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<!-He may not be a Coen brother by blood, but "Inside Llewyn Davis" makes it clear once again that T-Bone Burnett and the acclaimed sibling filmmakers share a distinct musical DNA.
For the rich, authentic-feeling music that fills the soundtrack of their latest film, set in the world of the early, pre-Bob Dylan folk music scene emerging in New York's Greenwhich Village in the early 1960s, writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen turned again to their frequent collaborator Burnett. "I think he was the first person that we sent the script to when it was done," recalls Ethan Coen.
Sounds shaped by Burnett – a veteran musician and Grammy Award-winning producer who's overseen albums for the likes of Alison Krause and Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, John Mellencamp and Cassandra Wilson – have become a fixture among movie soundtracks. His first work with the Coens was as the "music archivist" of "The Big Lebowski," picking and securing the rights to songs for the film. This led to his production of the bluegrass music of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," a commercial and critical sensation. Burnett provided the soundtrack and score for the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line" and helped stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon develop their vocal performances.
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"We've known T-Bone for 25 years and done four movies with him," says Joel Coen. "You're just looking for collaborators in general who you understand their point of view, and they understand your point of view – and there isn't a lot of fuss, and that temperamentally you're compatible. And T-Bone was, obviously, just for all the other reasons brilliant at what he does. He has ... really interesting skills as both a producer of music and someone who can work with actors who are not necessarily musicians in terms of eliciting those kinds of results that you see in this movie."
"They called, they have a very clear, simple view," recalls Burnett of the initial pitch from the brothers as they described the early-era folk world of the film. "[They said] 'We want to do it with real songs but made-up people and we want to do it all live, with all live performances.' And that was it!" That's the foundation for the whole movie. That's their pitch. They didn't go in and give the history [of the music] from the Civil War or anything – I gave them that later," he chuckles.
"People know about the sex, drugs and rock and roll in the 60s because rock and roll was big, commercial music – It had a big audience," says Ethan Coen. "This kind of music is really kind of for cultists…Folk like these people were practicing, it was just a smaller scene. A small, in a way isolated community."
"Which in a way was interesting to us to set a movie in it," adds Joel Coen. "If it's more exotic, it just makes it that much more interesting to get into and say, 'Well, this would be an interesting context for a story' because people don't really know so much about either the music or what was going on."
The film follows aspiring singer-songwriter Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) as he frequently ethically and morally comprises himself in order to survive and get a toehold in the music business. Burnett says he had an immediate take on the existing folk songs he wanted to tap for the film.
"It wasn't 'the soundtrack of my life' or anything like that, but it was around at that time," he remembers. "This music would get on the radio because there was a scene developing. There was no scene and then some troubadours went around, blazed some paths, and invented a scene that eventually became Elvis Presley on one end of it and then Bob Dylan on the other – there was Woody Guthrie and all those people doing it that Dylan came through, and Elvis was in another line that didn't have really access to Woody Guthrie somehow but he did have access to Howlin' Wolf so he went that way."
Burnett worked with Mumford and Sons musician Marcus Mumford, whose wife Carey Mulligan also appears as a singer in the film, to mine for folk touchstones – including the English ballad "The Death of Queen Jane"; Hedy West's oft-recorded 60s song "500 Miles" made popular by the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary; Dominic Behan's Irish prison lament "The Auld Triangle"; Dylan's obscure "Farewell" and the works of folk cult figure and towering influence Dave Van Rock, whose life also provided inspiration for the story.
The films actors, including Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Adam Driver and Stark Sands, would be called upon to perform the songs both live and usually in their entirety, and the heaviest burden fell on Isaac as the lead.
"Here the tight-rope walk was that we had to find an actor who could play a difficult part, play a part of a character who is not trying to make you love him and you still had to love him," says Burnett. "We wanted whole performances of songs so you got into his real life as a musician, which is where you really learn the most about the character, I think: in the songs. And then we had to do it live, documentary-style. So we saw a lot of people and I just thought it probably couldn't happen. We're going to have to find somebody and start lip-syncing and do it the normal way, which would have been a completely different movie – and would have taken all the fun out of it, really. The risk is what separates the artist from the artisan."
"So here we are, like 'Okay, let's take the biggest risk we can because this is walking a tight rope without a net and without a rope,'" says Burnett. "This is just like levitating across the thing. And Oscar did it! And the Coens did it! And I was sitting there with a stopwatch making sure he wasn't speeding up or slowing down. I had the most pedestrian job."
Isaac respectfully disagrees with that assessment. "He completely changed the way, not only that I listen to music, but the way that I play music," says the actor. "The first thing we did was that we went out to Tarzana, to Norm's Rare Guitars, and we found Llewyn's guitar, which is this guitar from 1924: it's an L1, which is what rock 'n' roll was invited on – we joke that I made a very special deal with T-Bone – and then, he took me back to his home studio and the first thing he did was put on Tom Waits' new record, and he left the room for an hour. He was the musical Mr. Miyagi. He was the invisible hand that was guiding me and never telling me what to sound like, but just stripping away any artifice."

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ON LOCATION! — In Minnesota/Iowa this week!
WEATHER: Big, hot sky. No clouds. No shade. The usual Iowa-in-summer.
WHERE TO: Heaven (which is to say, "Northfield, Minnesota"), then home, which is arguably even better.
MOOD: Nostalgia-until-my-head-explodes.
My dear readers, I apologize for being remiss in posting. It's been a week full of travel and incoherentness, and as a result — a week of very little running. I began writing this post from the library on my college campus, as I took a break from my 5-year college reunion festivities. Rest was a necessity, given the exhaustion I had from partaking in three truly taxing activities:
1) Drinking
2) Giving the "here's-what-I-do-now-and-what-about-YOU?" speech
3) Raucous laughter.
…the raucous laughter being the result of the cadre of women with whom I associated in college, all of whom miraculously stopped their world-domination plans to come back to school for 4 days. Hanging-out-time with these women is truly exhausting because of the competitive nature of our conversations, in which we all try to (a) out-loud and (b) out-dirty each other. As I sat in the library drafting this post, in fact, The Bear began G-chatting me. She sent the following messages:


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Q: What is Language Interoperability?
A: Language Interoperability is the ability of code to interact with code that is written using a different programming language. Language Interoperability can help maximize code reuse and, therefore, improve the efficiency of the development process.
Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) is the CPU-independent instruction set into which .NET Framework programs are compiled. It contains instructions for loading, storing, initializing, and calling methods on objects.
Combined with metadata and the Common Type System, MSIL allows for true cross-language integration. Prior to execution, MSIL is converted to machine code. It is not interpreted.
- Who benefits from Language Interoperability?
Developers use a wide variety of tools and technologies, each of which might support different features and types, Language compilers and tools that target the common language runtime benefit from the runtime's built-in support for language interoperability.
- How is Language Interoperability possible?
The common language runtime provides the necessary foundation for language interoperability by specifying and enforcing a Common Type System and by providing metadata. Because all languages targeting the runtime follow the Common Type System rules for defining and using types, the usage of types is consistent across languages. Metadata enables language interoperability by defining a uniform mechanism for storing and retrieving information about types. Compilers store type information as metadata, and the common language runtime uses this information to provide services during execution; the runtime can manage the execution of multilanguage applications because all type information is stored and retrieved in the same way, regardless of the language the code was written in.
- How does managed code benefit from Language Interoperability?
Managed code benefits from the runtime's support for language interoperability in the following ways:
- Types can inherit implementation from other types, pass objects to another type's methods, and call methods defined on other types, regardless of the language the types are implemented in.
- Debuggers, profilers, or other tools are required to understand only one environment the Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) and metadata for the common language runtime and they can support any programming language that targets the runtime.
- Exception handling is consistent across languages. Your code can throw an exception in one language and that exception can be caught and understood by an object written in another language.
Even though the runtime provides all managed code with support for executing in a multilanguage environment, there is no guarantee that the functionality of the types you create can be fully used by the programming languages that other developers use. This is primarily because each language compiler targeting the runtime uses the type system and metadata to support its own unique set of language features. In cases where you do not know what language the calling code will be written in, you are unlikely to know whether the features your component exposes are accessible to the caller. For example, if your language of choice provides support for unsigned integers, you might design a method with a parameter of type 'UInt32'; but from a language that has no notion of unsigned integers, that method would be unusable.
- How do I ensure that managed code is accessible to any language?
To ensure that your managed code is accessible to developers using any programming language, the .NET Framework provides the Common Language Specification, which describes a fundamental set of language features and defines rules for how those features are used.


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About Wild Irish Heart
It is time…
An ancient book, a power untouched, and a heart unloved lead Keelin O'Brien from her graduate studies in Boston to a small village on the coast of Southern Ireland. Determined to unearth the secrets lying hidden in the enchanted waters of the cove, Keelin has little time for a surly Irishman who infuriates her during the day and haunts her fantasies at night.
Inexplicably drawn to the woman who has stepped from his dreams and into his world, Flynn fights a stubborn battle against his increasing attraction for Keelin. Forces unknown have better plans for the two.
Only the secrets of the cove can show Keelin who she really is, the beauty of her mysterious power, and a love that will break the bounds of what she knows.
From New York Times Bestselling author, Tricia O'Malley, comes a new romance series set on the rocky shores of Ireland.
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"Have you heard of the famous pirate queen, Grace O'Malley?"
"Of course; she is legendary throughout Ireland. She was notorious for her fierceness in battle. I know she married twice and had several children. She was famous for being ruthless, yet at the same time is credited with preserving much of Gaelic history."
"Absolutely, and she was a woman that knew her own mind. Did you know that Grainne is the Celtic name for Grace?" Margaret asked. Both Keelin and Margaret's middle name was Grainne.
"I did not," Keelin said.
"Almost all of the women of a particular bloodline in Grace's Cove carry that name. It isn't because of the town name. It is because our bloodline is that of Grace O'Malley."
"Shut up." Keelin was thrilled. She was related to a famous pirate queen? How cool was that?
"Keelin, do not say, 'Shut up.'"
"Sorry, Mom."
"Yes, you are a descendant of Grace O'Malley, for whom Grace's Cove is named. Your grandmother has a direct connection and experiences the effects of it."
"Of what? I don't understand. Is ol' Grandma a pirate or something?" Keelin asked.
Margaret smiled. "No, not quite. Grace was rumored to have powers other than her formidable ones as a pirate queen. Some say magick. Others say a healer. Others point to almost a psychic ability to predict potential threats. It isn't really known what all surrounded Grace, yet almost all will agree she had a level of power."
Keelin began to nervously pick at her nails. She pulled at a loose hangnail and winced as blood came to the surface. Without thinking she covered it with her hand and the wound slowly faded.
"The cove itself is rumored to be enchanted. Almost no one will go there. Well, aside from your grandmother. And a few others. I've gone there. I never will again."
About the Author
A New York Times Bestselling author, Tricia O'Malley lives in Milwaukee with her husband Josh, and their much doted-upon dogs, Briggs and Blue. On a typical day you will find her lost in the worlds of her making or working with up-and-coming authors. She loves the entrepreneurial life, is strongly resistant to the cubicle-world, and thrives on creating the life that she's always wanted to live.
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John Daniel remembers the time he spent in rehabilitation at Children's Hospital of Richmond, VA. Thirteen years ago, the then-11-year-old was playing basketball in his driveway when a falling tree struck him, leaving him paralyzed and suffering from a head injury.
On Oct. 25, 2003, Daniel was one of the approximately 500 people who participated in the inaugural American Family Fitness Center's 10K run/5K walk to benefit Children's Hospital.
"I came just to support Children's Hospital," said Daniel, now 24.
The event was a first of this kind for American Family Fitness Centers, the largest privately held fitness centers in Richmond. However, its history of fundraising for Children's Hospital goes back several years, with more than $60,000 raised since 1998. "This time, we wanted to go beyond the scope of the club membership and open the race up to the entire community," said Anne Buckley, director of public relations for American Family Fitness Centers. The Oct. 25 event raised about $9,000, which for a first-time event left everyone pleased.
"Children's Hospital is so grateful for the support and generosity of American family Fitness, its staff and its members," said Kerry Kent, the hospital's director of special events. "The success of the inaugural 10K run and 5K walk was due completely to American Family's hard work and enthusiasm."
Brian Evans, president of Richmond Fitness Inc., the parent company of American Family Fitness Centers, addressed the crowd at the awards ceremony after the race and thanked the participants and their supporters for turning out.
"As children, we all had dreams about our futures," Evens said. "The children inside [the hospital] have dreams too, and by coming out today, you've helped make part of those dreams a reality."
For those who are interested in donating to this cause or getting involved in their communities, please contact John Agoglia, editor-in-chief of Club Industry, at [email protected].


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Catching the replay now. Winkers HR was an excellent at bat.
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Every year in New Orleans, Louisiana the traditional Mardi Gras celebration draws thousands of tourists to the city from around the world. This festival includes wearing throw beads, decorative masks, festive costumes, dancing, street parties and a spectacular pageantry of floats, bands and other parade goers. The term "Mardi Gras" is French for Fat Tuesday. On this day, observers eat richer, fatty foods before the Lent season. The three colors selected for Mardi Gras are each symbolic in influence and purpose. Mardi Gras purple symbolizes justice. Mardi Gras green is symbolic of faith. Mardi Gras gold stands for power! Remember to wear the Mardi Gras colors if you are not in a costume.
To celebrate Mardi Gras, Filters Fast selected a few featured products in the traditional festive colors for the occasion.
The Mavea Elemaris XL Water Filter Pitcher Purple 1005727 is a superior water filter pitcher manufactured out of BPA-free plastic boasting a distinct and elegant eggplant purple European style finish. It also features a Smart Meter filter change indicator, which will measure your drinking water's hardness, volume and length of time in use for your added convenience.
The Mavea Elemaris XL Water Filtration Pitcher Green 1005770 reduces bacteria, dirt and dust, and chlorine taste and odor. It also includes an easy-to-pour lid and a soft handle for a user-friendly design. It has a large 9 glass holding capacity and has a Smart Meter filter change indicator that measures water hardness, volume and length of time in use for your convenience. In addition, the filters of all of your Mavea Pitchers can be recycled through the Mavea recycling program.
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text: The Ford F-Series is a series of full-size pickup trucks built and produced by the Ford Motor Company. First introduced in 1948 the F-series pickup truck was available as three models, including the F-1 half-ton, F-2 three-quarter-ton and F-3 Heavy Duty. In 1953 the F-series was redesigned with a more integrated look and given there current names: F-100, F-250, and the heavy-duty F-350. The F-Series Ford trucks have went on to become one of the best selling trucks in America, produced and sold for more than 5 decades.


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More than 200 Minnesota cities, from tiny Lauderdale to wealthy Rochester, will have to devise ways to keep the rain where it falls as part of a controversial new mandate designed to protect urban streams and lakes from the dirt and pollutants that wash off streets and yards along with the stormwater.
The cities, for the first time, will be required to maintain or reduce the volume of runoff leaving their systems, under a stormwater management plan approved Tuesday by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency governing board. The plan also requires the cities to account for their share of pollutants such as phosphorus and sediment that foul many urban lakes and streams.
Although it's been in the works for years, the proposal triggered fierce objections Tuesday from local officials, who say they are doing all they can to to improve water quality and that the new rules will add unknown millions of dollars in costs and responsibilities to cities that are already financially strapped and unable to ask residents for more fees.
"This is a huge undertaking," said Nancy Burke, an attorney for the Minnesota League of Cities. Asking cities to control stormwater volume not just pollutants is "stepping way out into new territory for the state," she said.
But after listening to hours of testimony, the board approved the plan unanimously, along with a promise by Commissioner John Link Stine to provide the cities with all the assistance and support possible.
"This is one of the questions of our time," said board member Kathryn Draeger, a farmer and agronomist at the University of Minnesota. "How to balance declining resources with increasing pressure on our water resources."
The new stormwater permitting process essentially requires each city to adopt the best way to hold water on the land techniques that could range from rain gardens to holding ponds to pervious pavements to new sediment-collecting baffles in storm sewers. The idea is to mimic the natural hydrology of each place in the most effective way to control pollution, the agency said. It can reduce phosphorus, a nutrient that causes explosions of green algae in lakes, by 90 percent, compared with the 50 percent that is typical of current water treatment systems, according to PCA officials.
That's a sharp contrast to the way that most urban areas are designed today. Pavement, lawns, concrete driveways and rooftops are, for the most part, all designed to rush water off the surface and into sewers as fast as possible carrying dirt, chemicals, oils toxins, yard chemicals and nutrients that end up in lakes and streams, along with too much water that erodes banks.
Rapid runoff also robs groundwater and the aquifers that supply industry and most homes with drinking water, an increasingly urgent concern in Minnesota.
The mandate will apply to 234 cities and other government entities, such as watershed districts, colleges, the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Airports Commission.
The first such stormwater permits were enacted in 2003 under federal pollution laws. The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are the only two in the state that are large enough to be regulated under a different permitting system.
But more than half of the state's population lives in cities and municipalities that are affected by the new rules, the largest is Rochester.
"On the fundamental goals, to protect and improve water quality, there is complete agreement and always has been," said Randy Neprash, an engineer for the Minnesota Cities Stormwater Coalition, an affiliate of the League of Minnesota Cities. But the cities object to several aspects of the rules.
For instance, each one will have to figure out how to regulate construction companies and developers so that they comply with the no new stormwater rule.
That means that if a new shopping mall is built on prairie, for instance, then the new mall has to replicate how the prairie handled water.
And redevelopments, such as a new shopping mall built on an old one, will have to actually reduce the volume of water that comes off the site.
Together, the new requirements "are huge" steps toward improving water quality, said Trevor Russell, program manager for Friends of the Mississippi River.
They will also require cities to manage the water coming off constructions sites, a significant contributor to sediment in lakes and rivers. Duane Duncanson, permit manager for the PCA, said that uncontrolled construction sites can release 30 to 40 tons of sediment per acre per year into surface waters.
Neprash, however, said the state is intruding too far into each city's regulatory business, and requiring them to control water volume even when it doesn't necessarily make sense.
The cities also objected to the potential costs. Each city will estimate its costs when it submits the water management plan that will be required starting later this year. PCA officials said that the new rules are designed to be flexible and designed to match the demands and capabilities of each city.
Richard Freese, Rochester's director of public works, said estimates the new permit would cost each Rochester residents about $55 per year. And Rochester's stormwater utility hasn't had a rate increase in four years, he said.
Neprash said that cities aren't trying to get out of managing their stormwater.
"They are just trying to find cheaper ways to do it," he said.
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Japanese Beetles Make an Impression
Japanese beetles have been a pervasive pest in East Coast states for many years. Although populations wax and wane with weather conditions, they recently have made a phenomenal comeback. The population levels of Japanese beetles were at epidemic proportions on the East Coast in the 1940s to 1960s, before settling into generally low levels for many years. This pest activity fell into a persistent but almost "low incidence" pest status in many communities. In the South and Midwest, however, the Japanese beetle is still a relatively recent pest, where expanding populations are wreaking havoc in many landscapes.
Native to Japan, the Japanese beetle was first observed in the United States in New Jersey in 1916 by two visiting Canadian entomologists who described them as a "curious Southern species of beetle." Little did these two Canadian entomologist realize how wide-spreading the Japanese beetle would be over the next century. Japanese beetles are now well-established in most of the Northeastern and Midatlantic states. They are now invading and entrenching in the South and parts of the Midwest. Japanese beetle populations are entrenched and damaging plant material from Iowa to Illinois, Alabama, northern Georgia and South Carolina. The range of the beetles continues to expand with localized infestations in many other states, including Colorado.
Aggressive programs to eliminate this introduced pest in these isolated outcroppings have been effective, but expensive. Constant vigilous and early interdiction will be a continuing process to keep Japanese beetles from spreading to new areas in the United States.
The country has experienced several years of low-interest-rate mortgages that have spawned a building boom in many urban communities. New housing units with large areas of newly established turfgrass, combined with planting of ornamental plant species highly susceptible to adult beetle feeding, have helped fuel this upsurge. Japanese beetles also thrive in new housing developments with virgin soil (soil free of entomopathogens). On top of this, two years of above-normal rainfall during the summer months when adult females are laying eggs has produced the "perfect storm" conditions that promoted record Japanese beetle populations in 2003 and 2004.
This combination of events has caused vast beetle population explosions that are causing widespread damage to ornamental landscapes. In some areas, populations are also wreaking havoc in nurseries and golf courses. Control methods targeting both the adult and grub stages are estimated to cost more than $460 million a year.
Japanese beetles directly damage landscape plants as adults while the larvae (grubs) damage turfgrass. The life cycle of the Japanese beetle is one of the more completely documented turf and ornamental pests.
Adult beetles are metallic green with bronze wing covers. A row of white hair brushes can be found on the sides of the abdomen. Adult beetle activity commonly peaks during mid July through the first two weeks of August. Optimal adult beetle flight occurs at 21°C (72°F) and 60% Relative Humidity. Adults feed during the day, consuming both flowers and foliage of host plants (the damage is called skeletonization), favoring hot weather and plants growing in full sun. It has been noted that adults will feed on shorter plants initially, after emergence (e.g. weeds), moving to taller plants later in the season.
After mating, adult females live 30 to 45 days. They feed and lay eggs throughout the summer, ultimately laying 40 to 60 eggs in the soil. When females lay eggs, they are rather flattened, slightly wrinkled and oval. Eggs are laid only 1 to 3 inches in the soil, a relatively shallow depth. As soon as eggs are laid, they start to absorb moisture from the adjacent soil and increase in size quickly as long as moisture levels are adequate. One to four eggs are laid at a time, with additional egg laying occurring every few days for over a month in mid-summer.
The key for egg survival is adequate soil moisture. Increased egg survival leads to high percentage of successful hatch and results in white grubs development. If the soil is dry, the eggs that are laid shallow in the soil dry out and die before the egg can develop. Therefore, grub mortality increases under conditions of extended drought. Conversely, grub survival increases under conditions of rain/irrigation.
Grubs hatch in 10 to 12 days and feed upon fine turfgrass roots until the fall. By late October to November, when soil temperatures drop, grubs cease feeding and move downward 6 to 12 inches into the soil to overwinter.
Come spring, when soil temperatures warm up, grubs move up toward the soil surface and continue feeding on grass roots. Grubs mature from late May through June and molt to pupae in the soil. One generation occurs each year.
Ten months of the year, the Japanese beetle grub is hidden away beneath the turf areas of a landscape or nursery, silently cutting away the root system of the grass. Grubs prefer healthy turf in full sun that is well irrigated and fertilized. If grub populations are low or the turfgrass is growing vigorously, the damage to the turf may go undetected.
Japanese beetles feed on all cool-season grasses, but they seem to prefer perennial ryegrass and hard fescues. Kentucky bluegrass is nutritionally inferior as a food source, but if fed upon, does recover from Japanese beetle damage faster because of its spreading growth habit compared to perennial ryegrass.
Incidentally, perennial ryegrasses with endophytes do not seem to have a high enough level of toxin in their roots in order to prevent grub attack. Endophytes may, however, boost ryegrass recovery following grub attack.
Japanese beetle adults begin their annual activity by mid June (approximately), with peak activity in mid-July. Adults prefer ornamental plants in full sun and typically feed in groups. Certain plants in the landscape are magnets for Japanese adults. For example, if a little leaf linden, Japanese flowering plum, rose or crepe myrtle are in the landscape, expect Japanese beetle adults to be frequent visitors and to consume generous amounts of foliage.
The following list includes the top 10 favorite plant foods of Japanese beetles, according to APHIS: 1) American linden, 2) crabapple, 3) apple, 4) Japanese maple, 5) Norway maple, 6) rose, 7) crape myrtle, 8) pin oak, 9) birch, and 10) Prunus spp. (plum, apricot, cherry, peach). Secondary preferred host plants include Black walnut, willow, grape, horsechestnut, hibiscus, asparagus, blueberry, sassafras, Virginia creeper, and summersweet (Clethra). Notice that the list of secondary preferred plants includes some wild plants that might be found in nearby hedgerows.
The top 5 preferred herbaceous plants include 1) hollyhock (Alcea rosea), 2) dahlia (Dahlia spp.) 3) hibiscus (Hibiscus spp.), 4) common mallow (Malva rotundiflora) and 5) evening-primrose (Oenothera biennis). Adults also feed on annual flowers, including zinnia (Zinnia elegans), common four-o'clock (Mirabilis jalapa) and French marigold (Tagetes patula).
Many weeds, including grape, multiflora rose, sassafras, smart weed and Virginia creeper are also hosts to Japanese beetles; therefore, grassy or weedy areas surrounding desirable ornamentals may act as potential breeding grounds for this pest. Thus, maintaining good weed control helps to eliminate potential food sources.
The key to controlling adult Japanese beetles is to use a material that either repels the adult beetles from feeding or kills them quickly before they can inflict much damage to the foliage. Once Japanese beetle adults start damaging foliage, the wounded plant tissue releases volatiles that additional beetles will detect, attracting them to feed on the plant. If you use a slow-killing pesticide, adults can cause a fair amount of damage and increase the feeding aggregation of other adult beetles on the plant.
Registered products that give very good control include Sevin (carbaryl), Astro (permethrin), DeltaGard (deltamethrin), Talstar (bifenthrin) or Tempo (cyfluthrin). Wettable powder formulations may produce longer lasting protection. Merit (imidacloprid), applied early in the season as a soil drench, will provide season-long systemic control of adults on herbaceous plants and small woody trees. In field research projects in 2002 and 2003 at a Maryland nursery, we did not have great success controlling feeding adult Japanese beetles on littleleaf linden using imidacloprid soil drenches.
Some research has also shown good results using Merit (imidacloprid). However, this depends upon the type of application. Soil drenches, for example, should be applied about 30 days prior to Japanese beetle activity. Merit foliar sprays will provide rapid plant protection, as it seems to cause adult beetles to stop feeding. (We repeat: stop feeding. The beetles do feed a little — causing a minor bit of damage — before they stop feeding. This must be expected when using Merit, and not interpreted as an application failure.)
The ideal spray timing targets adults when they first appear and before damage occurs. Repeat applications are often desirable weekly on high-value plants, particularly if you have missed this ideal window of opportunity to spray. Because larvae develop in turf, treatment of turf areas is also recommended as a dual control.
Japanese beetle traps containing floral and sex attractant lures that attract adult beetles are used as a monitoring tool. Traps have been misused by the public, who mistakenly believe they control beetles, because beetles have been shown to often land and feed on plants close to traps.
Many littleleaf lindens (Tilia cordata) and American lindens (Tilia americana) were completely defoliated in Midatlantic landscapes in 2004. By late July, only brown skeleton-like veins remained from the leaf petioles of numerous street trees, including the linden cultivars 'Greenspire,' 'Olympic,' 'Redmond' and 'Prestige.' However, Silverleaf lindens (Tilia tomentosa) growing in the same landscape had little, if any, Japanese beetle feeding injury. The foliage of silverleaf linden (and cultivars) is just a little thicker with small hairs on the foliage that apparently makes it unattractive to adult beetles.
Another resistant tree to try is the Japanese tree lilac, Syringa recticulata. The tree lilac is well-adapted to urban soils and blooms in mid-summer. The late lilac, Syringa villosa, grown as a shrub or trained as a small tree is also a good choice. Both species of Syringa are very resistant to Japanese beetle feeding.
Using species that are seldom attacked by the insect can reduce damage to nursery plants. The top 10 least-preferred plants are: 1) magnolia, 2) redbud 3) dogwood 4) red maple, 5) Northern red oak, 6) burning bush, 7) holly, 8) boxwood, 9) hemlock and 10) ash (white and green). Other least-preferred landscape plants include false cypress, yew, juniper, forsythia, clematis, red maple, euonymus, tuliptree, ornamental pears and most oaks (white, scarlet, red and black).
Can you predict the next adult beetle wave? Adults emerge from the soil from mid to late June (typically) in the Midatlantic region; and into July further north. Using plant phenology, adult beetle emergence can be predicted by observing what plants are in bloom during this time. Adults emerge around the time that the following plants are in full bloom: hydrangea 'grandiflora'; Canada thistle; Queen Anne's lace; bottlebrush buckeye; elderberry, and Yucca, as well as the bloom of Kousa dogwood, trumpet honeysuckle, red hot poker, dusty zenobia, daylily and water lotus.
Stanton Gill is a regional specialist in nursery and greenhouse IPM at Central Maryland Research and Education Center, University of Maryland Cooperative Extension (College Park, Md.), and is a professor with the landscape technology program at Montgomery College (Montgomery County, Md.). Deborah Smith-Fiola, is president/senior consultant for Landscape IPM Enterprises (Keedysville, Md.). Suzanne Klick is a technician at Central Maryland Research and Education Center, University of Maryland Cooperative Extension (College Park, Md.).
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Ups! It seems that neither explode nor split REALY takes a STRING but only a single character as a string for splitting the string.
I found this problem in one of my codes when trying to split a string using ";\n" as breaking string. The result, only ";" was thaken... the rest of the string was ignored.
Same when I tried to substitute "\n" by any other thing. :(


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Geology is the area of science which involves the study of the physical history of the Earth, from its beginnings to the present day. What happens to the Earth is largely controlled by changes that occur over time deep inside it; these changes are recorded in the rocks which make up the Earth's crust, such as granite and slate and all natural, non-living solid material found in or at the Earth's surface, including for example mud and peat.
Geology is broken down into several clearly defined topics:
The majority of geological studies give results which are of practical use. For example geological information and techniques are used in exploring for, finding and extracting ores for metals and fossil fuels; engineering geology investigates and reports on conditions of sites and the ground for major construction projects, such as dams, roads, tunnels, and oil rigs; environmental geology and hydrogeology investigates underground water supplies.
Fieldwork plays a vital part in most courses and you should be prepared to spend time out of doors to undertake group expeditions lasting from a few days to one or two weeks.
You will also be expected to complete a longer, usually independent project during the first and/or second summer vacation and in the case of honours students this would last between six and ten weeks depending on the education establishment and department. The content of the project will usually include geological mapping of an area and production of a written report of the findings. Some courses offer field and/or laboratory work as suitable projects.
Laboratory work is also a component of the study of geology. This involves identification of different types of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, and the examination of thin rock sections under microscopes. Fossils are also studied and most departments offer comprehensive collections of both local and exotic examples.
You will also examine and interpret geological maps showing the surface outcrop of rock formations through or below the top layer of superficial deposits.
Increasingly computers are playing a greater part in the study of geology, for example in computer modelling in geophysics or in solving stratigraphical or palaeontological problems.
When assessing candidates for university places selectors look for evidence of the necessary motivation, potential and knowledge to benefit from and succeed on the course. This can be demonstrated through gaining qualifications, or learning in other ways such as in paid or voluntary work, as a member of an organisation or by participation in any other activity where skills and knowledge are developed. Although no previous knowledge of geology is needed most educational establishments offering degree courses require at least one GCSE / 'A' Level subject to be science based. If you have studied GCSE / 'A' Level geology you would have the advantage of being familiar with the various terminology; however if you have studied GCSE / 'A' Level geology you may feel that your knowledge of other sciences is weaker.
Each education establishment has lecturers who are recognised for their research expertise, often reflected in the courses on offer. Your final year option may therefore involve research in the lecturer's area of expertise.
The subject's multidisciplinary nature and the fact that in most cases no previous knowledge of geology is required to undertake courses makes it an attractive proposition and competition for places is therefore relatively strong.


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|In this Instagram photo provided by Andy Bartee, a plume of smoke rises from a fertilizer plant fire in West, Texas on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. An explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco Wednesday night injured dozens of people and sent flames shooting high into the night sky, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin and causing major damage to surrounding buildings. (AP Photo/Andy Bartee)
WEST, Texas (AP) — A school near the Texas fertilizer plant that was leveled by an explosion says it wasn't warned about a controlled fire at the plant in February and evacuated its students to another school as a precaution.
Superintendent Marty Crawford notified West Intermediate School parents and staff in a Feb. 12 letter that the evacuation earlier that day was orderly. The letter is posted on the district's website.
He says the West Fertilizer plant didn't inform school officials that it planned to burn unwanted pallets and brush, and that officials were alarmed by the fire.
Crawford says the principal called 911 and that the dispatcher didn't acknowledge any coordinated burn. He says the district asked to be notified by local emergency personnel and the plant before any future planned burns.


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SHAC – A Campaign That Made History (2013 – Italy)
I am happy to see that new generations of activists are discussing the successes and failures of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign with an eye towards applying those lesson to the ongoing struggle for animal liberation. This attractive booklet was originally released in Italy under the name "SHAC: ha fatto storia" and focuses on the legal repression, past and present, experienced by those working to close Huntingdon Life Sciences. The english translation is not perfect, but makes for a good overview of the FBI's "Operation Trailmix" in the US and INTERPOL's "Operation Achilles" in Europe.
The collective that made this booklet has a blog at shacmadehistory.noblogs.org. I would love to see them continue to dissect the international repression against SHAC and also support the victims of the same.
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