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Straw Bale Garden Education Day and Macy's Flower Show
- On April 07, 2014
- By Meleah
- In Annuals, Books, Indoor Gardening, Perennials, Uncategorized
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Spring is almost, kind of, possibly (but don't get your hopes up yet) in the air here in Minnesota. So let's buck up and talk about gardening!
First, if you're a local gardener and you've ever wanted to try straw bale gardening—or find out what you're doing wrong while straw bale gardening—head over to the State Fair grounds on Saturday, April 26, for Straw Bale Garden Education Day.
Joel Karsten, author of Straw Bale Gardens: The Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere, Earlier and with No Weeding, will be teaching seminars and selling and signing books at this free event that runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the north parking lot off Snelling Avenue. (Check out this blog post I wrote last year about Joel to find out more about him and straw bale gardening.)
If you've got room in your car, Otten Bros. Garden Center will be on site for Straw Bale Education day selling everything you need to start your own straw bale garden this season, including straw bales. Free coffee and cookies will be available as long as they last.
Want to win a free copy of Joel's book? Great! I've got two to give away this week. To win, just comment on this post with a few sentences about why you'd like to try straw bale gardening or, if you've already tried it, how things went for you. Winners will be randomly chosen since I can't think of a better way to do that sort of thing, and I'll be in touch to your addresses.
Macy's Flower Show
Every year, just when Minnesotans need it most, Macy's Flower Show opens and thousands of us stumble in, blinking in disbelief after having seen nothing but white for so long, eager for the chance to gaze at plants and smell fragrant blooms and dirt again. This year's show ended last Sunday, April 6, and if you missed it, make a note in your calendar right now so you're sure to see it next March.
Yes, the show does take place in the department store's 8th-floor auditorium. But if you're inclined to diss this event because it's in a store, I'm here to tell you that they start in January and transform that auditorium into something truly magical every year. This year's theme was The Secret Garden and, as always, Bachman's designed the show's many displays, which featured flowers, plants and trees from around the world—many of them hardy in Minnesota.Read More»
In Search Of Plants That Won't Harm Bees
- On March 18, 2014
- By Meleah
- In Annuals, Bugs, Container Gardening, Natives, Organic Gardening, Perennials
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In the midst of the worst winter—ever—it's hard to think about flowers, I know. But this time of year, I normally order a few plants for spring delivery from catalogs and I'm having to spend a lot more time on that than usual because I want to make sure that the flowers I'm ordering aren't going to kill the bees that visit my gardens. By now you've probably heard that many of the pollinator-friendly plants and flowers that we've been filling our gardens with over the last few years may actually be harming, and even killing, bees. The culprit, many scientists and researchers believe, are neonicotinoid pesticides. Widely used in lawn fertilizers and on crops and nursery plants, neonicotinoids (commonly called neonics) came on the market in the 1990s and are chemically related to nicotine.
Marketed as safer for humans than other pesticides, neonics are now thought to be at least in part responsible for declining bee populations all over the world. Let me explain why. Like all systemic pesticides, neonics are absorbed by plants after being applied to the leaves, seeds or even soil. When bees and other pollinators feed on the leaves, flowers and pollen of plants treated with neonics, they ingest a "dose" of the insecticide.
Though the makers of these pesticides contend that the amount ingested by insects, including bees, is not enough to kill them, entomologists who study bees believe otherwise. Neonicotinoids are neuroactive, meaning they block connections in the brain. Over the last several years, studies have shown that even after ingesting small amounts of neonics, bees can become confused to the point of being unable to identify food sources. Some even forget how to find their way back to the hive. Over time, without food from the hive's forages, colonies starve and collapse.
Vera Krischik, an entomologist at the University of Minnesota, has been studying the effects of insecticide on bees for several years. She has found that large doses of neonics can kill bees, sometimes moments after they feed on a treated plant. Where are they getting these large doses of neonicotinoid pesticides? Possibly, my garden, I hate to say; or maybe yours, or your neighbor's. That's because it is legal to treat ornamental plants with much higher levels of neonicotinoids than are acceptable for use on agricultural crops like corn and soybeans. And because pre-treatment of nursery plants is so common these days, it's very likely that most of us have brought home some of these plants in the last few years without realizing the harm they could be doing.
What Can Gardeners Do?
So what can we do now? Well, that's going to take a bit of work on our part. Concern over whether neonicotinoids are harming bees is not new, and Krischik is just one of many researchers across the country. and the world, who have spoken out about the problem. As a result, some European countries have restricted or banned some neonicotinoids.
But, as is usually the case, our U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has opted to take a wait-and-see approach and has decided to look at the insecticide as part of a standard registration review. That could take years—years that bees don't have. Though it is good news that the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and the Department of Natural Resources seem to have taken the issue more seriously since the start of the year.
For now, fellow gardeners, help must come from us, so we need to do all we can to keep neonics out of our gardens. That means growing some of our plants ourselves using seeds collected from plants we know to be untreated or purchased from retailers who don't sell pre-treated seeds such as Seed Savers Exchange, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and Renee's Garden Seeds.
Shopping for plants will be trickier and in some cases, more expensive. Home Depot and Lowes may offer lower prices on ornamental plants, but so far Home Depot has indicated that they plan to continue selling plants treated with neonics until they can work with suppliers to find an alternative insecticide. I don't know about Lowes, but I imagine that selling far fewer plants to gardeners who won't buy anything treated with neonics might speed talks up a bit.
Before buying plants from any seller, ask them whether they use neonics or buy plants treated with them. To help, I made some calls for this article to see how various growers and garden centers are dealing with this issue. Glacial Ridge Growers in Glenwood, Minnesota, sells native plants free of neonics. Bachman's, Gertens and Menards didn't return calls before my deadline, so you'll need to ask them yourselves. Mother Earth Gardens says they don't sell any flowering, edible or fruiting plants treated with neonics, though they do carry a few non-flowering trees that have been treated with the pesticides.
Scott Endres, co-owner of Minneapolis' Tangletown Gardens, told me that though he can't guarantee that every single plant they sell is neonic-free, almost every single plant is neonic-free because they grow the majority of them themselves and know exactly how they are produced. When they do buy something they want to carry but don't grow, he says they buy from reputable growers they trust, so consumers can feel confident buying plants from them. Scott also said that he thinks it's "awesome" that more and more gardeners are insisting on plants grown "with organic principles that support a sustainable product and the earth." He believes that people's awareness is already creating demand that is pushing companies to think more closely about their practices. I couldn't agree more.
Dreaming of Spring
- On January 28, 2014
- By Meleah
- In Annuals, Container Gardening, Indoor Gardening, Perennials, Seeds, Veggies
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Yes, it's me again, nattering on about the cold, cold, horribly cold winter we're having here in Minnesota—and a lot of other places too, I know. But, honestly, most of you in other states will be warm again far sooner than we will here in the tundra. So I feel entitled to go on about this a bit more and if you don't agree, please don't send me another email telling me that if I don't love it in Minnesota, I should move. Move where? In with you? Awesome!
Anyway, as I was saying, a local meteorologist wrote the other day that Minnesotans are experiencing the coldest winter in 33 years. I didn't live here then, but I believe him. Minnesotans are tough, but it's been far below zero with mind-boggling wind chills for a long time now. Kids are bored at home because schools have been closed repeatedly. Parents are using up precious vacation days staying home with bored kids. And bored dogs wish they could go outside, but they can't stand how cold their paws get, even with those awful booties that they hate.
We are a stir-crazy lot, motivated to do little more than lie on the couch and drink and order takeout while watching movie after movie. Or is that just me? BTW, I would highly recommend Seven Psychopaths and The Heat, but I thought Iron Man 3 was kind of meh even though I loved the first two.
What does this have to do with gardening? you wonder. Well, in an effort to stop spending so much time eating, drinking and watching movies, I recently tried focusing on spring to brighten my mood and, by golly, it worked! In addition to looking at a bunch of the garden-related photos I took last season, I also spent a few hours going through all of the seed and plant catalogs that have piled up on my living room coffee table. That was fun, especially because our sweet dog, Lily, helped by napping on me the whole time.
So if you're bored and freezing and in need of some good cheer, I've posted a few photos below in the hope that they help a bit. And if you haven't already started looking at your seed and plant catalogs, give it a go. I bet it will make you feel better to start thinking about what you'll plant in just a few weeks or months, depending on where your live. I especially love Renee's Garden, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (their catalog is a work of art—just ignore the religious quotes that pop up now and then), Seed Savers Exchange, Fedco Seeds, Prairie Moon Nursery and Territorial Seed Company.
That's it for now. Hang in there. Spring is really, seriously, surely on the way.
Plant Review: How Well Did Those New Plants Really Do?
- On January 08, 2014
- By Meleah
- In Perennials, Plant Spotlight
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Well, here we are in the middle of January and what is normally an unspeakably cold month is worse this week due to what meteorologists are calling a "distorted polar vortex," which has allowed Arctic air to spill all the way down to Florida. With air temperatures around -20°F plus wind chill making it feel like -50°F yesterday, I've had a few people email to ask whether our perennials here in Minnesota will survive.
I'll give the answer I often give for any garden-related question: It depends. It helps that we have snow cover to keep soil temperatures from fluctuating a lot. And perennials rated for our Zone 4 climate should be okay down to an air temperature of -30°F (wind chill doesn't matter). But if you put things in the ground late, as I did last year, they may not make it since they didn't have much time to establish a decent root system. And if you didn't water much, plants may be too drought stressed to survive.
It's also hard to say how newer introductions will do. With so many new plants being rushed to market each year, plant trials aren't as rigorous as they used to be. It's possible that some of the perennials we've tried lately won't be able to hack the extreme cold. And with that in mind, here is a short review of some of the new introductions I've tried in my gardens in the last few years. Of course, this is just my experience. Perhaps other gardeners are growing things that I've killed just fine. (If that's you, please email and tell me your secrets.) And one other thing to note—I test plants in my garden for Proven Winners so there are a lot of plants from them on this list.
Rosa Oso Happy Smoothie 'Zlesak Poly3' PPAF
I can't say enough great things about this rose. Bred by David Zlesak, a hort professor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Oso Happy Smoothie has been in one of my backyard gardens for a couple of seasons now. As promised, it is a little over 3 feet tall, it was covered with dainty pink blooms all summer, has great form, no thorns and recovered nicely from being chomped on by rabbits last winter.
Hibiscus 'Midnight Marvel'
My friend, Kathleen, bought this new hibiscus from Walters Gardens for each of us this summer and, so far, it has performed beautifully in both of our gardens—hers more than mine, though. 'Midnight Marvel' didn't yet reach its purported 48 inches tall, but it may next season, and the burgundy foliage topped with red blooms make the plant absolutely stunning.Read More»
Experimenting With Grafted Tomatoes
Grafted tomatoes, especially heirlooms, were really hot this year. Why graft heirlooms? Well, the reasoning is that by grafting the heirlooms we love—Brandywines, Green Zebras, Cherokee Purples, Mortgage Lifters—to a rootstock that's got, say, great drought tolerance or disease resistance, you get what amounts to a super heirloom.
The strategy isn't new. Apple and grape varieties have been produced successfully on desirable rootstock for ages. But this is the first time that home gardeners in the U.S. are really starting to see grafted vegetables, including eggplants, peppers, cucumbers and watermelon, becoming increasingly available at the retail level. Territorial Seed Company, Johnny's Selected Seeds and White Flower Farm are just a few of the places where you'll find grafted vegetables.
Though I admit that there can be problems with heirlooms tomatoes, I go out of my way to plant them. So I like the idea of making them more viable and widely available. Like a lot of gardeners, I feel strongly about the importance of including heirlooms of all types in the garden and, on the whole, I think heirloom tomatoes taste better than their hybrid peers, which often have tough skins and bland flavor. (Some of my favorite heirlooms are Black Krim, Green Zebra, Stupice and Sweet Million, though I always, always, always plant Sungolds, those out-of-this-world hybrid, yellow cherry tomatoes.)
Still, I'm always up for trying something new. So I was happy to get a surprise box of grafted tomato seedling samples (some heirlooms, some not) from Mighty 'Mato early in the season. Having a limited amount of sun to work with, I kept two for myself, an Indigo Rose and a Brandywine, and gave the others to master gardener friends to plant and report back on. During the season, I also talked with more MGs and garden writers who were experimenting with grafted tomatoes. The outcome? Impressions were mixed.
Take Indigo Rose, for example. I had been wanting to try Indigo Rose, which was introduced by Oregon State University in 2012. Their goal was to produce a tomato with high levels of antioxidants. I wanted to grow the tomato because I fell for the weird looking purple-black fruit. I planted both grafted and ungrafted Indigo Rose tomatoes so I could compare the two (and so I could justify planting way too many tomatoes, like I always do).
Sadly, though they both produced an absurd amount of fruit all summer long, I didn't like either of them, mainly because the tomatoes took FOREVER to ripen and when they finally did, they tasted bland and watery. Also of note was the fact that I honestly noticed no difference between the grafted plants and the ungrafted plants. Most of the gardeners I've talked to had similar experiences with Indigo Rose, though I will say that a few thought they were tastier than I did.
On the plus side, my friend, Deb, loved Mighty 'Mato's grafted Indigo Ruby, a cross between Indigo Rose and a cherry tomato. The plant grew well, was free of disease and produced very tasty tomatoes all season. I heard rave reviews from other gardeners, too, though I don't know how they compared to ungrafted Indigo Ruby.
As for grafted Brandywine tomatoes, by all accounts, including mine, the grafted plants didn't do as well as the heirlooms usually do on their own. I did hear lots of good things about grafted Legend tomatoes—great taste, good disease resistance and a LOT of tomatoes.
What does all of this mean? Well, at this point, I'm not ready to say that grafted tomatoes aren't worth the price, which is steep compared to regular tomatoes, hybrids and heirlooms. But I'm not ready to sing their praises either. I'll plant a couple more varieties next summer and report back on how things go. If you try grafted tomatoes, please let me know about your experiences. I'll pass that information on so we can all compare notes.


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'It's All Politics' Welcomes 'StateImpact's' Look At Governments Close To Home
It's no secret the news media have retrenched in their coverage of local and state governments as news staffs have shrunk, a result of commercial journalism's imploded business model. (The Internet giveth, the Internet taketh away.)
Washington still gets plenty of attention, as recent weeks proved. But statehouses are covered by just a fraction of the reporters who watched them a decade or more ago.
But there are efforts to make up for that loss in the coverage of issues, politicians and policies that typically touch citizens more immediately than Washington does.
One of those attempts is StateImpact, a collaboration between NPR and member stations in eight pilot states to provide broadcast and online coverage of the ways public policy affects people's lives.
The project plans to launch one new site in each state, focusing around a policy issue of local importance and providing a rich source for readers and listeners of how these governments work (or don't.)
Four policy areas will draw the initial focus: budgets, education, energy and the economy. The first states to get the StateImpact treatment are Florida, Indiana, Idaho, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Which brings us to Elise Hu who works for the project and will be writing occasional posts for It's All Politics blog connected to StateImpact's coverage. We look forward to reading her posts.
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Gemstones have held significance in the religions of the world for centuries. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the Bible refers to twelve stones set in the breastplate of the high priest, symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel. In Hinduism, nine gemstones correspond with seven planets and two lunar nodes in Vedic astrology, which is also known as Jyotisha, Jyotish or Hindu astrology.
In Islam, a practice of wearing gemstones developed from legends associated with Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad. Ali is said to have worn four rings on his hand with four different gemstones, the Arabic names of which are aqiq, yaqut, feruz and hadid theen.
Aqiq (sometimes spelled aqeeq) is believed to refer to the gemstone carnelian. This is generally regarded to be the most important gemstone in Islam. The Prophet was said to have worn a silver ring on his right hand with an Abyssinian stone (probably a type of agate, such as carnelian), with the stone facing toward the palm. Ali was said to have worn a carnelian to protect himself from enemies and misfortune.
The term yaqut is less clear. It is often translated as opal, and it is said that Ali wore yaqut for "beauty and dignity". But many scholars believe the term yaqut refers to ruby, and this view seems more widely accepted.
Feruz (or feroza), on the other hand, unambiguously refers to the gemstone turquoise. It is said that Ali wore turquoise "for obtaining divine help and victory". There is an Islamic tradition that if a person prays to Allah while wearing rings set with feruz and aqiq, Allah does not leave the prayers unanswered.
Hadid theen is believed to refer to the gemstone hematite. It is thought that Ali wore this gem for strength. Islamic lore cautions against wearing hematite constantly; instead it should be worn for protection when confronting a tyrant or an oppressor.
Finally, an additional stone of significance in Islam is known as dur-e-Najaf. This is generally thought to be a type of quartz or rock crystal from the Najaf al-Ashraf area of Iraq. A legend states that Allah made this stone easily available so that both the rich and the poor could wear it and benefit from it.
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I know there have been recent searches for the Erebus and Terror but I can't seem to find anything up to date on any findings. Do you suppose it utterly possible with the ongoing melting of the Arctic that the greatest mystery of Arctic exploration could be solved?
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Melting in the Arctic will not directly help finding the ships as they are likely sunk or stripped by locals for their metals. Arctic resource exploration may cause them to be found simply for the greater number of people poking around with instruments up there.
HMS Investigator, a ship lost searching for Franklin, was found by Parks Canada in 2010 by sonar. It was found 11 meters underwater and partially buried in silt. This suggests maybe Erebus and Terror will be found, except for one key difference: the captain and crew of Investigator survived. Parks Canada knew what had happened to her, and knew roughly where to search.
Parks Canada Expedition mounted a search for Erebus and Terror in August 2013. I haven't been able to find a report.
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New clan announced
The Screaming Banshee Command is a spanking new, quality squadron for X-Wing Alliance and X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter.
Instead of the strict realisim enforced by squadrons like The Emporers Hammer, and the Crimson Mercenarys.
The Commander is easy-going, only demanding that proper protocol, such as not swearing, no "hits below the belt", and no underhandedness. And no cheating.
Join the New Republics Screaming Banshee Command, and stop all threats to the New Republic!!
Your announcement has been noted. I would like to hear more about this new clan. My clan, The Doom Reavers, may be interested in your offer. We are a freelance fighter group, but we can adapt to a few fair rules. If we wish to break off our clan, we promise we will not harm you in the future.
oh man this is the funniest thing i have seen in a while, how can a group that was around since 1999 and died 4 times along the way be "brand-spanking new" ?
Mr. Doom Reaver, Please move your prepiness somewhere else, because ur pissin me off real fast...
As for that new squadron, I wish you godspeed and good luck!!! but... do not offened the Emperor's Hammer, for I am part of the TIE Corps...
We'll see who wins this war once and for all...
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Well, I'll be honest. I hate the Rebellion. The clan, Force Pikes, have beeb bugging me for months. They are one of the leading Rebel Squadron teams, and they refuse to give in to Emperial power. If you ask me, and you haven't yet, I would jion the Tie Corps, if they're Emperial.
Yeah the TIE Corps are Imperial.
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Disney to Reboot "The Rocketeer" With Black Female Lead
Retailing | Although the 16th volume of The Walking Dead wasn't released until June 19, 11 days' worth of sales was enough to propel the latest collection of the horror series by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard to the top of BookScan's chart of graphic novels sold in bookstores June. Four volumes of the popular series, including the first one, appear in the Top 20. [ICv2.com]
Publishing | Hermes Press, which has been publishing the vintage Buck Rogers collections, has announced a new Buck Rogers project: An original comic series written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, one that Publisher Dan Herman promises will be strongly reminiscent of the original. [ICv2]
Publishing| The animation studio Klasky Csupo, which gave us The Wild Thornberrys and Rugrats, is branching out in a number of different directions, including print and digital comics. Its first comic is Ollie Mongo, which stars a blue zombie skateboarder. [USA Today]
Passings | Dr. Scott Henson, who retired from a career as a neurosurgeon and became a cartoonist, has died at the age of 52. Henson, who treated Superman actor Christopher Reeve after his fall, took up the pen after his health problems forced him to leave the medical field and created the panel cartoon Natural Selection under the pen name Russ Wallace. The cartoon was picked up by Creators Syndicate and syndicated nationwide. [The Charleston Gazette]
Publishing | Deb Aoki provides a thorough analysis of Tokyopop's Anime Expo panel, in which the once-shuttered manga publisher announced a new title and hinted at more. [About.com]
Creators | Paul Levitz discusses Worlds' Finest, his buddy comic featuring Power Girl and Huntress: "There's always been a certain level of humor and cool confidence in a light way associated with Power Girl that's been fun, and the Huntress has always been the more determined of the women in the DC Universe — a woman with a sense of mission and a crossbow ready to take your eye out. [USA Today]
Conventions | Three-day tickets went on sale this week for New York Comic Con. Confirmed guests so far include Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Mike Mignola and Josh Gates. [Collider.com]
Publishing | The revelation that DC's newly reintroduced Green Lantern Alan Scott is gay has moved Christian comic publisher Art Ayris, who is also the executive pastor of a Baptist church, to announce that his company Kingstone Media won't be including gay characters in its lineup: "If Kingstone is the only comic book company in America doing it, we will stand for the things God says are godly and stand against things that clearly fall under the category of sin." [Baptist Press]
Retailing | The Avengers movie seems to be bringing new customers into comics stores looking for Marvel titles, at least in Maryland. Pullbox requests for Marvel comics are also up, suggesting some of the uptick is from existing customers. [The Star Democrat]
Crime | Michael Lewis, owner of Rocket Comics in Pensacola, Florida, is being held on a $11,000 bond after his store was raided by police for allegedly selling "Spice," a synthetic form of cannabis. [WEAR ABC]
Publishing | The Economist's Babbage blog takes a look at R. Stevens' successful Kickstarter for his webcomic Diesel Sweeties, which raised $60,000, far overshooting his initial goal of $3,000. [The Economist]
Creators | Gary Groth previews his interview with renowned children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who passed away last week at age 83. The interview, conducted in October, is scheduled to appear in the next issue of The Comics Journal. [TCJ.com]
Creators | Veteran artist Jules Feiffer is publishing his first graphic novel (not counting a graphic novel-ish work in the 1970s), and he says his fans won't recognize it, as it's in a much more realistic style than his other work. Feiffer got his start in Will Eisner's studio but felt he couldn't draw like the other artists there, but he seems to have developed the ability recently: "Now I seem to be able to work in the adventure story drawing style. All of this comes out of my early love of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler." [Publishers Weekly Comics World]
Creators | Pitting teenagers against one another for a television reality/talent show, America's Got Powers may sound a bit like The Hunger Games, but artist Bryan Hitch says there's more to it than that: "The talent show/gladiatorial stuff isn't the story, though — it's the setting against which the story takes place and at heart this is the story of two brothers and how they changed the world, or at least the world from their point of view. It's personal, emotional and, given my own visual tendencies, massive, explosive and destructive!" [USA Today]
Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading? Our special guest this week is Alex Dueben, who you probably know from his interviews for the main site, Comic Book Resources, as well as for sites like Suicide Girls.
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It's time once again for our monthly trip through Previews looking for cool, new comics. As usual, we're focusing on graphic novels, collected volumes and first issues so that I don't have to come up with a new way to say, " Wonder Woman is still awesome!" every month. And I'll continue letting Tom and Carla do the heavy lifting in regards to DC and Marvel's solicitations.
Also, please feel free to play along in the comments. Tell me what I missed that you're looking forward to or – if you're a comics creator – mention your own stuff.
Judge Bao and the Jade Phoenix - A detective story set in ancient China. Plus: cool name.
Dicks #1 – Garth Ennis and John McCrea's humor makes my top hat explode and my monocle fly off my face, but I remember this being pretty popular back in the day and I imagine that it's new presentation in color and leading into a new storyline could make it popular again.
Ralph Wiggum Comics #1 – This, on the other hand, is exactly my kind of funny. Kind of like 30 Days of Night, I'm astonished no one's thought of it before. Too bad it's just a one-shot, but hearing that Sergio Aragones is one of the contributors makes me want to poke myself with my Viking helmet to see if I'm dreaming.
Comics | While going through a box in his attic, a Grange Park, Illinois, man discovered a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, that he had bought as a kid. While other copies of the comic have fetched as much as $1.2 million, Chimera's Comics is selling it for $12,000 due to its condition. [LaGrange Patch]
Comics | Brian Truitt profiles Marvel's Fantastic Four, talking to Mark Waid, Tom Brevoort and Tom DeFalco about the long-running comic. [USA Today]
Publishing | Janna Morishima, formerly of Scholastic and Diamond Comic Distributors, has joined Papercutz as its first marketing director. [Papercutz]
Publishing | Sales of comic books and graphic novels in July fell 6.17 percent versus July 2010, with dollar sales of comic books sold through Diamond Comic Distributors falling 4.27 percent and graphic novels falling 10.10 percent year-over-year. Unit sales for comics were only down slightly, at .52 percent, which ICv2 points out "indicates that comic book cover prices have in fact declined. The problem is that circulation numbers have not risen enough to make up for the decline in revenue from lower cover prices." Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man #666, which kicked off the "Spider-Island" event, was the best-selling comic of the month, while League of Extraordinary Gentlemen III Century #2 from Top Shelf topped the graphic novel chart. John Jackson Miller has commentary.
Marvel saw a slight increase in its dollar market share for July when compared to June, while DC's jumped from 28.03 percent in June to 30.55 percent in July. IDW, the No. 5 publisher in terms of dollar share in June, moved to the No. 3 position in July. The top seven publishers were rounded out by Image, Dark Horse, Dynamite and BOOM! [ICv2]
Heidi has a nice bit of news at The Beat: Zip Comics is going to be publishing Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, and Top Shelf will distribute it. I don't think that first bit is exactly news, because Zip posted it on their blog when Pekar died, last July:
ZIP is proud to be publishing Harvey Pekar's CLEVELAND which he finished writing and which is currently being illustrated by Joseph Remnant. We will keep you updated, and right now we're looking at a summer/fall 2011 release for that.
According to the press release (quoted in full at The Beat), the book will mix Pekar's own story with the history of Cleveland:
Harvey Pekar's CLEVELAND covers familiar American Splendor-ous territory while weaving in chunks of Cleveland history, including the Indians winning the 1948 World Series, the notorious 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River as well as profiles of Cleveland "characters" like Charles Ruthenberg, leader of the city's Communist party whose ashes were buried in the Kremlin wall. And of course cameos by Pekarverse regulars like Toby the Genuine Nerd, Mr. Boats and Harvey's wife Joyce.
Sounds like my kind of book.
Over at ComicsAlliance, Laura Hudson has a real treat for those of you who like your superhero comics with an alternative twist: 50-plus pages of sketches, thumbnails, pencils, inks, color studies and more from the Strange Tales II hardcover, which debuted this week. Click on over and get a glimpse at the creative process behind contributions from Kate Beaton, Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Farel Dalrymple, Rafael Grampa, Dean Haspiel, Jaime Hernandez, Paul Hornschemeier, Benjamin Marra, Edu Medeiros, Harvey Pekar, Frank Santoro, and Paul Vella. That's hella Strange!
Passings | Prolific colorist Adrienne Roy, who was a fixture of DC Comics for more than two decades, passed away on Dec. 14 following a year-long battle with cancer. She was 57. Although Roy's work appeared in countless DC titles, from Green Lantern and Superman to Warlord and Wonder Woman, she's best known for her extensive runs on Batman, Detective Comics and The New Teen Titans. Mark Evanier notes that "Her long tenure on Batman (more than 600 issues of various comics featuring the character) meant that her credit appeared on more tales of the Caped Crusader than anyone else except for Bob Kane." CBGExtra posts an obituary written by her husband Anthony Tollin. [News from ME]
Publishing | Rich Johnston reports on rumored contract changes at DC Comics that would affect all new creator-owned titles in the DC Universe and Vertigo imprints. [Bleeding Cool]
Publishing | Storm Lion, the Singapore-based multimedia studio behind the 2008 Radical Publishing miniseries Freedom Formula, has closed on the heels the summer layoff of 30 employees in Singapore and Los Angeles. The closing leaves a planned movie adaptation, to be produced by Bryan Singer, "in limbo." [The Straits Times]
Welcome once again to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy based on certain spending limits — $15, $30 to spend and if we had extra money to spend on what we call the "Splurge" item. Check out Diamond's release list for this week if you'd like to play along in our comments section.
Michael May
If I had $15:
There are a lot of great periodicals coming out this week, so I'd have some hard choices to make. With only $15, I'd concentrate first on those with the cheapest prices: the first issue of Dark Horse's new Mighty Samson ($3.50), Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science #2 ($3.50), and Mouse Guard: Black Axe #1 ($3.50). I'm already a huge fan of both Atomic Robo and Mouse Guard and – based on its concept and vague memories of stories I read as a kid – hope to become one of Mighty Samson too. I'd spend the last of my money on Northern Guard #1, because I'm a sucker for Canadian superheroes.
If I had $30:
I'd add Doc Macabre #1 ($3.99), John Byrne's Next Men #1 ($3.99), and Strange Tales 2 #3 ($4.99). "Doc Macabre" is an awesome name and I love Steve Niles' pulp stuff, I've been waiting 16 years for that Next Men issue, and the Strange Tales book has a Kate Beaton story in which the Avengers go to a carnival. I'd pay five bucks just for Beaton's deal, but it's also got a Thing tale by Harvey Pekar (and yes, Harvey Pekar is in the story).
Legendary comics writer Harvey Pekar died on July 12 as a result of an accidental overdose of antidepressants, a coroner has determined.
Pekar, 70, was found dead by his wife Joyce Brabner in their Cleveland Heights, Ohio, home. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller ruled his death by natural causes. "He did not take his own life," said a spokesman for the coroner's office. "His death came as a result of accidental ingestion of fluoxetine and bupropion."
Fluoxetine, often marketed as Prozac, is used to treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic attacks. Bupropion, also known as Wellbutrin or Zyban, is prescribed for depression and smoking cessation; it poses a risk of seizure when taken incorrectly.
Pekar, best known for his American Splendor series of autobiographical comics that inspired the acclaimed 2003 film of the same name, had been suffering from prostate cancer, asthma, high blood pressure and depression. He was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 1990, which inspired him to collaborate with Brabner and Frank Stack on Our Cancer Year.
There are more comics being produced now than ever before — from new releases to reprints and re-issues to comics coming in from outside the United States. And while the number of comics arriving weekly to your favorite store grows every year, the shelf space doesn't. As comic books fight for your attention, some of the more entrepreneurial-minded creators are engaging their public directly. They do it with forums, newsletters, Facebook, Twitter and interviews with the comics press — but when does that leave time to … you know… create comics?
That's where publicity person and uber-fan Jeff Newelt comes in. Newelt, who often goes by the moniker of "Jah Furry," worked for years as a publicity director for major companies such as Samsung, but left it all to go solo and to take his love of comics — and the craft of making comics — to the people.
As the minister of hype for webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE and working with friends such as Paul Pope, Newelt has brought attention to their work by reaching out to journalists and by communicating directly with fans through Twitter and Facebook.
He's also parlayed his skills into editing, as the comics editor for the online magazine SMITH and in gigs for Heeb and Royal Flush. He also headed up the recent grassroots Harvey Heads gallery, with artists from all over the world drawing a rendition of Harvey Pekar. Newelt also edited The Pekar Project, and is speaking at the "Remembering Harvey Pekar" panel next weekend at New York Comic Con.
Through it all, Newelt has become an indispensable part of the comics world, as well as a staple of the New York City comics scene. In many ways he's a 21st-century Stan Lee — goodwill ambassador for comics to the outside world. He offers a unique perspective on the creators he works with, and the vibrant scene he lives in. Don't expect any hard-hitting journalism — this is just me seeing what makes the man tick.


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Final stop: Dining together for the last time, we compared notes over a hearty Mexican lunch before our final stop of the tour: Joe's Jeans. Marketing Manager Alejandra Dibos treated our group to an extensive look at the company where we were greeted by a FIDM Alum in virtually every department (including Alejandra!) We rotated through design, product development, sampling, pre-production, tech design, patterning, production, trim, fabric, PR, and marketing.
Along the way Product/Wash Developer and FIDM Grad Gary You highlighted the essentials for bringing design's vision to reality including timing, availability, and price, as well as the key aspects that make denim development unique such as processing and fit. In the end, we found ourselves in Joe's in-house photo studio, which generates images for various uses and departments throughout the company. Alejandra used the setting to explain the importance developing different skill sets through internships and other experience, citing her own her own streamlined team's cross-functional abilities as the key to being super efficient and productive. With that inspiring advice, and a gift of a chic Joe's camo-canvas shopping bag, we concluded the tour.
Many thanks to Eva Gilbert and Estelle Hahn and the rest of FIDM's Merchandise Product Department for putting this tour together as well as all of the companies who took the time to host us. At each stop, we were greeted by professionals who were so generous in sharing their time and knowledge. We parted ways inspired by this once-in-a-lifetime experience that we're likely to carry with us throughout our own careers.
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The A&K MAX PTW is a step up to producing quality airsoft guns to match the real gun counterpart. Externally, the A&K PTW features standard equipment that you would find on most m4 variant airsoft guns such as the metal outer barrel, metal body, polymer hand guard, polymer pistol grip, and polymer crane stock. On the crane stock there is a felt padding to add comfort to the user. The beauty of the A&K PTW comes from the internals. Inside the A&K PTW, the mechanical components are similar to the Systema PTW for only a fraction of the cost of the Systema PTW! Similar to the real gun counterpart, once the magazine is empty, the gun stops firing until fresh ammunition is put in. Overall, this is an excellent and affordable way to train for your real gun counterpart or for those who prefer the more realism output of airsoft.
Manufacturer: A&K
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Muzzle Velocity: 450-460 FPS
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A&K M4-A1 PTW AEG..I can say the workmanship is really good one.Feeling in hand very good.Shooting very good as well.Now for most one buying clones must know that they have to tun it if they want performance.The thing is comp with FCC as well,First motor,Hopup and barell need to be changed for sure and you will mark the diff. I got it from Austria best shop.And i like it at all.So as i was 2 years in Army in Bulgaria,i have as well AK-74 AEG which is good as well,In Israel i had the same M4-A1 and comparing outlook i can say i am very pleased.I had real Anti-Terror training and pitty in that time was no such PTW,,but now i am getting it at full range :-) .So Guys,,Recommend it for all,,Tun it and youll see...
First the price.
Second the nice work done from A&K
Third is the full comp with Systema and FCC
Next is the affordablle price of parts to tune
Good performance even out the Box
Thanks the fast changing system youre abble to play many diff game fields
Probably will not hold as long as real Systema PTW But anyway is good for the money.
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It performed extremely well out of the box. Mine came with the M130 Cylinder and shot a consistent 440fps with .2s. I used it for two weekend skirmishes. Unfortunately towards the end of the second day it started chopping bbs. It turned out that the Cylinder had internally self destructed. I purchased a replacement M110 but the bbs chopping must have damaged the Hop up, because it is very inconsistent now. It's accuracy is on par with any m4 aeg.
14ccw barrel
High quality construction
Full Systema compatibility
Always makes one complete revolution.
Cylinder and hop up do not seem up to par with higher priced PTW's.
Soft foam pieces on Crane stock tear easily
Large tamiya plug and too much wire in the buffer tube.
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Has anyone done something like this with their WP?
I'm looking to put a link on my menu that is titled Admin, linked to wp-admin, that only shows up when the Admin is the one logged in.
Has anyone done something like this with their WP?
I'm looking to put a link on my menu that is titled Admin, linked to wp-admin, that only shows up when the Admin is the one logged in.
Put this is your my-hacks.php:
function is_admin () {
global $user_level, $siteurl;
if ($user_level >= 9) { // admins, plus site op
return true;
} else {
return false;
Then where you want the link, do something like:
is_admin() ? print "admin link stuff" : "";
if (is_admin()) { print "admin link stuff";}
...whichever you're more comfortable working with.
Ok, I've got some problems using chuckg's solution.
I put this function into my-hacks.php, activated it in wordpress's backend and put file into blog root directory.
function is_admin () {
global $user_level;
if ($user_level == 10) { return true; }
else { return false; }
I try to summon it in sidebar.php:
<?php if (is_admin()) { echo '

'; wp_loginout(); echo '

Admin Panel

Add post

Stats

'; } ?>
And at the top of my blog whole function appears, shifting rest of content.
Can you probably help me with other, easier solution? Sth similar to smarty-like
<ADMIN_BLOCK></ADMIN_BLOCK>. Or help to debug that function / way of using it.
There is not an easier solution. You will have to place it in a spot and style it so that it does not cause the shift if it matters to you (it wouldn't to me since I am the only one that would see the shift). I use something similar in all my sites (like adding a themeswitcher to test changes before going "live").
But I dont' understand why content of function
is_admin apears on the site. Why it is visible, instead of be parsed by PHP and used in conditional statement in sidebar.
Can you copy&paste me your function hiding content from non-admin and non-user, and way of using it?
kayaker, you must wrap your function is_admin () { ... declaration inside of <?php ... ?> or it will just be interpreted as HTML.
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Patterns of Ephemeroptera taxa loss in Appalachian headwater streams (Kentucky, USA)
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Mayflies (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) are common inhabitants of streams throughout the Appalachian Mountains. Headwater mayfly assemblages were evaluated with respect to regional landuse disturbances (coal mining and residential) in eastern Kentucky, USA. Estimates of mayfly taxa richness and relative abundance were compared at 92 sites represented by least-disturbed reference (REF; n = 44), residential only (RESID; n = 14), mixed residential and mining (MINED/RESID; n = 14), and mining only (MINED; n = 20) landuse categories. A total of 48 species from 27 genera and 9 families were identified; Ephemerella, Epeorus, Ameletus, Cinygmula, and Paraleptophlebia comprised the core 5 genera most frequently encountered at REF sites. These same genera (among others) were often reduced or extirpated from other landuse categories. Mean mayfly richness and relative abundance were significantly higher at REF sites compared to all other categories; MINED sites had significantly lower metric values compared to RESID and MINED/RESID sites. Relative mayfly abundance was most strongly correlated to specific conductance (r = 0.72) compared to total habitat score (r = 0.59), but relationships varied depending on landuse category. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (for mayfly taxa) and principal components analysis (for environmental variables) separated REF sites strongly from most other sites. The results indicate that expected mayfly communities are disappearing from streams where mining disturbance and residential development has occurred and because of the long-term impacts incurred by both landuses, recovery is uncertain.
KeywordsEphemeroptera Bioassessment Appalachian Headwater streams Coal mining Urbanization Conductivity
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Venezuela to Devalue Bolivar by Stealth: Analyst Survey
Venezuela will look to weaken the bolivar this year without making an official devaluation of the currency, as it tries to boost revenue and narrow the budget deficit, according to a survey of analysts.
South America's biggest crude producer will step back from formally devaluing the bolivar for the sixth time in nine years, said eight out of 11 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
The government could instead restart an internal swap market for dollar-denominated bonds after October, said Efrain Velazquez, partner in economic consultancy Azpurua Garcia-Palacios & Velazquez. In that market, companies would be allowed to trade bonds for dollars at a weaker rate to finance imports, he said. Caracas-based Ecoanalitica calculates an alternative market could trade at about 15 bolivars per dollar, more than double the official rate of 6.3 per dollar.
"Such a market would be an implicit devaluation, as it would improve the fiscal accounts of the government and state oil company," said Jose Luis Saboin, an economist at Ecoanalitica.
Late President Hugo Chavez shut down the swap market in 2010, after claiming that allowing bolivar to trade below the official rate was "robbery, fraud and money laundering". Eleven brokers were arrested and imprisoned without trial. The last of them regained freedom in December.
Import Prices
A devaluation will drive up the price of imports, further fueling the world's highest inflation ahead of December local elections. Prices climbed 35.2 percent in May from a year earlier.
An official at the Finance Ministry, who can't be named because of government policy, had no comment on the possibility of a devaluation.
Venezuela will probably devalue in order to boost revenue from oil exports after Chavez went on a spending spree before the 2012 election, according to Juan Pablo Fuentes, an economist at Moody's Analytics Inc. in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The country needs to boost revenue to narrow the public sector deficit that reached 16.6 percent of gross domestic product last year, according to Barclays Plc.
Venezuela last devalued the bolivar 32 percent in February.
'Remains Overvalued'
"The devaluation at the beginning of the year was not sufficient because the currency remains overvalued," Fuentes said. "The exchange rate is so far from reality and inflation is so high that it's only a matter of time before they devalue again."
Venezuela will introduce an alternative currency system for cash and bond trading in July, finance minister Nelson Merentes told reporters in Caracas today.
The system, known as Sicad, will be open to individuals, companies and government agencies, including development fund Fonden, Merentes said. State-owned Petroleos de Venezuela will initially be excluded from the system because of legal restrictions, he said.
Venezuelans who can't get dollars through the official currency system, known as Cadivi, pay about five times as much on the black market. The dollar cost 31.5 bolivars today in the Colombian border town of Cucuta, according to website DolarToday.


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Two police officers were injured, one seriously after suspected al Shabaab militia crossed over and struck Fino police station in Mandera on Friday night.
Lafey Police boss Bosita Omukolongolo said the attackers are believed to have targeted guns at the station.
"We were late last night attacked at Fino police station by people we suspect to be al-shabaab and we believe they targeted our weapons," said Omukolongolo.
He said it was a surprise attack and that two officers were caught unawares were left with gun wounds.
"These attackers surrounded our Fino station and started firing but our officers managed to repulse them and two have been injured in the process of fighting back," said Omukolongolo.
"One of the officers has a bullet lodged in his abdomen while the other has his flesh at the top left hand badly torn by a bullet," said Omukolongolo.
He said the attackers are believed to have arrived in a tipper lorry from the Mandera side only for the lights to go off us they neared the station.
Speaking at Mandera Referral Hospital where the two officers are admitted, Bernard Kosgey one of the two officers nursing gun wounds said the station was surrounded before the militants fired at them.
"We were on duty and saw a tipper lorry coming from the Mandera side before the lights went off," said Kosgey.
He said the militia first begun by shooting at the Fino Administration Police Camp to keep them indoors before descending on the police station. "They were more than a hundred people attacking us because bullets were coming from all the directions forcing us not to respond by firing only to hide," said Kosgey.
He said the station was badly damaged as the militia launched explosives into the station burning the police tents.
Omukolonolo said the police are carrying out an operation in the area to arrest the attackers believed to hiding within the town.
"We are now on operation and with help of the locals we believe we shall arrest the attackers."
He said plans are underway to have the two officers, Jackson Maiyo shot in stomach and Bernard Kosgey, airlifted to Nairobi for better treatment.
There has been intelligence reports indicating that either of the police stations along the Kenya-Somali border within Mandera County is to be attacked with newly established Omar Jillo KDF camp being the main target.


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Yeah, the company will repurchase shares.. but not at this price. They will repurchase shares at 30-40% discounts to book.
There is les than zero chance of NLY getting to a 30-40% discount. And if you think I am wrong, you know nothing about who these guys are and what their business is. If there was even the most remote chance of getting to that kind of discount, these guys would take NLY private.
if they wait to buy shares at 30-40% discount to book that means they won't be buying many, if any at all.


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Imagine "Harold and Maude" directed by Eric Rohmer with shades of film noir and doused in philosophical chatter enhanced by ample white wine. But Domain isn't pure formula, because the subversion of expectations is its centerpiece.
The ultimate drama of Domain becomes how long he can be a witness to her self-destruction.
It's hard to say whether Patric Chiha's unabashedly out-there drama Domain is actually good or whether it simply nuzzles very cozily against the shoulder of so-bad-it's-good. After seeing the movie twice, I'm inclined to say Domain splits the difference.
Dalle, with a mouth that could devour the world, unravels inexorably but with decadent dignity, and Chiha's singular film never relies on cliché in its examination of illness, disappointment, and abandonment.
When the action eventually switches to an Austrian rehab retreat, Dalle gets to make like the best of the Old Hollywood divas and waste away with devastating reserve - an icon quietly, crushingly crashing to earth.
Writer-director Patric Chiha directs the proceedings with incredible restraint, which works both for and against him. Yes, it allows the actors to shine with some subtle, quiet moments, and prevents things from going over the top, but somehow Aunt Nadine and restraint don't belong in the same sentence.
Writer/director Patric Chiha brings a knowledgeable weariness to his feature debut, as his story heads toward an end that feels familiar in all the right ways.
You really can't hang a drama on a mathematical theory and expect it to serve as a shortcut for storytelling.
The French affection (affectation?) for conversational film reaches absurd proportions in the talkathon Domain.
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Hi, I have just started using the Hatch theme (or a child of). I am getting to grips with categories to display images in a grid layout, which is working nicely. However I want to add the Category title and the description to the page.
I have figured out that it's the archive.php file that this page uses, and have added the following code:
<?php single_cat_title( '', true ); ?>
<?php echo category_description( $category_id ); ?>
Bingo, the title and the descriptive text are now showing! If this code is incorrect - please advise!
The title however is not showing in H3 text that is light grey - as per all the other titles on my other pages. I have tried adding an <H3> tag and it then appears as the correct size, but not in the grey.
Do I need to include some css somewhere, or include an include file?
I have a fairly rusty understanding of coding, but usually can muddle through, but I'm lost with this one - please help!!
My site is currently running locally on my Mac, so I guess I can't share the link. I want the title to look like it does here:
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Here's a logo I did for Audiotheque, an electronic music production company, while at my internship at Cowboys & Indians in Antwerp.
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Java :
- Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform.
- James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991. The small team of sun engineers called Green Team.
- Originally designed for small, embedded systems in electronic appliances like television, set-top boxes.
- Firstly, it was called "Greentalk" by James Gosling and file extension was .gt.
- After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green project.
- Sun Microsystems released the first public implementation as Java 1.0 in 1995.
- In January 1999, Anders Hejlsberg formed a team to build a new language at the time called Cool, which stood for "C-like Object Oriented Language".
- .NET project was publicly announced at the July 2000 Professional Developers Conference, the language had been renamed C#.
- The language is intended for use in developing software components suitable for deployment in distributed environments.
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CINCINNATI -- The 1919 World Series is known historically for the Black Sox Scandal, the exile of eight Chicago White Sox players from baseball for conspiring with gamblers to fix the series they were heavily favored to win.
In Cincinnati, it's also known for the Reds' first world championship. And an eclectic new display of 1919 Series artifacts offers the first extensive Reds'-eye view of the scandal.
The exhibit shows that the Reds were a very good team -- best record in baseball that year -- and could have beaten the Sox, whether they were trying to lose or not. (Hey, this is Cincinnati's history, not Chicago's.)
"We wanted to have a sense of pride in that 1919 team, tell sort of the lost side of the story. It's always been told from the point of view of the White Sox," explained Greg Rhodes, executive director of the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum.
The exhibit, which includes the ball hit by the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson for the final out and silent-film footage of the series, has been a hit since opening in May. Impressed by the interest shown, Rhodes is looking ahead to developing a tour of Cincinnati sites connected to the scandal that spawned myriad books and Hollywood movies such as "Eight Men Out" and "Field of Dreams."
The Reds, who opened their museum in September 2004, are one of only a handful of major league teams with facilities dedicated to their history and best players. But several teams, including St. Louis, Atlanta and Baltimore, have recently expanded museums or have plans to, and the Kansas City Royals plan to build a museum at their stadium.
The Cleveland Indians resumed team Hall of Fame inductions this summer after a 34-year hiatus, and plan to add a Hall of Fame exhibit next year just beyond the center-field wall at Jacobs Field.
Paula Homan, curator of the St. Louis Cardinals' museum, said baseball fans often feel very personal connections to their teams, and want to share that with children and grandchildren.
"There's the ability to relive memories, for grandfathers to stand in front of the Stan Musial display and hand down stories of their memories of Stan Musial," she said. "There are fans who want to come into the museum and pore over every single case."
All of that is fine with the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., which has loaned out exhibits and artifacts to support individual teams' efforts to showcase baseball history in other parts of the country.
"Cooperstown isn't accessible to everybody," said Hall of Fame spokesman Jeff Idleson.
Cooperstown gets 300,000 to 350,000 visitors a year; the team sites each draw about 20 percent to 25 percent of that.
Cincinnati seems a natural spot for a baseball museum. It was here that the first professional baseball team was born with the 1869 Red Stockings. The team's history is loaded with other milestones such as the first night game (1935), the only pitcher (Johnny Vander Meer in 1938) to pitch back-to-back no-hitters, the youngest player in modern history (15-year-old Joe Nuxhall in 1944), and the breaking of baseball's all-time hit record by Cincinnati native Pete Rose (1985).
Opening Day each year is virtually a local holiday, with a downtown parade featuring politicians and celebrities preceding the game.
Rhodes said there had been talk of a Reds Hall of Fame Museum for decades. One longtime fan, Dan Cron, formed a nonprofit corporation with the thought of one day creating a museum with memorabilia he began accumulating as a boy in Celina, Ohio, and added to at auctions and with the trove of a retired Reds usher.
However, the team even discontinued electing team Hall of Fame members for nearly a decade, until Reds executive John Allen revived the practice in 1998. The club then included a museum in planning for its new Great American Ball Park, which opened in 2003.
Rhodes, who brought experience from the Cincinnati Historical Society and Museum Center, said the goal for the $10 million project was a family-geared attraction combining memorabilia with interactive exhibits and themed areas in its 16,000 square feet of exhibit space.
Visitors can pitch off a regulation-sized mound to a plate 60 feet, 6 inches away, leap against an outfield wall to simulate a home run-stealing catch, broadcast their own play-by-play of Reds highlights, or pick up a phone to hear former Reds leaders discuss trades and strategy.
Among themed exhibits are "Glory Days," where fans of a team who last won the World Series in 1990 can relive winners such as the dominating "Big Red Machine" championships of 1975-76, and "Baseball Heaven," a fantasy rec room with bobbleheads, baseball cards, scorecards and a TV running Reds highlights and bloopers.
There are hundreds of jerseys, bats, balls and other artifacts, many loaned by collectors such as Cron, and eye-catching touches such as a nearly one-ton wooden replica of a bat honoring the '69 Red Stockings and a 30-foot-high wall display of 4,256 baseballs, representing Rose's career hit total. A new display has the baseball and special Reds jacket from President Bush's ceremonial first pitch on opening day this year.
Jack Hennes, an elementary school teacher in eastern Ohio, recently brought 17 fifth- and sixth-graders through the museum. He said that for serious fans of baseball, there was plenty to study, while others had a ball with the interactive exhibits.
"They were all thrilled," he said. "It was a great visit, to have the interactive things for the kids and a lot of things for adults."
A frequent visitor is Jim O'Toole, a 1960s pitching mainstay who's a Reds Hall of Fame honoree. O'Toole says that with 11 children and 31 grandchildren, it's a wonderful place to relive and share memories.
"To have a reminder that you used to be part of all that, and to be part of the Reds Hall of Fame, that makes my life complete," O'Toole said.
Rhodes says a frequent question from visitors is whether Rose is a member of the Reds' hall. The answer is no, because his ban from baseball for betting on games extends to his old team.
Rhodes is hopeful that a future baseball commissioner will allow Rose's induction into the Cincinnati hall, and he notes that the hard line is a Black Sox legacy.
"Major League Baseball created these very stiff penalties, lifetime suspensions, as a result of the 1919 scandal. They never wanted betting to taint the game again," Rhodes said. "Pete was a victim of that. He broke the wrong rule."
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It took five federal agencies three years to wade through the stalling tactics of banking lobbyists - including the 20,000 comments they filed - to come up with 963 pages of regulations with 2,826 footnotes that boil down to one admonition: Don't make reckless bets with other people's money.
Finally, on Tuesday, the Federal Reserve Board, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency approved the so-called Volcker rule, named for former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker, an advisor to President Obama during the recession.
That it took so long to write the rule is an indication of the difficulty regulators face in getting the financial industry to not just admit its gambling problem, but do something about it.


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Welcome to the Glens Falls Rotary! Our club was founded in 1922 and it continues to represent the highest ideals through its service-oriented programs both at home and abroad. Our club meets every Thursday at twelve fifteen, at the Ramada Inn, Exit 19 on the Adirondack Northway, and offers our members and guests the highest level of spirit, fellowship and opportunity for community service. Read More >
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Ukraine's embattled president, Viktor Yanukovych, flew to Sochi late Thursday for crisis talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics.
Yanukovych left Kiev after holding talks with US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland as Moscow and Washington seek to influence a protracted crisis wracking the former Soviet nation.
"He has arrived," a source familiar with the situation told AFP ahead of Friday's opening ceremony for the Winter Olympic Games. "The talks (with Putin) can happen any time now."
The back-to-back meetings underlined the ratcheted-up struggle between Washington and Moscow to bring Ukraine into a Western or a Russian orbit, as Yanukovych seeks to weather more than two months of pro-Western demonstrations following his rejection of a key pact with the European Union.
Sharpening the tone, the Kremlin on Thursday accused the United States of arming Ukranian "rebels" and warned Russia could intervene to end the crisis.
"The stunts the Americans are pulling today by crudely interfering in Ukraine's domestic affairs in a unilateral manner are an obvious violation" of a 1994 treaty giving the US and Russia roles as security co-guarantors for Ukraine, Sergei Glazyev, Putin's economic adviser, told the Ukrainian edition of Russia's Kommersant.
When conflicts arise, the guarantors "are obliged to intervene," Glazyev said.
The hawkish adviser, who is viewed as the Kremlin pointman on Ukraine, added: "According to our information, American sources spend $20 million a week on financing the opposition and rebels, including on weapons."
He alleged that militants were briefed in the US embassy and being armed.
A Ukrainian activist who had been abducted in Ukraine last month told reporters the Lithuanian capital Vilnius that he had been "crucified" to a wooden door, and beaten until he was made to say he was an American spy.
"I told them that the American ambassador had given me 50,000 dollars," Dmytro Bulatov said in a hospital where he is undergoing treatment. "It was so scary, it was so painful that I asked them to kill me. I lied because I could not stand the pain."
The US embassy did not immediately comment on Glazyev's allegations, referring all questions to Nuland.
The US diplomat's visit came a day after EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said in Kiev Yanukovych's government was not doing enough to overcome Ukraine's worst crisis since independence in 1991.
After the meeting with Nuland, Yanukovych's office said the president supported swift constitutional reforms backed by protest leaders that would curb some of his powers.
But both the opposition and the West suspect the 63-year-old leader is playing for time.
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In Russia's Black Sea city of Sochi, Yanukovych was expected to discuss a critical bailout deal for his crisis-hit country.
In December, Putin promised Yanukovych the $15 billion bailout but said last week the financing would not be released in full until the formation of a new government in Kiev.
The Ukrainian opposition slammed the meeting with Putin.
"Yanukovych is flying to the Olympics in Sochi at a time when it's necessary to solve the political crisis and defuse tension in society," boxer-turned-politician Vitali Klitschko said earlier Thursday.
The protests against Yanukovych broke out when the president in late November backed out of an EU trade and political association pact under Russian pressure.
Buoyed by Western support, the demonstrations spread and protesters dug in, earning concessions from Yanukovych -- notably the dismissal of the government and the scrapping of controversial anti-protest laws.
Since then, the protests have largely died down though activists remain barricaded in Kiev's central Independence Square.
On Thursday one opposition supporter in an occupied building had his hand blown off by a bomb blast, while another activist, 15, was hospitalised with eye burns.
With Yanukovych resisting calls to step down, the opposition is demanding the constitution be amended to curb presidential powers.
The crisis has seen the Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia, slump as residents scramble to convert their savings into other currencies.
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I can't find a complete list with all the posts on the blog,
listed on one page.
Normally I would call this an Archive page.
The Creativix Theme links to one mounth for exsample February,
and this works great.
On this page I can choose "archive" but the link does'nt work.
Can anyone help ?
I've marked the links Im talking about here...
Its the read one that won't work, and I think that's the page Im looking for :-)


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Lo and behold, my very first legit animation paying homage to my country's colorful culture.
This is what I've basically been working on
and trying to post for the past few weeks.
It's a personal project and also an entry for a contest
and it's up on Facebook too! For those who have Facebook, it will mean so much to me if you would like my entry for the People's Choice Awards. EDIT: CONTEST IS OVER GUYS.
Hopefully I could make more animations in the future.
Animation, Music by Me
This is what I've basically been working on
It's a personal project and also an entry for a contest
Hopefully I could make more animations in the future.
Animation, Music by Me
Daily DeviationGiven 2013-09-20
Faces of Culture Animation by ~trotroy. Suggester says, "I love the simplicity of this animation, it is not only a piece of art it self but it contains beautiful designs and creativity as well." ( Suggested by TimberClipse and Featured by kingmancheng )
Nami mis ko yung mga tricycles QAQ
good thing im going to philippines dis summer >.>
meron ba pong maganda na art colleges jaan?
pina plano ko po kasi e mag enroll jan instead rito sa america >.>
good thing im going to philippines dis summer >.>
meron ba pong maganda na art colleges jaan?
pina plano ko po kasi e mag enroll jan instead rito sa america >.>
Beautiful animation man! I'm very moved at the end T_T Gosh I miss the Philippines...
loved it!
Great work! This is worth sharing on writenowphilippines.blogspot.c…. Let's talk about this being featured. Please do pm me. Thanks!
That was really amazing and if that song was on iTunes I would buy it as it was an amazing song, I really felt moved by the whole thing
Ang ganda nito! Cute ng animation. Pusong Pinoy!
thank you for creating this it makes me realize that its a happy thing
what softwares did you used for this? it looks great..!
Too incredible!
Too awesome!!
Absolutely incredible! You've whisked me off into another world.
Great job on it!!*W*
Oooh this is sooo magical!
I sooo love it!
This is absolutely adorable. Wonderful work!
Beautiful piece! I like the way she discovers the two masks first...
Absolutely stunning. I loved it so much *-*
This animation, I like.
Very interesting and beautiful work! Great style. Congratulations!
I should really watch this with music
Amazing the animation!: Beautiful colors, calm music and culture.
I thought it was gonna be like the walking dead ending
This is just beautiful! 80
Beautiful, just absolutely beautiful. This is very close to Disney standard animation
XD soo cool!
A beautiful thing. Well done!
It makes me smile so easily... Beautiful.
so cool
so lovely <3
I like it, it seems very reminiscent of Miyazaki's works. And I adore the music and the innocence that comes along with it.
Seems very Studio Ghibli-ish....which is awesome.
Heart warming
Very nice!
Good Animation, man. I love it.
Wonderful! Congrats on the DD!
The animation and the music go really well together
Congrats on the DD!
Congrats on the DD!
Wonderful short animation! I enjoyed seeing some visuals of your country's culture.


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cg testing witha chuck glider
Hi Guys, I needed to do some testing of the cg on a me163.I didnt want to do any more damage to my model testing.So I made a chuck glider and added quarters taped to the side as a ballast.then maked the side in 1/8th in. I started at the recommended 3.5 in mark and adjusted from there..my best glide came with the cg at 5/8in back..this coresponds with what my model was doing..My conclusion is that a more aft cg is needed also I was hand launching the plane which I feel was not enuff airspeed for the wing sufaces to be effective..Maybe a javilin toss would help..Any way my question at this point is will the cg need to be adjusted to a higher gross weight of the model vs the glider..I asume it should be the same I will just need more airspeed to carry the weight..I posted here in edf because most of the smart guys hang around here )
What were the properties of your best glide? Same size helps but it is more important that the wing sweep (wing plan form) matches. Being off on the plan form yields a different CG position. Looks like your ok there.
For me,
1) Moderately fast, no pitch or arching flight path.
2) For deltas or wings it has to have some (little) reflex (up elevon) and still fly like #1
Hey Bruce, I hope to have some of the guys confirm my findings.
Kevin, the wing is same as the model..I ws pretty carfull to match it up. the best glides were fast toss then a stedy down hill glide.as the speed came up it tended to flatten out just a touch..which made for some pretty cool landings for a uncontroled glider..I did also add 1/8 reflex because that is what the model uses.The biggest problem I think I found is it needs lots of airspeed to flyoff well.
What is your wing loading?
I predict you need a really fast launch to get away with a flying wing model like this.
The CG does not really change due to weight changes.....it should fly fine at any weight...jsut faster.
You might need some considerable up trim for the launch and retrim in the air.
well it did nose dive pretty dang hard that one time. it may help having it farther back good luck!
I have built four (4) chuck gliders over the past six years. In each case, the glider was a quarter scale of the actual model. My gliders were made of card board with no air foil and I tried very hard to make the glider plan form symmetrical to the actual model. Typical wing spans were about 12" and they weighed less than 1 ounce.
All my "flying" was done indoors, usually in the living room. So the total glide distance might have been 12 to 15 feet. My aim was to achieve a flat glide path with a slight nose down attitude. I did this by adjusting the ballast, usually a paper clip.
I would "launch" the glider in an underhanded throw and pay attention to the attitude. Nose up, move the paper clip forward, etc., etc. Once the correct ballasting was determined, it was a simple matter to locate the balance point of the glider. Measuring from the tip of the nose to the balance point, I would multiply that distance by 4, apply this new distance to the full size model. Bingo, the balance point is defined.
A chuck glider can be looked at as a simple, low velocity wind tunnel and I have found this method to give excellent results in locating the balance point.
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I had a very similar problem with CG postion! I am sure the CG position is correct but the Bantam which is very similar aerodynamically to a Me163 suffers from a roll/pitch couple that no-one can explain.
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Sugar and Spicefrom ROSA BELLAS CLOSET fashions for small dogsSkill Level: EasyI designed this Sugar and Spice sweater for my little Yorkie Rosa. It is an adorable knitted turtleneck sweater. It has a lovely scallop crochet trim around the turtleneck edge and bottom of the sweater. You will need to know how to knit and purl in this pattern. It is a very simple pattern. Sweater Size: Approximately 12 in length x 15 around waist x 10½ neck measurement. It would be easy to adjust this pattern to fit your dog perfectly. You can customize this pattern and make it uniquely your own by choosing colors and yarns that you love. You will be amazed at how little time it takes to finish this sweater. ITS EASY FUN AND FAST!!!!!!! You will definitely enjoy Simply Delightful from ROSA BELLAS CLOSET fashions for small dogs.Please take a look at my other knitting and crochet patterns!!
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I found a high PR blog that I have been posting comments and enjoying the backlink from it but I have a question about it.
I thought I would try putting a different page link from my site in the box that says "website" when making a comment. (I have been using my home page).
When I try to do a post this way it does not post to the site. Why?
Will it only take a home page?
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Week 1 is in the books, and it was full of many twists, turns, surprises, shockers and other fun things.
But Bleacher Report's great NFL writers have already covered most of them. Time to really have some fun.
Ever look at some of today's current NFL superstars and wonder what they'll do after their football career is over?
Who's likely to turn NFL greatness into a prolific career as a Hollywood action star? Who could potentially use the name recognition of being in the NFL and parlay that into a political career?
Who could go back to their alma maters and potentially become the next great college football coach?
Who's going to do the predictable and sit in between Dan, Boomer, JB and Coach Cowher on the NFL on CBS pregame show?
These are questions I'll try my best to answer in the most fun and entertaining way possible.
Now these aren't necessarily meant to be taken seriously. While these are possibilities, don't take them as insults. If I selected a player for this list, its because I actually like the player...
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