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This is a great lesson for practicing different movements and pedals in a fingerstyle fashion. Based on the song "Malagueña", this exercise will strengthen your solo guitar techniques.
Taught by Marcelo Berestovoy in Solo Guitar seriesLength: 13:43Difficulty: 3.5 of 5
The idea of being a self contained unit of chords and melody is a long, time honored tradition in guitar playing. Fortunately, Jamplay has one of the best out there to teach you how to get started in this style of playing: Marcelo Berestovoy! Beginning with simple exercises and concluding with actual songs, this series will give you the essentials to getting a real handle on the solo guitar and chord-melody style.
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Marcelo gives an overview and introduction to his series, "Solo Guitar".Length: 4:01 Difficulty: 0.0 FREE
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Marcelo gets us started with a couple of simple exercises designed to get you thinking in terms of multiple things happening on the guitar at the same time.Length: 19:08 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Now, Marcelo expands on part one of this lesson by making the exercise sound like a song, and moving it up the neck into different positions.Length: 16:15 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Taking the first 5 notes of the C major scale (or the tetrachord), Marcelo experiments with chor-melody by harmonizing it in many different ways.Length: 11:11 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Moving closer towards the goal of playing an actual song in the solo guitar style, Marcelo shows us a classical style etude that we can transform into a song of different styles, as well as how to achieve...Length: 13:44 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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In this lesson, Marcelo covers the various picking hand techniques that can be employed when playing solo guitar pieces.Length: 9:52 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now Marcelo teaches a great tune to get started with playing solo guitar. A simple 12 bar blues, that combines the two guitar illusion of chords and melody into one guitar part.Length: 11:20 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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In this homage to the great Joe Pass, Marcelo gives us a great vehicle for improving our solo guitar techniques.Length: 11:09 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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This is a great lesson for practicing different movements and pedals in a fingerstyle fashion. Based on the song "Malagueña", this exercise will strengthen your solo guitar techniques.Length: 13:43 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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This Latino artist, composer and guitarist, has inspired a new musical trend that he has called "Southern World Music". This innovative mix of sounds is a blend of the tango from Argentina, flamenco from the south of Spain, and several musical styles from Southern California. Marcelo has done live presentations and recorded with artists like Ricky Martin, Selena, Leon Gieco, Daniela Romo, Sergio Arau and Bebu Silvetti to name a few. In television, he accompanied stars such as Jorge Moreno, Grammy Award winner in 2002 in the "Best New Artist" category. He also composed the song "Gitano Corazon", recorded by Natalia Oreiro in her album "Tu Veneno". This album was nominated in the Latino Grammy Award 2001 in the category of "Best Female Pop Album". He is co-author of the song "One Heart" with Steven Segal, Larry King and Tommy Coster. His musical talent has been shown in movies including "Dirt", "The Mexican", "Un Pedazo de Tierra" and "Paulie". He has participated in television shows, concerts and kick-off parties for movies like "Mission Impossible II" and "The Disapearance of Garcia Lorca".
Marcelo was born and raised in Argentina. He says he felt a passion for the music since he was about 11 years old when he started to take guitar lessons. His father had a lot of influence in his love for music. Together they used to play the songs that Marcelo wrote. His father always took him to listen to jazz. At this time, listening to jazz gave Marcelo another perspective since he was a rock fanatic. His motivation was first the Beatles and then Charly and Spinetta "the skinny". Marcelo recalls that by the age of 18, he was playing in different places throughout Buenos Aires, Argentina. He would play four to five nights a week with different groups or to accompany solo singers.
His decision to come to Los Angeles was motivated by his interest in jazz. In 1985, he came to study to GIT and he never returned to Argentina. Marcelo currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his lovely wife and son. He performs live at several local places. In addition to playing the guitar and composing, Marcelo teaches in the "Musicians Institute", one of the most prestigious in the music world.
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In the final week of Rhizome's Community Fundraising Campaign, we profile seven artists hand-picked by Rhizome to generously contribute artworks, ensuring you receive compelling thank you gifts at every donation level. Give now to receive one of these works.
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is a London-based artist who combines scanning, 3D printing, and computational approaches to make remixed art objects. His 3D printed works expose the limitations of the technology and the glitches that occur when translating real objects into digital ones.
In his Digital Natives series, Plummer-Fernandez samples everyday household items, remixes them using his own software, and then 3D prints them using a z-corp printer with a color resin, in order to blur the line between the real and the digital. Once functional objects are rendered useless, but beautiful, in their new algorithmically abstracted forms. Laura Davidson reviews Plummer-Fernandez's work for Rhizome, noting he takes: "...a more creative approach to engineering... His work proposes new ways in how we discuss the process of making a crafted object. Algorithms and their parameters become a tool to be mastered in the same way a lathe or a chisel would be... The results are almost alchemic and magical."
For Rhizome's Community Fundraiser, Plummer-Fernadez has donated two limited edition pieces from the Digital Natives series, available at the $1,000 level. The designs were based on a scan of a typical yellow ceramic jug and transformed using the artist's software. These unique table sculptures will be printed in the color of your choice.
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Around the corner from stacks of baby shoes, counterfeit Gucci wallets, and spangled iPhone cases, I got burned copies of Jean Cocteau's Orpheus trilogy at an outdoor market in Mexico City.
A Sunday afternoon in Roma Norte, I was drinking coffee with new friends. The city was new to me and I had only arrived late the night before. We jumped in a cab and directed the driver to a market a little way outside the center of town.
Miguel said he was going to pick up a copy of Pigsty there. I was confused at first, assuming it had to be something other than the 1969 Italian film, but indeed that was the one he meant. Seemed an implausible feat to find a physical copy of any Passolini movie, let alone a more obscure selection, anywhere without paying for shipping and waiting at least a week. But I didn't say anything then.
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"The internet changed the world in the 1990s, the world is about to change again," read much of the promotional literature for the recent 3D Printshow in London. The commercial exhibitors might have benefited from a far more modest tag line, but the art work exhibited, separate from the main trade section of the show, gave much new to think about regarding the the relationship between technology and craft.
Frederik de Wilde, M1ne IIII (2012)
I was immediately intrigued by the two sculptural objects on display by Frederik de Wilde. The cobalt chrome models had been printed from data gathered from Belgian coal mines. They presented themselves as futuristic objects with a link to Europe's industrial heritage. The representations of the coal mines came to the 3D Printshow as seemingly abstract objects but, were actually formed by a much more political process. It had been a laborious process for de Wilde to get access to the data. He remarked that being granted permission to use a data source as an artist is almost an art form in itself. The Belgian government are protective over the information as the mines contain elements of interest to multinationals and other nations. De Wilde was not permitted in the work to reveal the location of the mines and had to abstract the forms so that interested parties could not gain commercial advantage. The custodians of the data had a large say in what the outcome of the piece would be. This is an intriguing collaborative process if it can be considered as such. The models of the coal mines had been stacked inside each other to create fragile vessels, that also further abstracted the context of the data. The production values of both objects were also noteworthy. I ...
Meet Defense Distributed, home of the Wiki Weapon — "A collaborative project to create freely available plans for 3D printable guns." They've just been granted $20,000 in funding from an angel investor. As outlined in an explanatory Youtube video, Defense Dist.'s goal is not to arm the populace, but to liberate information. As explained in their video, if the instructions for 3D printed gun are seeded online, then "any bullet becomes a weapon."
It's good that open-source information is Defense Distributed's major goal, because Stratsys, the company that makes the 3D printer used by Defense Dist., seized the printer from Cody Wilson. Producing a whole weapon, claimed Stratsys, would break laws against home weapons manufacturing. In July, Extreme Tech reported on a user named HaveBlue from the AR-15 forum. HaveBlue used a mid-90s era Stratasys brand 3D printer to make the body of a .22-caliber pistol. HaveBlue's creation utilized a commercial chamber fused with a 3D-printed body. Said HaveBlue: "It's had over 200 rounds of .22 through it so far and runs great!" HaveBlue went on to remind readers that manufacturers have been using 3D printing for modeling and design purposes for a while. His gun was simply the first with 3D printed plastic parts to be tested by someone at home.
HaveBlue's 3D printed gun.
Anab Jain of Superflux told the magazine Dezeen that Defense Dist. is a symptom of the transforming dynamic between consumers and manufacturers: "The old rules and regulations about who is the designer, who is the manufacturer and who is the distributor change when people have the tools and opportunities to become the designer, manufacturer and distributor themselves."
It's all too easy to imagine a future where rebels or criminals rely on 3D printing to produce weapons ...
A weird commotion outside wakes you up. You peer out the window to see the source of the music and revelry. A group of college kids from the engineering school are smashing all of their furniture in the street. The next day while walking the dog, you see them again. They're sweeping up the pieces of broken housewares, and shoveling it into bags. The next day, it looks like they're moving in again as they carry brand new designer furniture into their house. They do this every month or so.
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3D printed objects, or "physibles" are an incredible example of the mundane aspects of future-weird. They are glitchy-as-fuck, but their shapeshifting effect on our cultural space will inhabit the same metaphysics of street graffiti--appreciated by only a few, truly understood by even less.
A physible is simple. Download a file with information about the shape of an object, or components parts of an object. Use a 3D printing machine that squirts molten plastic, metal or other material to pour you that object, without needing a mold. Or, send the file to a company who will do that for you. These machines simplify the process of fabbing an object, by using a single machine to create parts of nearly anything. Previously, specific injection molds had to be created for each piece, or a welder had to attach pieces by reading a diagram. Now the machine can build the entire piece in one run, with basically zero set-up investment. The investment to produce a single object is nearly nothing--all it takes is the design, and one of these universal printing machines.
This technical evolution is interesting, but the real revolution will be in the changing distribution of fabrication shops that this production shift will create. Fabrication has been sourced wherever the set-up requirements are cheapest, with the run production runs made as large as possible. But the technology behind physibles will make short-run fabrication, anywhere, much more preferable. It will eventually be cheaper for a person to fab one object at home, than to buy one of five hundred thousand made in one place and shipped across the world. Physibles will decentralize the Pearl River, and bring China home.
But the technology of physibles doesn't mean much to the consumer. Not any more than the encoding of a MP3 file, or the precise stitch pattern of a handbag. It means something to the person who actually fabs the object, but as a consumer, you'll get your things wherever is cheapest and easiest, just like always. You'll still order things online. Rather than coming from China, perhaps a Chinese company will outsource the design to a fab shop down the street that will hand deliver it to your door. The means of production continue to mean nothing to the end-user: commodity cost is king. Most people want their stuff to just be stuff, and don't care about how it works. Consider the frustration people experience trying to get a PDF to print correctly on a flat sheet of paper. These folks will be filling their cabinets, entertaining their children, and brushing their teeth with physibles every day of their lives without knowing how the object came into existence, or what that means for global distribution networks.
Most people. On the other hand, there will be a new set of object hackers, who will be spending all their free time online, discussing the precise interior dimension ratios of the new set of Target glassware ....
The Pirate Bay just announced a new file type available on the site: "physibles," digital files for 3D printing. It expects in 20 years you'll be downloading sneakers. In the meantime there are lawn darts and plastic toys:
We're always trying to foresee the future a bit here at TPB. One of the things that we really know is that we as a society will always share. Digital communication has made that a lot easier and will continue to do so. And after the internets evolutionized data to go from analog to digital, it's time for the next step.
Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything without losing quality since we make perfect 1 to 1 digital copies of things. Music, movies, books, all come from the digital sphere. But we're physical people and we need objects to touch sometimes as well!
We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.
The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amount of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We'll be able to print food for hungry people. We'll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal. We'll be able ...
Showcasing the endless possibilities of the Thing-O-Matic, the New Museum MakerBot Challenge is open to the entire creative community. Embodying the New Museum's mission of "New Art, New Ideas," this interactive and experiential Challenge aims to push the concept of the "derivative," by improving on or personalizing established design conventions. From the banal toothbrush to complex bicycle gears, how can 3D printing help to develop the world around us?
The winning design will be printed on a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic on display in the New Museum Store's window. The winning designer will receive a New Museum Deluxe membership ($400 value), a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic® Kit ($1299 value), and a special invitation to the New Museum MakerBot Challenge launch party.
Five runner-ups will have their designs printed by MakerBot and sent to them.
1. If you are not already registered, sign up for an account at Thingiverse.com
2. Upload your 3D files, and tag them with NewMuseumChallenge by October 31, 2011
3. In the description, write a statement about your design. What is the design a derivative of? How does it improve on or challenge existing design conventions?
1. Designs may be one single part or multiple parts that are each smaller than 4 x 4 x 4 ¾ in (100 x 100 x 120 mm) and printable on a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic.
2. Different parts can be made in white, yellow, orange, red, UV reactive red, UV reactive nuclear green, camping green, blue, black, and glow-in-the-dark.
3. The design may require multiple builds, however no more than three builds are allowed.
A team from MakerBot, Rhizome, and the New Museum will select the final designs. The jurors are looking for designs that utilize the unique ability of 3D printing to personalize and improve on the world around us.


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Release date: 4 June 1984
Tracks: (Click for codes to singles charts.) 1. Born in the U.S.A. (6/23/84, #9 US, #5 UK, #8 AR, sales: 1.0 m) 2. Cover Me (6/23/84, #7 US, #16 UK, #2 AR, sales: 1.0 m) 3. Darlington County 4. Working on the Highway 5. Downbound Train 6. I'm on Fire (2/16/85, #5a US, #5 UK, #4 AR, #6 AC) 7. No Surrender (6/16/84, #29 AR) 8. Bobby Jean (6/23/84, #36 AR) 9. I'm Goin' Down (9/7/85, #9 US, #9 AR) 10. Glory Days (5/25/85, #4a US, #17 UK, #3 AR) 11. Dancing in the Dark (5/26/84, #2 US, #4 UK, #1 AR, sales: 2.0 m) 12. My Hometown (12/7/85, #6 US, #9 UK, #6 AR, #1 AC, sales: 1.0 m)
Sales (in millions): 15.0 US, 0.9 UK, 30.0 world (includes US and UK)
Peak: 17 US, 15 UK
Review: "It's…hard to believe now that for much of his [pre-Born in the U.S.A.] career Bruce Springsteen was a gigantic cult artist; a musician who could sell a couple of million records and fill hockey rinks, but who was was no more likely than Elvis Costello to get airplay on pop radio." CDU On the strength of seven top-ten pop hits, this album sold 30 million copies worldwide and "catapulted Bruce Springsteen from cult-favorite critics' darling to stadium-rocking global superstar." JW While Born in the U.S.A., "trafficked in much the same struggle" AMG as 1982's Nebraska, Springsteen "softened his message with nostalgia and sentimentality" AMG as his characters reminisce of Glory Days which have passed them by and how, in My Hometown, a father proudly shows his son around the town only to have that son grow up to sadly show his son how desolate the town became.
Glory Days
Bruce also added "big, sing-along choruses" CDU and a commercial slant unseen in his previous work. The music "incorporates new electronic textures while keeping as its heart all of the American rock & roll from the early Sixties…Springsteen…embraced…the legacy of Phil Spector's releases, the sort of soul that was coming from Atlantic Records and especially the garage bands." DM The album reminds us that what "teenagers loved about rock and roll wasn't that it was catchy or even vibrant but that it just plain sounded good." RC The result is his "best…pure pop songwriting ever." AZ Nowhere is this better exemplified than with Dancing in the Dark, "the breathtaking first single" DM and the biggest hit of his career.
Dancing in the Dark
Springsteen rattles off one of his most powerful anthems with the title cut, Born in the U.S.A.. Thinking the song extolled the pride of being American, "the witless wonders of the Reagan regime attempted to co-opt…[it] as an election-year campaign song." AMG The fact that it was "a brutal account" CDU of "the disenfranchisement of a lower-class Vietnam vet" AMG "whose country forgot him" AZ escaped their attention completely.
Born in the U.S.A. (live)
It signaled that the characters wouldn't be like previous album's "scruffy hoods with colorful names like the Magic Rat…[but] nameless working stiffs" JW who "dread getting stuck in the small towns they grew up in almost as much as they worry that the big world outside holds no possibilities." DM In I'm on Fire, lyrics like "Someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull/ And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul" evoke an image of a "pock-marked Harry Dean Stanton type, lying, too wired to sleep, in a motel room." DM
I'm on Fire
Still, "Springsteen's exuberant voice and the swell of the music clues you that they haven't given up." DM For example, on the "classic buddy/road song" JW Darlington County, Springsteen sings of "two guys [who] pull into a hick town begging for work…but he gives them music they can pound on the dashboard to." DM No Surrender is "a friendship anthem for the ages" JW and "one of the best tunes the man has ever written." JW Bobby Jean also touches on the hopeful endurance of friendship. It serves as an ode to guitarist Steve Van Zandt, who'd just left the band. Certainly lyrics like "'Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere/ In some motel room there'll be a radio playing and you'll hear me sing this song/ Well, if you do, you'll know I'm thinking of you and all the miles in between'" DM "may put a lump in your throat" DM but thanks to a "wall of sound with a soaring saxophone solo…the music says, Walk tall or don't walk at all." DM
Resources and Related Links:
- DMDB page for Born in the U.S.A.
- Bruce Springsteen's DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry
- AMG All Music Guide review by William Ruhlmann
- AZ Amazon.com review by Daniel Durchholz
- RC Robert Christgau review
- CDU CdUniverse.com
- DV Daily Vault review by Jason Warburg
- RS Rolling Stone review by Debby Miller. Originally in 426/427: July 19/August 2, 2002 print issue.
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Topic: USA mixture seedlings
Posted: 01 Sep 2008 at 11:22pm
Hello everyone
I have germinated 9 seeds so far from the USA mixture packet given free with "The Clematis journal". I germinate them on damp kitchen roll paper in a tuperware box. I placed them in the box in February and the seeds started to sprout about June, some are still sprouting - latest was a week ago (although there are about 25 still dormant.
As soon as they start to sprout I plant them. Some I have planted in a pot with john innes seed compost mixed with vermiculite and some in acadama mixed with vermiculite using the outer and inner plastic cup method advocated by Tsuyoshi Isojima (see "Clematis International 2008 journal). I got the idea of using acadama from a post by Ton Hannink on this site, but thought it needed mixing with something such as vermiculite to improve drainage.
Anyway, so far using these methods, 2 seedlings have emerged from the ones planted in pots and 1 in the acadama mixture (although I can see another is just emerging).
However the point of all this is to say that these seedlings are incredibly slow growing from the point when they sprout to when they push through the earth and then the growth itself. I have grown orientalis seedings which grow so fast there is no comparison. These USA mixture seedlings take forever to develop - even when the seeds have sprouted they take about 5 weeks to push through the soil and then they grow really slowly and look very fragile. It's almost enough to make you give up.
I know the seeds develop by hypogeal germination which seems to take longer than epigeal germination but I had no idea it was so slow. Has anyone else experienced this?
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|Quote Reply Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 1:17pm
Hello aidan my friend, can you tell me where you got the akadama from please?
I struggled to find some but I don't leave too far from Leeds I'm just on the WestYorks,East lancs border, I spoke with a Japanese grower and they were using something called HB101 as a rooting aid prior to the hormone gel, of course I can't find any of that either.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 02 Sep 2008 at 10:59pm
Hello digger
I got the akadama mail order from Green Dragon Bonsai supplies website -www.greendragonbonsai.co.uk. It's quite expensive when you include the postage but you can also buy small amounts. I mixed it with vermiculite but the Japanese grit Kyodama also looks good which you can get from the site. I also use Japanese Bonsai general purpose scissors 190mm and Japanese fine trimming scissors 150mm for taking clematis cuttings as they are great for really fine fiddly work. Dont know about the hormone rooting gel but would be interested in getting some.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 03 Sep 2008 at 12:54pm
Hi Aidan thanks for the link, the rooting compound that I am using is clonex rooting gel, which is what Roy Nunn is using you can get it from
www.hydroponics.co.uk the shop caters mainly I think to a certain group of people that are not really clematis growers if you know what i mean, but the clonex is available from them, they did have a liquid called root matrix that i wanted to try instead of hb101, they stems are soaked for a few hours in the mixture, prior to using the rooting gel but they stopped selling root matrix, they do have some alternatives but I have not tried them out, best wishes my friend
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|Quote Reply Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 8:01pm
Hi Digger
I thought that i had learned enough to grow most types of Clematis , but the Old Dog has still something to learn , I have been growing from seed and cuttings for years , and all I have used is sterilized soil , course sand , peat
and vermiculite . and have had good results,I used to sterilize the mixture in the seed pot with boiling water , but for a number for years now , I have done the sterilizing in a microwave , and sown the seeds when the mixture is well drained and cool. I found out from experience with other plants that drop their seed on to the ground and wait for the rain to wash them in that it was not as I had been told necessary to plant the seed deep, but to put the seed in at an angle with the top just below the surface . To get the best results and edge my bets one pot of a variety wold be put where it could get frosted and then brought into the warmth , and the other pot would be kept in the greenhouse
according to the variety I had a reasonable number germinate . I have never had 100% the best has been around 70% . To be honest
I have always believed that all plants want to live and grow if given the correct situation for the species. Again Thanks for the information I have gained from the exchange of mail .
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|Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 1:54pm
Hi Ron Thanks for your tips, I also use the microwave oven for sterilising compost, I have my own in the greenhouse after the missus caught me using the one in the kitchen. I have germinated some seeds that were sent to me from the BCS they are viticella, two germinted very quickly and a few more have just germinated several months after the others. I got lucky with some cuttings in spring they were from macropetalas rooted in perlite and a propagator, when I re potted them on, two died, I have now read Roy's article and I now realise that I should have been more careful with their environment when I potted them up, I have got so so much to learn and I am determined to have some success, I just need the know how and of course the experience, this forum is a Godsend.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 06 Sep 2008 at 11:45pm
Hi Aidan,
IMHO the biggest favour you can do yourself is to go on with the USA mix and grow-on every plant you get to flowering and 'maturity'. You'll get tremendous pleasure from them, I only say that because I have grown a few. I can absolutely guarantee that you won't regret it!
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|Quote Reply Posted: 07 Sep 2008 at 10:54am
Hi Brian, i germinated a few seeds in springtime, they are making good growth, but I was wondering what is the best place for them over winter/ they are not very big yet and are still in the lean to greenhouse in the heated soilbed, the clematis greenhouse is not heated but i could put a parrafin heater in there for winter, or should I keep them in the relative comfort of the warm leanto?
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|Quote Reply Posted: 07 Sep 2008 at 4:04pm
If you try www.bcollingwood.com there is lots of info about overwintering, or give me a ring anytime 0161 950 5329.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jan 2009 at 11:10pm
Hi Aiden. I am surprised you had such quick germination and I am wondering whether you have seeds in there that are not from the viorna group. Generally speaking the viorna group take at least 12 months to germinate. In fact I had success with wild collected texensis that germinated between 2 & 4 years after being set. If they germinate late in the season leave them in the pot until the spring-they will look like little dead sticks but no matter about that. When they get to about 2 inches tall I pinch out the growing tip to encourage a better root system and hopefully make the plant break into 2 stems. When I had a green house it was never heated and I used capillary matting under the pots.Good luck. Everett
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|Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jan 2009 at 1:53am
I realize you posted a while ago, but I, too, hope you give them a chance, as slow going as they are. If you grow any of the viorna group in the future, I found I can speed up germination on some of them by soaking them 12-36 hours in water, peeling off the seed coat, then keeping them in moist vermiculite at 20C. I think by getting them fully imbibed (and perhaps leaching off any germination inhibitors by soaking and removing any mechanical or chemical inhibition from the seed coat), and keeping them warm, they germinate within 2-3 months, then sprout a few weeks after that.
Take this with a grain of salt, thought, since my experience tends to be with my own seed which is sown fresh.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jan 2009 at 10:56am
I have experimented with sowing viona types whilst still green and have achieved germination that way although it still took a long time for the event to happen. How do you manage to do the operation-with a scalpel? E
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|Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jan 2009 at 7:47pm
On the Gardenbuddies site there is a recent post by Takechianman (Takeshi) called: How to peel off outer coat of seed of Atragene. which gives some really useful advice on how to do this (I have yet to try it, let alone use gibberellin 3!)
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|Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jan 2009 at 10:12pm
Hi All.
I have what I thought was a C.viona from the BCS seed exchange , but there must have been a mistake in the label ,as now it has flowered I am told it is not a C.viona , the flower is blue and is of the small tube like flower it flowers well and is pleasing to the eye . I found the seeds were taking a long time to germinate , so as I had this trouble with other types of seed where the outer case was inhibiting germination , I scratched a few seeds out of the pot and and broke the outer skin at both ends , ( I think it is called chitting )then only one of the half dozen or so seeds germinated and that is the plant I have now . Due to circumstances the rest of the seeds dried out and were thrown , I collected seed last year from the plant ( C.viona ?) I just soaked them thats all ,if there is no result I will chit them again and have another try . I will try and have more patience with them this time
Best of luck all .
Edited by Ron.G.Carlile - 24 Jan 2009 at 10:14pm
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|Quote Reply Posted: 28 Jan 2009 at 9:38am
Hi all , the site quoted above is great and i shall be having a go in undressing some Buckland beauty x texensis seed. Does one have to play 'The Stripper' in the background while you are doing it? E
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Abra and the Psychic Showdown (ケーシィ!ちょうのうりょくたいけつ! Abra! Psychic Showdown!) is the 22nd episode of Pokémon: Indigo League.
Coming into Saffron City, Pikachu gets captured by Team Rocket. However, a lone girl paralyzes them and gets Pikachu back to Ash. As he comes into the Gym, Sabrina, the Saffron City's Gym Leader, sends Abra, who evolves into a Kadabra. Though Ash loses the match and gets rescued, along with Misty and Brock by a mysterious man, he does not want to give up on defeating Sabrina. What does he need to get the advantage against her?
Episode plot
The episode starts off by showing the silhouette of a woman holding a little girl. In the woman's eyes she sees Ash, Misty, and Brock heading towards Saffron City. Ash and his friends appear to be lost and Ash starts yelling at Misty for not being good at directions. They start arguing, but soon stop when they see a small girl close by bouncing a ball. She runs off when Ash walks up to her. Ash tries to follow her and he falls off a cliff. He has Bulbasaur use Vine Whip to pull him back up. They both notice that the little girl has disappeared. They see Saffron City in the distance and Ash gets excited for his next Gym Battle.
When they enter the city, Jessie and James, disguised as Hawaiian women, kiss Ash and put leis on him. They say he is the 1,000,000th visitor to the city and they take him to a skyscraper as a prize. When they arrive there, James grabs Pikachu and Jessie pushes Ash, Misty, and Brock onto a warp tile and they end up in a room with no exit.
They figure out they were set up when a T.V. screen drops down and turns on. Team Rocket is on the screen and they remove their disguises, causing Ash to freak out and wipe his mouth in disgust. Team Rocket recites their motto, but Ash and his friends ignore them. As Ash demands they give Pikachu back, the TV screen suddenly shuts off, but Team Rocket didn't cut the link. As Jessie and James try to fix it, Meowth points out that a little girl got inside, the same one Ash saw before. She emits a blue aura and she freezes Jessie and James. The girl takes Pikachu and teleports to the room Ash and his friends are in. Ash thanks her and the girl starts glowing again and she points to Ash and his friends and they are teleported to outside the Saffron City Gym.
A man comes running up to them and warns them to leave immediately. Ash ignores him and enters the Gym, hoping to win the Marsh Badge. They go inside and they discover its empty at first. They open a door and they find some people practicing telekinesis. A man comes up to them and Ash asks for a Gym Battle. Misty asks the man what those people were doing. The man shows off some of his telekinetic powers by bending a spoon with his mind. Ash shows off by grabbing the spoon and bending by force, making Misty and Brock turn away embrassed. The man leads them to an arena and bows in front of a gate and asks Sabrina to come out. The little girl appears, and her eyes glow red and she uses telekinetic force to make the man leave. Ash asks for an official match from Sabrina. The little girl and agrees and ask Ash if he with play with her if he loses. The gates open up and the little girl is revealed to be sitting on Sabrina's lap.
The little girl tosses out a Poké Ball and an Abra comes out and Ash sends out Pikachu. Pikachu notices that Abra is sleeping and pokes Abra to try to wake it up. Ash checks his Pokédex and it says that Abra sleeps over 18 hours a day but can use psychic powers when its sleeping. Pikachu uses ThunderShock but Abra wakes up and uses Teleport to avoid it and it gets behind Pikachu. Abra then evolves into Kadabra. Ash says that's unfair. Ash tells Pikachu to fill the stadium with light so he can see where Kadabra is teleporting. Pikachu sends some lighting bolts towards the ceiling and they form a big lightning bolt and it goes towards Kadabra. It uses Confusion to send the attack back to Pikachu. Pikachu gets hit and the bolt causes lots of damage. Kadabra uses Psychic to send Pikachu up and down and hitting the ceiling. Kadabra does this seven times before Ash forfeits the match.
Because he lost, Ash has to fulfill his part of the promise by playing with the little girl. The girl uses telekinetic powers to teleport Ash and his friends to another room. They appear to be in a deserted town. They enter a house and find it empty, but there's a table with cake on it. While Ash looks around the house Brock bites into the cake and discovers that its plastic. Ash enters the bathroom and finds a woman in the bathtub and he quickly turns away. But Pikachu points to the mirror and notices that the woman is plastic. Misty says that they must be in a dollhouse when the roof lifts up and they see giant Sabrina and the little girl above them. The little girl puts her hand in the dollhouse while Ash and the others run away. They realize that they were shrunk and put in the little girl's toy box. The little girl laughs Ash and his friends run into a picture frame that has a picture of the little girl and her family in it. The little girl rolls a ball towards them and the man they met outside of the gym teleports them out of the gym to safety.
The man tries to make them leave the city but Ash refuses to without the badge. He asks the man to teach him telekinesis and the man says a person must be born with it. He tries to make Ash leave using telekinesis, but Ash still asks for help. The man tells him to go to Lavender Town and to get a Ghost Type Pokémon. The man teleports away and Ash and his friends decide to go to Lavender Town. Meanwhile, Team Rocket follows them, with Meowth pulling Jessie and James, who are still frozen.
- "So now, time for us to play." - Sabrina
- "It's Team Rocket! EW! GROSS! They both kissed me! Bleh! Blek blek blek!" - Ash
- "Ash, you're not gonna believe this, but we're inside a dollhouse!" - Misty
- "This is a dollhouse?!" - Ash
- "Everything in here is made out of plastic, including the food!" - Brock
- "How can that be?" - Ash
- During this episode, it is stated that Ghost-Type are strong against Psychic-type when, during Generation I (the time of this episode's airing), Psychic-types were actually immune to Ghost-type moves. Similarly, in the Generation II episode Psychic Sidekicks!, it is said that Psychic-types are strong against Ghost-types, although the reverse was true by then (however, Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar's secondary Poison-type does make them weak to Psychic moves).
- The book Night in the Haunted Tower is based on this episode.
- The Gym Leader order of the anime differs from the games, with Sabrina being the sixth Gym Leader challenged instead of the fourth.
- Interestingly, the man bended the spoon with his mind, which is actually the signature move of Kadabra and Alakazam called Kinesis.
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Abra.
- Since this episode was made during the Generation I era, Ghost attacks don't affect Psychic Pokémon.
Dub differences
- In the original Misty complained that they've heard Team Rocket's motto a lot, and Ash told Jessie and James to hurry up and finish it.
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NHL cancels schedule through Oct. 24by Staff Writer / New York Rangers
NEW YORK -- The National Hockey League announced today the cancellation of the 2012-13 regular-season schedule through October 24. A total of 82 regular-season games were scheduled for Oct. 11 through Oct. 24.
The cancellation was necessary because of the absence of a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL Players' Association and the NHL.
National Hockey League Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly subsequently issued the following statement:
"We were extremely disappointed to have to make today's announcement. The game deserves better, the fans deserve better and the people who derive income from their connection to the NHL deserve better.
"We remain committed to doing everything in our power to forge an agreement that is fair to the players, fair to the teams and good for our fans.
"This is not about 'winning' or 'losing' a negotiation. This is about finding a solution that preserves the long-term health and stability of the League and the game.


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Yaaaay, Karritz is here! So happy you've joined. Your tips have greatly improved my sims 3 game experience.Karritz wrote: ↑10 Apr 2017, 09:15Hello. I just arrived here. I used to put my builds and Sims onto the official Exchange before I added mods and custom content to my game. Now I'm learning to make videos for YouTube instead. I'm currently working on Episode 20 in my series of videos about a household I have living in Isla Paradiso
I love your videos though I'm woefully behind due to real life. Did you know you can link your YiuTube channel in your profile on this forum?


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Katey and new fan Andy Schwartz at SXSW 2010 (photo courtesy of Andy Schwartz)
If you're a fan of bounce music or sissy rappers in particular, then you almost certainly know who Katey Red is. Born Kenyon Carter in 1981, Katey came up in the notorious Melph. Katey dropped Melpomene Block Party on Take Fo' in 1999 and made history as the first openly gay rap star. Now's your chance to make history by helping to fund Katey's first music video. Click here to visit the Kickstarter page. There are a variety of incentives to give in addition to helping rectify the great wrong that there are no Katey Red videos up till now.
Big Freedia and Katey Red
The director is David White. According to the page, "David S. White is the primary videographer for Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans and recently completed shooting and directing a music video for Shamarr Allen. He is currently the Director of Photography for Bayou Maharajah, a feature-length video documentary on the life and music of New Orleans piano legend James Booker. He has also shot Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Tim Robbins, Soul Rebels Brass Band, Del McCoury, Charles Neville, Cosimo Matassa, Harry Connick Sr, Bunny Matthews, and many others. His most recent short film, Cell Phone Psycho, has been making the rounds at film festivals across the United States, including the New Orleans Film Festival." [bold text is my emphasis]
UPDATE: We got it done!