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There Nate and Onnalee Morrell were in the wet spring of 1969: a not-so-young couple (born 1924 and 1935) married just a year . . . and newly moved from New Hampshire to an old 150-acre farm near Watertown, New York. As if that weren't enough change in their lives, Nate was also fresh out of a job after 17 years as a machinery salesman to the woodworking industry. It seems that he'd never been able to view grabbing a fast dollar as a measure of success . . . and the company he'd been with had finally told him he was just too honest for the firm's own good.
Well, then. It looked as if the fresh start the Morrells were making would have to include a new occupation for Nate. Oh sure, he could have just worked that 150 acres and experimented with new ideas in organic farming while Onnalee paid the bills with her full-time job as a registered nurse. The Morrells, however, knew that the plans they had for their farm would take more money than the nursing job could provide . . . and they also were feeling a vague but growing desire to commit themselves to a way of living in which they could really believe.
"We both felt very strongly about pure foods, privacy, conservation of resources, simplifying our surroundings, and harming neither ourselves nor our fellow men," Nate says. "As we discussed these feelings, our belief in the land and organic farming methods continued to grow and we increasingly found ourselves thinking of ways to recycle waste into useful gardening products and, hence, into our own version of The Good Life. This almost immediately led us to thoughts of the tremendous amounts of bark which I'd seen the woodworking trade do little or nothing with over the years."
The lumber industry in general (not just the woodworking section) has traditionally looked upon its bark by-product as "waste" instead of "resource" . . . and done little to discover uses for the material. Little wonder, then, that the "scrap" almost always winds up as landfill or very poor boiler fuel. Even the recent attempts to market the material on the West Coast as a soil conditioner have been less than satisfactory (largely because only nitrogen, in chemical form, is added to the bark in varying amounts giving—as might be expected—varying results).
"But it doesn't have to be that way," Nate told Onnalee.
"Fifteen or twenty years ago I saw a researcher named John Sayward experiment with a bark-manure mixture in Vermont. The crops he grew with the help of that conditioner were good . . . so good that people wouldn't even believe the results and Sayward went back to his job of teaching."
The more the Morrells thought about Sayward's work, the more they wanted to pick up where he had left off. "What if we gathered large quantities of bark from the sawmills and mixed it—in controlled amounts—with the whey from cheese plants, the apple pomace from cider mills, the manure from poultry farms and the hay, straw and manure from cattle operations?" they asked themselves. "Surely—if we composted all that rich, organic material together—we'd come up with a superior natural soil conditioner."
After 90 days of soul-searching, Nate and Onnalee took the big leap. They borrowed money and formed NOMCO (a name that stands both for Nate and Onnalee Morrell Co. and Nature's Own Method Co.).
Over the next few months the couple bought a Mack truck, two dump trailers, a front-end loader, hoppers, conveyors, chip screen, and hammermill. None of the equipment was new and none of it worked until the Morrells either rebuilt or modified it. Somehow they did manage to "balewire and binder twine" their tools together, however . . . well enough to produce a three-ton batch of their new, composted product. The initial run of soil conditioner was completed in their barn in the dead of the 1969-70 winter and christened B.S.A. (for Bark Soil Amendment).
And then the work began! The new gardening season was drawing nearer and—with no established sales outlets to handle B.S.A.—Nate was forced to hit the road to line up accounts for the product. That left Onnalee to hold down her nursing job and keep things on an even keel back home.
Both Morrells had their hands more than full: Many outlets hesitated to handle the as-yet-unproven soil conditioner. NOMCO's secondhand equipment continued to break down and malfunction. The special bags that Nate and Onnalee needed for packaging their product were late in arriving. Delivery dates were missed. Expenses climbed and income hardly got off Ground Zero.
The Morrells borrowed more money and continued to put every possible penny from Onnalee's job into the business. They experimented with different formulas for their soil conditioner, lined up more sources of raw material, replaced and rebuilt their tools and submitted samples of B.S.A. to laboratories and agricultural colleges for testing.
NOMCO's treatment at the hands of some of the land-grant university experimental stations and agricultural research centers is an especially sore point with Nate. He says, "The public maintains these facilities expressly for the purpose of developing and testing products such as ours and one would think that using such services is a perfectly straightforward procedure. Not at all! We've largely gotten the runaround when we've taken our bark product to the land-grant universities for analysis and testing."
Nate's low opinion of the current situation at many of the agricultural colleges does seem more than a little justified. There was the time, for instance, when the Morrells took a sample of their soil conditioner to the labs (stocked with a half-million dollars' worth of equipment) of one such institute. "Yes," they were told, "this station can analyze your product in the finest and most exacting manner."
"Splendid," replied the Morrells. "We'd like to have you do just that."
"Sorry. We can't. There's no money in the budget for your project."
"We'll be pleased to pay for the tests," said Onnalee and Nate.
"Oh no, we couldn't accept the money. As New York State taxpayers, you're entitled to the service at no charge."
"Well then, how do we apply for the analysis?"
"You can't. There's no money in the budget."
Onnalee—who is part Irish, redheaded, and seldom at a loss for words—was left speechless by this "Catch-22" line of reasoning . . . and Nate was even more upset by the actions of another large, eastern, land-grant university.
The Vegetable Crop Department of the second school did accept a test sample of B.S.A.,then claimed the soil conditioner had been lost and advised the Morrells to "wait awhile" before submitting a new specimen. Imagine the couple's surprise over a year and a half later, then, when quite by by accident—Nate discovered that the sample had not been lost at all. It had, in fact, placed first in germination, growth, color, and yield in a test against 13 other products!
The Morrells, of course, could hardly believe that the experimental lab of a reputable university would tell them that it had lost their specimen, test the material . . . and then neglect to tell them that their product had proven superior to every other soil conditioner against which it was compared. They believed it, though, when they visited the school and saw the test results in writing.
"Well, better late than never," says Nate. "Delayed as it was, the release of that test information proved to be the turning point in our venture. The university wouldn't let us use it's name in our advertising but it did offer to confirm the reports to anyone who called in a request. I had the Small Business Administration and our bank get a copy of the confidential report and—on the basis of the information it contained—borrowed more money to keep NOMCO afloat. Things have been picking up ever since."
Lest anyone get the impression that he's down on all land-grant colleges and research stations, Nate hastens to praise the ones that have taken pains to give the NOMCO soil conditioner impartial and unbiased tests. He has particularly warm feelings for Prof. Frank Campbell at the University of Maine's Waltham Field Station, where several experiments with the Morrell product are underway . . . for Dr. Walter Larmie, who—at the University of Rhode Island—has found that the NOMCO soil conditioner will help greenhouse flowers produce 19% more No. 1 blossoms that stay in bloom up to 10 times longer than untreated plants . . . and Dr. Richard Ashley of the University of Connecticut who—after adding the Morrell product to test plots to improve drainage—said, "No matter what I did, I couldn't make it go wrong!"
"These men could have refused us also," Nate says, "but, instead, agreed to try our soil conditioner and give us a full report with no strings attached. They're a credit to the original intent of the whole land-grant college concept."
While the Morrells were struggling with the problems of distribution, biased tests, secondhand equipment, and all the other setbacks faced by any small, new business . . . they were also refining their B.S.A. formula.
"Our soil conditioner is essentially earth," Nate explains, "the closest equivalent we can create to the rich humus that builds up on the forest floor at the rate of one inch of topsoil in 300 years. At NOMCO, we simply speed up nature's method by processing and composting a combination of industrial organic wastes that are plentiful in our area.
"We try to use the purest products available. Our whey comes from the raw-milk cheese produced by the Heath Cheese Plant in East Rodman, New York. The apple pomace we use is from Homer Rebb's Burrville, New York cider mill. We get it because Homer has designed a special washer that cleans each fruit before it's pressed and we feel that anything from his mill contains the least possible residual contamination.
"Although our poultry manure does come from an egg ranch, the stilbesterol and hormones and arsenic added to the birds' feed to stimulate production is much less now than it was two years ago. The level of contamination from this source is certainly not down to zero yet, but it is acceptable.
"We refuse to buy hay and straw from any farmer who applies 2-4-D or 2-4-5T to his oats for mustard control and we will not use manure from veal operations because the drugs fed to such calves in their highly medicated milk substitutes can upset the soil's microorganisms."
The hardwood bark, apple pomace, cheese whey, poultry manure, beef manure, hay, and straw are mixed together in a special "secret" blend and then composted by NOMCO under cover. Weather does make a difference in the composting time but—under ideal conditions—a batch is finished in 30 days. The resulting product is an excellent growing medium which improves the tilth of the soil, contributes many valuable trace minerals to the earth and enriches the dirt to which it's applied by a slow decomposition (for up to seven years under ideal conditions) of new organic matter.
One of the two analyses reproduced with this article gives the B.S.A. composition in parts per million (as if it were chemical fertilizer) and the other is a soil test which shows that the conditioner contains an abundance of every element required for good plant growth, with the exception of nitrogen. Tests have shown that when B.S.A. is used outdoors, enough nitrogen is usually naturally present to make up for this single deficiency (common to many composted "natural" fertilizers). If the soil amendment is mixed with a soilless growing medium (such as vermiculite), however, NOMCO recommends that blood meal or some other natural source of nitrogen be added. Commercial growers have been very successful with a slow-release or liquid-feed type of fertilizer for this purpose.
At the same time the Morrells were standardizing their B.S.A., they were developing a second bark product . . . although not quite exactly the product they intended. As Nate recalls, "Our original notion of manufacturing bark nuggets as well as soil amendment was given up when we found that the local bark doesn't process well in nugget form. Our machinery couldn't handle the job anyhow... so, instead of nuggets, we now make a mulch by fibrating bark into a fine material. The woody part remains fibrous and forms a porous mat that holds the mulch in place on the ground where the finer particles retain moisture and inhibit weed growth."
As Nate and Onnalee were smoothing the final kinks out of both NOMCO products, they made the acquaintance of Don and Judy Buckley of Canaan, Connecticut. Don, a retired advertising man, and Judy are staunch advocates of organic gardening and Don has written a soon-to-be-published book, Ad Man In The Garden Of Eden, about their experiences with natural methods of raising fruit and vegetables. The Buckleys are also deeply concerned about the thousands of birth defects and cases of leukemia which some scientists have traced to the low-level radiation produced by "peaceful" uses of atomic energy (see Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass's book, Low Level Radiation, published by Ballantine Books), and have established the Bucks Foundation for the Survival of Man to study the problem.
Given the Buckleys' interest in natural methods of gardening and living, it's hardly surprising that they became enthusiastic supporters of Nate's and Onnalee's soil conditioner and bark mulch. Don even took the time and effort to rename and register the products as BARSOLA and BARMULCH and write advertising copy, an industrial user's newsletter, and instruction sheets for the NOMCO items.
With this fresh image, the Morrell company began to pick up new dealers and customers and now appears—for the first time—to be headed for the solid success it deserves. Nate and Onnalee (still over their heads in debt) have started patent proceedings and hope that they'll soon interest other firms in producing BARSOLA and BARMULCH under NOMCO licensing arrangements. They emphasize, however, that they're not interested in working with companies that are only out after a fast dollar . . . the Morrells are looking for firms that will—first and foremost—take the pains that NOMCO takes to make its products the best that they can possibly be. With that philosophy leading the way, Nate and Onnalee believe, the money will just naturally follow.
And what do the Morrells do in their spare time? Spread the word about natural composting and recycling, of course! They feel that they've learned much of value since they founded NOMCO and they're currently trying to share that knowledge for the public good by helping towns and cities set up garbage composting operations of their own.
Nate is also one of the directors of the Natural Foods Association of New York, an organization that has just voted $10,000 to start a research program that will allow a land grant college to compare the results of chemical, semi-chemical, and organic farming over a period of time.
This eagerness to help others (even—in the case of the city composting operations—at the risk of setting up competition for their own company) is just another measure of the depth of the commitment made four years ago by the Morrells. Although they're now deeper in debt than they'd ever thought possible, they're more convinced than ever that their efforts will work out to a better life for everyone involved. That seems to be enough to keep the couple's attention directed firmly ahead.
Perhaps the Morrells' feelings were best summed up at one of NOMCO's many low points when Nate asked Onnalee, "What'll we do if we go broke and lose everything?" Her answer was straightforward: "Start over!"


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Floris, Foecke (ca. 1650-ca. 1700)
Foecke Floris was a blacksmith and a Mennonite preacher at Surhuisterveen in the Dutch province of Friesland. On 16 April 1683 Franciscus Elgersma, a Reformed preacher of Grouw, charged him openly with Socinianism, and wrote Rechtzinnige leer van het sacrament des hl. Doops (Leeuwarden, 1685). Foecke replied with Beschermingh der waerheyt Godts (Leeuwarden, 1687). Elgersma again brought his accusations before the Leeuwarden Reformed Synod and with their approval wrote the following booklets: Seedige verhandeling van de hooge verborgentheit der hl. Drieëenheid and Kanker der Sociniaansche ketterij (Leeuwarden, 1688). An anonymous friend now entered into the dispute, defending Foecke with a pamphlet: Klaar vertoog, Dienende tot wederlegginge van de ongefondeerde beschuldingen (1689).
Meanwhile the Reformed Synod of Harlingen had taken the affair in hand. Both parties were summoned to appear before it. By a decision of 18 November 1687 they condemned Foecke's book, ordered all copies to be burned, and forbade him to preach on penalty of five years' penitentiary. Soon afterward he was arrested and brought to Leeuwarden; but he found so much sympathy that over 2,000 persons came to visit him. Eight weeks later he was banished and went to Oost-Saandam (Zaandam in the province of North Holland) where he again began to preach. In 1688 the Synod of North Holland decided to bring their charges before the bailiff of Kennemerland. Then the persecuted man presented an appeal to Prince William, which had been drawn up by Galenus Abrahamsz de Haan. The prince gave orders to let the matter rest until more information could be gathered (this letter with the signature of the prince is found in Arch. Amst. I, 456). Hence the synod of 1690 was unable to proceed further. Representatives of the synod were given audience by the prince in two successive years, and both times received a noncommittal answer. Then the bailiff of Kennemerland came to the rescue of the synod and forbade Foecke to preach in August 1692.
Nevertheless he resumed his preaching in March 1693. Apparently his influence declined from this point, at least the complaints ended. But his following in Grouw did not disappear. In Jan Klaassz he had a worthy successor. Foecke's writings reveal that he was not a full-fledged Socinian, but that he was on the other hand not entirely free of unorthodox views. He wrote also Leerregel der Bibels, Eenige vorbeelden onzer lofelyke vaderen, and Een Hemelsch ABC (Haarlem, 1690), and Afdeeling der H. Bibelwetten (Amsterdam, 1696).
Cate, Steven Blaupot ten. Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht en Gelderland. 2 v. Amsterdam: P.N. van Kampen, 1847: 229
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 655.
Molhuysen, P.C. and P.J. Blok. Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. v. 1-10. Leiden, 1911-1937: III, 71-73.
Veen, S. D. van. "Foecke Floris." Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1887): 49-85.
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Vos, Karel. "Floris, Foecke (ca. 1650-ca. 1700)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 22 Mar 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Floris,_Foecke_(ca._1650-ca._1700)&oldid=144124.
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Vos, Karel. (1956). Floris, Foecke (ca. 1650-ca. 1700). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 22 March 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Floris,_Foecke_(ca._1650-ca._1700)&oldid=144124.
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* It is best to manually partition the drive, as the auto partition may not work, and will create unnecessary partitions.
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* is the for a , a . has a limited number of writes, and a journaling file system will these the . For this same reason, it is best to forgo a swap partition. Note that this does not affect installing onto a USB hard drive.
* When it asks you whether you want USB boot support, choose ''yes''.
* When it asks you whether you want USB boot support, choose ''yes''.
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This page discusses how to perform a regular Arch installation onto a USB key (or "flash drive"). The result will be a system that will be updated through normal use. Consider whether you're instead interested in Putting installation media on a USB key.
Grab a big enough USB key
If installing KDE and a large amount of applications, 3 GiB is the recommended minimum. GNOME and Xfce4, along with a typical set of packages for a desktop (GIMP, Pidgin, OpenOffice, Firefox, flashplugin) can be installed on a 2 GiB stick, leaving a small amount of room for user data.
Grab CD
An Arch Linux CD can be used to install Arch onto the USB key, via booting the CD and installing using the regular method. Or, if you have another linux computer available (it needs not be Arch), you can follow the instructions to install from existing linux, and then skip to the configuration section.
It may be necessary to boot with the arch-noscsi kernel, if the usb-storage module gives errors when loaded with the standard kernel. After the system has booted, modprobe sd_mod and usb_storage (There are reports that the 7.2 CD contains no sd_mod; simply omit loading this module, as you can safely proceed without it). The USB key will appear in a few moments, after the device has settled. dmesg will show a device scan once the device has settled:
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage usb-storage: device found at 4 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning USB Mass Storage support registered. scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9407 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 3994624 512-byte hardware sectors (2045 MB) sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 3994624 512-byte hardware sectors (2045 MB) sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through sdc: sdc1 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete
It is the sdX: sdXY line that is important, as it shows the device name (in this case, sdc) and the partitions available on it (in this case, one, sdc1), if any.
Launch the installer (/arch/setup). The setup process can be done normally, with only a few pointers:
- It is best to manually partition the drive, as the auto partition may not work, and will create unnecessary partitions.
- It is highly recommended to review the Tips for Minimizing SSD Read/Writes on the SSD wiki article prior to selecting a filesystem. To sum up, ext4 with a journal should be fine. Recognize that flash has a limited number of writes, and a journaling file system will take some of these as the journal is updated. For this same reason, it is best to forgo a swap partition. Note that this does not affect installing onto a USB hard drive.
- When it asks you whether you want USB boot support, choose yes.
- Make sure that /etc/fstab includes the correct partition information for /, and for any other partitions on the USB key. Keep in mind the setup of the target machine when putting in the device names, as they may be different from the machine you are using for the installation. Example: if the installation machine has one hard drive, your USB key will likely be sdb. The target machine, however, may have no hard drives, in which case your USB key will likely be sda.
- menu.lst, the Grub configuration file, should be edited to (loosely) match the following, replacing sda1 with the partition of the key on the target machine (note that, as grub is installed on the USB key, the key will always be hd0,0).
root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=773 initrd /boot/kernel26.img
- Regenerate the initrd image, kernel26.img. Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, changing the hooks to include (at a minimum): "base udev ide usb filesystems" (Note: if using the 7.2 CD, and installing from the CD, you will have mkinitrd instead of mkinitcpio. During the configuration, you will be asked to edit mkinitrd.conf; simply change REMOVE_USB=1 to REMOVE_USB=0 and ignore the following command). Then rebuild the image by issuing:
# mkinitcpio -k 2.6.25-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img.
Note: The kernel version (-k) must be the kernel version in the USB key, not the live cd's kernel version.
USB Support
Should you see that the /arch/setup correctly installed a system on to your USB drive but it stills failed to boot from it by complaining that it could not find the root file system even though it had been specified with UUIDs, then you are most likely missing support for USB. In this case, boot back into your Arch Setup CD/USB media and do the following:
- chroot into the arch installation contained on the usb drive (don't forget the boot partition, if any)
- Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, and add "usb" to the "HOOKS=" line after udev:
HOOKS="base udev usb autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"
- Regenerate the initrd image by running:
# mkinitcpio -p kernel26
Using UUID
Instead of using literal partition names, you can also use the UUID of your partition. This way is much better and more manageable in a setup where the USB drive is meant to boot at multiple PC's than using the partition literal names (/dev/sdb1). Run:
# blkid
to find out which one points to the regular device node (ie, /dev/sdb1) that is your key.
Now you can place this device node (in the form
UUID=7bf1d942-7b8c-4fb7-b55a-d3c40895906d) into /etc/fstab in place of the regular node (ie, /dev/sdb1). Edit also your
kernel line in menu.lst, so it will contain something like:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/7bf1d942-7b8c-4fb7-b55a-d3c40895906d ro vga=733
Note: The files may contain UUIDs already. Also note that you specifying "root (hdX,X) is also not required when using UUIDs.
Painless boot on different machines without using UUID
When using the USB key on various target machines, it is helpful to have multiple entries in GRUB, for machines with different setups. For example, the GRUB configuration could contain:
# (0) Arch Linux title Arch Linux (first drive) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /boot/kernel26.img
As well as
# (1) Arch Linux title Arch Linux (second drive) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb1 ro initrd /boot/kernel26.img
And so forth, giving you the option to select a configuration for a wider variety of machines. However, changing the
root= option in GRUB does not change /etc/fstab and you must do something (in our example using udev symlink), so the root partition will always be mounted correctly.
- Run
udevinfo -p /sys/block/sdx/ -a(where sdx is the device name of your usb key)
- Find unique information pertaining to your usb key. I chose `
SYSFS{model}=="DataTraveler 2.0"`
- Make a new file: /etc/udev/udev.rules/10-my-usb-key.rules and insert:
KERNEL=="sd**", SYSFS{product}=="DataTraveler 2.0", SYMLINK+="WHATEVERYOUWANTOTCALLIT%n"(
KERNEL=="sd**"is because the kernel - 2.6.16 here - names all usb devices sd as it uses the scsi sub-system and you want to look at every sd device and apply the setting to every partition), with
SYSFS{model}==being the unique identifier collected from udevinfo.
- Run
/etc/start-udev ueventsand make sure the symlinks appears in /dev.
- If so, edit /etc/fstab, replacing your old sdx with the new symlinks.
Optimizing for the lifespan of flash memory
With flash based storage, disk writes are the most expensive operations, both in terms of storage device wear and speed. Here are some tips to reduce them:
- consider putting your /tmp in RAM by adding the following line to /etc/fstab:
none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
- if you don't need your logs to be preserved between reboots, you may do the same with /var/log
- if you use firefox, disable the disk cache - in "about:config", set the boolean property "browser.cache.disk.enable" to "false"


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With just over a month before the opening of the 20th anniversary Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, the attractions continue to grow. This year's show, to be held February 21-24, will have something new even before attendees enter the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence. To enter the garden display area, patrons will pass under a 14-foot-tall pergola decorated with flowers constructed by Walpole Woodworkers. Inside, the gardens and vignettes beckon with a larger waterfall, a nautical-themed garden featuring an actual sailboat and a walk through the history of the show through one gardener's display of each of the Flower Show's 20 theme posters.
Kevin O'Connor, host of television's pioneer home improvement series "This Old House," will be a featured speaker at this year's show. O'Connor joins a roster of garden and horticultural experts including author and landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy and nationally known gardening expert and author Melinda Myers who will appear during the Flower Show's Bartlett Tree Lecture Series.
A favorite of show attendees, the Marketplace returns with more flower market vendors, a build your own bouquet station, pottery and vases, garden and lawn ornamentals including copper pieces made in Lincoln.
Again this year, the show presents its exclusive Food and Wine Festival from 1-6 p.m. each day of the Flower Show in the Fifth Floor Ballroom in the Convention Center. Featured will be continuous chef demonstrations in the Rhode Island Kitchen and Bath Theatre Kitchen with celebrity chefs including "Top Chef" Tiffani Faison; Sara Moulton of public television's "Sara's Weeknight Meals;" Nemo Bolin, chef-proprietor of Cook and Brown Public House in Providence; and Johnson & Wales University chef educators Frank Terranova, Neath Pal and Ciril Hitz. Wines from all over the world will be available for sampling with tastings led by wine personalities such as Randy Arnold "The Barefoot Guy" pairing foods and wines.
Advance tickets are now on sale through Feb. 15 at www.flowershow.com. Advance ticket prices start at $17 per person with Combo tickets for both the Flower Show and Food and Wine Festival on sale for $30. Advance tickets for the Flower Show only are available at AAA Southern New England offices.
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While Big Media wants you to stay off their lawn (i.e. not stream their content to your TV's), it looks like they're increasingly okay-ish with their streaming it to your PC and... iPhone. Macworld brings word of the latest content streamer to hit the App Store, TV.com (iTunes link):
Most of the content consists of clips, interviews, and promos, but you'll also find full episodes of some TV shows, such as "CSI: Miami" and the aforementioned [MacGyver] mixed in (well, to be honest, there weren't many other shows I could find full episodes of at first glance). Full episodes are presented as multiple clips instead of as a single video. You can search for shows using the Search box at the top, or tap on the Shows and Channels buttons to browse in other ways.
Of course, a few more things need to happen to flesh out this category. Getting other networks on board via apps for Hulu and other services is one. Also, realizing it's the 21st fraken century and NOT restricting streaming apps from international users would be grand. (TV.com is US App Store only).
Anyone tried it yet? If so, how was the quality? Would you use this over your laptop for TV to go? Over your TV for viewing in general?
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Los libros de geografía siempre han hablado de la existencia de cinco continentes; seis, si incluimos la Antártida. Sin embargo, ahora resulta que hay un continente perdido fruto de la colisión entre Eurasia y la India hace 60 millones de años, cuando la mitad de la masa de ambos territorios desapareció.existencia de cinco continentes; hay un continente perdido
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Hace cientos de millones de años, la India era solo una isla flotante en la costa de Australia, pero poco a poco se empezó a desplazar hacia el norte, concretamente a Asia. Cuando hace unos 60 millones de años la isla se estrelló contra el Tíbet, se produjo una de las colisiones de corteza continental más decisivas en la historia de nuestro planeta, siendo responsable de numerosos fenómenos, entre los que destaca la aparición de lo que hoy conocemos como cordillera del Himalaya.se produjo una de las colisiones de corteza continental más decisivas
Hay un continente perdido fruto de la colisión entre Eurasia y la India hace 60 millones de años, cuando la mitad de la masa de ambos territorios desapareció
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The independently-owned design and digital marketing agency Entyce, based in Chester, has shown its worth its salt even on its own portfolio site. Creative director Jane Entwistle reveals that, for the site, they used the world's most popular CMS, WordPress.
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In advocacy of WordPress, Entwistle adds: "It's a great software to work with and it's free! It's easy to use, well documented and has a great community with lots of articles if you get stuck or need help".
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He's also felt the blight of WP's limited media handling capabilities, but has found a suitable solution. "I've moved the Multiple Post Thumbnails plug-in into my functions.php file by default now for all my sites to easily add scrollable galleries."
Marketing agency Design the Planet is a group of self-described 'planetary engineers'. Based in New Orleans, they claim to be able to break your brand free from 'generic mediocrity'. Looking at the DtP portfolio site, they're definitely the folks to do just that. To make it, Design the Planet chose WordPress.
El acercamiento de los dirigentes independentistas encarcelados a prisiones de Cataluña ya está a unas horas de consumarse. El Gobierno ha dado luz verde para que el ex vicepresidente catalán Oriol Junqueras y otros cinco de los presos soberanistas sean trasladados, ha informado Interior. Por el momento, los reos han sido agrupados en la prisión de Valdemoro, donde pasarán al menos la noche del lunes.
A los trámites llevados a cabo por el citado Ministerio sólo faltaba sumar uno: que desde Serveis Penitenciaris -la institución de la Generalitat que controla las prisiones catalanas, una competencia transferida- llegase el visto bueno para recibir a los presos en sus cárceles.
Tras esta contestación afirmativa, Instituciones Penitenciarias ha reunido a los presos en la prisión de Valdemoro -todos ellos se encuentran en prisiones de la Comunidad de Madrid- para proceder al traslado. Se espera que para el miércoles o el jueves ya hayan ingresado en el centro catalán correspondiente.
Junto al líder de ERC serán trasladados en primer lugar el exconseller Raül Romeva, el expresidente de la ANC, Jordi Sànchez, Jordi Cuixart, presidente de Omniun Cultural, la exconsellera Dolors Bassa y la expresidenta del Parlament Carmen Forcadell.
En principio, Junqueras, Sànchez, Cuixart y Romeva ingresarán en la cárcel de Lledoners en Sant Joan de Vilatorrada (Barcelona); y Forcadell y Bassa en la de Puig de les Basses, en Figueres (Girona). Sànchez había pedido que le trasladasen a Quatre Camins; Junqueras y Cuixart a Brians II; Bassa a Girona Mujeres, Forcadell a Barcelona Mujeres, y Romeva al centro de Barcelona.
Serveis Penitenciaris aseguró que tomaría la decisión sobre el destino en base principalmente a la elección de cada uno de ellos, si bien podía haber alguna modificación en función de cuestiones logísticas.
Los internos verán a sus familias el mismo número de horas que hasta ahora y, al igual que el resto de internos con hijos menores de diez años, podrán hacer comunicaciones de convivencia, en la que entran los menores y un adulto acompañante, han explicado fuentes de Servicios Penitenciarios, que puntualizan que se trata de una comunicación mensual de 90 minutos, cuando ahora tenían una de tres horas al trimestre.
Tendrán el mismo tiempo para las comunicaciones por locutorio o con pantalla de cristal con familiares y amigos: 40 minutos a la semana, que se pueden distribuir en dos encuentros de 20 minutos -sábado y domingo- o en una sola uno de los dos días del fin de semana.
Staying connected through messages is important to many drivers. Chat apps can let users know if a child needs to be picked up, or if a dinner location has been changed. The Android framework enables messaging apps to extend their services into the driving experience using a standard user interface that lets drivers keep their eyes on the road.
Apps that support messaging can extend their messaging notifications to allow Android Auto to consume them when Auto is running. These notifications are displayed in Auto and allow users to read and respond to messages in a consistent, low distraction, interface.
This lesson assumes that you have built an app that displays messages to the user and receives the user's replies, such as a chat app. The lesson shows you how to extend your app to hand those messages off to an Auto device for display and replies.
To enable your app to provide messaging services for Auto devices:
Before you start designing your app, it's helpful to understand how Auto handles messaging.
Each individual chunk of communication is a . A message is a short length of text, suitable for the Auto device to read aloud. In a chat app, this might be a single message from one person to another: .
A is a group of messages that are all grouped together in some way. Auto uses the conversation information to group the messages together when presenting them to the user. In a chat app, a conversation might be all the messages between the user and another person (for example, all the messages back and forth between Darcy and Elizabeth). Every message belongs to a conversation, even if it's the only message in that conversation. Each conversation has a . The conversation name is used by Android Auto to present the messages; it's up to your app to choose an appropriate conversation name. In a chat app, the conversation name is usually the person your user is talking to.
The v4 support library defines an object. This object holds all messages in a conversation which have not yet been read by the user. To give those messages to the user, you attach that to a notification. However, you do not attach messages to the directly. Instead, you must first set up an object for the conversation. The messages are added to the builder, then when you are ready to send the messages, you use the builder to create the actual and attach the to the notification.
Note: When Auto presents messages to the user, it uses the notification and to determine which conversation the messages belong to. It is important to use the same tag and ID for all messages in a conversation, and to not use that tag for other conversations.
This section describes how the mobile device interacts with Auto to present messages to the user.
You configure your app manifest to indicate that it supports messaging services for Auto devices and handle message actions. This section describes what changes to make to your manifest to support messaging for Auto devices.
When a user connects a Android mobile device to a dashboard running Android, the dashboard device looks for apps that declare support for vehicle services, such as messaging. You indicate that your app supports cars capabilities using the following manifest entry:
This manifest entry refers to a secondary xml file, where you declare what Auto capabilities your app supports. For an app that supports messaging for Auto devices, add an xml file to the your app's development project directory as , with the following content:
For more information about declaring capabilities for Auto devices, see Get started with Auto .
Auto devices use objects that indicate a user has read or replied to a message provided by your app. Your app defines intent types for reading and replying to messages and adds this information to messaging notifications for Auto devices, so that Android Auto can notify your app when a user takes one of these actions.
You define the read action and reply action intent types for your app and the classes that handle them in the manifest. The following code example demonstrates how to declare these intents and their associated receivers.
In this example, and are the names of the subclasses you define to handle the intents. You can choose whatever you like as the action names, but it's best to prepend your package name to ensure that the action names are unique. For more information about handling actions, see
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Building notifications for use with Auto devices requires classes from the v4 support library . Use the Android SDK Manager to update the to version 9 or higher and the to version 21.0.2 or higher.
After you have updated the support libraries, import them into your Android Studio development project by adding this dependency to your build.gradle file:
For information about importing the support library into development projects for other development environments, see Support Library setup .
A messaging app provides messages to a connected Auto dashboard using the notifications framework. When your messaging app has a message for a user, you build a specially configured notification that Android Auto receives and presents to the user. The Auto device manages the presentation of the message on the appropriate display and may play the message via text-to-speech. Auto also handles voice interaction if the user replies to a message using verbal input.
The messaging user interface for Auto presents users with two levels of information about messages. The first level of notification tells users what are available, and who they are with, but not the content of the messages. Typically, a conversation is one or more messages from another user to the Auto user.
The second level of the notification is the actual content of messages in the conversation. If a user indicates they want to hear the messages in a conversation, the Auto user interface plays the messages using text-to-speech.
This section describes how to notify Auto users that conversations are available and provide the content of messages in those conversations.
Unread conversation objects contain intents for reading and replying to a conversation. You create a object for each of these actions, so the Auto device can notify your app of action taken by the Auto user on a particular conversation.
The following example code demonstrates how to define a to let your app know if a conversation was read to the Auto user:
Caution: To avoid third party apps from intercepting intents sent by Android Auto, always explicitly set the intent's target package name, using . Setting the package name explicitly ensures that the intended app can handle requests from Android Auto, preventing other apps from intercepting those requests.
In this example, is an integer that identifies the current conversation. The value of is the intent filter identifier for read messages which you defined in your app manifest, as shown in Define read and reply intent filters .
If your app supports read receipts or other indicators that messages are read, you should define the so that you can determine which messages were read in Auto:
Here, the extra allows you to determine the point in your app message history up to which messages should be marked as read. Note that using the current timestamp is not the only way to achieve this; for example, one could also use the sent timestamp or message IDs as long as the value can be associated with the specific moment in the conversation. The request code should be unique for each notification and the should not be set. This ensures that the extras in the are not overwritten by subsequent notifications, avoiding a race condition that could lead to marking messages as read before the Auto user receives them.
If your app supports replying to conversations, you also create a for each conversation to notify your app that the user has replied. The following code example shows you how to build this intent for use with a particular conversation:
Once again, is an integer that uniquely identifies this conversation, and the value you pass to is the intent filter identifier you defined for replies in your app manifest.
Your app should not assume that read and reply intents will be received in a specific order. It is possible for an Auto user to reply to a message without reading it; therefore, updating messages as read in your app when a reply broadcast is received is not recommended. Messages can also be read multiple times, so your app should idempotently handle read intents.
Messaging notifications for Auto organize messages into conversations using the class, that represents an unread or new portion of a conversation as a list of messages.
You do not configure the directly. Instead, you configure an with the information about the conversation, as shown in the following example code.
Note: You won't actually create the until you are almost ready to send the message.
This conversation object includes a , which allows the Auto device to signal your app that the conversation has been read by the Auto user. The construction of this intent is discussed in the
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If your app supports replying to a conversation, you must call the method and provide a pending intent to pass that user action back to your app. The object you create must also include a object. When the Auto user receiving this conversation speaks a reply, the remote input objects lets your app get a text version of the voice reply.
In the code above, is the name to be displayed for the conversation. For one-on-one conversations, it is the name of the sender. For group conversations, it is best to choose one of two options for the name:
When a message arrives for a conversation, you take the following steps to dispatch it as a notification to Auto.
First, add the message to the for this conversation, and update its timestamp:
Note: If you are sending several messages at once, add them to the in order, from oldest to newest. If there are multiple speakers participating, prepend the speaker's name to the message when the speaker changes so that the Auto user can differentiate who's speaking. For example, "Alice: How do you do? Bob: I am quite well. How are you?".
Some things to note about the above sample code:
Next, create the object that builds the actual notification. You need to use the pending intents you created in the previous step.
You'll also need to extend the with the . This is where you actually create the object using the builder you just created, and attach it to the :
Note: If you wish, you can set an override icon or color for the by calling or . The override icon or color is used when the notification is handled by Auto, and has no effect on the notification shown in the Android system notifications.This is useful if the notification's default icon or color are not suitable for the car's display.
Once you've done all this, you use your app's to send the notification:
When your create and dispatch a notification for messaging, you specify intents to be triggered when message is read to the Auto user and when the user dictates a reply. Your app indicates to the Android framework that it handles these intends by registering them through its manifest, as discussed in Define read and reply intent filters .
In addition to registering these intent filters, your app must provide code to handle these actions. Your app can do this by providing a service or objects that handle these intents.
Note: Do not handle these actions using Activities.
For more information about intents, see Intents and intent filters .
When a user listens to a messaging conversation through the Auto user interface, Auto sends a read intent based on how your app defined the messaging notification. Your app catches that intent and invokes the broadcast receiver class associated with it, or the service method set up to handle that action.
The following code example shows how to define a class to handle a received message read intent:
Once a notification is read, your app can remove it by calling with the notification ID. Within your app, you should mark the messages provided in the notification as read. Use the conversation marker (for example, ) included in the intent extras for marking messages as read up to a specific moment in the conversation history, if applicable.
Note: An alternative to this implementation is to use a service in a .
When a user replies to a messaging conversation through the Auto user interface, the dashboard system sends a reply intent based on how your app defined the messaging notification. Your app catches that intent and invokes the broadcast receiver class associated with it, or the service method set up to handle that action.
The following code example shows how to define a class to handle a received message reply intent:
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BlackBerry has decided to part ways with T-Mobile.
"BlackBerry has had a positive relationship with T-Mobile for many years," said CEO John Chen. "Regretfully, at this time, our strategies are not complementary and we must act in the best interest of our BlackBerry customers."
BlackBerry hopes to work with T-Mobile when the two parties have common business goals once again, Chen added.
The company has declined to renew T-Mobile's license to sell its products; the current agreement ends on April 25.
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Current BlackBerry customers on T-Mobile should not see any change in the level or quality of service of support, BlackBerry said. The company will work with T-Mobile to ensure any customers remaining on the network, or any customers purchasing devices from T-Mobile's remaining BlackBerry inventory will receive the highest possible level of customer service.
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T-Mobile sent an email offering its BlackBerry customers the opportunity to switch to the iPhone for no down payment. Many BlackBerry users expressed their outrage at T-Mobile and CEO John Legere. Chen also expressed his outrage over the "ill-conceived marketing promotion" in a blog post. At the time of the spat, Chen indicated that he would focus on strengthening relationships with BlackBerry's two biggest partners, Verizon and AT&T.
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T-Mobile built on the stunt by offering a US$250 discount to BlackBerry users who upgraded to a new BlackBerry device and $200 to those who switched to a different manufacturer's handset.
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"This is a big decision for BlackBerry to pull out of a carrier, but clearly the carrier has not been supportive of BlackBerry," telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times.
"BlackBerry knows it, and BlackBerry doesn't want to be in a relationship with a carrier that doesn't act supportive, that doesn't want to sell their services, that wants to sell other services and phones to customers," he said.
"I think if BlackBerry starts to grow again and starts to get popular again, T-Mobile will start to carry them again. This might just be a slap on the wrist. John Legere is responsible for T-Mobile's growth in the last year. He's done a great job, but he put his foot in his mouth this time," Kagan added.
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"The fact they're promoting competing products actively and trying to push people away from BlackBerry I think [suggested], 'If these are our friends, we don't need enemies,'" Carl Howe, vice president of data sciences research at Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times.
It's not clear exactly how the move will affect BlackBerry's position in the market, but since BlackBerry has a far smaller market share than the iPhone or Android devices, it's perhaps in a position to take more chances.
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"Every carrier seems to have a different slice of the pie right now. T-Mobile's customers are the teens and the twenty-somethings. Sure, there are T-Mobile customers who use BlackBerry. I think it's not a concern for T-Mobile, it's not a concern for BlackBerry right now. I'm sure BlackBerry is not in the top 10 of T-Mobile devices."
Points for Leadership
The company's decision to cut ties with T-Mobile could point to a strong leadership regime under Chen.
"I think this is the first time we've seen the leader of BlackBerry roar like a lion," Kagan said. "Will that be enough on its own [to drive BlackBerry's resurgence]? No. But as part of the bigger package, it feels right to me."
For T-Mobile, on the other hand, it could dent the company's chances to position itself as an alternative to the other major carriers.
"They're pushing their whole 'uncarrier' idea," Yankee Group's Howe noted. "I do think it makes them look a little weaker in that they're not going to have as many devices to offer, but it's very hard to judge at this point how much effect this is going to have."