragon, table fern, variegated oval leaf peperomia, wax plant, weeping fig, areca palm, aucubifolum [cotton], coleus varieties, coral ardisia, grape ivy, neanthebelle palm, and sprengeri fern, zebra plant
- Sensitive plants:Do not use on some poinsettia and rose varieties.
- Comments: An insect growth regulator. May cause some damage to blooms under certain conditions, apply in the prebloom stage.
- Common Name: (Trade Names):Neem (Azatin, Margosan-O)
- Pests Controlled: Whiteflies, thrips, mealybugs, leafminers, loopers, caterpillars, beet armyworm
- Safe plants: Bedding plants, potted plants, foliage plants, ornamentals, trees and
- shrubs
- Comments: An insect growth regulator. Do not add surfactants. Do not apply when temperatures will exceed 90 F.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Nicotine (Nicotine Smoke Generator)
- Pests Controlled: Aphids, thrips, chysanthemum and rose midge, whiteflies
- Safe plants: Greenhouse ornamentals
- Sensitive plants:Do not use on African violets. Do not fumigate tender plants.
- Comments: A botanical insecticide.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Permethrin (Pounce T&O 25 WP, Pounce T&O 3.2 EC)
- Pests Controlled: Cabbage looper, beet armyworm, omnivorous leafroller
- Safe plants: Greenhouse roses
- Sensitive plants:Some rose varieties are sensitive to permethrin. Treat a small number of plants to determine plant safety prior to commercial use.
- Comments: A synthetic pyrethroid insecticide.
- Common Name (Trade Names):Pyrethrin + PBO (PT 1100 Pyrethrum, X-clude PT 1600 A, Pyrenone)
- Pests Controlled: Ants, aphids, beetles, caterpillars, fungus gnats, leafhoppers, mealybugs, moths, plant bugs, scale, spider mites, whiteflies
- Ornamental and flowering plants
- Sensitive plants:Do not use on cyclamen or nasturtium
- Comments: A botanical insecticide and a synergist.
- Common Name (Trade Names): Resmethrin (PT 1200 TR, PT 1200 DS)
- Pests Controlled: Ants, aphids, armyworms, beetles, caterpillars, centipedes,
- fungus gnats, lacebugs, leafhoppers, mealybugs, milipedes, plant bugs, scale,
- sowbugs, thrips, whiteflies
- Safe plants: Bedding plants, cut flowers, foliage and flowering plants and ornamentals
- Comments: A synthetic pyrethroid insecticide.
- Common Name (Trade Names): Steinernema carpocapsa (Exhibit)
- Pests Controlled: Root weevils and grubs, fungus gnat larvae, shore fly larvae
- Safe plants: Ornamentals
- Comments: Biological larvicide containing parasitic nematodes. Incompatible with some other pesticides. See label for guidelines.
- Common Name (Trade Names): Sulfotep (Plantfume 103)
- Pests controlled: Spider mites, thrips, soft brown scale, mealybugs, whitefly
- Safe plants: Various ornmentals
- Comments: An organophosphate insecticide.
Revised: 1/04
CAUTION! Pesticide recommendations in this publication are registered for use in Kentucky, USA ONLY! The use of some products may not be legal in your state or country. Please check with your local county agent or regulatory official before using any pesticide mentioned in this publication.
Of course, ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW LABEL DIRECTIONS FOR SAFE USE OF ANY PESTICIDE!


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Thanks to the ECB's promise that it will backstop the government bond market, if necessary, the acute financial crisis from the past couple of years is basically over.
But there have always been risks.
For one thing, the economy is horrible, and people can only accept that before so long before society starts to tear apart.
And then there's always been politics, and the worry that these governments will lose the support of the public, and be seen as corrupt.
That's what's going on now.
In Spain, a country that's always been one of the biggest worries, there are calls for PM Mariano Rajoy to resign amid a big corruption bombshell in a Spanish newspaper.
Via Email, economist Frederik Ducrozet of Crédit Agricole explained to Business Insider the overall cause for concern:
It looks bad for Rajoy facing such a massive pressure all of a sudden, mostly because no obvious alternative is available in terms of leadership. This also give Catalunia and other regions a fresh opportunity to contest central policies. And, of course, it happened at a time when activity is still very weak and a risk to fiscal sustainability. Italian politics are getting more unstable. EU cohesion could be more broadly impacted. True, there is always the OMT backstop to cap any sell-off in Bonos but clearly we are approaching the danger zone.
It should be interesting watching Europe again for a bit.
Spain's stock market (the IBEX) dived on Friday amid this scandal, the end of a short-selling ban, and bad bank numbers. There's Italian politics. There's the ongoing bailout of Cyprus. And then there's the ultra-strong Euro ostensibly harming German exporters, who are watching their Japanese competitors enjoy a weakening yen. This week there's an ECB meeting. Should be interesting.


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Tried an experiment with a hive I have at a farm, to see if bees would fill the cavity or swarm as soon as they had a compete brood nest.
The hive was an old 8 frame box. When I put on the next brood box it was about 3 weeks before swarm season. I only moved one frame up into the second box. the new frames were foundationless except for a small strip of foundation alone the top as a guide.
The owner told me he thought they had swarmed on Thursday 6th after a few days of bad weather. So I went and checked them today, the 10th.
The bees built comb in the frame where the previous one was, but the one moved up was abandoned and resources moved once brood had emerged. There was only a small patch of foundation on the frames next to it that had be started to be drawn out.
Found 8 queen cells, all along the bottom or the very edge of the frames and the old queen gone. But I could hear a queen piping and it wasn't from the queen cells. I found this virgin queen after following the sound. So I started cutting out the queen cells. The first one was made of new wax, was open and it just broke apart. I was able to cut the rest out. I then found another virgin queen wandering around! I then noticed that one of the cells was open that I thought had be closed when I first separated the frames with queen cells.
Since there was only capped brood, no eggs or larvae, the main flow is on, and good weather forecast for the next few days I decided to checkboard the two boxes to encourage wax building. I thought that this should also discourage any further swarms. The only pests in this area are wax moth.
As I was finishing putting the hive back, another virgin queen flew back to the entrance and wandered around. I managed to get a few photos of her.
When I looked the the queen cells I found two were open (the third was squished), they still had the cap on them like it was hinged. (But they soon broke of with the heat.)
The first two photos are of the each of the two queens I found on frames, the third is the queen at the entrance.
The fourth photo is the seven remaining queen cells. Notice they are mostly old recycled wax.


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Amateur Night
Guy Carter is an award-winning graduate student of architecture. He's got a beautiful wife and a baby on the way. The problem? He doesn't have "his ducks in a row," which only fuels his doubts about being a good father. Guy has been trying to find work in his field for a year with no luck. At wit's end, his wife Anne finds him a job as a 'driver' on Craigslist. Guy shows up for the interview thinking he'll be delivering pizzas, but quickly realizes it's a job driving prostitutes. With money too scarce to turn down, he goes for it- which is where he meets Nikki, the tough-as-nails, unapologetic sex worker, and her two hilarious and foul-mouthed cohorts, Jaxi and Fallon. As reluctant driver and protector Guy is thrust into a world of rockin' women and feeble men. Over the course of one wild and sordid night, and several 'come-to-Jesus' moments, Guy proves to Nikki, and himself, that he does have what it takes to be the responsible father his family deserves.
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Jason Biggs, Janet Montgomery, Ashley Tisdale, Bria L. Murphy, Jenny Mollen, Adrian Voo, Steven Weber, Robert Hoffman, Rusty Joiner, Cedric Yarbrough, Russell Steinberg, David J. Phillips, Bj Allman, Jon Eidson, Ian McLaren
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Since everyone always wants to play dinos, and the teams are never balanced unless enforced, why not add dinos to the humans team?
A small speedy Ceratopsia type dino that can be pounced by raptors, and eaten by rex, etc.
A Pachycephalosaurus perhaps being a little smaller and faster than Dino team equivalent, can be pounced by raptors but only for half health, and can be eaten by rex, etc.
A limit of 1 or 2 Ankylosaurus to serve as the Humans "Tank", and can be ridden by 1 human to shoot from and cannot be pounced on and cannot be eaten by rex, etc.


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Hi guys...got a stupid little problem here.
I recently installed wine/steam ...and I got a little entry in the menu with links to Stem e.t.c.
Heres a pic:
Now I have removed/unistalled bot steam and wine...but the entry that is highlighted wont disapear from the menu.
I have looked in:
But there is no file there at all pointing to it..so my question is:
Is there any other way to remove it?...does xfce store info anywhere else about the menu e.t.c ?
*Xubuntu...the way it was meant to be*
Never mind guys...problem solved...got help in #xfce in IRC.
Removed some files in:
And it went away...
*Xubuntu...the way it was meant to be*
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Posted by R. Berg on June 05, 2004
In Reply to: A family of phrases posted by Mike on June 05, 2004
: The pattern that interests me is:
: "Let us make like a [noun] and [verb]"
: Usually, the phrase arises on the occasion of departure or transition. There are many clever variants, such as
: "Let us make like a bakery truck and haul our buns."
: The question is: what is the original phrase, of which all the others are imitations? From whence did it originate?
"Why don't you make like a tree and leave?" must be an early ancestor of this group.


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They are divided into two parts separated by a single space. Those two parts are the outward code and the inward code. The West Midlands outward code includes the postcode area and the postcode Coombeswood district. The inward code includes the postcode sector and the postcode unit.
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Hubble Provides Clear Images of Saturn's Aurora
Here is the picture of Saturn taken by the Hubble telescope in ultraviolet light. The glowing, swirling material at Saturn's poles is its auroral "curtains," rising more than a thousand miles above the cloud tops.
Saturn's auroral displays are caused by an energetic wind from the Sun that sweeps over the planet, much like Earth's aurora, which is occasionally seen in the nighttime sky. The process that triggers these auroras is similar to the phenomenon that causes fluorescent lamps to glow.
Saturn's Ultraviolet Aurora
J.T. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and NASA.


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On a planet ruled by the sadistic NovaLords, human beings secretly harvested from Earth are put in deadly gladitorial racing combat where the chances of survival are near impossible ... it's not good entertainment if everybody gets out alive! But you are determined to win your freedom by racing one of 26 vehicles in over 90 racing stages across 5 blisteringl-paced events of death and excitement. Keep your vehicle upgraded, leave no gaps for your opponents, and put on a good show!
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Release Date: Canceled
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Lillian R. Storm, 92, of Stroudsburg, passed Wednesday morning, Dec. 26, 2012, at the Pleasant Valley Manor, Stroudsburg.
Born in East Stroudsburg on May 15, 1920, she was a daughter to the late William and Gertrude Gloss Weber. She attended Bull Run School and was a lifelong resident of Monroe County. Lillian enjoyed baking cinnamon rolls for the Tannersville Fire Department annual carnival, and loved to garden and enjoyed spending time with her family.
Preceding her in death in addition to her parents was her husband, Arnold H. Storm, and brothers William Weber and Ralph Weber. Surviving are daughter Carolyn Gueiss of East Stroudsburg; sons Floyd A. Storm and his wife, Stacey, of Henryville, Lester H. Storm of Stroudsburg, Arnold H. Storm Jr. and his wife, Jessie, of Florida; Frederick H. Storm and his wife, Irene, of Florida; sister Mildred Labar of Stroudsburg; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Wednesday Jan. 2, at the Lanterman & Allen Funeral Home Inc., 27 Washington St., East Stroudsburg, with the Rev. Pastor Edmund Freeborn officiating. Interment will follow in Prospect Cemetery, Prospect Street, East Stroudsburg.
A public visitation will be held at the funeral home Jan. 2 from noon until the time of the service.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the Lanterman & Allen Funeral Home, Inc., where online condolences can be made atlantermanallenfh.com.
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Lillian R. Storm, 92, of Stroudsburg, passed Wednesday morning, Dec. 26, 2012, at the Pleasant Valley Manor, Stroudsburg.


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I adopted two feral kittens from the rescue center three months ago. They are still pretty wild, but we love them anyway. The male, Mickie, is the friendliest and races around the house non-stop. The female, Mia, is shy.
They are so thrilled to have a Christmas tree in the house. I decorated it with non-breakable ornaments, knowing the cats would immediately climb the tree (they did).
Every evening I get home from work to find ornaments scattered around the house, even down in the basement. Have fun, kids.
Lovely Mia.
Mickie and Mia love to harass my house plants.
The Christmas tree right after decoration and before kitten infestation.


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This is quite an unusual date for Jimmy Smith during his Blue Note years. He leads a quartet with baritone saxophonist Cecil Payne, guitarist Kenny Burrell and either Art Blakey or Donald Bailey on drums, one of the rare occasions he didn't use Lou Donaldson during this period. Except for a remake of Moe Koffman's hit "Swingin' Shepherd Blues," the remaining music remained unreleased until 1999, possibly because of minor sound flaws and the all-blues play list, according to reissue producer Michael Cuscuna. Regardless, this is great music that needs to be explored. Smith is still the master when it comes to slow blues on his instrument, and both Payne and Burrell contribute strong solos, especially during an extended "St. Louis Blues." Smith's four original blues are also very enjoyable. Because this release is a limited edition, pick it up before it disappears for good. ~ Ken Dryden


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In this scene, we get a look at the game's three classes, the rogue-like Strider, tank Fighter, and magical Mage, team up to take down one of the game's many massive creatures, a gryphon. Push play to begin the battle:
Dragon's Dogma is in development for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game is scheduled for release sometime in 2012.
Sharkey says: Capcom has been planning and working on Dragon's Dogma for over three years already, and we've still got about a year before launch. Make no mistake, the studio wants to make a big splash with this game, and it is working hard to make sure it appeals to a Western audience. At this point, it certainly looks appealing, though a little explanation on what's going on in this chaotic battle would be appreciated. Hopefully we'll have more details and some hands-on thoughts at E3.


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Among the riches of the historical photograph collections of the University of Idaho Library is an oversize portfolio of eighty, original Carleton E. Watkins photographs donated to the library by Cort Conley. Long considered lost - the collection was found in a basement in San Francisco after having survived the 1906 earthquake - these photographs, taken in 1890, depict the interiors of four Anaconda Mining Company mines in Butte, Montana. Watkins is best known for his scenic, large-plate photographs of the West, but his more commercial photography, exemplified by these mining scenes, is becoming increasingly valued for its documentation and design.
Watkins was hired to photograph the Anaconda copper mine in Butte by James Ben Ali Haggin in 1889. Haggin's company, Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co. which was headed by fellow capitalists Lloyd Tevis and George Hearst, owned the Anaconda Mining Company, along with several other mines. Haggin and his partners had purchased majority shares in the Anaconda mine from Marcus Daly in 1881 and gradually transformed it into one of the largest copper producing mines in the world.
Watkins was hired to document the mines so that Haggin could present, later that year, "visually persuasive evidence of the mine's present success and future prospects" to European copper mining syndicates (including the Rothschild family) with whom the American copper mining interests were competing (Hult-Lewis, 247). The photographs served as a threat to the Eurpoeans, indicating that Haggin's mines could produce and distribute such a large quantity of copper that the market value of the metal would be drastically diminished. The threat worked: the Europoean syndicates and the Americans both promised to limit production to better guarantee the market.
As his letters from Butte attest, Watkins time in Montana was anything but comfortable. Living out of his railroad car, Watkins dealt with howling winds, rain, snow, fires, personal health issues (bad toe, bad hip, vertigo) and terrible lighting and breathing conditions in the mine itself. Meanwhile, back in San Francisco, his wife, their two children, and his sister were dealing with their own health and money issues, having to stave off creditors and the 'wolf' of hunger at the same time. Lonely, weakened by a poor diet, and pining for his family, Watkins nevertheless managed to produce captivating photographs of the working mines—some as deep as 1,000 feet—by using a combination of electric and flash lighting.
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For a more detailed look at the mining photography of Carleton Watkins, and for more information on these photographs in particular, we recommend the recent dissertation of Christine A. Hult-Lewis, The Mining Photographs of Carelton Watkins, 1858-1891, and the Origins of Corporate Photography. Hult-Lewis contextualizes these photographs among the large body of mining photography Watkins created during his lifetime, describing these late photographs of Watkins as breaks from his usual style:
In Montana, the otherworldly, claustrophobic underground pictures represent a marked depature from his usual expansive, open-ended style and presented views that challenged the prevailing landscape aesthetic of the day — an aesthetic that he himself was instrumental in crafting (226).
Watkins' non-mining photographs are astounding as well, and are definitely worth perusing. A few collections are listed below. We also carry several books at the library containing his photographs, including Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon, Carleton E. Watkins : photographs, 1861-1874, and Carleton E. Watkins, photographer of the American West.
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Among the riches of the historical photograph collections of the University of Idaho Library is an oversize portfolio of 80 original Carleton E. Watkins photographs.
Long considered lost, these photographs of the interior of four Anaconda Mines in Butte, Montana, were taken in 1890. They show early hard-rock mining techniques, equipment, and men deep underground.
You may browse the collection by location of mine or by depth of the photograph taken. We also provide a series of letters that Watkins sent from Butte to his wife in San Fransisco detailing his working conditions while taking these photographs.
And if you'd like to browse the entire collection:


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Missionaries and muskets at Kerikeri - Roadside Stories
A Manatū Taonga audio guide to Kerikeri
Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide to Kerikeri in the Video tab.
In the 1820s the Kerikeri mission station was under the protection of Hongi Hika and the Ngāpuhi tribe. Hongi had encouraged the establishment of the mission - largely because he wanted access to muskets, which gave Ngāpuhi a great military advantage over other tribes. Today the 1822 mission house is New Zealand's oldest building.
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The musket wars
Hongi Hika
Samuel Marsden
First years of the CMS mission
Kerikeri Mission House
Archival audio sourced from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives. Sound files may not be reused without permission from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives (Reference number T906).
Roadside Stories is a series of audio guides that follow major road trips in New Zealand. The stories cover the places you'll pass along the way - their people, their history, their cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/


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THEORETICAL STUDIES OF LIPID BILAYER ELECTROPORATION USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS by Zachary Alan Levine A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHYSICS) August 2013 Copyright 2013 Zachary Alan Levine
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|Computer simulations of physical, chemical, and biological systems have improved tremendously over the past five decades. From simple studies of liquid argon in the 1960s to fully atomistic simulations of entire viruses in the past few years, recent advances in high-performance computing have continuously enabled simulations to bridge the gap between scientific theory and experiment. Molecular dynamics simulations in particular have allowed for the direct observation of spatial and temporal events which are at present inaccessible to experiments. For this dissertation I employ all-atom molecular dynamics simulations to study the transient, electric field-induced poration (or electroporation) of phospholipid bilayers at MV/m electric fields. ❧ Phospholipid bilayers are the dominant constituents of cell membranes and act as both a barrier and gatekeeper to the cell interior. This makes their structural integrity and susceptibility to external perturbations an important topic for study, especially as the density of electromagnetic radiation in our environment is increasing steadily. The primary goal of this dissertation is to understand the specific physical and biological mechanisms which facilitate electroporation, and to connect our simulated observations to experiments with live cells and to continuum models which seek to describe the underlying biological processes of electroporation. ❧ In Chapter 1 I begin with a brief introduction to phospholipids and phospholipid bilayers, followed by an extensive overview of electroporation and atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. The following chapters will then focus on peer-reviewed and published work we performed, or on existing projects which are currently being prepared for submission. Chapter 2 looks at how external electric fields affect both oxidized and unoxidized lipid bilayers as a function of oxidation concentration and oxidized lipid type. Oxidative damage to cell membranes represents a physiologically relevant system where lipids can become damaged or severely impacted from interacting with reactive oxygen species, and these events become more frequent with age. The results are then compared to experiments where we show agreement between our simulations, theoretical models, and experiments with peroxidized cells in our lab. In Chapter 3 I outline a set of unique metrics which can be used to quantitatively measure the life cycle of a discrete electropore for the first time, across multiple lipid species, and I compare these results to analytical models where we find good agreement with theory. In Chapter 4 I use the life cycle of an electropore as a tool to measure the effects of electrolyte and lipid headgroup charge on electroporation compared to electrolyte-free and zwitterionic systems, in addition to presenting ion binding isotherms to determine the validity of our simulated electrolyte models. Chapters 5 and 6 focus on the roles of water and lipid respectively on electroporation using simplified water:vacuum systems, osmotic swelling simulations, systems at varying temperature, and systems where we successfully modulated the electropore radius using customized time-dependent electric fields. I conclude this dissertation with a brief summary of these studies followed by a short outlook on the future of electroporation simulations as a whole.
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Why should I go to a career college instead of a two- or four-year school?
A career training college offers specialized job training, whereas two- and four-year schools offer a curriculum that includes liberal arts, math, and science in addition to career-oriented courses. Career schools' programs are generally short-term, hands-on programs that prepare students for entry-level work in their chosen field. Many career training schools work closely with local employers to ensure their graduates are prepared to take on the jobs in the local area.
What kinds of programs do career schools offer?
Career training schools offer a wide variety of programs, including:
- Allied Health, including medical assistant, medical coding and billing, medical office administration, sonography
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How long are the programs offered by career training schools?
Every program is different, but in general, career training programs are designed to be very short term in nature. You could easily complete a certificate program in six months and start working in your field right away. The main idea behind career training is that it should be short term programs that concentrate on just the skills and knowledge needed for the anticipated career.
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Many career schools participate in financial aid programs. Some offer federal and state aid, while others work with private loan sources. Many also offer payment plans, and some even offer scholarships. During the admissions process, check with your admissions representative about the school's financial aid programs. Most schools have dedicated financial aid officers who will work with you one-on-one to put together a financial aid package.
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What kind of degree will I earn?
Career training programs generally lead to a certificate or diploma. Some schools may also offer the option to go all the way to an associate's degree. Most programs are very similar, although they will offer different degrees under different names.


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Wayland's Hawaii Campus takes learning to the seas
It's not uncommon for universities to go to great lengths to make education accessible for students. But recently, Wayland Baptist University's Hawaii Campus overcame a water barrier to take education to the students.
Robert Kessler, an adjunct professor with Wayland, recently returned from 18 days aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Kukui, where he taught personal finance to 11 of the crew members while on a regular patrol about 10 miles from the Hawaiian shore.
The trip was a learning experience as well for Kessler, who is retired from the Army after 24 years of service. The typical classroom was traded for the ship's galley, where classes were held between meals. Coast Guard officials were flexible with schedules and other duties in order to allow their sailors to attend the classes. Even the ship's captain, who holds a master's degree, took the class because of interest in the subject.
"During the rest of the day, I'd be available to visit with the guys if anyone had questions or just wanted to visit," Kessler said, adding that many took him up on the offer. "Quite a few guys were surprised when we got into things like debt ratios. Investments was another subject that opened everyone's eyes, too."
When he wasn't teaching, Kessler said he'd prepare for the next day's lessons or just take in the sights around the 250-foot ship, as they conducted daily maneuvers, boarding of ships entering Hawaii harbors, and drug and illegal immigration interdictions.
Dr. Steven Reid, dean at the Hawaii campus, which is located in Aiea, said the university began offering classes at Sand Island Coast Guard Station in Honolulu last year and this venture provided another opportunity to offer education.
"We will continue to seek creative ways of meeting the unique educational needs of the military to the extent we can. We see this as an extension of existing programs in Hawaii," Reid said. "I have already committed to teaching on the next cutter going to American Samoa and Fiji."
Reid said students aboard the ships can take the courses for credit toward an associate's or bachelor's degree or just for continuing education. Plans are already underway to offer more classes on ships departing on longer patrols, with destinations including Alaska, Guam, American Samoa and other islands during the coming year.


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Last night, as Michele Tafoya interviewed 49ers Alex Smith and Michael Crabtree following their team's victory against the Lions, an unknown man in a hoodie popped up in the background. For about two minutes, Hoodie-Man listened to Smith and Crabtree's thoughtful answers, giving the occasional nod in agreement.
So, who is Hoodie-Man? After some searching, it appears to be Niraj Vora, an aspiring musician. At 5:14 p.m. on Sunday he Instagrammed a picture of Candlestick Park, leading us to believe that this is the right Niraj Vora.
Hats off to you, Niraj. You followed the golden rule when it comes to being in a place where you shouldn't be: act like you belong there, and no one will question you.