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Adriatic Slavs, alphabet, books, Bulgarians, Church Slavic, Deseret Industries, Eastern Orthodox Church, Glagolitic Cyrillic, Greek, Kiev, liturgical, Moldavia, monastery, Monastery of the Caves, monastic, Moscow, Old Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic, paper mill, printing press, Russia, Saint Cyril, Saint Methodius, schools, Semigradia, Serbs, Slavic, Slavs, Wallachia
"Wisdom! Let us attend!"
Orthodox Eastern Church
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The Monastery of the Caves was founded in 1015 just outside of Kiev. In 1615, as part of a prestige-building effort, the Abbot raised money to buy a printing press. The oldest known work from the press is dated 1616. Along with mostly liturgical works, the monastic press supplied books for local schools. The monastery built a paper mill and other facilities to produce printed materials.
The editions out of Kiev were models of scholarship and attractive appearance. Orthodox Kiev considered itself the center for Slavic peoples that shared the faith. The press expressed this belief in an introduction in one of its books, saying that the book was intended not only for all of Little and Great Russia, but also for the southern Slavs – Serbs, Bulgarians, the Adriatic Slavs, Moldavia, Wallachia and Semigradia.
While the liturgical works from the Kiev press were reproduced according to Greek printed editions, variations began to develop. Added to the books were new dimensions that reflected the local population. These variants to the traditional Orthodox liturgical output gave the Kiev editions a character all their own.
In Moscow, the Kievan editions came to be regarded with suspicion. Even so, Moscow printers chose Kievans as correctors and advisors for their publications. Kievans knew the Greek language much better than Muscovites. In the end, most Moscow editions were simply transcriptions of the Kievan translations.
This book is a liturgical work in Church Slavic, the language of the Orthodox Church in Russia and the literary language in various parts of the East and West Slavic speaking areas. Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius created the Glagolitic Cyrillic alphabet in the mid-ninth century. Soon after, in the mid-9th century, they began translating the Gospels, probably from a Greek lectionary, into Old Bulgarian, now commonly called Old Church Slavonic.
This copy was printed in red and black and bound in wood and leather – an excellent, albeit worn, example of bookbinding in eighteenth-century Russia. Gift from Deseret Industries.

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The trouble is, a lot of the Red Pill approach to life assumes a near telepathic assumption of negative intentions in others. Is it often right? Sure it is. But it's almost impossible to live happily if you are endlessly paranoid and jaded about the intentions of everyone around you. If every woman is a hot mess of whorish desire and nothing else but a lying cunt of a hamster justifying her Alpha male sperm seeking… well it gets tiring being on edge after a while. Likewise every man is a third wheel seeking an opportunity and plots behind your back, pumping you for information about your woman, seeking to make a run into the endzone the moment you blink too slowly.You can't maintain a combat edge indefinitely. Eventually, you break down. At some point, you have to take a few chosen others on trust, men and women. People do mature, people do change, people do surmount their baser instincts.
I don't recommend choosing illusion over reality, but it is also important to understand that the potential for doing evil is not the same as actually committing it. And experiencing temptation is not action.
Knowing that a woman does not belong on a pedestal is not synonymous with believing that she dwells in a sewer. The fact of female fallibility should not lead one to assume that they are subhuman, and the fact of sexual inequality should not be confused with male infallibility.


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Five of Clubs Birth Card
Fives represent Changes, Variety, Opportunity, Travel, Escape and fluctuating Life Experience. Five of Clubs are restless in the mental field.
Five of Clubs combine a desire for changes and new experiences with the power of the mind. Restless, seeking, trying to find the answer to millions of questions running through their head, they can't be happy with monotonous lifestyle. Five Of Clubs need constant movement and travel; sometimes they are too impulsive to stop, look and listen. They are regularly meeting with obstacles, and never know quite well what to do with it. They want movement and travel - eager to go anywhere rather than remain where they are. The mistake they made is dashing off on impulse, refusing to plan or count the cost.
Five of Clubs have a flexible mind, natural curiosity, variety of interests and many talents and abilities and as any Club, they need sound knowledge to be successful in life. Five Of Clubs have the natural inclination for the excellent education, and when they stop learning just for the sake of learning and start applying what they have learned in practice, success is guaranteed.
Not often well suited for marriage, the desire to have a family is there, and the experiment usually made. In marriage, they are apt to be secret jealousies and suspicions, as well as a change in their feelings.
In childhood most Five of Clubs experience insecurity in family finances. They may find it difficult to make financial decisions, but in reality, they have spectacular potential to make money. If they enjoy all things money can buy, there is a good chance they'll be able to enjoy themselves. Of course, using the sound advice of someone they can trust in finances is always a good idea.
Five of Clubs like to remain their personal life a mystery. They might be secretive about their plans, hopes, and friends. Should watch out for jealousy, and remember that it works both ways. Five Of Clubs are not likely to be a part of traditional religion, but there is a good possibility they can become interested in spiritual and philosophical studies, and this will undoubtedly be the best thing they can do for themselves - to fulfill their restless nature by acquiring the higher purpose.
Even Five Of Clubs are not likely to search for people and situations involving personal sacrifice, but they want to be right sports and companions, and when asked for support, there is no chance they will avoid the responsibility, even when it is not theirs.
They might be skeptical about any spiritual knowledge, but there is a spiritual giant in this card that might come out in their middle age. If it does, following this road will help Five Of Clubs to control their strong and impulsive emotions.
Peace of mind comes from a willingness to accept life as it must be lived - constructively.


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OUT OF TIME is the HIGHLY ANTICIPATED sequel to NINE MINUTES where Grizz, Kit & Grunt's gritty tale continues!
Book Description:
Out of Time is book two in a series. It is not a standalone novel. I highly recommend that you read my first novel, Nine Minutes, to be able to understand the background stories of the main characters. There are many twists and turns in both stories that can best be connected if read consecutively.
Although I do answer all of the outstanding questions from Nine Minutes, there is more to this story, and some readers may consider it a cliffhanger. If you do not like cliffhangers, you may want to wait until the third novel is released in 2016.
They thought with his execution it would all be over.
They were wrong.
The leader of one of South Florida's most notorious and brutal motorcycle gangs has been put to death by lethal injection. Days later, his family and friends should have been picking up the pieces, moving on. Instead, they've been catapulted into a world so twisted and dangerous even the most ruthless among them would be stunned to discover the tangled web of deception, not only on the dangerous streets of South Florida but all the way to the top.
In this gripping follow-up novel to Nine Minutes, Out of Time takes readers from the sun-drenched flatlands of 1950s Central Florida to the vivid tropical heat of Fort Lauderdale to the halls of Florida's Death Row as we finally learn the gritty backstory of Jason "Grizz" Talbot and the secret he spent his life trying to conceal.
Not even Grizz's inner circle knows his full story—the tragedy that enveloped his early life, the surprise discovery that made him the government's most wanted and most feared, and the depths of his love for Ginny, the tenderhearted innocent he'd once abducted and later made his wife.
Once Grizz's obsession and now the mother of his child, Ginny has spent years grieving the man she'd first resisted and then came to love. Now remarried to Tommy, a former member of the gang, the pair have spent more than a decade trying desperately to live a normal existence far from the violent, crime-ridden world they'd once carved out on the edge of the Florida Everglades. For Tommy, especially, the stakes are high. Desperately in love with Ginny for years, he's finally living his dream: married to the woman he never thought he could have. But even with the façade of normalcy—thriving careers, two beautiful children, and a genuinely happy and loving marriage—they can't seem to put the past behind them. Every time they turn around, another secret is revealed, unraveling the very bonds that hold them together.
And with Grizz finally put to death, now Ginny has learned secrets so dark, so evil she's not even sure she can go on.
Will these secrets tear their love to pieces? And how far will Grizz go to protect what he still considers his, even from beyond the grave?
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About the Author:
Beth Flynn is a fiction writer who lives and works in Sapphire, North Carolina, deep within the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Beth and her husband, Jim, have spent the last 17 years in Sapphire, where they own a construction company. They have been married 31 years and have two daughters and two dogs. In her spare time, Beth enjoys writing, reading, gardening, church and motorcycles, especially taking rides on the back of her husband's Harley. She is a five-year breast cancer survivor.STALK HER: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads


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For the past year, an independent Constitution Commission appointed by Fiji's military regime has been overseeing the drafting of a new constitution, under which democracy will supposedly be restored after elections in 2014. But there are now severe doubts about whether the military will accept the document. First, the military seized all printed copies of the draft, and burned them symbolicly in front of the commission's head. And now, they are explicitly rejecting constitutional provisions aimed at preventing further coups and ousting them from politics:
Fiji's military has bluntly rejected a proposed constitution that would have forced soldiers back to the barracks and weakened the power of the Fiji Military Forces (RFMF).
"Let me tell you this, don't mess with the RFMF," the military's No 2, Land Force Commander Colonel Mosese Tikoitoga said.
Leaked copies revealed that the new constitution would significantly downgrade the military from any role in political life. It would also be smaller and have no role in internal security.
Tikoitoga's hardline response would deepen concern over Fiji's future direction. Last week New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully said he had fears about what was happening in the country.
Tikoitoga, who was effectively in active day-to-day command of the military, rejected the proposal that soldiers should not have to follow orders they consider illegal.
He said that whether orders were right or wrong, they had to be obeyed and whoever gave the order would be responsible if questions arose over the order.
"Soldiers sign an oath to follow orders and they will at all times abide by it," he said.
He rejected any downsizing of the RFMF, which can call on up to 10,000 soldiers, saying cuts would not happen.
Its the latter which is the real problem. Fiji has too many soldiers with too many guns and too little to do. Coups are a natural consequence. Emasculating the military and shrinking it to something more in line with the country's actual needs is a necessary step to restoring a stable democracy. But that means sacking an awful lot of colonels, and lower prestige for those who remain. And given the army's well-established contempt for democracy and the rule of law, those colonels will be strongly tempted to use their guns to protect their budget and prestige (and give themselves a promotion into the bargain).
Meanwhile, its looking like Fiji's promised post-2014 "democracy" will be a democracy under the gun, where the military is constantly threatening to step in, and major political decisions are dictated at gunpoint rather than reflecting the will of the people. And it will stay that way until Fiji's people decide to stand up for themselves and take to the streets against their abusive "defence" forces.


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ECO-T has a slightly more pronounced grip section; to help with learning correct writing posture for kids, new enthusiast, and anyone who likes a little bit more structure to the grip area. Cap and end cap also has a rotary triangular shape design.
Comes in EF, F, M, B, Stub1.1 nib choices
Pen cap is able to post onto the back of the pen
Piston Filler Fountain pen.
Simply unscrew the end cap, dip into ink, screw back the end cap, and your done! Ready to write!!
Pen cap has an inner cap to insure a perfect seal when stored away.
Made for the beginner who just wants to try out fountain pens, all the way to the experts. A good everyday worker.
Please note: Ink is NOT included
A quick no brainer guide in choosing nib sizes in an overly complicated fountain pen world:
If you write small, go with an EF
For the normal writer, F is the most popular
If you tend to lean on a bigger font, M will be perfect
B is for statements!! Sign a check in B, write a header in B, do some coloring/shading in B
Stub nibs are italic in writing style (have a special card or invitation to write?)


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ERP's recycling standard is approved by EPEAT
EPEAT approves European Recycling Platform's (ERP) recycling standard for the end-of-life management of IT and Display equipment.
The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) has approved European Recycling Platform's (ERP) recycling standard for the end-of-life management of IT and Display equipment. This means ERP can now offer customers certification that is approved by the influential global rating system which establishes the environmental credentials of products for consumers.
End-of-life management is an increasingly important part of the EPEAT certification, which includes "auditing of recycling vendors". ERP's standard is approved in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. And, as of today, ERP has certified 34 recyclers in nine countries to EPEAT standard.
"ERP is the only group of compliance schemes directly operating in 15 European countries and we have long-standing expertise in the end-of-life management of waste electronics," says Umberto Raiteri, CEO and President of ERP. "The recent EPEAT approval adds to the wide range of national and European-wide quality standards which already cover our waste management and compliance services. We demand the highest environmental standards from our treatment and recycling partners and we are delighted that the EPEAT recognition further establishes our environmental credentials."
ERP's recycling standard defines the minimum requirements that must be met by treatment operators handling, storing and treating WEEE. ERP regularly and rigorously audits its recycling vendor chain to ensure that the services offered to its customers meet all legal and statutory requirements, as well as ERP's own high quality standards.
ERP is now able to offer EPEAT approved compliance solutions to manufacturers of IT and Display equipment, which will simplify the EPEAT registration process for ERP customers significantly. ERP is also supporting its customers by helping consumers and distributors easily identify the most environmentally friendly electronic and electrical devices.
About EPEAT
EPEAT is an influential global rating system that establishes the environmental credentials of electronic products. Public and private organisations in more than 42 countries use EPEAT as a uniform purchasing specification. To achieve EPEAT certification, producers must meet 10 strict sets of environmental requirements, spanning design and production to product longevity.
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It is not only about process and compliance, but also about networking. ERP shares knowledge, insights, and news so that together we promote the sustainable agenda.
October 14th, 2022
"Recycle it all, no matter how small"


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A great article by Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center. This man knows his stuff when it comes to Agenda 21 and all things green:
Why Private Industry Keeps Telling Us to "Go Green"Well said. But every corporation knows that the moment profits (dividends) drop to a certain level, is the moment this nonsense stops. The main business of business is to make profits, not to help the world. In some cases they do both, and that is good. Not just for the communities they are in, but also for their image in the public. But let the profits, the dividends drop below a certain level, every CEO knows he/she will be out of a job and a new man/woman taking the helm instead.
I've sounded the alarm over the dangers of Sustainable Development and the agenda for top-down control through what proponents call the "Three Es," which includes the Environment, the Economy, and Social Equity. A fourth rail to imposing Agenda 21 is called Corporate Social Responsibility. It is the direct result of the merging of the Three Es. CSR is the map to understanding why corporations are actively promoting the "green" agenda – even to the detriment of their own business.
Picture, if you will, an Isosceles triangle. And label each point: 1.Government Power 2. Corporate Money 3. NGOs Agenda
The truth is, corporations aren't always willing players in the partnerships – neither is government, for that matter. Many times both are answering to pressure from activists with a specific agenda.
Those activists come in the form of Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). They are determined, dedicated and radical. They mean business and they have the means to force their will on companies. It's almost masochistic to watch how they treat companies.
Perhaps you've heard the term Corporate Social Responsibility. The idea is that corporations must not conduct their affairs merely to achieve profits for their stockholders – or even to just provide products and services for their customers. According to the doctrine, businesses must also help further the "well-being of society." You know, "like a good neighbor, State Farm is there." To many businesses the term means treating customers, employees and suppliers with respect and integrity, while making sure you aren't damaging the environment. It's just good business.
But something much more sinister has control over the force of corporate social responsibility. As Niger Innis, president of the Congress on Racial Equality, points out, the ideological environmental movement is a powerful $4 billion-a-year U.S. industry. On the international level it's an $8 billion-a-year gorilla.
Many of its members are intensely eco-centric, and place much higher value on wildlife and ecological values than on human progress or even human life. They have a deep fear and loathing of big business, technology, chemicals, plastics, fossil fuels and biotechnology. And they insist that the rest of the world should acknowledge and live according to their fears and ideologies.
They are masters at using junk science, scare tactics, intimidation and bogus economic and health claims to gain even greater power. These people, with their radical political agenda are now succeeding in forcing Corporate Social Responsibility on more and more companies.
They assert the right to dictate corporate social responsibility by declaring themselves stakeholders, even though their only stake is philosophical. In most cases, they have no economic interest in the companies.
They place ever-increasing demands on business to take ever more radical measures in the name of protecting the environment or in the name of social equity. Products have been banned. Even whole industries have been destroyed.
Here's an example of the power of this force tied to Sustainable Development policies is an incident that took place in Ireland. There, McDonalds applied to build a new restaurant in a community. The government demanded an environmental impact study for the project. Now, that's not so unusual. Only this environmental study wasn't concerning the building of the restaurant. Rather, it was to study the effects of the food to be served on the health of the residents of the community.
McDonalds has been beaten to a pulp over the issue of obesity, human health and animal rights. The leading NGO in this fight is a radical nut-group called the Center for Science in the Public Interest which openly advocates that people eat next to nothing. No meat, no farm animals at all, no dairy, just basically some pre-selected vegetables. They are a constant thorn in the side of the Food and Drug Administration, constantly filing law suits to control food choice. They are the leaders of the infamous food police. And they hate McDonalds as much as they hate letting you decide what you want to eat.
As a result of these attacks, today McDonalds is in the forefront of promoting the green agenda. Now you may understand why the city of San Francisco recently targeted McDonald's Happy Meals to be banned. CSR is rampant in public schools where zealots are busy working to control what children eat. Never mind that a child may go hungry because he/she refuses to eat tofu. Meanwhile, to make the controls work, corporate monsters like McDonalds must also be kept from tempting children with something they might like. All for the common good, of course.
Another example of corporate masochism comes from Caterpillar, the equipment giant that provides machinery for the mining industry. A few years ago, Caterpillar announced it was joining the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), which is lobbying for caps on carbon dioxide emissions.
If USCAP reaches its goal for mandatory federal restrictions on the emissions, the cost of energy will be driven up, hurting Caterpillar's customers and shareholders. When asked if he had done a cost analysis on this policy before joining USCAP, the Chairman of Caterpillar said he had not and would not. Therefore, he was blindly endorsing a policy that could put his own company out of business.
Why? Because he has been forced to accept a political agenda over business sense. To do otherwise would mean possible government sanctions, regulations or fines. It's the new way to do business in America. It's the force of the triangle. That's Corporate Social Responsibility. It isn't responsible at all. And it's not very corporate. It's enforcement of a political agenda.
Many times these issues begin with what appears to be completely absurd press releases by obscure fringe groups. But businesses must not ignore the source of their rants. Once they begin to give sanction to small demands in an attempt to put on a good face – the bar will be continually raised until the business becomes merely a tool for a political agenda that is in direct opposition to their ability to stay in business as the mantra of "Go Green" results in higher prices, sacrifice and fewer choices for consumers.


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Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon Discusses Split From Thurston Moore, Breast Cancer Bout
We're not going to say "we told you so," because, well, we never went on the record to express our personal opinion on this subject, but privately, we had our sneaking suspicions that the breakup of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon in late 2011 was caused by infidelity on the part of the former. Turns out we were right, and that a "starstruck woman" from the indie community, as Gordon puts it, also played a role.
Gordon speaks in depth about the split for the first time in the new issue of Elle magazine. The piece's author, Lizzy Goodman, writes:
Some years ago, a woman Gordon declines to name became a part of the Sonic Youth world, first as the girlfriend of an erstwhile band member and later as a partner on a literary project with Moore. Eventually, Gordon discovered a text message and confronted him about having an affair. They went to counseling, but he kept seeing the other woman. "We never got to the point where we could just get rid of her so I could decide what I wanted to do," Gordon says. "Thurston was carrying on this whole double life with her. He was really like a lost soul."
The breakup of Moore and Gordon after 27 years of marriage caused widespread shock, disbelief and sadness -- to the outside world, their relationship seemed so damn happy and just straight-up cool. "We seemed to have a normal relationship inside of a crazy world," Gordon says. "[I]t ended in a kind of normal way — midlife crisis, starstruck woman."
There aren't too many "erstwhile band member[s]" of Sonic Youth, and the only person to leave the band in last decade-plus is producer/indie rock utility man Jim O'Rourke, who joined as bassist and synth player in 1999 and left after 2004's 'Rather Ripped.' We won't take it further than that, but expect some names to start flying soon.
What's more, Consequence of Sound reports, Gordon learned soon after the dissolution of her marriage that she was suffering from DCIS, a noninvasive form of breast cancer. "I'm fine; it's literally the best you can have," she apparently told Elle, explaining that she underwent surgery for the condition. "I didn't do radiation or anything, but I was like, Okay, what else is going to happen to me?"


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Feeding, Substrate and Watering
Methods of Walter Pall (edited by Victrinia Ridgeway)
I was asked to write a paragraph on the 'feeding of conifers'. So I sat down and came up with this. But the question, "How do you feed conifers?" when given a short answer, can lead to serious misunderstandings and to fatalities.
Substrate, watering and feeding cannot be seen as separate. Each is connected to the other and so it becomes quite complex. Be it a deciduous tree, conifer, young, old, recently potted, or even collected, there are so many variables inside a bonsai garden. Can there be a clear answer?
Well, yes. But one has to read quite carefully and then do EVERYTHING. It is not feasible to pick one that you like and ignore the others. You cannot feed according to my method and don't care what substrate you have or what your watering regime is.
First, I set aside everything that has been written in most bonsai literature about the subject. As technology grants us access to new and more effective methods and products, the way we care for our trees has progressed beyond the boundaries of tradition. It has been a new and modern world for some time, but many have not realized this. Even if some measure of success is achieved with the old methods it can be dangerous if used with modern substrates and practices, or even deadly.
Substrates: Good substrate material must: be of equal particle size, have the ability to absorb water and release it back, have no fine particle organic material, must not decompose easily, be as lightweight as possible when dry, preferably inexpensive and should have an aesthetically pleasing appearance. This would then be: lava, pumice, baked loam, Turface, zeolite, Chabasai (a type of zeolite), coconut pieces, bark pieces, Styrofoam pieces (no joke) and a few more which you can find yourself if you have understood the principles. Please note: Some of these materials may not be available in your area.
Normal akadama is questionable as a good substrate as it inevitably decomposes, especially when exposed to winter frost. It can become deadly loam in the pot, choking the flow of water and air into the soil. This is especially true for trees which are only rarely repotted, like collected conifers and old bonsai in general.
Substrates which are not useful: soil, compost, stones, sand etc. Trees grow in sand and flower soil, of course, but it is not an optimal growing medium for health in bonsai culture.
All substrates can be mixed according to your liking and it makes almost no difference. They can also be recycled and used again, but make certain to sift and clean any recycled materials as needed.
There is no such thing as an 'ideal bonsai substrate'. There are in fact thousands of ideal substrates. I believe that IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOU USE AND IN WHAT MIXTURE as long as it is a modern substrate.
Since there is no soil in modern substrates there is very little alive in them. They dry out easily and one must water several times a day when it is hot, especially if you have used pure inorganics. Therefore I add rough peat in addition to the previously mentioned substrates. This is the kind of peat that is harvested in bogs and comes in its natural coarse form. Make certain not to use fine particle peat/sphagnum moss, even if the package says "dust free" as the particles will be too small. If you cannot find the correct type of peat, use small bark bits without dust particles, or cut coconut fibers. These organic components should comprise 15-20 % of the overall volume, a bit less with conifers, olives and such, and a bit more with small trees and azaleas.
These organic materials are good for keeping humidity higher in the substrate and for supporting the colonization of beneficial microbial life in the soil composition. Research also seems to indicate that peat moss has plant hormones which are good for trees. These are organic materials which would normally have no business being in a bonsai substrate, but the ones mentioned take five years to decompose. You have to consider this when planning your repotting schedules. The organic material should also be sieved out of any substrate that is being recycled.
Watering: I have a watering schedule that runs from the end of March to middle of October EVERY day. This is regardless of whether the trees appear to be dry or not. Only when it rains heavily will I refrain from watering the trees. When it is hot, or there is strong wind, or a combination of the two, I water two or even three times in a day. Very small trees must be watered twice a day. ALL trees are watered the same. Individual watering habits are not needed when all of your trees are in a consistent well draining substrate. There is also no need to carefully train a friend how to water your trees when you are away. Any person can water the trees; everything must only be watered thoroughly. It also does not matter what type of water is used. Tap water is very usable for all plants, even if it is hard water. I have some of the hardest water in Europe in my garden (23° DH). I use this water for everything, including azaleas. I water with a garden hose, full speed. I do not water individual trees, but areas, just like you might water your garden with a sprinkler system.
When you water this way, water aggressively. This means everything becomes very wet, the whole tree from top to bottom. The water must run out of the draining holes. It is very good for the trees if the crown gets wet every day.
With modern substrates over-watering is almost impossible. You can water for hours and all of the excess will just run through the pot if the correct substrate is used. It is very easy to under-water though. Many bonsai die because they are sitting in modern substrate but are watered according to the old methods - under-watered in fact.
Feeding: With modern substrates and aggressive watering, feeding is no secret anymore. ANY fertilizer that is offered for ordinary plants can be used, whether organic or chemical. Fertilizers should have LOTS of nitrogen. Only with nitrogen plants can grow.
I use mainly liquid fertilizer that I get from our cheapest general discount market. In America it would be Walmart. Use general fertilizer that is noted as being good for all plants. In addition I buy a few dozen boxes of granular fertilizers which contain chemical and some organic ingredients. Two times a year, in the beginning of May and in the end of August, I throw a handful of dried chicken manure at the trees. I buy this in large bags, which is very inexpensive. That's it. For ALL of my trees including the world famous ones I use the same fertilizer.
How much? WAY MORE THAN YOU THINK! I feed from 20 to 60 times more than the average bonsai grower. From the beginning of April to the middle of October, every ten days everything is fed with liquid fertilizer, using three to four times the suggested dose. All trees are fed equally, whether deciduous, conifers, small, large, repotted, collected or not. This is a span of about 200 days when the trees are being fed. Since the trees are fed three times the normal dose on twenty days in that time, it makes for 60 doses of fertilizer in the growing season. The average bonsai grower feeds maybe three or five times at half the normal dose because 'bonsai trees should not grow'. If you then add two times a year of chicken manure being given to the trees, you can then understand why this schedule is 20 to 60 times more than the average.
Asian fertilizer cakes are fine but superfluous in our culture. We don't eat steak with chop sticks and don't have to feed plants with cakes. But they don't hurt if you insist of using them; they are just unattractive to look at. Biogold was made to be used with modern substrates like akadama, and it works well. If you give it to me I will break it into very small particles which I then throw all over the substrate surface of the trees. After one watering it becomes invisible.
Too much salt in the substrate is almost impossible if one waters aggressively every day. Even azaleas don't mind my treatment. They thrive very well with very hard water, ordinary baked loam and peat as the substrate and aggressive feeding like all the rest of the trees.
About ten years ago 'super feeding' was proclaimed and a while later forgotten. It did not produce the expected results and many trees suffered and even died. What I do sounds similar. Well, it is similar, only that I insist on aggressive watering in parallel to aggressive feeding and the use of modern substrates. I also don't make the ingredients of fertilizing trees into a science. I tell you to buy whatever is on sale in the garden center or agricultural supply store.
This feeding scheme is for trees in development. Remember that 99.8 % of all bonsai are 'in development'. If you happen to have one that should really not develop anymore you slow down its feeding schedule considerably. You let it starve on purpose. Then it will get smaller, and fewer, leaves and needles. It will look good for shows, but your tree will go downhill if you continue to do this for too long. After a few years you have to feed it aggressively again to let it recover.
Summary: Do all three or nothing! You have no choice here. To just pick one method and refuse the others will end in disaster. Those who do 'super feeding' using old-fashioned soil, and insufficient watering will kill trees. Those who use modern substrates, aggressive watering and fertilizes like the old days will have very weak and, in the end, dead trees. That's all there is to it.
So the question, "How do you feed conifers?" Gets the answer, "Like all other trees, but you have to know the whole story."
I know that many will not believe this. 'He who heals is right', is a saying in human medicine. In gardening 'he who has the healthiest trees in the long run' is right. Come to see my garden or look at my gallery, they speak for themselves.
All this was not discovered or invented by me. I only learned from professional modern gardeners. They have done this for decades with great success. I have adapted modern horticulture to bonsai. Only in the bonsai world does this seem revolutionary.
Walter Pall


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We put together a fun infographic to compare using the debugger vs. a profiler for troubleshooting slow page loads in ASP.NET apps. This coincides with our recent release of LeanSentry's slow operation tracking, which provides an lighter (and more informative) alternative to either. Here it is: What do you use currently? Do you agree with … [Read more…]


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The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is here! Inside you will find all seven Zachtronics solitaire games, updated with new 4K graphics, plus one brand new Tarot-themed solitaire variant only available here.
The Barkeep's loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they're all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
Defend America from an alternate-universe America using state-of-the-art 1980s military hardware in this intricate and tactical turn-based strategy game.
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There's nothing left to lose… except your life.
Master the intricate, physical machinery of the transmutation engine— the alchemical engineer's most advanced tool— and use it to create vital remedies, precious gemstones, deadly weapons, and more.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It's the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Ironclad Tactics is a fast-paced, card-based tactics game set in an alternate history Civil War – with steam-powered military robots!
SpaceChem is an obscenely addictive, design-based puzzle game about building machines and fighting monsters in the name of science!
ZACH-LIKE is a book of behind-the-scenes design documents from Zachtronics. Although we're sold out of physical copies, a free digital version is available as a PDF.
All Zachtronics games are free for public schools and school-like non-profit organizations.
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Research Overview
A conventional understanding of the evolutionary process rests on the simplifying assumption that genetic differences rigidly determine the relative success or failure of organisms in their environments. However, the organism's own capacity to respond to its environment (phenotypic plasticity) lends an important element of flexibility to this process, since both adaptive and maladaptive responses by individual animals and plants will affect the outcome of natural selection. These phenotypic responses to the environment and their evolutionary consequences are the primary focus of our research. 'Eco-Devo' response patterns also shape a species' ecological breadth and its potential invasiveness; these timely issues are a second focus of our investigations. We take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on ideas and methods from physiological ecology as well as developmental, quantitative, and population genetics. Controlled experiments in the greenhouse and growth chamber are complemented by field studies of natural populations, including population genetic (eg, microsatellite) sampling where appropriate. Study systems include several ecologically distinct species of colonizing annuals (both native and introduced), primarily in the genus Polygonum.


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Hand Cart Rental - Rent a sturdy hand cart at Guest Services. Your driver's license is held until the cart is returned and a donation to the Chip Miller Amyloidosis Foundation is requested." Third paragraph: "Parts Hauling Service - Call 717-960-6429 to request our parts hauling service. Donations for the service go to the Chip Miller Amyloidosis Foundation.
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Some readers of this column are old enough to recall "I want my MTV!," one of the most successful branding and awareness campaigns in media history. I do. I wanted MTV, too, but back in that primitive era, my first Manhattan apartment wasn't yet wired for cable, so no dice.
Fast-forward: not only did I finally get cable, I worked in cable. I held senior marketing positions at a handful of networks before leaving television — both the profession and the connection — behind for the brave new world of digital.
Or so I thought. Suddenly, there's ever less discernable difference between television and online programming. The options are as dizzying as the satellite multiverse: Netflix, Hulu, Netflix, Hulu, Roku, Amazon, Chromecast, and Apple TV. Last week, NBC streamed the Super Bowl (free) for the first time to all comers.
CBS launched All Access, a standalone streaming service delivers hit shows and the back catalogue for $5.99 a month, and HBO is poised to go well beyond its cable-bundled HBO GO streaming service by delivering a standalone service this April.
"It is time to remove all barriers to those who want HBO," said Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler in a statement, "All in, there are 80 million homes that do not have HBO and we will use all means at our disposal to go after them."
Television isn't going away any time soon, but its delivery method is changing at warp speed. According to one study cord-cutting exploded from 25,000 unsubscribers in a 3-month period in 2013 to 150,000 in that same period last year. U.S. broadband-only homes are currently at roughly 10 million.
Sony, DISH, and other providers are racing to bring broadband-based television platforms to market. Their goal is not only to attract cord-cutters, but the legions of households that will never have had cable or satellite to begin with.
Bottom line: the screens that television are delivered to in the very near-term future will be no different from the ones used now for the web. Screens are screens, and programming is programming. It was mildly amusing to hear reports last week of filmmakers at Sundance holding out for "real" studio deals rather than sign with Netflix or Amazon.
Because really, what's the diff?
Television won't go away, nor will feature films. But when we experience them on digital screens, small or large — the same ones connected to our computers, gaming systems, smartphones, tablets, and even the Internet of Things, things will change — rapidly.
All advertising will be digital, therefore addressable. Brand experience will fragment across a multiplicity of devices, necessitating tight content strategies and unity of voice and tone, look and feel, in order not to deliver fragmented, discordant messaging. Media choices will become harder because there will be ever more channels and form factors. Personas will multiply — this week, Lexus is launching more than 1,000 videos on Facebook, each tuned to a different target.
Very soon, almost before you know it, advertising to television audiences will differ only very slightly from advertising on the web. Audiences won't recognize the difference between the channels, nor will they care.


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H.I.G. Capital Announces the Acquisition of Nine Industrial Assets in the Netherlands
LONDON – June 20, 2014 – Bayside Capital, a credit affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, announced the purchase of two portfolios of light industrial assets in the Netherlands. The two portfolios have been acquired for a combined value of approximately €44m and consist of nine industrial estates.
The properties were purchased by MBay Light Industrial, a joint venture established by a private investment fund managed by Bayside Capital in partnership with specialist asset manager M7 Real Estate, which was formed to acquire high yielding multi-let industrial assets in the Netherlands. With the latest transaction, Bayside has now acquired three light industrial portfolios with over €100M of gross asset value.
Ahmed Hamdani, Managing Director at Bayside Capital said, "We are pleased to continue our investment programme in the Dutch market and to be working again with M7 in this transaction. We are focusing on asset management, which will include substantial capital investment to improve occupancy, income and ultimately capital values. We believe the Netherlands market continues to present excellent value and this transaction reflects H.I.G.'s commitment to continue expanding its already significant European real estate holdings."
About Bayside Capital
Bayside Capital is an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a leading global private investment firm with more than $15 billion of equity capital under management. With over $4.5 billion of committed capital, Bayside is focused on providing capital solutions to address complex situations within short timeframes. Through improved access to capital or facilitating balance sheet realignments, Bayside can help support future strategies and expansion plans. Bayside has the ability to provide capital through a broad range of securities including asset-based and cash flow senior and subordinated debt, equity, debtor-in-possession facilities, and special situation loans. Bayside has the experience and resources to help companies quickly resume growth initiatives and improve their strategic position. For more information, please refer to the Bayside Capital website at www.bayside.com.


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Grubhub and Major Cities Across the U.S. Launch Economic Relief Effort up to $100 Million for Independent Restaurants and Delivery Partners Impacted by COVID-19
Mayors of Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Boston and Portland Team with Grubhub to Suspend Fees from Independent Restaurants
Grubhub Sets up Charitable Fund for Impacted Drivers and Restaurants
CHICAGO, March 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In collaboration with the mayors of large cities across the United States who are on the front lines of the COVID-19 response efforts, Grubhub today announced it is temporarily suspending collection of up to $100 million in commission payments from impacted independent restaurants nationwide.
Grubhub's initiative will provide immediate and substantial cash flowrelief to qualified independent restaurants — restaurants that make up the majority of Grubhub's 350,000+ restaurant community and drive more than 80 percent of the company's orders.
Matt Maloney, Grubhub Founder and CEO said: "Independent restaurants are the lifeblood of our cities and feed our communities. They have been amazing long-term partners for us, and we wanted to help them in their time of need. Our business is their business — so this was an easy decision for us to make."
Grubhub has also created a fund that will enable proceeds from its Donate the Change program to go toward charitable organizations that support restaurants and drivers impacted by the COVID-19 health crisis. The program will allow diners to round up the change from every order and donate it to the Grubhub Community Relief Fund — with donations from Grubhub+ (and Seamless+) members matched by the company. Grubhub has been raising more than $1 million dollars per month through Donate the Change.
Grubhub will work with local city officials to identify the organizations that can utilize the funds and to consider other support programs during the pandemic.
"The City of Chicago is deeply concerned about the risk COVID-19 is placing on the health of our residents and communities, as well as the impact it's having on our working families and neighborhood economies and restaurants," said Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot. "That is why we applaud corporate leaders like Grubhub who are stepping up with practical measures to support small businesses and their employees. Now more than ever, we must work together to ensure hardworking Chicagoans receive the support they need to thrive while also staying safe, secure, and healthy."
In Chicago, where Grubhub was founded in 2004 and is headquartered today, there are more than 10,000 restaurants on the platform, and thousands of drivers bringing delicious food from these restaurants to hungry diners. This relief fund will provide support for food industry workers, which are anticipated to become among some of the most impacted by the economic losses due to coronavirus and social distancing practices. This includes residents at small, neighborhood-based businesses like Chicago's Home of Chicken & Waffles, based in Bronzeville.
As dine-in traffic is expected to slow up to 75 percent over the next few weeks, restaurants will rely on pickup and delivery orders to stay in business. "We have seen revenue decrease in the past week as a direct result of our customers staying home," said Darnell Johnson, owner of Chicago's Home of Chicken & Waffles. "Grubhub has helped us generate more delivery and takeout orders as our customers' dining habits have changed. This has helped us continue serving our loyal customers and our employees can continue living a sustainable lifestyle."
"Banding together during hard times, putting people over profit, and supporting our local businesses is a model we should all follow, and I thank Grubhub for leading the way," said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
"Restaurants are a pillar of the San Francisco small business economy and so important to the culture of this city," said Joaquin Torres, Director of San Francisco's Office of Economic and Workforce Development. "We are committed to doing everything in our power to support them in this time of crisis, but if we want to come through this public health emergency intact, we'll need more private sector partners to follow Grubhub's lead, do the right thing and invest locally to mitigate this crisis."
These initiatives follow a series of measures taken by Grubhub to keep restaurants, diners, and drivers safe during the outbreak – including contact-free delivery and health and safety guidance to drivers, restaurants and diners. Additionally, Grubhub offers pickup from the largest restaurant network in the country, which helps individuals who might feel safer acquiring food on their own.
About Grubhub
Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB) is a leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery marketplace with the largest and most comprehensive network of restaurant partners, as well as more than 22 million active diners. Dedicated to connecting diners with the food they love from their favorite local restaurants, Grubhub elevates food ordering through innovative restaurant technology, easy-to-use platforms and an improved delivery experience. Grubhub features over 350,000 restaurants and is proud to partner with more than 165,000 of these restaurants in over 3,200 U.S. cities and London. The Grubhub portfolio of brands includes Grubhub, Seamless, LevelUp, AllMenus and MenuPages.
SOURCE: Grubhub


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UCO has customized Credit Cards to cater to various needs of people, such as shopping, travel booking, hotel booking, and corporate cards as well. There are different rewards and benefits associated with UCO credit cards. UCO also provides multiple options in both modes of payment - online and offline - to its customers.
Online Method
Offline Method
UCO Net Banking: Net banking facility can be availed by users only after registering online. To check the outstanding of credit card and to pay bills, the user is required to link their credit card with their net banking account, for which ATM pin details would be used. After linking the UCO credit card with net-banking account, the user would be able to check billed or unbilled transactions, due dates, reward points, etc. by simply logging on to the net banking account through the bank's website, clicking on the "credit card" tab and selecting "credit card payment" option. UCO also provides hot listing facility under net banking to block it from any misuse in case the card has been lost or stolen.
UCO Mobile App: For this procedure, users need to download and install UCO's app on their phones. After installation, users can login to the app by using their customer ID. The app has been made for the convenience of mobile users; it provides the same features as that of the net banking portal, so that it may be accessible from anywhere. Credit card accounts are highly secure through 128-bit SSL protection. Thanks to this feature, users can conduct transactions safely using their accounts from practically anywhere through a mobile app.
Auto payment debit: If a user has multiple credit cards, an auto debit option is available for payment of credit card bills. To use this facility, certain instructions need to be set on the concerned UCO savings account. This facility is used to pay the minimum amount or to repay the entire outstanding balance.
Credit card payment from non-UCO accounts: It is not mandatory to have an account in the same bank whose credit card you are using. There are different ways of paying credit card bills through other bank accounts:
NEFT method: In this method, the user needs to enter the number of the UCO credit card as the payee account number as well as the corresponding IFSC code to make credit card bill payments. The payments that are made during working hours on weekdays get transferred on the same day, whereas the payments that are made after working hours get transferred on the next day.
RTGS (Real time gross settlement) method: This method is applicable for the people who use a credit card for higher transaction amount, as they can pay the whole amount at one time. For carrying out this transaction, net banking should be activated in the other bank account too.
Bill desk webpage: Bill desk page can also be used by non-UCO account holders. The user needs to enter the necessary details, like the card number and the amount, after which, the user is redirected to the concerned net banking portal to complete the transaction.
Online non-UCO portal : Login to the online portal using net banking id and password for settling payments.
Cash Payment: Credit card bills can be paid in cash at the nearest bank branch of UCO by paying processing fee.
Cheque Payment: Credit Card bill payment can be done through cheque by dropping it at the nearest ATM or cheque drop box, after writing the credit card number and other details on it.
Transfer through ATM: UCO credit card bill can be paid through ATM transfer at any of the bank's ATMs. This service can be availed 24/7. Here, the amount that is required to be paid can be transferred from savings or current account to the credit card account.
If a wrong credit card number has been entered, what should a customer do?
The credit card number should be entered twice for security purpose. If it is still entered incorrectly, then the customer should call the customer care.
How can offline payments be made?
It can be paid by cash or cheque either at the nearest ATM or nearest bank branch.
How can credit card bill payment be made through mobile?
For paying credit card bill through your mobile, you have to download the bank's app, go to the credit card section and initiate the bill payment.


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road report: Harold in San Antonio
I had the pleasure of announcing our new Affiliation with The Witte Museum in San Antonio on October 7, 2014. By coincidence The Witte was also celebrating its 88th birthday, so it was a double pleasure. Marise McDermott, President and CEO presided over the announcement ceremony which included San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor and City Council member Keith Toney. Kind words were spread all around; as always I was humbled and honored to represent the Smithsonian.
I met many wonderful people at the Witte and discovered interesting connections between the Witte and the Smithsonian, especially in the field of paleontology and archaeology. Dinosaurs once ruled south Texas, and Witte Museum Curator of Paleontology and Geology, Thomas Adams, Ph.D., is literally hot on their trail – uncovering dino tracks and other significant fossil remains. Harry Shafer, Ph.D, Witte Museum Curator of Archeology, Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University, has been studying rock art along the lower Pecos River, among the most sophisticated finds in North America.
The Smithsonian has many long-term interests in San Antonio. The Smithsonian American Art Museum includes works by artists, Jesse Trevino and Mel Casas; Smithsonian Folkways documents the musical heritage of San Antonio, from legendary corrido singer Lydia Mendoza to Grammy Award winning Los Texmaniacs; and the Smithsonian Magazine recently paid tribute to San Antonio's fabulous Chili Queens, 19th century food entrepreneurs who helped make the taco the world's favorite meal.
There's a lot going on at the Witte on which to build our partnership and more to come when the museum completes Phase II of its grand expansion project in 2017.
Angelica Docog and Aaron Parks of the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures, our other Affiliate in San Antonio, joined the festivities and then brought me back to see an amazing exhibit on Texas Quilts on display in their facility in Hemisphere Park. We talked about several new exhibits they are planning to install including one on Sikh history and culture from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Angelica filled me in on the success of their Smithsonian Youth Access Grant, Young Historians/Living Histories and how it helped the Institute build bridges to San Antonio's Korean community.
One cannot visit San Antonio without feeling a sense of vibrancy – a growing city with a strong economy, a major convention and tourist destination, a proud history and a bright future. How wonderful to see our Affiliate colleagues leading the charge.
Tomorrow, I get to announce another new Affiliate – Space Center Houston. It's a good week for lifting off!