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California Farm Bureau advocates for UC ANR
Policy advocate at the California Farm Bureau Federation, Taylor Roschen, wrote a 736-word commentary, published in AgAlert today, praising the value of UC Cooperative Extension advisors and advocating for an additional $20 million annual funding from the state of California.
Roschen provided highlights of UC ANR's public value, writing that:
- The breadth and depth of agricultural knowledge created by UC Agriculture and Natural Resources is unparalleled.
- Local Cooperative Extension staff, such as farm advisors and community education specialists, serve as translators, sharing the power of UC research with our farms, our families and our communities.
- 4-H youth leaders are 3.5 times more likely to contribute to their communities and nearly five times more likely to pursue higher education.
However, she continued, since 1990, the state's contribution to UCANR has decreased by 57%. California has lost more than 60% of its 4-H advisors since the 1990s and now have the equivalent of only 31 program representatives to serve the state's 58 counties.
To bring UC ANR programs "back from the brink," Roschen wrote, the California Farm Bureau is working with Assembly Agriculture Committee Chair Susan Eggman, D-Stockton, to fight for UCCE's future and save 4-H and local farm advisors and specialists.
"We are petitioning the state Legislature and the Newsom administration to provide an additional $20 million annually to UC ANR," she said.
Riverside supervisors vote to restore UCCE funding
After more than 100 4-H members, UC Master Gardeners and others attended a Riverside Board of Supervisors' meeting in support of UC Cooperative Extension June 10, the panel voted 5-0 to restore UCCE's funding, reported Jeff Horseman and Matt Kristoffersen in the Riverside Press Enterprise.
The vote reversed an earlier decision to cut UCCE funding as part of a larger plan to deal with reduced county tax receipts. If the funding had not been restored, services including 4-H, nutrition education and agricultural programs would have been effected, said Eta Takele, UCCE director in Riverside County.
UC Cooperative Extension, a key part of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, serves all California counties. Academic advisors work with farmers to implement more-efficient growing methods, solve pest management problems and develop smart water-use strategies. Natural resources advisors conduct wildfire education and research natural resources conservation. Nutrition educators promote nutritious eating habits and exercise for better health. California 4-H Youth Development Program engages youth to become leaders. Thousands of volunteers extend UCCE's through the Master Gardener, Master Food Preserver, California Naturalist, and the California 4-H Youth Development Programs.
During the June 10 meeting, the supervisors heard from Riverside 4-H members who have been aided by their involvement in the program.
4-H member Bethany Campbell told the supervisors 4-H helped her overcome shyness and gain confidence.
"4-H helped me rise above fear and insecurity to become a leader," Campbell said.
A Blythe 4-H member, Samantha Teater, 17, said, 4-H "definitely saved me from getting into trouble."
UC ANR associate vice president Wendy Powers attended the supervisors' meeting.
"Those who offered public comment provided heartfelt testimony about the impact of our programs and how they, personally, have benefited and how the county has benefited," Powers wrote in her blog. "The work's not over. We need to continue to engage those who don't know us but make decisions that impact us. We need to continue to engage those who do know us, and brainstorm how to do better – reach more people, have a greater impact."
The article said Riverside County officials would work with UC Cooperative Extension to save money by moving its offices from leased office space to county-owned space.
ANR in the news March 13-28
New Series of Nitrogen Management Advice Available
(Cal Ag Today) March 28
California growers can download a new series of publications summarizing efficient nitrogen management practices from UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. The publications are designed to assist growers in complying with state regulations for tracking and reporting nitrogen fertilizer applied to crops, in an effort to prevent nitrogen from leaching into groundwater.
UC helps growers comply with new regulations
(Farm Press) Tim Hearden, March 27
A few months ago, while I was working with Todd Fitchette on a special package we were doing (or, he was doing and I was pitching in on) that focused on the 50th anniversary of the Citrus Research Board, I wrote a column about the benefits of land-grant universities such as the University of California (UC).
It's not an overstatement, I wrote, that the vast network of UC Cooperative Extension offices and research facilities has enabled agriculture in the Golden State to survive amid daunting challenges.
Communities come together to reforest Middletown Trailside Park
(Record Bee) Lucy Llewellyn Byard, March 27
Outdoorsman Greg Gusti, a University of California cooperative extension director emeritus who specializes in forests and wild lands ecology, addressed the crowd and gave them instructions on how to plant the trees 20 feet apart; showed them what 20 feet looked like on a tape measure, told them to plant the green side up and to keep the roots straight.
… Students dug in groups, sharing shovels and gloves. Sofie Hall and Elissa Holyoke worked with Michael Jones, a UC Cooperative Extension Forestry Advisor to plant their saplings.
The science and politics of genetically engineered salmon: 5 questions answered
(The Conversation) Alison Van Eenennaam, March 27
A Massachusetts-based company earlier this month cleared the last regulatory hurdle from the Food and Drug Administration to sell genetically engineered salmon in the U.S. Animal genomics expert Alison Van Eenennaam, who served on an advisory committee to the FDA to evaluate the AquAdvantage salmon, explains the significance of the FDA's move and why some have criticized its decision.
Students learn about insects at Farm Day in the City
(ABC 23) Amanda Mason, March 26
"Every single insect plays a role, even if it's only purpose is to get eaten by something. Everything is important," said Haviland.
David Haviland an entomologist at the University of California's Extension who studies insects and helps farmers manage agricultural pests, spent Tuesday at the Kern County Fairgrounds teaching students about good bugs and bad bugs at Farm Day in the City.
Expert: Speak up now about agriculture's carbon footprint
(Leader Telegram) Brooke Bechen, March 25
Dr. Frank Mitloehner, a professor and air quality extension specialist in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California-Davis, isn't afraid to speak up, particularly on Twitter where he writes under the handle @GHGGuru. He sees 2.5 million people visiting his Twitter account each month, which provides accurate information on air emissions and busts myths distributed by those looking to attack animal agriculture.
"Being in California is like being at Ground Zero," he said. "There are urban centers of people who think they're food experts, but most of these people have never set foot on a farm and don't know anything about agriculture.
Wildfire Speaker Series Tonight: Fire Resistant Homes & Defensible Space
(YubaNet) March 25
…Dr. Kate Wilkin is the new Forest and Fire Adviser with UC Cooperative Extension in Butte, Nevada, Sutter, and Yuba Counties. She recently moved here from Berkeley, CA where she was postdoctoral researcher focused on wildfire emissions and fire-forest-water relations. Her PhD, also at UC Berkeley, focused on the efficacy of fuel treatments in Northern California shrublands to reduce fire hazards and on mixed conifer forest-fire-water and fire-biodiversity relations. Before moving to California, Kate grew up in rural Appalachia and then explored other fire-prone regions of the US as a natural resource manager and prescribed fire burner on public and nonprofit lands. Based on these experiences and more, she knows that we need to use solutions responsibly, both old and new, to solve our forest health crisis. Kate will be focusing on incorporating fire safe concepts into residential landscaping.
UC Cooperative offers water-measurement class
(David Enterprise) March 25
California water rights holders are required by state law to measure and report the water they divert from surface streams. For people who wish to take the water measurements themselves, the University of California Cooperative Extension is offering training to receive certification April 4 in Redding and Woodland.
Costa Mesa designates April as Coyote Awareness Month and approves further informational efforts to manage them
(Los Angeles Times) Luke Money, March 20
…In the past 30 days, about 20 coyote sightings or encounters in Costa Mesa were logged with Coyote Cacher, an online reporting system [created by Niamh Quinn, UCCE advisor, and IGIS].
UCCE Biologicals Conference Introduces New Crop Protection Tools for Growers
(Vegetables West) Matthew Malcolm, March 19, 2019
Biocontrol agents, beneficial microbes, entomopathogenic fungi and bacteria that can enhance crop production — these were all topics of discussion at the recent UC Cooperative Extension Ag Innovations Conference in Santa Maria, led by UCCE Entomology & Biologicals Advisor Surendra Dara. Watch this brief interview with Surendra as he shares more about what was discussed.
Landowners aim to fight fire with fire
(Benito Link) Blaire Strohn, March 19, 2019
The 2018 wildfire season in California was devastating, which left local landowners to consider how future blazes can be prevented. Their solution: more fire.
On March 14, The San Benito Working Landscapes Group and the UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) hosted a meeting to discuss prescribed burning on San Benito County rangelands.
…UCCE livestock and natural resources advisor Devii Rao said the meeting also looked at Cal Fire funding and prescribed burn associations. She mentioned that last year former Gov. Jerry Brown signed two pieces of legislation related to prescribed burning:
Senate Bill 901 provides Cal Fire $1 billion for forest health, fuel load, and prescribed burns over five years, including $35 million a year for prescribed fire and other reduction projects.
Senate Bill 1260 requires Cal Fire to collaborate with public and private landowners on prescribed burns. They must also create a program for pre-certification for a "burn boss," a private contractor that has experience in prescribed burning.
…In June, Rao will co-host a meeting with Lenya Quinn-Davidson and Jeff Stackhouse from UCCE Humboldt County. The meeting is expected to focus on how to develop a prescribed burn association, in addition to a small burn demonstration on a local private ranch.
A More Humane Livestock Industry, Brought to You By Crispr
(Wired) Gregory Barber, March 19
Hopes were running high for cow 401, and cow 401 serenely bore the weight of expectations. She entered the cattle chute obligingly, and as the vet searched her uterus, making full use of the plastic glove that covered his arm up to his shoulder, she uttered nary a moo. A week ago, Cow 401 and four other members of her experimental herd at UC Davis were in the early stages of pregnancy. But now, following a string of disappointing checkups, it was all down to her. Alison Van Eenennaam, the animal geneticist in charge of the proceedings, kept watch from off to one side, galoshes firmly planted in the damp manure, eyes fixed on a portable ultrasound monitor. After a few moments, the vet delivered his fifth and final diagnosis. "She's not pregnant," he said. Van Eenennaam looked up. "Ah, shit," she muttered.
Climate change is hurting migrating waterbirds across the West. It could get worse
(Sacramento Bee) Andrew Sheeler, March 18
…Some birds, like the black-necked stilt and the sandhill crane, which breed early in the season, have thrived in the warming climate, said Mohammad Safeeq, a hydrologist with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute and an adjunct professor at UC Merced.
But others suffer. That includes the killdeer, the Wilson's snipe, the black tern, and the western and Clark's grebe.
"We have looked at 14 species and among eight open-water and shoreline foraging species that have undergone significant population declines, five were negatively associated with temperature increases," Safeeq said in an email interview.
Group seeks healthy, resilient forests and communities
(Plumas News) March 18
…A public workshop was held at the Quincy Library on Jan. 15th. Presenter Jeff Stackhouse, the Livestock and Natural Resources advisor for the U.C. Cooperative Extension in Humboldt, presents case studies from the prescribed burn association.
US researchers moving abroad to avoid FDA's CRISPR-edited animal regulations
(Genetic Literacy Project) Cameron English, Alison Van Eenennaam, March 14
One day soon, farmers may be able to raise food animals immune to deadly diseases and spare them painful but necessary procedures like horn removal. These innovations, made possible by CRISPR and other gene-editing techniques, could cut the cost of food production, reduce antibiotic use in agriculture and dramatically improve animal welfare. But federal regulation may very well stifle these developments in the US.
In 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a plan to regulate gene-edited animals as veterinary drugs under the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, because their DNA is "intentionally altered." The proposal has drawn harsh criticism from animal scientists, some of whom are packing up their labs and leaving the US to avoid the FDA's rules. Food animals, these experts say, should be regulated based on the risk they pose to human health, not the breeding method that produced them.
Corky Anderson's energy, innovation helped save California's pistachio industry
(Bakersfield Californian) Steven E. Mayer, March 13
"Corky was an important player in the early pistachio industry," said a Kern County farm adviser with the UC Cooperative Extension who specializes in citrus and pistachios.
"And he was a great cooperator," Kallsen said. "He allowed lots of test trials on his properties."
… In 1980, Anderson and Puryear's first patented rootstock changed the industry, said Kevin Blackwell, general manager of Pioneer Nursery, the wholesale business founded by the two entrepreneurs.
"In our heyday, we were selling a million trees a year," said Blackwell, who said he has known Anderson for 47 years.
No one does it alone, Kallsen noted. Anderson built and refined his patented rootstock based on earlier research by the University of California.
Farmers protect crops in rain's aftermath
(Ag Alert) Ching Lee, March 13
Franz Niederholzer, University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor in Colusa, Sutter and Yuba counties, said though cold weather does reduce the risk of most fungal diseases, other problems such as bacterial blast and jacket rot—also a fungal disease—are more prevalent during cool weather.
Cooler weather, however, does help to extend the bloom, he said. That allows farmers more time to apply fungicide, which is recommended at the beginning of bloom and again at full bloom, he said.
Brent Holtz, UCCE farm advisor in San Joaquin County, said he hasn't seen too many problems with fungal diseases at this point, because of how cool it's been, but there have been more incidents of bacterial blast, which can infect trees under stress. In orchards with high nematode populations, the bacteria can enter wounds on the surface of the plants created by frost, he noted.
"It blights the blossoms, and if the blossom is dead, they don't produce fruit," Holtz said.
Michael learns about 4-H in Fresno County
(KMPH) Stephen Hawkins, March 13, 2019
The 4-H Youth Development Program is preparing for events all over the Central Valley and you are invited.
Michael Ikahihifo spent the morning at Dry Creek Park in Clovis to see what the local 4-H has planned.
The City of Cypress calls for its residents to be "Coyote Aware"
(OC Breeze) March 13
The Cypress City Council recently adopted a coyote management plan to address community concerns about the presence of coyotes in Cypress. While coyotes are generally reclusive animals who avoid human contact, it is important to be aware of their presence and take appropriate action to ensure the safety of your property and pets.
…Residents are encouraged to reportcoyote activity on Coyote Cacher:
Coyote Cacher allows the City to monitor all reported encounters.
Residents can also use Coyote Cacher to view a map of reported
encounters and sign up to receive email alerts.
California's super bloom attracts swarms of migrating butterflies
(CNN) David Williams, March 13
This year's wildflower super bloom is not only filling California deserts with eye-popping displays of color -- it's also providing a feast for swarms of painted lady butterflies making their way north from Mexico.
"This is the biggest outbreak since 2005," said Art Shapiro, a professor at the University of California, Davis, who's been studying the migration of butterflies in the state since 1972.
…"I saw more butterflies in the last 10 minutes than I've seen my entire life," Jason Suppes wrote Tuesday on Twitter. Suppes is an education specialist at an agricultural research facility in Irvine.
Grape growers continue push to mechanize
(Western Farm Press) Lee Allen, March 13
…In Fresno, growers affiliated with the San Joaquin Valley Winegrowers Association met to discuss the latest UC research on incidents of disease and machine injury to trunks and rootstock.
… "Growers are having a hard time finding workers to maintain their vineyards and increasing labor costs are challenging grape-farming's economic sustainability," says UC Cooperative Extension viticulture advisor George Zhuang. "We're studying the use of machines to reduce the number of people needed to perform tasks like pruning.
"Because canopy architecture and yield characteristics involving mechanically-pruned vines are much different from those that are hand-pruned, water and fertilizer requirements for the mechanically pruned vines can be quite different. Performance of different rootstocks in mechanical pruning systems is critical for both yield and fruit quality of grape production in the San Joaquin Valley."
…Kaan Kurtural, UC Cooperative Extension viticulture specialist in the UC Davis Viticulture and Enology Department, whose research involves improving vineyard production efficiency through canopy and crop load management via mechanization, says the case for switching out hand labor with machines gets stronger with growers using such mechanization for pruning, suckering, and removing shoots and leaves.
"Mechanical pruning can produce more stable year-to-year fruit yields of better quality than traditional and more costly hand pruning spurs or canes." His comments were based on a Kern County two-year research trial looking for ways for growers to reduce both cost and water use.
As Wildfires Devour Communities, Toxic Threats Emerge
(Reuters) Sharon Bernstein, March 13
At U.C. Davis, where researchers are studying eggs from backyard chickens that may have breathed smoke and pecked at ash in areas affected by wildfires, the work is complicated.
"In an urban fire you're dealing with contaminants that don't go away – arsenic, heavy metals, copper, lead, transformer fluid, brake fluid, fire retardant," said veterinarian Maurice Pitesky, who is leading the study.
DR. GLENDA HUMISTON: Managing our Lands to Manage our Water
Maven's Notebook, March 13, 2019
Dr. Glenda Humiston is Vice President of Agriculture & Natural Resources for the University of California. At the 2019 California Irrigation Institute conference, Dr. Humiston was the opening keynote speaker, and in her speech, she talked about work being done to address drought vulnerability, the importance of managing watersheds, the goals of the California Economic Summit, and the promising future of biomass.
She began by saying that we have known for a long time that water insecurity is a huge issue, and not just due to climate change or droughts; it's also policy, regulations, allocations and technology – there are a lot of issues and managing the effects of it are very challenging.
Hearing planned to examine the future of development in California's most fire prone regions
(Lake County News) March 13
…The hearing, led by Senators Henry Stern and Mike McGuire, chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee and the Senate Governance and Finance Committee, respectively, titled "Living Resiliently in the New Abnormal: The Future of Development in California's Most Fire Prone Regions" will be held Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the State Capitol in Room 4203.
…Testifying at the hearing are:
· Mark Ghilarducci, director, California Office of Emergency Services;
· Bob Fenton, regional administrator, FEMA Region 9;
· Dr. Max Moritz, statewide wildfire specialist, University of California Cooperative Extension;
· Jeff Lambert, director of planning, city of Oxnard, past president, American Planning Association, California Chapter;
· Chief Kate Dargan, California State Fire Marshal (retired), Cal Fire;
· Chief Ken Pimlott, director (retired), Cal Fire;
· Scott Lotter, former mayor, city of Paradise;
· Tim Snellings, planning director, Butte County;
· Chief Michael McLaughlin, Cosumnes Community Services District Fire Department;
· Ty Bailey, California Professional Firefighters, president, Sacramento Area Firefighters, Local 522, fire captain, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
Youngsters learn cooking from 4-H teens in Imperial County
Two UC Cooperative Extension programs - 4-H Youth Development and UC CalFresh nutrition education - collaborate to give Imperial County elementary school students an introduction to the culinary arts, reported Vincent Osuna in the Imperial Valley Press.
The 4-H Teens-As-Teachers Cooking Academy runs seven sessions in which the high school students use evidence-based curriculum from 4-H to teach the elementary school students how to cook.
"I think this is a really good experience for the kids because it shows them the pathways that are here at the high school that could lead them into their future," said a Calexico High School senior Nelly Rodriguez, who serves as an academy teacher. "It gets them a start way ahead of what we got, because we started in ninth grade, and they get to start young in elementary."
A 4-H mini-grant funded equipment, aprons, skillets and other materials; UC CalFresh provides the food ingredients.
"It's to basically teach kids how to cook, but also just to empower them to help them feel like they have a little more control over their food," said Chris Wong, UCCE Imperal County community education specialist. "At the same time, it serves purpose to the high school culinary class because it professionally develops them for their food demos and their competitions at the end of the year."
4-H teen teacher Julio Ramirez said the young students were nervous at first, but by the fourth session, "They're anxious to do it. It's just a good thing to see."
November News Clips (11/15-11/30)
How they survived: Owners of the few homes left standing around Paradise, Calif., took critical steps to ward off wildfires
(Washington Post) Sarah Kaplan, Frances Stead Sellers, Nov. 30
…Though the United States spends upwards of $2 billion each year on fire suppression and billions more helping communities recover, the current budget for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program is just over $200 million — and it must address hurricanes, earthquakes and a host of other natural hazards as well as fires. Cal Fire provides grants for forest management and tree removal, but not structure modification.
The budget for the University of California Cooperative Extension program, which conducts fire research and outreach to homeowners, has been cut by almost half since 2000. There are now fewer than 20 extension advisers in forestry and fire serving a state with 40 million people and 15 million acres of public lands.
Opinion | To Help Prevent the Next Big Wildfire, Let the Forest Burn
(NY Times) Ash Ngu and Sahil Chinoy, Nov. 29
Before Euro-American settlement in the 1800s, fires burned about 1.5 million acres of forest each year, on average, according to an analysis of fire return intervals by Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley. Skies were most likely smoky through much of the summer and fall, and most forests in California burned every five to 25 years from wildfires caused by lightning or Native American burning practices, he said.
Farmers make a "Romaine Recovery" after E. coli Outbreak
(NBC PalmSprings) Daytona Everett, Nov. 28
The FDA has now connected the Central Coast of California to 43 cases of E. coli across the country. However, romaine lettuce farmers in the Coachella Valley are just now bringing in their first winter harvest.
...The FDA now requires every package to "clearly and prominently label all individually packaged romaine products to identify growing region and harvest date for romaine; and to clearly and prominently label at the point of sale the growing region when it is now possible for romaine lettuce suppliers to label the package (e.g. individual unwrapped whole heads of romaine lettuce available in retail stores)."
"That also gets difficult because they harvest the lettuce and they stick a bunch of these in a box and then they go to a processing facility and you may be combining several different fields at once when you're processing that," Milt Mcgiffen, an extension vegetable specialist from UC Riverside, said.
Wildfire, Landscapes and Debris Fields: Mapping Risks After Major Wildfire
(Capital Public Radio) Beth Duncan, Nov. 27
Geologist spend a lot of time creating landslide risk maps after a major wildfire happens. The slope of the landscape, amount of rainfall and underlying geology of an area all play a role in how likely an area might be affected.
Forestry Specialist William Stewart explains what geologists are concerned about as winter storms move through the areas hit by wildfire this year.
"After the wildfire, there's a lot of burnt logs and other things there, but what happens when it starts raining is it'll saturate the soil and you'll start to get soil movement. And once you get a fair bit of it moving down, it can pick up boulders and other things in the soil, and pull down whole trees. So a debris flow has both mud and water and big chunks of rocks and logs in there and that's what if it hits a bridge or a home, or commercial center, can just wipe it out. It's just a huge amount of force that just levels everything in its path."
California Economic Summit Looks to Elevate Rural California
(AgNetWest) Brian German, Nov. 27
…"One of the things we really started digging into these last few years there, as part of our Working Landscapes Action Team and the summit as a whole, is this concept of there's two California's here," said Vice President of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, Glenda Humiston. "You've got predominately coastal, large, urban areas here that are doing pretty well. But then you've got the rest of California that's still really hurting. High poverty, high unemployment, not the economic opportunities that they ought to have."
Humiston explained that at last year's summit they were able to launch the Elevate Rural California initiative, with a goal of addressing three specific areas over the next few years. "Water infrastructure, biomass, high-value biomass opportunities I want to qualify that strongly, and then the broadband, particularly rural broadband," Humiston noted.
Why There Are Challenges To Doing More Prescribed Burns As Part Of Forest Management
(NPR All Things Considered) Ezra David Romero, Nov. 27
…But can the use of prescribed burns be expanded?
Roger Bales with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced says yes. "They can be scaled up as long as we can provide the financing to do them," Bales said. "As long as we do them in a way that doesn't degrade the air quality."
…The cost of a prescribed burn varies depending on time of year and resources. Robert York with UC Berkeley's Blodgett Forest Research Station says the warmer and drier the climate, the more expensive a burn.
Still, York supports burning year-round. "If the conditions are good, let's have lots of burns going on in the Sierra Nevada," he said.
Field Scouting Guide: Palmer Amaranth
(Growing Produce) Karli Petrovic, Nov. 27
This month's field scouting guide concentrates on Amaranthus palmeri S. Watson (Palmer amaranth). We've reached out to weed scientists to learn how to spot and treat this weed.
Our contributors are Lynn Brandenberger, Oklahoma State University; W. Carroll Johnson, III, Ph.D., USDA-ARS; Mohsen B. Mesgaran, Ph.D., University of California, Davis; and Lynn M. Sosnoskie, Ph.D., University of California Cooperative Extension.
Who is Responsible for Burned Trees After a Wildfire?
(NPR Morning Edition) Eric Whitney, Nov. 26
…SCOTT STEPHENS: I would be very nervous about big oaks and potential for them to come down because the oaks, a lot of times, have heart rot. They have rotten material inside the center. And a lot of times a smoldering fire can burn in there for days and days and days. I've been around oaks like that. And all of a sudden, a week later - boom - it comes down.
WHITNEY: The danger can persist a lot longer than a week, Stephens says, as burned trees that are strong now continue to deteriorate.
STEPHENS: Probably by year four, five, they start to really get less structurally sound. Then, of course, you get a wind event, big storms, and they start coming down in earnest. And by year 10, they're coming down a great deal.
California dairy program celebrates 20 years
DairyBusiness, Nov. 26
…Recognizing a need to respond and be proactive, a committee of dairy producers, government agency representatives, industry leaders, and university specialists gathered to create the California Dairy Quality Assurance Program (CDQAP), ensuring high-quality milk production and continuous improvement in environmental stewardship. It was also a prime opportunity to demonstrate the commitment of the California dairy industry to producing high quality, safe products, in an environmentally friendly, animal-care conscience manner. Initial funding was provided by the California Farm Bureau Federation, California Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Dairy Research Foundation (CDRF). Dr. Michael Payne, a University of California veterinary researcher was brought on board to direct the program and Dr. Deanne Meyer, University of California Cooperative Extension specialist, was enlisted to develop educational programs. Continued CDRF funding provided an important direct tie to dairy producers through check off dollars, and industry expertise.
Are Your Vineyards Smart Enough to Beat the Heat?
(Growing Produce) Matthew Fidelibus, Nov. 24
…A number of strategies can be considered to adapt to increasing temperatures. Small increases in temperature might be mitigated by employing various cultural practices including pruning, irrigation and fertilization, canopy management, and crop protectants, which may help reduce fruit exposure and reduce crop load.
Irrigation and fertilization can be used to help establish sufficient canopy shade before heat waves occur. The possibility of having overexposed fruit during heat waves should be considered when evaluating canopy management practices such as leafing and shoot positioning. Crop protectants such as particle films may provide protection for overexposed fruit.
Fighting fire with fire via 'pyrosilviculture'
(Davis Enterprise) Jeannette Warnert, Nov. 21
…The event also raised awareness of "pyrosilviculture," a new forest management term coined by UC fire scientist Rob York to emphasize the importance of fire in silviculture, the management of forests for wood.
Fixing state's fire problem: Costly, complex, next to impossible
(SF Chronicle) Kurtis Alexander, Nov. 21
…Bill Stewart, a forestry specialist at UC Berkeley, said that technology has helped fire scientists pinpoint areas where wind, heat, vegetation and other factors conspire to pose the greatest threats. It's just that the risk maps aren't being used to guide development.
"We need more than an academic paper here and there on wind," Stewart said. "The number of windy days per year should help determine new zoning policy for planners.
Actually, Even California Says Trump Is Right About the Wildfires
(RealClear Politics) Betsy McCaughey, Nov. 21
President Donald Trump's critics are belittling him for not buying the politically correct narrative that global warming is to blame for the California wildfires. Instead, Trump correctly points to decades of mistakes by state and federal forest agencies that caused the woodlands to be become overly dense and blanketed with highly flammable dead wood and underbrush.
… This multifaceted approach is too much to put in a mere tweet. But University of California forest expert Yana Valachovic concedes that Trump's "general sentiment is correct."
Living on the Edge
(Slate Magazine) James B. Meigs, Nov. 20
…But the photos tell a different story. Within Paradise itself, the main fuel feeding the fire wasn't trees, nor the underbrush Trump suggested should have been raked up. It was buildings. The forest fire became an infrastructure fire. Fire researchers Faith Kearns and Max Moritz describe what can happen when a wildfire approaches a suburban neighborhood during the high-wind conditions common during the California fall: First, a "storm of burning embers" will shower the neighborhood, setting some structures on fire. "Under the worst circumstances, wind driven home-to-home fire spread then occurs, causing risky, fast-moving 'urban conflagrations' that can be almost impossible to stop and extremely dangerous to evacuate." The town of Paradise didn't just experience a fast-moving wildfire, its own layout, building designs, and city management turned that fire into something even scarier.
…Of course, when fires do occur, the residents of these areas suffer the most. The question is how to provide the right incentives for people so that we limit the chances of this happening again. Looking ahead, "We need to ensure that prospective homeowners can make informed decisions about the risks they face in the WUI," Moritz, Tague, and Anderson say.
Why California Can't Chainsaw Its Way Out Of A Raging Inferno
(BuzzFeed) Peter Aldhous, Nov. 20
…Still, supporters of thinning argue that it is a viable option in some forests, especially dry pine and mixed-conifer forests at lower elevations. Historically, forests like these burned with low intensity every decade or so, keeping them patchy and fairly sparse. There, decades of fire suppression should be countered with careful thinning to mimic the natural state, according to Scott Stephens, a forestry scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stephens has compared low-elevation forests in Southern California with those over the border in Baja California, Mexico, where fire suppression didn't begin until the 1970s. The naturally patchy Mexican forests, he has found, are much more resilient: Even in the face of a four-year drought and a 2003 wildfire, only 20% of the trees died. (In the Cedar fire in San Diego County that same year, between 40% and 95% of trees in the affected areas perished.)
California's Fire Season Extends Beyond Summer Months (AUDIO)
(NPR Morning Edition) Nov. 20
Steve Inskeep talks to Lenya Quinn-Davidson, fire adviser for the University of California Cooperative Extension, about what an extended fire season means for state residents.
Santa Maria-Bonita School Districts teams up with 4H for kids career day
(KEYT) Naja Hill, Nov. 18
Santa Maria-Bonita School Districts came together for a career and leadership day at Liberty Elementary. The event, called 4H SNAC, was a collaboration between UC CalFresh Nutrition and the youth organization 4 H. SNAC stands for Student Nutrition Advisory Council.
The goal of the youth program is to advocate child development to 5th and 6th graders in underserved, low-income communities. Various guest speakers came to teach kids how to live a healthy lifestyle.
The event was 4H's 4th annual career day. One topic of focus was presentation skills. The students also got an opportunity to speak to professionals from different fields such as firefighters, a nurse, and a dentist.
Trump suggests Californians can rake their forests to prevent wildfires. (He is wrong.)
(Washington Post) Avi Selk, Nov. 18
"His general sentiment is correct — that we need to manage fuels," said Yana Valachovic a forest adviser with the University of California's Cooperative Extension program. "And yeah, managing that pine litter adjacent to our homes and buildings is super important. … But the reality is, to manage every little bit of fuel with a rake is not practical."
Raking is an effective way to clear light debris like leaves and pine needles away from residences, she said. It's of much less use on the forest floor, where infernos burn through swaths of brush and large debris that only heavy machinery can clear.
California's problems are complicated, she said — a combination of hot, dry climates, poor community design and "100 years of fire suppression" that helped turn forests into tinder boxes.
How Trump administration pressure to dump 4-H's LGBT policy led to Iowa leader's firing
Courtney Crowder and Jason Clayworth, Des Moines Register, Nov. 18
Katherine Soule, the chair of an LGBT working group in 2016 and a leader of California's 4-H, said group leaders were asked to adapt the Obama administration's Dear Colleague letter protecting gender-identity rights for 4-H.
Soules and a group of Western 4-H leaders created a best-practices document that became the foundation of a national guidance document.
...The about-face on the LGTB policy by national 4-H headquarters left some 4-H volunteers angry and program officials confused, according to the Register's investigation.
"I feel bad for the folks at USDA," Glenda Humiston, the vice president of the University of California's Agriculture and Natural Resources, told other 4-H leaders during a May training video. "I think they are in between a rock and a hard place."
Lessons from Camp Fire: Staying alive in California fire country
(Mercury News) Lisa Krieger, Nov. 17
Even as smoke chokes the sky and shrouds the sun, millions of Bay Area and other California residents remain unprepared for the next inferno.
…"You can only pour so many cars into different arteries at the same time," said J. Keith Gilless, professor and dean emeritus at UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources.
…"Fewer than half of families in our area have taken the time to sit down, write out an emergency plan, discuss it with family members and maybe even do a practice run," said UC Berkeley's Gilless.
Facts Matter: President's posts on wildfires misleading
(Chicago Daily Herald) Bob Oswald, Nov. 17
The current wildfires aren't forest fires and are not the responsibility of forest management, the Times said.
"These fires aren't even in forests," Max Moritz, a wildfire specialist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the Times.
The Camp and Woolsey fires began where communities are close to undeveloped areas, the Times said. Fires in these locations are more deadly and costly because of the proximity to homes and towns.
Why didn't PG&E shut down power in advance of deadly Camp Fire? Here's the data.
(Mercury News) Matthias Gafni, Nov. 17
…Thomas Scott, who has written about fire management in California's wildland urban interface and works with the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, wonders if the decision to keep power on may have had to do with the complaints the utility received after its October shutdown.
"Any rationale they had for keeping the lines hot has tragically backfired for everyone involved," he said. "Can't understand what they were contemplating; perhaps they maintained power until the last possible moment because that action breeds unhappy customers and dangerous situations if power is turned off."
Examining Jerry Brown's veto of California wildfire legislation and the criticism of it
(Politifact) Chris Nichols, Nov. 16
Bill Stewart, a forestry specialist at UC Berkeley, reviewed the bill and Brown's veto message. He said in an email, "I do not think it would have made much of a difference, as the amount of funds was not that great ($582,000 that may have just led to some hiring of consultants and a lot interaction with the communities) and, more importantly, no new advances would have been made."
Stewart, however, went on to describe the legislation as "a good shot across the bow to the (Brown) administration to do more. This area of risk assessment and mitigation has been woefully underfunded for decades."
How fierce fall and winter winds help fuel California fires
(The Conversation) Faith Kearns and Max Moritz, Nov. 16
… Fire hazard is determined by a variety of factors that include vegetation, topography and weather. Add people and homes, and you get fire risk. While wind is one of the biggest factors in fire spread, it also generates flying embers far ahead of the fire itself.
… Managing the type and amount of vegetation, or "fuel," in an area provides a set of tools for altering fire behavior in wildland fires. But during wind-driven urban conflagrations, homes are usually a major – if not the main – source of fuel.
…As residents and researchers who have worked extensively on fire in California, we believe the state and its newly elected leadership face a formidable challenge and an opportunity to reinvest in a robust, interdisciplinary approach to wildfire risk reduction that combines the best of both research and practice. It must integrate both new (and potentially controversial) urban planning reforms as well as novel thinking about evacuation alternatives.
California Citrus Network Now Available as Grower Resource
(AgNetWest) Nov. 16
The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) has launched the California Citrus Network as a means to address industry concerns through a collaborative approach. The new website will be another resource available to those involved with citrus production who may have questions or concerns about their operation.
"If they see something out in the field that's unusual, they can snap some pictures with their smartphone or their tablet and they can go onto the forum site," said UCCE Area Citrus Advisor for Tulare, Fresno, and Madera Counties Greg Douhan. "Let's say you think something is some sort of disease issue, you can go in there and look on that and see if anybody else has been seeing the same thing. Or you can post a question and say, 'hey I'm finding this unusual situation out in my field, is anybody else seeing this?' so it's just a way to communicate."
Editorial: Horrifying infernos in California
(Providence RI Journal) Nov. 16
California deals with wildfires on an annual basis. Parts of the state were ravaged earlier this summer. But what has happened this month alone will make 2018 the worst year on record.
Five separate wildfires (named Camp, Nurse, Hill, Woolsey and Peak) in November have burned more than 245,000 acres of land.
…Max Moritz, a wildfire specialist with the University of California, told the AP that there are "so many ways that can go wrong, in the warning, the modes of getting the message out, the confusion ... the traffic jams." He suggested local officials consider building "local retreat zones" and "local safety zones" in urban communities to protect residents from the deadly wildfires.
See how a warmer world primed California for large fires
(National Geographic) Alejandra Borunda, Nov. 15
…Over the past century, California has warmed by about three degrees Fahrenheit. That extra-warmed air sucks water out of plants and soils, leaving the trees, shrubs, and rolling grasslands of the state dry and primed to burn.
That vegetation-drying effect compounds with every degree of warming, explains Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, meaning that plants lose their water more efficiently today than they did before climate change ratcheted up California's temperatures.
…Changes in precipitation are another factor. California's summer dry season has also been lengthening. Each extra day lets plants dry out more, increasing their susceptibility to burning.
"Usually—or, I don't want to even say usually anymore because things are changing so fast—we get some rains around Halloween that wet things down," says Faith Kearns, a scientist at University of California Institute for Water Resources in Oakland. But in the past few years, those rains haven't come until much later in the autumn—November, or even December.
Why Wildfires Are Burning So Hot and Moving So Fast
(NPR) Kirk Siegler, Nov. 15
…One recent study predicted several million homes built in the West are at immediate risk. Susie Kocher is a forester with the University of California's Cooperative Extension service here in the Sierra.
"We haven't caught up, and to retrofit our existing housing stock to fend off embers is a long-term, expensive proposition."


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March 1, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Belgrave-born folk-pop darlings Parkville got their start busking on the city streets of Melbourne. Liam, Michael and Dylan soon developed their winning formula: a driving Mumford & Sons-style backbone featuring rich three-part vocal harmonies and soaring violin riffs, taking influence from The Beach Boys and Punch Brothers.
Settling on their name in late 2017, the band didn't take long to produce their first EP as Parkville, from which singles "Shining" and "Brando" held #2 and #4 in the Triple J Unearthed charts, as well as receiving Australia-wide radio play. 2018 brought Parkville the opportunity to support international touring acts and a hugely successful headline show at the Toff in Town, which critics praised as:
"nothing short of spectacular" ~The Real Songwriters of Melbourne
Parkville are kicking off 2019 with the release of their new single Rooks, a uniquely devious protest song that keeps its heart on its sleeve but a knife behind its back. Rooks pushes the boundaries of what a simple violin-guitar-piano trio can achieve, evoking a Hans Zimmer film score, an 80's rock jam and a bustling Cuban footpath in equal measures, and is available on all digital platforms Feb 16th.
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Nestled in the middle of the small Gough street, not far from the loud Lan Kwai Fong, we found Gough 40. If the building did not happen to be owned by May's dad, we would likely never tried this place. Surprinsingly good and definitely unpretentious, Gough 40, for me, captures the entrepreneurial spirit of Hong Kong; the owners basically learned their craft (including food making) on the fly and adjusted to the need and wants of their clientele. The result is sometimes a bit weird (serving garlic bread before the meal), sometimes amateurish (table service doesn't quite follow protocol, presentation could use some work) but the food we had there was great (fresh, prepared with care, and so tasty). Actually, we prefered it to HK Joel Robuchon; it was less pretentious and,as far as I'm concerned, as good. This is, to me, the entreprenarial spirit of Hong Kong; anyone can hope to succeed if they are willing to try hard and see obstacles as just one more opportunity to distance yourself from your competitors.
G/F 40 Gough StreetSheung WanHong KongTel. 2851 8498
HKD $1000 for us two (About CDN $140)


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If you haven't seen "Vanity," the portmanteau for Vanessa Woodfield (Michelle Hardwick, who is openly lesbian in real life) and Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) on the British soap opera "Emmerdale," stop what you're doing and catch up.
Vanity is unlike any other couple we can think of: droll, mature, entirely unexpected and, to quote Vanessa herself, fun. Village bad girl Charity is sharp-tongued and abrasive, her snark cutting to its recipients, but humorous to the audience. Sexually uninhibited (Atkins once called her a "tart with a heart") with an irrepressible bent towards troublemaking, she's been around Emmerdale long enough to have done a lot of soap opera things (like marrying three times, having several kids, and going to jail, to name a few).
Vanessa is the town veterinarian whose last relationship was with a teenage boy. Neither is prepared for the game of cat and mouse that Charity initiates to turn into anything more, but like a brave and determined lion tamer, Vanessa persists until she finally gets her woman. What follows is a beautiful storyline about having a supportive, genuine same-sex relationship in your forties.
A distinguishing characteristic of Vanity is that Charity and Vanessa are real people. Neither is perfect. Charity isn't always easy to love: she pushes her partner away under stress, has a history of manipulating other people to get what she wants, and carries so much emotional and relationship baggage that it might as well come in railway boxcars.
Vanessa, meanwhile, has a tendency to decide what's best for her partner and to push forward with that regardless of her partner's feelings like an overeager Girl Scout. But together, their storyline is about growing as individuals and becoming better partners in an encouraging environment.
Charity is learning to let her guard down and be a compassionate partner, while Vanessa is learning to moderate her impulsive need to "do the right thing" and to really listen to her partner's needs. So far, the two have weathered issues like Vanessa being suspended from her job, Charity confronting the aftereffects of systemic rape by a police officer when she was a young teenager and seeking justice for the rape, and Charity's discovery that the son she thought died decades ago is now a young man with cerebral palsy.
Ultimately, it is this human element that sets Vanity apart from almost every other lesbian TV couple on air right now.
It is probably possible to count on one hand the number of female same-sex relationships that have ever been on TV—in any country, at any time—in which both partners were in their forties and had children from other relationships. This is a real modern family. Moreover, not only are Vanessa and Charity three-dimensional characters, but they're actually allowed to express sexuality, something that is both rare for lesbian pairings and disappointingly uncommon among female characters no longer in their twenties.
With Vanity, viewers are not in doubt what Vanessa and Charity are doing behind closed doors, and it's mostly not crossword puzzles (although somehow it wouldn't be surprising if Charity did do a crossword puzzle every morning).
Much of Vanity's appeal hinges on the unbelievably dynamic character of Charity, whose last same-sex relationship on the show was in the early 2000s with "Emmerdale"'s then lesbian resident Zoë Tate.
There are few characters on TV like Charity. She's bold, brash, and says things aloud that most people would only say in their heads. Through the Vanity storyline and the exposition of her traumatic past, Charity, a longstanding "villain" of the show, is being redeemed to some extent and humanized.
AfterEllen was fortunate enough to catch the unbelievably talented and gracious actress behind Charity, Emma Atkins, in the midst of her whirlwind schedule, to ask her more about Vanity.
AfterEllen.com: You and Michelle have fantastic chemistry as Vanity, the fan name for Vanessa and Charity as a couple, but before the Vanity storyline, Charity and Vanessa didn't interact much. Did the writers get lucky in putting you two together, or were they seeing something behind the scenes?
Emma Atkins: I think initially, they needed a female character for Vanessa to engage with on an intimate level so that confusion over her sexuality came into play. Basically, they took Charity and Vanessa and locked them in the cellar. The script was good and the scenario was extremely unexpected. It seemed to work. And they decided to continue exploring the dynamic of two polar opposite personalities.
AE: What was your reaction when you found out about the Vanity storyline? It's been well over a decade since the Zoe Tate storyline; did you think they'd dropped the idea of pursuing another female love interest for Charity?
EA: I was on set, about to do a line run for a scene, and Michelle said, "Have you read the next block? We end up kissing in the cellar." I thought she was joking. It seemed so random. But then when you think about the way a soap works, it's ever changing. Things move at a rapid pace. I read the script and thought, "Why not? This is what they've written, so let's make it work."
AE: Vanessa challenges Charity and doesn't jump when Charity presses buttons like Charity is used to, but what else is it about Vanessa that draws Charity to her?
EA: Vanessa is kind-hearted. She has an openness and purity about her and Charity is typically drawn to the dark side of someone's personality; characteristics that are more suited to her own. However, Vanessa isn't moved or fazed by Charity's inherently despicable nature. And for that very reason, Vanessa starts to get under her skin. She becomes more and more drawn to her. For Charity to be attracted to someone full of goodness, someone who isn't turned on by conflict and drama, it is uncharted territory.
AE: Charity goes from having a laugh, to the odd string, to by March she's showing some clinginess about Vanessa and then by April she's all in to the relationship and feels comfortable enough with Vanessa to tell her about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Inspector Bails, something she never told anyone in past relationships. Do you think Charity is surprised by how quickly she's fallen into this relationship with Vanessa and does it scare her at all?
EA: Charity hasn't had much control over her feelings for Vanessa, which take her by storm. The audience get to see a rather organic chemistry unraveling as a consequence, which I think is brilliant. It's something Charity's never experienced. And for her to open up to another human being in this way, and share such a painful secret, speaks volumes.
AE: Do you feel that Charity's relationship with Vanessa has nurtured any character development for her, and if so, what new elements of her character have you most enjoyed bringing out?
EA: Charity is being shown genuine affection. Vanessa isn't interested in mind games, which renders Charity powerless, and I think this is more interesting to watch. Seeing a vulnerable side for once. As an actress, it's a wonderful challenge to play an entirely different aspect of my character's personality. We are used to seeing Charity's bravado and she's almost out of her depth because she can't adopt any of her usual ammo. She finds herself wrapped up in this rather functional, beautiful relationship. She is so used to playing hard to get. Vanessa allows her to be herself for the first time in her life. Knowing how caustic and confrontational Charity can be, I think it's an exciting combination of feelings and emotions.
AE: What has been your favorite Vanity scene to date? Do you have a favorite thing about Vanity as a couple?
EA: The cellar scene was so unexpected and I think we made something quite bold yet intimate. I asked the director and Michelle, of course, if I could pull the eye mask off Michelle's face and ping it back to give the moment before they kissed some "impulsiveness." We tried it and it just worked. Making use of her costume seemed a good way for Charity to make her move. It was funny as well as exciting.
AE: Charity plans a date with Vanessa. Where do they go and what do they do?
EA: Charity would probably take her out to dinner and then a club.
AE: You mentioned in another interview that you hoped that Vanity would last a while because you didn't want the storyline to be seen as just something salacious. What would you like to happen with them? Do you see the potential for a long relationship between them?
EA: I had no expectations, as I know how storylines can change overnight or run for a while. You never know. I like seeing Charity being emotionally affected by someone in a positive way for a change. It was a wonderful contrast to the really heavy storyline of Charity's past.
AE: What is it like working with Michelle?
EA: We have a terrible time working together. Joking of course. Michelle is wonderful. We have a good working relationship. She's extremely professional. We always play around with the dialogue and try and give our characters little quirks when we interact with one another.
AE: In the mid-2000s, a very common depiction for bisexual female characters on TV and in movies was that they were crazy and/or manipulative. Charity and Zoe both checked this box. Now in 2018, Vanity is neither. Do you feel that there was a conscious shift on "Emmerdale" to be more positive in the portrayal of bisexual women?
EA: I'm not sure if this was a conscious shift in terms of planning to put Charity and Vanessa together and make it a positive portrayal of a same-sex relationship. I think "Emmerdale" did something random and it worked. And as a consequence, it's a window of opportunity to develop a love story between two very different women. To begin with, there was a little bit of manipulation from Charity's side, but Vanessa soon puts her in her place. You have two people with contrasting personalities that can still manage to have a loving relationship despite one of them being relatively dysfunctional. Vanessa allows Charity to be true to herself which, in turn, allows her to open up like never before and Charity realises pretty quickly that she doesn't need to be crazy or manipulative. Regardless of their sexuality, for me, it's just a brilliant love story between two people who happen to be strong women. It has really spoken to people.
AE: I love the scene in which a flustered Vanessa comes to Charity and tells her they'll never kiss again, and instead Charity actually convinces her to come upstairs as a "hangover cure." I love it because you start very gently nodding, and Michelle mirrors your nod, kind of like a snake charmer and a snake. Was that intentional?
EA: It's lovely that you picked up on that scene and the way it is played. It was organic and that was Michelle's choice to make her vulnerable and nod along and it was a brilliant choice. It worked well. She very quickly gives in to Charity and falls under her spell. I see why you liken it to snake charming. That made me laugh out loud.
AE: Fans know you're not publicly on social media, but do you ever go online to see what the conversation is about Vanity and read what your fans have to say? And with that, how do you feel about being so popular with LGBT fans?
EA: Michelle tells me stuff. I am always blown away by the wonderful feedback. It is overwhelming, to be honest, in a really lovely way. How could it not be! If we are telling a story and telling it to the best of our ability and it's getting positive attention, then we are doing our job. I finally yielded to the way of the social solar system recently and set up a public Instagram.
AE: Charity gets the best lines. What has been your favorite line so far for Charity, and do you ever ad lib these funny lines?
EA: I am blessed with the lines I'm given. I get excited every time I get a script and see that she's being mischievous. I want it to always be this way. I liked the scene with Vanessa and one of her clients in the pub where Charity throws the client out for being rude to Vanessa and she says, "Go on – TROT ON!" I went all posh on the word "trot" and I nearly couldn't do it for laughing. Just the way Charity finishes the scene with, "Meet me in the cellar in 5 minutes." The whole scenario was lighthearted and mischievous. Always a good combination.
AE: Are there any scenes or storylines that weren't scripted the way they ended up because you thought something else would work better?
EA: We mostly stick to the script but because we know our characters so well, it's always lovely for the audience to see the idiosyncrasies really coming out. I think it's essential to play around with quirks as and when we can. Often in a funnier scene, there's more opportunity for Charity to come into full play. Usually when she's being confrontational in the pub.
AE: In 2016, about 43% of all the lesbian and bisexual female characters on English language TV were killed off, a spike from the usual annual rate of 25-30%. Since then, there's been a large push in the US to ensure that the kill rate is lower, and it was about 10% or so in 2017. If the writers of "Emmerdale" came up with what they thought was a brilliant death for Charity or Vanessa, would you be able to suggest that perhaps instead she become a fugitive in South America instead?
EA: That is very flattering and yes, I'll be sure to put that to them, should they ever decide to do a Thelma & Louise on us.
AE: Will you be attending any LGBT-related events this year, such as a pride parade or the ClexaCon that will be happening in London on 2-4 November?
EA: At the moment, I'm lucky if I get home in time to put Albert to bed. I'm working long hours, so my weekends at home with my family are precious. I would happily attend any event/celebration of the LGBT community, given the time! And I want to officially apologise if I can, for the lateness of this interview. I've been looking forward to doing it for so long but I've been waiting for enough time to be thoughtful with my answers, due to the fact I was so blown away by how good the interview is. I wanted to do it justice. So I'm sorry for that!
AE: When putting together this interview, I asked Twitter to submit questions. A very common response was the desire to know whether you realized the extent of the impact that the Vanity storyline is having on fans all over the world. In the past, you've rejected the idea of Charity Dingle as any sort of a role model, which is fair, but Vanity—as a loving same-sex relationship between two adults over the age of 30—is nevertheless so far an extremely positive relationship with tangible positive impact. Do you feel buoyed professionally and personally by that sort of impact?
EA: I cannot begin to express how gobsmacked I was when I heard this during a phone interview. I had no idea of the impact and I don't really know what to say except I'm humbled and flattered and something must be working! And yes, I am used to the opposite happening: people telling me Charity is such a wicked human. So for my character to be connected to something of substance, a storyline that is having a positive impact on people, and like you say, across the globe, I'm truly speechless, and beyond amazed.
AE: Finally, if fans want to convey their thanks, gratitude, and support to you, what's the best way for them to do that?
EA: My new Instagram account? @missemmaatkins. I was worried about doing a public one as I find the world of social media both exciting and frightening. But I guess the industry I'm in, it's now a huge part of my world. So I may as well embrace it. I'd love to say thank you to every single person who's sent messages to me regarding the storyline over the past year. I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am for such kind words. It means the world to me.
Vanity has a large fan base, particularly in England, where Vanity is an "Emmerdale" fan favorite couple. For a super cute video of Atkins and Hardwick talking about Vanity, check out this video of them playing "60 Seconds on Set"!


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"Materassiedoghe" has been active for more than 35 years in the production and sale of memory foam mattresses and pillows. 15 years ago the decision to use the internet as the main channel of sales, becoming the first Italian company that sells mattresses online. This choice was motivated, after careful considerations, by many reasons. First of all, the online sale of mattresses allows "Materassiedoghe" to reach more potential customers, not only in Italy but also in Europe and UK, but this is not all.
The traditional sale of the mattress implies that once the product is manufactured it is put into a warehouse, creating a stock; or it could be resold to a wholesaler that created his stock or that resells it to a distributor. After these first steps there are two possible alternatives: the mattress can go to a shop, where it is exposed or, in some cases, goes to a warehouse, until it is purchased by the final customer.
Alternatively, before being sold, it can be given as sample to a sales agent, who will introduce it to his potential customers who will decide whether or not to buy it by one of the shops where it is available orhe should wait till it is available to be collected.
All these steps will then oppress the final price of the mattress, which will be significantly higher: Transport, warehouse storage, Agent's commissions and exhibit space management costs, such as rent, electricity, heating and sales staff. For this reason, the profit margin in traditional sales is very limited, so it is necessary to raise up the final customer price or lower the production costs of the product. In this way, however, the quality of the product, the materials it is made of, and the care in detail will be lower.
"Materassiedoghe" has for this reason decided 5 years ago to sell its products online, mainly through their own website. In this way all the steps of the traditional sale are no longer needed. Mattresses "Materassiedoghe" are made in Italy, in one of our production warehouse; then they are sent directly to the final customer as soon as the production phase has ended, without the need to store them, or to be sold at a shop.
In this way, the distribution chain is significantly shorter and, consequently, cheaper. So it is possible to provide to the customers high quality products at a lower price, simplifying sales and delivery.
If you buy online, it is as if the mattress was purchased directly from the factory. Simply enter the "Materassiedoghe" sales portal; choose the product you prefer among those in the catalog; select the dimensions in centimeters of our mattress and then conclude the purchase by choosing one of the possible payment methods: PayPal credit card, bank transfer or using the AmazonPay system.
As we don't have a shop, you can not try ourmattresses. However, the staff of "Materassiedoghe" provides to all its potential customers the 30-year experience of their choice assistants. You can also contact us by telephone at +39 0365 1870030 or by e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll provide, without any obligation, all the information about products, purchase and delivery.
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For all these reasons "Materassiedoghe" decided to sell mattresses online: for the customers it is as to buy high quality italian mattresses directly from the factory, with the best prices and delivery to home.


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Bloodlines Retrospective
Editorial - posted by VentilatorOfDoom on Wed 14 April 2010, 10:20:49Tags: Troika Games; Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Gear Diaries take a rosy glance back at our beloved Bloodlines, the best Troika game of them all.
Every time I yank a jawbone from a skull and ram it into an eye socket, I know I'm building a better future.
For some, real-time combat from a first person perspective means that the game isn't a 'real' RPG. And because Bloodlines uses the Source engine shared with Half-Life 2, some folks are further emboldened to call it a shooter with RPG elements.
I think that is a load of crap. I consider the combat and genre as separate items.
But one thing is clear – Bloodlines uses a first person perspective real-time combat engine based on the Source engine. The game also auto-switches to third-person view for melee combat, which works extremely well. During the tutorial sections you learn how to handle both melee and armed combat, both of which have positive and negative elements.
Since the core game is based on the same engine that powers one of the best shooters in recent years, you would expect the game to excel as a FPS. In general it works very well, with all of the typical shooter elements intact: you aim, shoot, reload, pick up ammo, and so on. But since the game is a RPG, you also need to take the character skill levels into account. This means that the same 38-caliber pistol hitting for 5-6HP of damage during the tutorial will do much more damage as you gain more and more skills. And augmenting your natural skills with vampiric abilities can turn you into a lethal shooting force. But the game lets you know in the form of Jack in the tutorial that vampires are quite able to soak gun damage, so as you battle more and more vampires, your guns will be less and less effective.
Bloodlines also features a top-notch melee engine. In fact, the first battle you have uses a tire iron as a weapon! Given super-human speed and strength, melee combat seems more suitable for a vampire. The melee battles are full of typical ragdoll physics action, and look appropriately exaggerated in terms of impact of hits based on the game's 2003/2004 vintage. When engaging in melee combat the game switches to third person view, so you can see around your character and gauge better how to attack. Similar to gun-based combat, your melee damage is a combination of the weapon's inherent damage factor along with modifiers based on skills and attributes you can choose. One thing that is very clear – you will not get enough skill points to excel at both guns and melee combat, especially if you plan to advance any of your disciplines.
No, you get enough XP to excel at guns, melee, persuade AND your disciplines.
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mobilcom-debitel Shop GmbH Partners with Ria Money Transfer to Offer Domestic and International Money Transfer Services through Select Stores
mobilcom-debitel Shop GmbH Partners with Ria Money Transfer to Offer Domestic and International Money Transfer Services through Select Stores
Berlin, Germany, July 12, 2016 -- mobilcom-debitel one of the largest telecommunication and digital lifestyle providers in Europe, has partnered with Ria Money Transfer ("Ria") a global leader in money remittances, to offer money transfer sending services through selected mobilcom-debitel locations in Germany.
The new partnership enables customers to access Ria Money Transfer's extensive global network in 150 countries and allows for the secure transfer of money to friends and family living abroad, or within Germany. 60 mobilcom-debitel locations are now authorised to process money transfers through Ria's network, with nearly 600 mobilcom-debitel locations across Germany to be activated in the forthcoming months.
"Partnering with Ria is a great chance for us to extend our service portfolio for our customers in our shops," says Hubert Kluske, Managing Director of mobilcom-debitel Shop GmbH.
Mirko Kottke, Head of Corporate Development mobilcom-debitel Shop GmbH, adds: "For mobilcom-debitel as a digital lifestyle provider, Ria's services open up new business opportunities".
Ria's President and CEO Juan Bianchi, also adds "Ria is always looking for new ways to reach customers that have a need to make a money transfer – whether as an occasional gift or as a regular remittance. We believe our partnership with mobilcom-debitel will provide customers with a simple, secure and convenient money transfer option at the point of sale."
About mobilcom-debitel
The mobilcom-debitel brand is positioned as the digital lifestyle provider within the freenet Group. It offers a wide range of proprietary mobile communications, services and data offerings that make every life easier with technical support via internet or smartphone. The range also includes numerous products from the German network carriers and energy and accessories offers. The company provides independent expert consultation and selection of products in nearly 600 branded shops, in GRAVIS stores, and in a broad network of retailers and electronics markets, as well as through its customer support.
About Ria
Ria, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), is a global leader in money remittances. Ria offers fast, secure, affordable money transfers through a network of approximately 310,000 global agents spanning 150 countries and online at www.riamoneytransfer.com. The company is steadfast in its commitment to its customers and remains ingrained within the communities in which they live.
For more information visit www.riafinancial.com and www.riamoneytransfer.com.


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1. The Buddhist by Dodie Bellamy
While ending an affair with a Buddhist teacher, Dodie Bellamy wrote about it simultaneously on her blog. This experiment in writing in extremis explores nuances of public shame, the vagaries of desire and rage, and Bellamy's confusion over the authenticity of group and individual spirituality. What is personal, what is public? In the electronic age, can anybody tell the difference?
the buddhist celebrates marginalized subjectivity as enacted in the work of female artists from Bessie Smith to Eva Hesse and Carolee Schneeman, to Bhanu Kapil and Ariana Reines. The Allone Co. Edition contains the essence of the blog, as well as more extended narratives too explicit to post on line. Designed by Wayne Smith.
Price: 26,50 Euro
2. A History of New York by Matt Keegan
Artist Matt Keegan used Ric Burns's PBS documentary, New York, as the foundation for this dense visual history of New York City. The film was billed as a "seven-part, 14 ½ hour television event [that] explores New York City's rich history as the premier laboratory of modern life. A sweeping narrative covering nearly 400 years and 400 square miles..." The same chronology and stories are found within Keegan's image-based iteration, but without Burns's omniscient narrator. Readers make their way though four centuries of New York City history with only themselves and their experience as guides. Printed in digital color and black-and-white.
Price: 45,00 Euro
POOL — intercontinental magazine published in Tokyo (52°41'N, 139°46'E), Warsaw (52°35'N, 21°05'E) and Vienna (48°13'N, 16°22'E). — Contributors: Anrealage, Wendy&Jim, Ania Kuczynska, Petar Petrov, Birgit Megerle, Yohei Yoshida, Alexander Nussbaumer, Mario Grubisic, Lukas Gansterer, Christoph Pirnbacher, Kasia Korzeniecka, Szymon Roginski, Tomasz Kowalski, Maurycy Gomulicki, Daphne Ahlers, Andrzej Sobolewski, Lucie Stahl, Philipp Ruthner. — A seasonal artbook curated by Yosuke Demukai — Japanese photographer based in Warsaw/Tokyo and the Polish artist Marcin Zarzeka, who lives in Vienna/Warsaw. — The magazine printed on paper in an edition of 1000 copies. — Touch and smell summer issue. — POOL. http://www.pool-magazine.org/
15 Euros
When things start talking back, you've become part of an Internet of Things. Auto-sensoring, basic intelligence, interaction, we're increasingly part of a world were things and living souls are equally connected. The fridge is a node just as you are. Volume #28 dives into these new dimensions of reality, into the consequences for design and for our understanding of our own position in the world. Coders and architects are different beings and speak different languages, this issue seems to conclude. Since merging virtual and physical requires knowledge about both worlds, this reality should be overcome. So this Volume is not just about framing the issue, but also about indicating a practice in the making: we call it correlation designing.
Volume #28: Internet of Things with:
Stephen Gage, Shintaro Miyazaki, Nina Larsen, Edwin Gardner, Marcell Mars, Deborah Hauptman, Ken Sakamura, Lara Schrijver, Mark Shepard, Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Ben Schouten, Golfstromen, Ole Bouman, Philip Beesley, Bart-Jan Polman, Carola Moujan, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Nortd Labs, Tuur van Balen, Ruairi Glynn, Justin Fowler, Eduard Sancho Pou, Mark Dek, Nina Larsen, Christiaan Fruneaux, Vincent Schipper, Timothy Moore, Amelia Borg, Lorna Goulden, Usman Haque, Ed Borden, Mette Thomsen, Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, Ben Cerveny, James Burke, Juha van 't Zelfde. Also featuring 'Tracing Concepts' editors Edwin Gardner and Marcell Mars, plus our second Trust Insert with Premsela Foundation: 'Trust Design 2: The Internet of Things' editor Scott Burnham, design Roosje Klap.
Price: € 19.50
look inside: http://www.ideabooks.nl/index.php?op=video&title=26927&what=n&r=4&p=&k=&...
Monograph on one of America's key innovators of the 20th century. Introduced by Norman Foster and Luis Fernández-Galiano, the life and work of engineer, author, designer and inventor Buckminster 'Bucky' Fuller is celebrated and assessed in terms of legacy and inspiration. Illustrated with photography, drawings, plans and unseen ephemera, Fuller's breath-taking span of creative initiatives is explored, including early housing designs that used cable and pulley systems, the mythical Dymaxion Car that anticipates today's aeronautical advances, and Fuller's most fertile structural invention – the Geodesic Domes that earned him a Time magazine cover in 1964
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Want to DIY Your SEO Needs? Boost Your Business's Online Presence with These Tricks
If you have a business, you're online. Sounds simple? For a lot of business owners, creating and maintaining an online presence is not as easy as it seems. Some do not have the know-how to handle their SEO needs. Lack of resources, time, and manpower are also common issues. For many, the quickest solution is to outsource all SEO needs to companies specializing in the field.
If you decide to try your hand at growing your own online presence, however, give your efforts a boost with these SEO tricks.
Content is (Still) King
Experts declared content as the king of SEO a couple of years ago and it still occupies the throne. The same rules still apply— write original, well-researched, and interesting content to keep your audience captivated and coming back for more. But make sure you also optimize your content. For instance, research the keywords that are relevant to your target market. Include analysis of your competitors' pages. Then, create a comprehensive answer that is relevant to those queries. Not only will visitors find your content but they'll also be satisfied with what they read.
Build Partnerships
Your website won't survive alone. Once you get that traffic going, you'd want to initiate relationships with other people and sites that add value to your own. Link to bloggers that provide great answers to some questions related to your business. Comment on posts in online communities and thematic groups. This is a great way to grow your audience, get more promotion, and build the credibility of your business online.
Choose a Fast Hosting Provider
The attention span of the average person online is very little. With so many things to see and do on the web, no one has the time to wait for a website to start loading. If you're not sure which hosting provider to choose, you might want to do some research on the providers used by your competition. Compare speeds thoroughly before you make a decision.
Be User-friendly
On a related note, not only should you maintain fast loading speeds but your overall website structure should also be easy to navigate. This is especially true if your website offers online shopping or learning. Your website should translate well across all devices, especially mobile. Check for pop-ups that annoy most visitors. Create a site that's visually and technically hassle-free.
As a business owner, creating and maintaining your own website can be challenging. There are a lot of SEO tricks aside from these, so don't be afraid to make mistakes as your learn and move forward.


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Homeopathic Remedies For Asthenia
The subject is a timely one when the nervous systems of many executives and business men are cracking under the long continuing and constant stress of our times. Eventually this persistent load of tension would surely lead to absolute breakdown in the nervous, cardiac and renal spheres especially, unless some therapeutic agent could be applied that would stimulate the various tissues of our complex human mechanism so that they became able to withstand the constant shock of these cataclysmal forces.
Such agents are to be found among the various invaluable remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica. Naturally any sane medical or lay observer says, "But first remove the cause." Very wise and very true we grant, but we claim that, failing to be able to do the latter because of our impotence to control the vast economic factors at work, recourse to the former method is logical, sound and beneficial. This to my mind conforms to the best noblest in homoeopathic philosophy.
Chininum arsenicosum. General weariness, exhaustion and prostration are marked. There are palpitation and attacks of suffocation. The patient craves the open air.
Cinchona officinalis. Periodic attacks of debility, apathy, despondency, palpitation with sense of rapid irregular cardiac action. This is often associated with marked intestinal distension, profuse sweats, wandering pains in the extremities, sleeplessness or unrefreshing sleep with frightful dreams.
Natrum muriaticum. Fluttering sensation in the precordium and the feeling that the heart pulsations shake the whole body. Cannot stand consolation. Goes into a rage about trifles.
Nux vomica. Frequently applicable to the quick, active, nervous business man with his preponderance of mental work and sedentary life. He reacts poorly to stimulants, sleep poorly, has much gastro-intestinal disturbance followed by vertigo, palpitation and tachycardia.


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Such a slimey warty skin, but look into their eyes and you will see the inky darkness of a happy soul surrounded by a patterned ring of coppery brightness. We have an ambivalent relationship with the amphibian world from kissing them into handsome princes to tadpole hunting, then watching as they metamorphose from aqueous wrigglers into leggy land-dwellers that hop off into the next generation.
Apart from being able to find a common toad or frog and several varieties of newt quietly ambling about their business here in Northumberland, we have an even deeper connection to our amphibious relatives. Hidden within the rocks of North Northumberland and the Scottish Borders are the fossils of the very first creatures to evolve their fishy lobed fins into legs and start walking on land. These petrified creatures have only recently been discovered and are causing great excitement as we start to discover the first shambling steps of these ancient amphibious tetrapods, the very beginning of the walk down the evolutionary pathways that eventually led to us.
The rocks of North Northumberland define its beautiful landscape and more, telling stories of an ancient past that define our history and connect to our present. The earliest rocks in which fossil amphibians have been discovered can be seen on the banks of the River Whitadder as well as on the foreshore in the dramatic cliff backed villages at Burnmouth. Fossils can also been found in many locations further south along the coast, particularly in the limestones which preserve the remains of a rich variety of sea-dwelling creatures including corals, crinoids and the occasional nautiloid.
All of these locations are protected so the best way of taking fossils is with a picture, hammers definitely not OK!
You can find out more about the TWE:eed project, which was set up to explore the early amphibious fossils at the website http://www.tetrapods.org/
There is information about the geodiversity of the Northumberland National Park and the Northumberland Coast AONB on their websites.
and you can find more about amphibian species from the Northumberland Wildlife Trust on their dedicated page http://www.nwt.org.uk/wildlife/species-explorer/amphibians


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Limited Liability Company – General – Ohio
Related Ohio Legal Forms
The practice of engineering in the State of Ohio as a professional association (limited liability company) is controlled statutorily by Chapter 1705 of the OHIO REVISED CODE and by the law applicable to professional associations. Additionally, a professional association organized to engage in the practice of engineering is governed by the rules and regulations of the Ohio State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors.
In Ohio, a limited liability company may be formed for the purpose of carrying on the practice of any profession. However, the authority or responsibility of any agency, board, commission, department, office, or other entity to license, register, and otherwise regulate the professional conduct of individuals or organizations of any kind rendering professional services or to regulate the practice of any profession that is within the jurisdiction of the agency, board, commission, department, office, or other entity is not altered because the entity before the licensing authority is a professional association.
The name of a limited liability company must include the words, "limited liability company," without abbreviation or shall include one of the following abbreviations: "LLC," "L.L.C.," "limited," "ltd.," or "ltd". The name must be distinguishable upon the records in the office of the secretary of state and it must not contain any language that indicates or implies that the limited liability company is connected with a government agency.
A "professional service" is any type of professional service that may be performed only pursuant to a license, certificate, or other legal authorization.
A "professional association" is an association organized for the sole purpose of rendering one of the professional services authorized by statute.
An individual or group of individuals, each of whom is licensed, certificated, or otherwise legally authorized to render within Ohio the same kind of professional service may organize and become a member or members of a professional association.
A professional association may render a particular professional service only through officers, employees, and agents who are themselves duly licensed, certificated, or otherwise legally authorized to render the professional service within Ohio. The term "employee" does not include clerks, bookkeepers, technicians, or other individuals who are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be rendering a particular professional service for which a license, certificate, or other legal authorization is required and does not include any other person who performs all of that person's employment under the direct supervision and control of an officer, agent, or employee who renders a particular professional service to the public on behalf of the professional association.
The formation and practice of a profession by a professional association does not modify any law applicable to the relationship between a person furnishing a professional service and a person receiving that service, including liability arising out of the furnishing of that service.
A professional association may issue its membership interest only to persons who are duly licensed, certificated, or otherwise legally authorized to render within Ohio the same professional service as that for which the association was organized.
A member of a professional association may sell or transfer that member's interest in the association only to another individual who is duly licensed, certificated, or otherwise legally authorized to render within Ohio the same professional service as that for which the association was organized.
If any provision of Chapter 1785 conflicts with any provision of Chapter 1705, then the provisions of Chapter 1785 take precedence.
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Change is here. For all of us. As I listened to President-elect Obama's speech, I can't help but notice a common undercurrent that's been there since Day 1. Every other word is us or we or together. Has any other President spent as much time addressing those who oppose or disagree with him than Obama just did? If you interpret that observation as an insult, you clearly don't understand half of Obama's appeal. We all have a new President, not just 51% of us.
Maybe I'm naive. Maybe I'm drinking the Kool-Aid. Or maybe I'm simply not old enough to be jaded. I want to believe that hope can triumph over fear. I no longer want exclusiveness to rule the land. The idea of knowledge and service and sacrifice all come together to make this world a better place isn't just appealing, it's enough to get me out of bed every morning.
Tonight begins the first step of an excruciatingly long, uncertain, and difficult journey. But dammit if it's not exciting.
Every generation deserves its Obama. He could turn out to be our Lincoln or he could wind up flopping into the history books next to Carter. Either way, I'm excited. For the first time in my adult life, the leader of my country is somebody whom I trust and respect. Right now, that's good enough for me.


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Save yourself time and hassle — make the lower out a square or rectangle, despite the fact that the outlet could also be a different form. Grade of provides and materials are rated at moderate and above, and this will likely embrace the applying of 'low dust' all goal compound atop drywall.
This drywall repair process ensures adequate filling and assists us in having properly sanded and feathered edges on our drywall repairs in comparison with having ridges, humps, and uneven repair work.
I understand that we now have been invited into your house to perform a a lot-needed drywall repair service, and as your visitor, we'll conduct ourselves in a highly skilled method and keep a neat and clear work area.
Every HIW Drywall Repair workers member has acquired in depth coaching, featuring industry greatest practices and proprietary methods to make sure that the restore appears to be like as if it never even occurred.
Let it dry, then apply more drywall compound, feathering the edges as you go. Like we did for the patches we discussed earlier, it can take a number of coats, in addition to a lightweight sanding, between each coat.