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Juelz Santana Explains Why "I Can't Feel My Face" Collaboration Album With Lil Wayne Didn't Drop!
Harlem-born rapper Juelz Santana opens up about why his "Can't Feel My Face" collaboration with Lil Wayne didn't come out, revealing "the album didn't come out for political reasons." Juelz also says that he and Wayne still have a good relationship, and the YMCMB rapper is executive producing his next album, "Born to Lose, Built to Win." - djvlad
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I am quite newbie in CUDA and i am very interested in Magma. I try to use magma_dgeev.
I would like my programm to do :
1 - Copy datas from host to device
2 - Execute magma_dgeev
3 - Do other stuff with the results on the device.
4 - Copy results from device to host
In the testing example testing_dgeev.cpp, matrix memory is allocated with cudaMallocHost, that is on the host. My first attemp works the same way, but to achieve "step 3" i need to (re)send the data to the device... Is it possible to keep it there ? I mean, i would rather call magma_dgeev with inputs that are in device memory, and results written in device memory.
How can i do that ?
Thanks !
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Merkel challenger hits brakes on autobahn limits
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in September's election is trying to avoid a political speed bump.
Peer Steinbrueck is trying to halt a debate set off by a Social Democrat colleague about whether to introduce speed limits on all German highways — a potential turnoff for voters.
The chairman of his party was quoted Wednesday as saying that a 75 mph (120 kph) autobahn limit would make sense because statistics suggest it would reduce serious accidents.
Stretches of Germany's autobahns have no speed limit, traditionally a cherished freedom. But debates periodically flare about whether one should be introduced.
Steinbrueck, whose party trails in the polls, tells WDR television there already are limits on most of autobahns. He says "it's not the time to reignite this debate."


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Police have confirmed that the destruction of a home�s garage door on Victoria Drive Saturday afternoon was accidental and not a malicious act.
Chief Andrew J. Sluckis said police learned about 11:30 p.m. Saturday that a real estate agent looking at a vacant condominium accidentally had caused the damage. The real estate agent apparently hit the gas, driving the Jeep Grand Cherokee into the garage.
The agent thought the garage was for the vacant home and planned to call the insurance company to report the incident. She didn�t realize the garage belonged to another home that was occupied, the chief said.
No charges will be filed.
The garage that was struck was at 1 Victoria Drive, No. 3. The accident occurred about 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Police originally thought someone had intentionally struck the garage door.


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The extended family
As I wrote a few weeks ago, I've become engrossed in family tree research since I joined Ancestry.com, and I've learned more about my family tree than I would have ever imagined possible.
Some of the family lines that I expected to trace back through many generations are surprisingly barren in information. And some family lines that I expected to be short and dull have turned out to be the longest and most interesting branches of all.
When you research a family tree, there is no limit to the branches you can add to it. For example, you may intend to find out who your great-grandparents' mother and father were. But soon, you find yourself researching their brothers and sisters (your great-aunts and great-uncles), whom they married, and where they ended up -- and on and on it goes.
When you search for your aunts and uncles and cousins on Ancestry.com, related family trees are suggested. That has led to some interesting contacts with various cousins.
Eaton and Hart Cousins
My great-aunt Almira's son Don is one of the various cousins with whom I've been e-mailing, recently. I remember Don from my childhood. My mother liked to visit Aunt Almira, and sometimes she brought my sister and me with her. Don was a teenager at that time, and I didn't talk to him much because I was shy, and he was scary!
A decade later, my entire immediate family moved from Nebraska to Missouri, and a few years after that, Aunt Almira passed away. I didn't have any idea what had happened to Don, but when I happened to see his family tree on Ancestry.com, I knew it had to be him. I sent him a note, and he replied in a friendly way, and I have enjoyed renewing contact with him. He's living in Juneau, Alaska.
I've also contacted a Hart cousin who lives in Arlington, Texas, through Ancestry.com. If I have it straight, Bob's grandmother Lutie and my great-grandmother Emma were sisters.
Bob has a lot of Hart family information, and he is generous about sharing. He sent me a wonderful photo (above) of the entire Marcus Eaton family in about 1924. My mother is the baby in her mother's arms, and my grandfather is the man at far left. Great-grandfather Marcus Eaton is second from left in the back row, and Great-grandmother Emma Hart is second from right in the front row. The rest of the people are my great-aunts and great-uncles.
A cousin from the Hill and Mapes lines
Linda, a cousin who grew up on the West Coast, e-mailed me when she saw on Ancestry.com that I'd been researching some of our shared ancestors. She has lived in Argentina for the last ten years, due to her husband's employment.
The family relationship between Linda and me is interesting. We share Charles Lesley Hill as a great-grandfather. Our great-grandmothers were sisters. In the late 1800s, Charlie Hill married Lillie Mapes. Twin daughters were born. Then Lillie died, following the birth of a third child. Charlie then married Lillie's younger sister, Lana Mapes.
Linda, the cousin who contacted me, is descended from one of the twin daughters of Charlie and Lillie, and I am descended from a son of Charlie and Lana. Linda said she has been researching her family history for 30 years. She wondered if I know where Almus Hill, our mutual 2x great-grandfather is buried. Regrettably, I do not have that information.
Fishers and Clarks
I've also emailed with a Fisher cousin who has an extensive family tree website with my Fishers in part of it, and with a Clark cousin who has a lot of family photographs of my great-grandfather Clark's brothers and sisters on his website.
While Ancestry.com is certainly a wonderful place to research family history, there's a lot of genealogy in other places that you don't have to pay to find. I found these Fisher and Clark websites just by running the names and dates for some of my ancestors through a Google search.
All this family history has been sitting around for who-knows-how-many years, waiting for me to get interested in it. I'm glad that time of my life has finally come. And I'm glad that the internet makes family tree research so much easier than it used to be.
I can't write about my cousins and the family tree without mentioning my cousin Alta on the Sees side of the family. She doesn't fit into the "lost and found" category, but she has given me some nice photos of the George Sees family, including one I wrote about a while back.


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Letter to the editor
Dear Editor-
The AU Threesome's new sex column, "Sex-perimentation," is cause for concern. First, it vividly describes a scene in which a female student is engaged in painful intercourse in a "drunken haze." However, if she is too drunk to remember the events of a party, she is probably unable to consent to sex. This is called rape. The Office of Campus Life has sexual assault resources available at www.american.edu/sexualassault, and the DC Rape Crisis center can be reached 24/7 at (202) 333-7273.
Not only does the column normalize sexual assault as a drunken hook-up that happens to everyone, but it places the responsibility of stopping sexual assault on women by telling them to "slow the guy down." Better advice would be that students are responsible for their own conduct, and must respect their partner's boundaries and wishes. Finally, the column condemns sexually active heterosexual women and, although reminding readers they can get condoms (and, I'll add, dental dams) from the GLBTA Resource center, it completely ignores the LGBT community at AU.
I look forward to reading future columns, and I have faith that they will not make light of issues of sexual assault and will be truly sex positive.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — For a quiet neighborhood in the sprawling Delmas community of the Haitian capital, building a Catholic parish has become a top priority.
Born out of last year's earthquake, the idea is slowly gaining ground in the neighborhood known as Delmas 33. About 150 worshipers joined Msgr. Pierre Andrew Pierre for Mass yesterday and enthusiastically prayed and sang during the two-hour liturgy.
Calling their faith community St. Francis of Delmas, the members say the nearest parishes are so far away that walking takes too long. Now they gather weekly outside of a private home under a tarp to worship. The altar is under a tent. Both are put up and removed by members each week.
Rene Syriacque, one of the parish organizers, said the group began gathering for Mass five days after the quake and have been together ever since. Of course, it helps that Msgr. Pierre, who is president of the University of Notre Dame of Haiti, now lives in the neighborhood.
Msgr. Pierre, 57, lives with his parents in Delmas 33. He took up residence with them after his home in the rectory of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption was destroyed in the quake. He was just steps away from Archbishop Serge Miot when the earthquake hit. The archbishop was violently pitched over a railing and died.
"I came here as a refugee," Msgr. Pierre said, recalling how he was pulled aside by a friend who wanted to wish him new year's greetings seconds before the rumbling started. Otherwise he would have been on the porch as well.
It took Msgr. Pierre 45 minutes to free himself from the rubble. He brought several injured people to the neighborhood, knowing they could be treated at Matthew 25 House, a house of hospitality opened by the Parish Twinning Program of the Americas based in Nashville, Tenn.
Msgr. Pierre agreed to celebrate Mass for the area's residents. He said was pleased to see they are working to establish their own parish.
Meanwhile, Syriacque is leading the fundraising effort for a church. She was busy selling raffle tickets after Mass yesterday. A second collection is also taken at the Masses for the church. The collection was started in November, but Syriacque was unsure how much had been collected through yesterday.
She said a committee has identified four sites on which to build the church. Now they just have to come up with enough money. But at least Mass is now close to home.


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Waterloo Police have identified the victim of a homicide in
the 100 block of Quincy Street, Monday evening, March 25, 2013 as 38 year-old
Keon Dale of 121 Quincy. Police
responded to a man down in front of 127 Quincy Street and found Dale who was
unresponsive. Dale was later pronounced
dead at the scene.
During the investigation it appeared Dale had sustained
injuries consistent with being stabbed.
Waterloo Police identified 34 year-old Kristie Kelly Clark-Richardson of
Cedar Falls as a suspect in the homicide. Kristie Clark-Richardson was interviewed by
Officers and was later charged with Murder-1st Degree and is
currently being held in the Black Hawk County Jail.
An Autopsy is being scheduled in Ankeny Iowa to determine
the cause of death and no further details are being released at this time.
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It is unfair for the west to dictate morals for Africa!!!
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Yes in Nigeria you can be persecuted for homosexual acts in public, in Uganda parliament passed a law where a person can face a a life sentence for being gay. Yes it is constitutionally illegal in more than 38 countries in Africa to be gay, and homosexuality is considered an indecent act that is punishable by law. However unfair this may be, morals and traditions cannot be forced onto a society under whatever circumstances. It takes a lifetime to model and embrace culture and traditions; you cannot just change or adopt a new way of life by the snap of a finger.
I think it is completely unfair when western countries use the foreign aid card (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16068010) to arm twist our leaders so that they can adopt their approved conducts. Especially when it is something that touches upon moral fibers of a society. There are issues that cannot simply be legislated. You need years and years of education for a sufficient social transformation. I am not against the west funding debate and discussion forums on this issue in Africa; I have very strong objections over their apparent dictation of the same upon us.
This article has been inspired by the recent coming out of a very prominent personality in Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina (you can find his coming out story on the New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC and even Aljazeera- http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/african-author-comes-out-gay-law-protest-2014121172413628545.html ). The country's reaction to this issue is a clear indicator that this is not a legislature issue but a social issue that needs a lot of interrogation and conversation over. Social media, the newspapers, the radio and other discussion platforms have been abuzz with this issue. I have to admit the homophobia with which society has responded to this public disclosure was more than I had expected. I knew people were not ready yet, but I did not expect the negativity to be at this scale. It was a clear indication of how our society is not yet ready to accept and move on. Not yet. The comments that are being directed at him are not only mean but painfully abusive and not accommodative.
Personally, I do not care about an individual's sexual orientation. I have a personal friend who is a homosexual and the last thing I would want for him is to see him being persecuted for something he has no control over. However, I will not rally behind the methods being used by the US or the UK of threatening to hold back AID and forcing nations to adopt practices that should obviously be given time.


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In the Thick of It!
05:17PM on Friday September 29, 2006
We're now on to Day 2 of PDX Pop Now! 2006, sort of the boisterous middle child of the festival. Look forward to awesome sets from 50 Foot Wave, Dahlia, Fleshtone, Nice Nice, ...worms, Parenthetical Girls, Alela Diane, and a dozen more of Portland's finest musical artists.
Schedule: Saturday, July 29
12:00-12:30: Jr. Private Detective
12:40-1:10: The Upsidedown
1:20-1:50: Boy Eats Drum Machine
2:05-2:35: The Conductor
2:45-3:15: Holcombe Waller
3:25-3:55: The Dimes
4:10-4:40: Alela Diane
4:50-5:20: Thanksgiving
5:30-6:00: Parenthetical Girls
6:15-6:45: Nice Nice
6:55-7:25: ...worms
7:35-8:05: Strength
8:20-8:50: Guau Guau
9:00-9:30: Reverse Dotty and the Candy Cane Shivs
9:40-10:10: Dykeritz
10:25-10:55: The Shaky Hands
11:05-11:35: Fleshtone
11:45-12:15: Dahlia
12:25-12:55: 50 Foot Wave
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Operations on XML Elements
The easiest way to add text to an element, whether the element exists already or you want to add a new element, consists of manually opening the file and typing the text of the new element in the desired section. For example, you can click the Data button of the XML while opened in Visual Studio .NET:
If you click the empty cells and fill them up, if you save the file, the new elements would be added to the file.
To programmatically create a new element, you can declare an XmlElement variable. To add the new element to the file, the XmlDocument class provides the CreateElement() method that is overloaded with three versions. One of the versions uses the following syntax:
public XmlElement CreateElement(string name);
Using this method, to create a new element, call it and pass it the name of the new element. If you want the element to have a value, the XmlDocument class is equipped with the CreateTextNode() method. This method returns an XmlText value. The syntax of this method is:
public virtual XmlText CreateTextNode(string text);
This method takes as argument the string that would constitute the value of the element. The calls to XmlDocument.CreateElement() and XmlDocument.CreateTextNode() allow you to initialize a new element. In order to actually add the new element, you must specify its position in the tree: whether it would be the first or the last node, whether you want to position it before or after a node of your choice. To support the positions of existing nodes, the XmlNode class, which is the ancestor of all XML nodes of the .NET Framework, provides various appropriate methods.
One of these methods is AppendChild(), which is used to add an element as the last child of its parent. The syntax of the XmlNode.AppendChild() method is:
public virtual XmlNode AppendChild(XmlNode newChild);
Imagine you have a simple XML file that has only the root and one level of elements as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Holidays> <Holiday>New Year's Day</Holiday> <Holiday>Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.</Holiday> <Holiday>Washington's Birthday</Holiday> </Holidays>
To add a new Holiday element to this file, based on the above discussions, you can use code as follows:
private void btnAddHoliday_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { XmlDocument docXML = new XmlDocument(); docXML.Load("Holidays.xml"); XmlElement elmXML = docXML.CreateElement("Holiday"); XmlText txtXML = docXML.CreateTextNode("Memorial Day"); docXML.DocumentElement.AppendChild(elmXML); docXML.DocumentElement.LastChild.AppendChild(txtXML); docXML.Save("Holidays.xml"); }
The above Holidays.xml file had only one level under the root and no child element of the root had children. Suppose you have a file as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Videos> <Video> <Title>The Distinguished Gentleman</Title> <Director>Jonathan Lynn</Director> <Length>112 Minutes</Length> <Format>DVD</Format> <Rating>R</Rating> </Video> <Video> <Title>Her Alibi</Title> <Director>Bruce Beresford</Director> <Length>94 Mins</Length> <Format>DVD</Format> <Rating>PG-13</Rating> </Video> </Videos>
Imagine that you want to add a Video element. You have a choice of adding one, more, or all child elements of the Video node. To perform this operation, one solution you can use is to "build" all child elements of the Video element, then add the node as a whole. To support this technique, we saw earlier that the XmlNode.InnerXml property comprises a node, its markup, its children and their markup. This means that you can create the child nodes with their markup(s) as a string and assign that string to an XmlNode.InnerXml string. To do this, you would need the set version of the InnerXml property. It is declared as follows:
public virtual string InnerXml{get; set;}
Here is an example that adds a complete new Video node to the above XML file:
private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { XmlDocument docXML = new XmlDocument(); docXML.Load("Videos.xml"); XmlElement elmXML = docXML.CreateElement("Video"); string strNewVideo = "<Title>Other People's Money</Title>" + "<Director>Alan Brunstein</Director>" + "<Length>114 Minutes</Length>" + "<Format>VHS</Format>" + "<Rating>PG-13</Rating>"; elmXML.InnerXml = strNewVideo; docXML.DocumentElement.AppendChild(elmXML); docXML.Save("Videos.xml"); }
If you have an XML file with different levels and you want to add an element as a new child to a particular element, you can first locate that element. One way you can do this is to call the XmlDocument.GetElementByTagName() method. This method is overloaded with two versions. One of its versions has the following syntax:
public virtual XmlNodeList GetElementsByTagName(string name);
This method takes as argument the name of the element that you want to locate. If the method finds that element, it returns a list of all child nodes of that element as an XmlNodeList object. This XmlNodeList object represents a collection of nodes where each node can be located by its index through the ItemOf indexed property.
An XML tree navigation consists of visiting the various nodes of the file, for any necessary reason. One reason would be that you want to insert a new element at a specific position in the tree. Another would be that you want to check whether a certain node is already present in the tree.
As always, there are various ways you can perform an operation such as navigating a tree. To "scan" a file from top to bottom, thus visiting each type of node in the XML file, you can use the XmlTextReader class. This class is equipped with all types of properties and methods you would need.
If you want to navigate to a specific node in the tree, you can use the XmlDocument.GetElementByTagName() method that we used previously.
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G6756, Revised January 2006
Turfgrass disease is one of the serious and costly reasons for injury and death to grasses used in lawns, golf courses, sport fields, and other areas where grasses are desired. Plant pathogenic fungi are the main cause of lawn diseases. Other organisms, such as nematodes, and several nonparasitic problems are also sources for diseases (Table 1 — Nematodes). An accurate diagnosis of the problem is essential to any successful control program. Diagnosis of lawn diseases can be performed at diagnostic clinics, such as the:
Disease identification and control involve more than just waiting for diseases to appear, then trying to make a rapid diagnosis and applying a fungicide. Most disease identification guides show only the symptoms of developed diseases. This is helpful, but it is more important to know the conditions that can lead to a disease, and to follow basic cultural practices that can reduce your potential for a disease. Knowing when and under what conditions to anticipate various turfgrass diseases, an individual can prepare for what to do about them, saving time and achieving better results in disease control.
Table 1
Common turfgrass diseases in Missouri
All turfgrasses
Conditions favoring disease
Low, wet locations. Heavily used areas subject to compaction. High humidity.
See Table 2 PDF.
All turfgrasses, especially annual bluegrasses
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature 80 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Time of year: summer and fall. Prolonged periods of moisture-saturated atmosphere. Low fertility. Excess thatch.
Bentgrass, annual bluegrass
Conditions favoring disease
Factors associated with poor root development: saturated conditions, compaction, and summer stress conditions. Symptoms of anthracnose basal rot can occur at any time throughout the year.
See listings for anthracnose in Table 2 PDF.
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature: 80 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Time of year: late spring, summer and early fall. Free moisture on leaves, excess thatch, high nitrogen. Observed more frequently on short-cut grasses.
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature: 60 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Times of year: Late spring and early fall or during cool, wet summers. Low nitrogen, excess thatch, high humidity and heavy morning dew.
Conditions favoring disease
Most severe on light-textured soils. Low fertility, heavy thatch.
Perennial ryegrass, St. Augustinegrass
Conditions favoring disease
Under conditions of high humidity and high temperature (80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit), the disease may develop rapidly. High nitrogen levels. Symptoms usually occur during mid-summer. New seedlings are most susceptible.
Crown and root rot
(Bipolaris sorokiniana)
Leaf spot and melting out
(Dreschlera poae)
Net blotch and crown and root rot
(Dreschlera dictyoides)
Red leaf spot
(Dreschlera erythrospila)
All turfgrasses are host to one or more of these pathogens.
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature: wide range. Time of year: early spring and fall. Leaf blighting phase may occur in hot, humid weather. High nitrogen fertility, heavy thatch.
Zoysia, buffalograss
Conditions favoring disease
Heavy thatch buildup, high nitrogen.
Do not fertilize when the disease is active.
Other mosses
Turfgrasses on putting surface
Conditions favoring disease
Low fertility, poor drainage, excess shade, soil compaction.
All turfgrasses, but especially bentgrass
Conditions favoring disease
More of a problem in light, sandy soils, such as bentgrass greens. Mild to warm soil temperatures and adequate moisture.
If populations are expected to cause damage, follow recommendations of the lab.
Apply Nemacur 10G Turf and Ornamental Nematicide (2.33 pounds per 1,000 square feet). FOR USE ONLY ON GOLF COURSES, CEMETERIES AND INDUSTRIAL GROUNDS. Do not treat newly seeded areas. Do not apply more than 200 pounds per acre per year. Do not use on residential lawns or public recreational areas other than golf courses. Follow label instructions. Certified pesticide applicator only.
All turfgrass
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature: 32 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Time of year: Late fall, winter or early spring. High humidity as found under melting snow, leaves, and mulch or in heavy thatch. High nitrogen levels in late fall.
Bluegrasses, fescues
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature: 65 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit is optimum. Time of year: Spring and fall. Damp, cool nights and high humidity, but not free water on leaf surface. Low light intensity (most severe on bluegrass in the shade). Poor air circulation.
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature 85 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Time of year: late spring through early fall. Excess thatch. Shade — poor air circulation. Lush dense growth. Excessive water — high rainfall. Calcium deficiency. Compacted soil.
Pink patch
(Limonomyces roseipellis)
Perennial ryegrass, red fescue
All turfgrasses, especially certain varieties of bluegrass, ryegrass, zoysia
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature 85 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit., summer to fall. Low fertility. Moderate soil moisture stress, heavy dew and frequent light rain.
Conditions favoring disease
Attacks are most severe in warm weather on heavy, poorly drained soils or where seeding rates have been excessive.
A diagnosis of the cause of damping off will help you decide which materials to use.
Conditions favoring disease
Spring, summer, fall. Humid weather, lush, well-watered grass and excess thatch.
(Urocystis agropyri)
All turfgrasses, especially certain varieties of bentgrass, bluegrass, ryegrass and fescue
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature: 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Time of year: October through November. Excess thatch, frequent watering and susceptible cultivars.
Cultivars with a high level of winter hardiness are less affected by spring dead spot.
Kentucky bluegrass, annual bluegrass, fine-leaf fescues
Conditions favoring disease
Occurs more commonly on older established turf. Develops following high temperature and heavy rainfall common in midsummer. Commonly occurs on slopes with southern exposure.
Plant fescue rather than bluegrass on sites prone to summer patch.
Conditions favoring disease
Typically a cool, wet weather disease. Development is favored by high soil pH and/or liming. Especially serious on newly constructed or renovated greens.
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature: 32 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Time of year: winter or early spring. Requires snow cover. High moisture under melting snow. High rate of nitrogen before winter dormancy.
Bentgrass, bluegrass
Conditions favoring disease
Temperature: 40 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit optimum. Time of year: spring, fall and winter.
Annual bluegrass, Kentucky bluegrass, tall fescue, fine-leaf fescue, perennial ryegrass, roughstalk bluegrass, creeping bentgrass, zoysiagrass
Conditions favoring disease
Most common during the cool, moist weather of spring or fall.
Environmental conditions strongly influence disease occurrence. Although many of the causal agents are always present in turf, diseases do not occur until conditions are favorable for pathogen development. For example, brown patch disease requires wet, humid conditions during warm to hot weather. Being aware of the conditions that increase disease potential is important in taking preventive measures such as applying fungicides before symptoms appear. But before fungicides are considered, there are several turfgrass management practices that need discussion in hopes of reducing the potential for disease. Refer to Table 1 for host species, disease symptoms, conditions favorable for infection and recommended cultural practices and fungicide treatments.
Some diseases can be avoided by selecting grass species that are not susceptible to certain pathogens. For example, summer patch is a severe problem on Kentucky bluegrass but has little effect on tall fescue. An area historically prone to summer patch disease can be planted to tall fescue to reduce that potential. Likewise, within species of grasses, selected cultivars can offer more disease resistance than others. A cultivar of Kentucky bluegrass may show a higher level of tolerance to rust disease and perhaps be selected as part of a blend or mixture. Even though these grasses are termed "disease resistant," it does not mean that they are 100 percent disease free. Selecting cultivars with higher disease resistance will reduce your potential for turfgrass diseases and becomes the first step in a line of cultural practices to manage turfgrass diseases.
The National Turfgrass Evaluation Program was organized to test species and cultivar performance in several locations of the United States. Most of the data and information generated by this program can be accessed through their website. You can also contact your local MU Extension center for grasses that have been recommended for Missouri.
Soil fertility is an important factor in disease development. High nitrogen levels increase the susceptibility of cool-season grasses (Kentucky bluegrass, tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, fine fescue and bentgrass) to leaf spot, Rhizoctonia brown patch and Pythium blight. Low nitrogen levels increase turfgrass susceptibility to dollar spot and red thread. Low potassium levels in the soil reduce turfgrass tolerance to high temperatures and drought stress, which can increase the potential of diseases such as summer patch. Low pH is often associated with diseases such as brown patch as well.
Knowledge of soil fertility as it relates to turfgrass diseases can help guide an individual in deciding how to manage a lawn. A tall fescue lawn can receive two or three fertilizer applications throughout the fall and perhaps receive no additional fertilizer in the spring to reduce the potential for brown patch. Like tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass can receive fall fertilization but can also receive fertilizer in the spring to help keep dollar spot from infecting the bluegrass.
To minimize the potential for disease, supply enough nitrogen that proper mowing is required on a weekly basis. Sometimes a light application of nitrogen will produce enough active leaf growth that disease symptoms are no longer visible.
Turfgrass plants mowed shorter than their optimal height of cut are, in general, more susceptible to diseases. Optimal cutting heights for cool-season grasses range from 2.5 to 4.0 inches, depending on the species. Warm-season grasses can range between 1 and 2 inches.
Seasonal variation in mowing height was once thought to be highly beneficial and is still considered beneficial by some. We know that mowing cool-season grasses a little taller in the summer months can have benefits through summer stress periods (deeper roots, better cooling effect). We also know that cool-season grasses mowed a little taller in the spring and fall compete more successfully against weeds. Therefore, select the tallest, acceptable mowing height for your species of grass and maintain that height during the entire season. This provides benefits throughout the season — competition against weeds as well as reduced summer stress.
Frequency of cut should be determined by the "one-third rule" of mowing. You should make sure that no more than one-third of the leaf growth is removed during a single mowing.
Mowing creates wounds through which fungi can enter the plant and infect it. Leaf cuts made by a sharp mower blade are cleaner and heal faster than the tearing and shredding caused by a dull mower blade. A dull mower blade inflicts more and bigger wounds that increase potential for infection by turfgrass diseases.
Observe leaf tips or grass clippings collected on your mower deck immediately after a mowing to determine the quality of cut. Use this as an indicator of when to sharpen blades.
Nearly all turfgrass diseases require water for their development. Some disease problems such as Pythium blight, brown patch, and dollar spot are accentuated by extended periods of free moisture. Extended periods of free moisture in turfgrasses can be caused by dew, guttation and frequent irrigation or rainfall. Guttation is the formation of water droplets at the tips of grass leaves. These droplets contain exudates of sugars and proteins and serve as an excellent food source for pathogens. Remove dew and guttation from grass leaves by dragging a hose across the surface of the lawn, using a whipping pole or briefly irrigating only long enough to wash the dew from the surface of the leaves. Following these methods will spread the concentrated dew or guttation over a larger surface area, causing the turf canopy to dry faster.
Improper irrigation alone can create a disease problem. Avoid frequent irrigation that results in extended periods of free moisture. Avoid late evening watering that extends the free moisture period throughout the night. Cool-season grasses can be allowed to have drying periods (near wilting) to disrupt the growth cycle of fungi favored by free moisture.
Irrigation in the early morning not only limits extended periods of dew and guttation but also applies water at a time of the day when temperatures are low (reduced evaporation) and winds are calm (better distribution). A rule of thumb is to avoid puddles and runoff during irrigation, put the water where it is needed, and irrigate only as much as your particular soil type can absorb in one cycle.
Essentially all turfgrass diseases are reduced by good thatch control.
Thatch is a layer of dead and living plant material located between the soil surface and green turf canopy. It is excellent habitat for active and dormant stages of disease-causing organisms. When environmental conditions are optimum, fungi can rapidly grow and infect living turf tissue.
Remove excess thatch when turf is actively growing to promote quicker recovery from power-raking or verticutting. Remove thatch in the spring before application of crabgrass preventer, or in the fall for cool-season grasses and midsummer for warm-season grasses.
Core aerification (removing soil plugs) is a slower process of thatch control but will cause less direct stress on the turf. Breaking up soil plugs and filtering soil into the turf canopy allows soil microbes to breakdown dead organic matter in the thatch layer.
Remove excess thatch when it accumulates to a half inch or more in taller-mowed turf (1.5 to 4 inches) and one-quarter inch in lower-mowed turf (less than 1.5 inches).
A good exchange of air between the soil and atmosphere is necessary for vigorous turfgrass growth. Turf areas that stay constantly wet because of poor soil conditions are prime targets for water-favoring, soil-borne diseases such as Pythium blight and brown patch. Surface contouring and subsurface drainage can be costly but permanent solutions to wet soils.
Core aerification and slicing are turf management practices that can be repeated during the season to temporarily increase air exchange and soil drying.
You can also increase light penetration and air movement by selectively pruning your trees and shrubs. This will speed the drying of poorly drained areas and also reduce the humidity in localized turf areas.
Fungicides for managing turfgrass diseases (Table 2 PDF) are most effective when combined with cultural practices that reduce plant stress. Most fungicides labeled for use on turfgrass suppress rather than kill the target fungus. Suppression often lasts long enough to allow prevailing environmental conditions to become more favorable for growth and recovery of the turfgrass. Grasses can naturally recover from some diseases when environmental conditions favor growth of the turfgrass. Large patch of zoysia and brown patch in fescue are two examples. Unfortunately, the weakened turf areas may become weedy, and some owners or managers of high-visibility turf areas are unwilling to wait for recovery.
Fungicides work by interfering with critical processes essential to growth and development of fungi. The critical processes are biochemical pathways that may be regulated by one or many genes in the fungus. The point in the biochemical pathway disrupted by the fungicide is known as the action site. Some fungicides interfere with a single action site while others affect multiple action sites. A single action site can be regulated by one gene in the fungus or by multiple genes. Multiple genes in the fungus usually regulate multiple action sites.
The risk of selecting resistant fungal strains is high with repeated use of a fungicide that disrupts a single action site under regulation by a single gene. The risk of selecting resistant fungal strains is low for a fungicide that affects multiple sites under regulation by multiple genes.
Thanks to the work of the Fungicide Resistance Action Committee (FRAC), a turfgrass manager does not need to know the exact biochemical mode of action for a given fungicide. The committee has assigned number or letter codes to commercial fungicides, grouping them according to mode of action. All fungicides with the same FRAC code share a common mode of action and resistance mechanism, even though their chemical structures may be different. Two exceptions in the FRAC classification scheme are the fungicides that have multisite activities and those that have unknown modes of action.
Topical mode of action describes what happens to a fungicide when it contacts a plant. Fungicides have two basic topical modes of action: contact and systemic. Systemic fungicides can be subdivided based on the extent of movement inside the plant. There are three possible fates of systemic fungicides once they have entered a plant: locally systemic, xylem-mobile systemic, or phloem-mobile systemic.
Repeated use of fungicides with similar modes of action or with a single action site can result in the selection of fungus populations with resistance to the fungicide. Strains of the dollar spot fungus resistant to benzimidazoles, DMI-type fungicides and iprodione have been documented.
Plant pathologists generally agree that certain practices can delay the selection of resistant fungal strains. Here are some examples:
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WORK is set to begin on three major transport schemes in South Essex after the Government agreed to plough in £155.8m of funding.
A four-and-a-half mile stretch of the A13 between Pitsea and the Orsett Cock, in Thurrock, is to be widened to six lanes while the A127 will get an overhaul at four-pinch points.
Southend's Victoria Avenue will also get a facelift, while transport in the town will get a £7million boost.
Funding for the projects, seen as crucial to the economy in South Essex, was secured by the South East Local Enterprise Partnership.
The Government announced today that the region is to receive £442.2million of funding as part of a "Growth Deal", meaning important road improvements can begin.
A total of £49.6million will be invested in 2015/16 in the A127, a sustainable transport programme across South Essex, and an integrated transport package for Basildon – which will tweak junctions to prevent congestion.
In 2016/17 and beyond Thurrock will also see £5million investment to its cycling network, plus £7.5m to improve public transport to the London Gateway from Stanford-le-Hope and reconstruction of the A1014.
A £90million programme to widen the A13 between the Orsett Cock roundabout and Pitsea is among the schemes given the go-ahead.
DP World, which is spending £1.5billion building the London Gateway port and logistics park in Stanford-le-Hope had already pledged £10million to the scheme.
David Burch, of the Essex Chambers of Commerce said: "It's very good news for Essex and the Thames Gateway area in particular.
"The local enterprise partnership submitted a long list of 'asks', but these are some of the key things asked for.
"We very much welcome them. They are certainly all things identified by businesses as potential barriers to growth.
"These are steps along the right road, if you excuse the pun, to break down those barriers and help businesses grow."
The A127 is set for a multi-million pound revamp with four pinch points earmarked for multi-million pound overhauls to unblock traffic jams and boost the South Essex economy.
The Fairglen and Nevendon interchanges and Kent Elms and Bell junctions will all be improved over the next six years.
A new slip road connecting the A127 to the A130 at the Fairglen Interchange, between Rayleigh and Basildon, will be built, there will be extra lanes added at the Kent Elms and Bell junctions in Southend and an extra lane added to the Nevendon Interchange roundabout to Wickford.
The tricky revamp of the Fairglen Interchange, which is used by more than 70,000 vehicles a day, could cost up to £15million alone as it may need the compulsory purchase of Morbec Farm, estimated at more than £1million.
Fourth lanes could be added to the approaches in £5million overhauls of the Kent Elms and Bell junctions and the dedicated right turn feeder lanes extended to prevent waiting vehicles from blocking through-traffic.
Footbridges at both junctions would be lost to carriageway widening and replaced by "toucan" crossings, which are for pedestrians and cyclists.
A third lane could be added to the roundabout at the Nevendon Interchange, stopping traffic heading to Wickford via the A132 from backing up onto the A127, which would cost of £893,000.
At the time of going to press the SE LEP couldn't confirm where the £49.6million would be allocated.
Southend will get a major facelift, with more £6.7million to flatten derelict office blocks blighting Victoria Avenue and £7million to improve transport in the town centre.
It is hoped the redevelopment, which is expected to include improvements to Queensway, will help create 2,000 new homes and up to 6,500 new jobs.
Peter Jones, chairman of the SE LEP, said: "This initial funding is tremendously good news for our businesses and residents – addressing years of under-funding of the south east's transport network. It's not only a matter of improving mobility around the area but providing links which open up major new sites for housing and business development."
- £80million towards widening the A13
- £6.7million to create a growth hub in central Southend and improve Victoria Avenue
- £49.6million towards A127 improvements, improved traffic flow in Basildon and sustainable transport across South Essex
- £7million to improve transport in central Southend
- £7.5million for an integrated transport package to improve the London Gateway from Stanford-le-Hope and reconstruction of the A1014
- £5million to improve Thurrock's cycling network.


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Area service agencies are advising residents, young and old, to use caution trick-or-treating, attending parties and helping out at church functions on Halloween.
The City of Jacksonville, Onslow County and Carteret County are requesting parents and children trick-or-treat only between 5 and 9 p.m. on Thursday.
Local law enforcement agencies advise citizens to be aware of safety concerns such as including wearing the right clothing, pet care, mask related laws and checking out the candy before digging in. Per North Carolina statute, ages 16 and up should not wear any mask or outfit that disguises their face or voice while on public roadways.
Parents are advised to brief their children on what to do, and what not to do, before they go out. Some of the tips include teaching children to never approach a vehicle or enter a home without permission from a parent or guardian. Children are also advised to wear reflective clothing and carry a glow stick if they�re going out at dusk or after dark.
Motorists are advised to keep a sharp eye out for children running between cars and walking on roadways, medians and curbs, according to information from the Carteret County Sheriff's Office.
The Onslow County Sheriff�s Office advises parents and child to not �allow the excitement of Halloween to overpower your sense of safety for yourself and others.�
Camp Lejeune's Provost Marshal's Office (PMO) has also limited Halloween hours from 5 tTo 9 p.m. and urge children to wear reflective clothing. According to the base's Provost Marshal, Maj. Peter Cato, the last thing anyone wants is a holiday accident.
�Halloween is supposed to be a safe, fun day for families,� Cato said. �We don't want an unsafe environment to ruin it.�
PMO also said trick-or-treaters using props, especially weapons, should make sure they're flexible and do not resemble actual weapons. Cato said prop weapons should be a �radical departure� from the real thing.
Cato said there would be a greater presence of patrolmen on duty Halloween night, but they would serve mostly as a precaution.
�We're not expecting an increase in crime ... We just want to make sure we're working closely to make sure the families enjoy themselves,� he said.
Onslow County Animal Services also recommends keeping close tabs on pets. They ask pet owners to keep their animal companions away from trick-or-treaters, candy, decorations and costumes. According to Animal Services, Halloween can be a distressing time for pets, and the less anxiety they have to face the better.
The Jacksonville Police Department suggests trick-or-treaters stay in their neighborhood, only visit homes they know and only accept packaged candy. They also request teenagers and adults refrain from trick-or-treating.
The Jacksonville Mall is offering families the opportunity to take part in some indoor trick-or-treating at the mall�s stores. According to Marketing Director Anastasia Paszkiewicz, the mall will be giving away 500 packets of candy corn at the front entrance (facing Western Boulevard). There is no official end to the mall�s trick or treating event, but Paszkiewicz suggest participants arrive early.
�Typically, we�re scrapping the bottom of the barrel by about 7 p.m.,� said Paszkiewicz. �Show up while supplies last.�
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Over the last twelve years, Sony has sold around 154 million PlayStation 2 consoles, making it the best-selling devoted gaming machine in history. Nintendo is the only company that's come close to toppling the PS2, selling just over 151 million Nintendo DSs in the past eight years. The current crop of home consoles, all of them growing long in the tooth at between seven and six years old, doesn't even come close. Nintendo has sold around 95 million Wiis, Microsoft around 67 million Xbox 360s, and Sony around 62 million PlayStation 3s. The age of the devoted gaming console may not be over, but its zenith is past and the next round of machines will continue the trend according to one analyst.
Wii U, Sony's Orbis, and Microsoft's Xbox Durango will not match even their predecessors in total sales.
Speaking with Gamasutra on Monday, Piper Jaffray analysts Michael Olson and Andrew Connor said that they expect the next round of consoles to underperform by a wide margin compared to existing boxes. How much? Over its first fourteen months on shelves, the "disappoiting" hardware specifications of Wii U will cause that device to sell just 35% of the volume of the Wii over the same period in 2006-'07. Sony's PlayStation 4, or Orbis as some rumors suggest, expected in 2013 will sell just 50% over the same comparative period. The Xbox 720, sometimes called Durango, will sell just 55% of the Xbox 360's volume over the first fourteen months when it releases they project in 2014.
Why? The same things leeching console software sales already: Mobile games and social games. "We believer console gaming will continue to be a time-share donor to social networks, mobile games, and tablets. We therefore favor companies with increasing exposure to social/mobile gaming, including Zynga and EA."
Whether big publishers like EA and Zynga retain their financial power in the coming years remains to be seen, but considering the downward trend in physical game and game machine sales since 2008, it's hard to argue the analysts' point. Console and retail game sales have shrunk dramatically ever year since the recession, and new machines won't reignite the market. It's not that people aren't spending on games or playing them, it's that they are increasingly paying for them in small doses on handheld devices and PCs.
Wii U, Orbis, and Durango won't sell as well as Wii, PlayStation 3, or Xbox 360. It's almost impossible. Whether they will or not isn't the question that players, game makers, and businesses need to ask at this point though. The real question: What will be the universal device that people play and buy games on? Will it be smart TVs that are cross compatible with tablets and smart phones? Will Apple become the dominant manufacturer of gaming platforms? Will Valve make its rumored and then denies Steam Box?
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I just began using Watercolors and I was wondering if there were any tips or advice.
My main question is: How the heck do you "wet the paper" I've seen so many different ways, I just want the simplest, cheapest, and easiest. xD Do you have to wait overnight for it to be done? (That's what one dude said but a whole bunch of others never said how long you have to wait) Do you pull the tape off and then paint or paint with it still on?
Also, whenever I paint I always pick up far too much paint on my brush (especially for only little areas I need from that color). Any tips on how to control how much you pick up? I use tissue to wipe up the areas I did too much on.
If there us any other advice or tips it would be much appreciated!
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I love using watercolors but I have no clue how to do it "properly"... xD
I've heard of wetting paper... but I use watercolor paper so I have no clue how to do that. =u=;;
Normally when I use watercolors, I put a bit of water on the area I'm going to paint and then apply the paint. Then I move onto another section so the paint won't mix. To pick up less paint, I just have a lot of water on my brush... or you can use the paint that comes in the dried blocks in the box thingys... this thing:
For those, I put a lot of water into it to wet them and then dip lightly. The ones in the tubes are so hard to use (for me) so I just use them like acrylics... xD
I dry my brush to remove extra paint cause it's more precise~ ouo Having a wide range of brushes is also very helpful.
Also, try not to apply too much water to an area cause the paper turns all wrinkled and stuff o-o;;
Yep... that's pretty much all I know about watercolors OTL
To wet your paper, you simply just get some spray bottle and spray it on the paper. I wait about 10 minutes for it to dry before painting. If you have thicker paper than standard printer paper, you don't really need to wet your paper, since it's unlikely for it to curl or wrinkle up XD
I'm assuming you have pan watercolors so Q-tips and cotton balls are your friends if you want a more controlled painting experience. It's good to have different sized brushes. If you don't have it, try to avoid adding water to the paint in the pan as much as possible, to keep it dry so the paint brush doesn't pick up a whole lot of paint. More water= more paint. Keep tissues handy to dry off your brush and stuff. :U
If you're getting too frustrated with the paint, maybe you should try to look into watercolor pencils? xD They're basically watercolors ....in pencil form. =w=b
edit: ....how come there's a post about hair and stuff? LOL
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@Aphetide; Haha! I use watercolor paper too, but it still bends and warps whenever I put the darned paint on it.
@Nao, When you put the spray bottle do you flatten it to a surface with tape or clips or do you just spray without anything holding it in place? I actually use tube watercolors (I didn't even know there was something called pan watercolors. (until I googled it just now) I am very new to painting lol xD) I haven't been beaten down by painting yet, and I felt like I needed a change in mediums.
Stupid spaaammmm! P:
ALSO, it would be so awesome if you guys uploaded some of your watercolor doodles or pictures. I'd LOVEEE to see some of your work. Watercolor looks so beautiful! Tomorrow I might upload some of the doodles I did earlier.
xD I used to tape it, but then the tape was like ripping off some paper off. So now, I know this is bad, but I usually put it in between books instead of taping or pinning it down, but it'll curl a bit if you don't tape or pin it down.
I personally think pan watercolors are easier, but that's probably because I grew up using them. You should experiment with the tube watercolors more before you switch mediums? xD
Oh, and I want to point something out, but some school graded brands of pan watercolors tend to be sticky. At least, over here where they sell it. :U
Ah! Clever! I guess I just need to experiment to see what kind of method works for me.
Oops, I meant I needed a change in mediums and that is why I am interested in doing watercolors. (I rarely leave my beloved pencil, so I felt like it was time for a change xD)
..... i just use watercolor pencils and i have no idea what the hell im doing :'D
this post is helpful though... KEEP POSTING, KEEP POSTING. :>
I did my Senior project in College(for my BA degree) as portraiture in watercolor. I have also taught watercolor classes. I use tube watercolors. The dry cake stuff just doesn't cut it color wise.
If you are interested in using the wet on wet technique, invest in a watercolor board into which you can insert push pins. Never use tape. The chemicals in the adhesive will damage the paper. Use a good quality cold press watercolor paper grade 120 or higher. These seem to buckle less when wet. Watercolor paper in pads also have a tendency to buckle, but are great for wet on dry and watercolor sketches.
To wet the paper, you simply use an elephant ear sponge(thin natural sponge, triangular shaped, can be found in any art supply place). Any excess water can be removed with the sponge, and there is no need to wait an hour before painting.
It is important to remember that watercolor painting is not like acrylic or oils, where you put in your highlights at the end. The paper is your white, and you build your painting from light to dark, building up your darks as a series of transparencies, and yes you will use water to dilute the paint. Controlling the amount and darkness of the paint will come with experience. In the meantime, it is better to use the sponge and paintbrush(wipe dry, then absorb excess with the tip of the brush)than using a paper towel which will remove too much color and leave the surface splotchy.
Even drying is also important. For this reason you will want to have your board tilted rather than flat. Gravity will help prevent puddling . Dryer areas will leach color from wetter ones and leave a mottled area on the painting.(this tendency can be used for effect too, so it is not always a bad thing. For instance, try adding some grains of salt on the painting when it is nearly dry, to get a speckled area)
Here is one of my watercolors from my Facebook page--Hope it works... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid … amp;ref=nf
Oh so that's what those things are called =u=;; *doesn't know anything whatsoever* I do have a painting from when we used watercolors in class once but it's too ugly to post ;w;b ... I should go find my watercolor pencils ;A; your post makes me want to paint xD
@Agyla Hmmm, what are the main differences between wet on wet and wet on dry? Do you only use the wetting paper process if you are doing wet on dry? (Sorry, like I said I am quite new to this and don't quite know the basics. Plus Google isn't really helping! T_T) Also, the picture didn't work! It said the content is currently unavailable
@Aphetide! Hahaha I know how you feel! I didn't even know how watercolor pencils worked until my sister told me earlier today (I thought they were just pencils with lighter more pastel colors ._.) And oh puh-leaaaze! You're just being silly! I wannaa seeee itt!
Aaahhh! I happened to mention to one of the customer's at the place where I volunteer at that I recently started experimenting with watercolor and half an hour later she came back and gave me some water colors (including pan watercolors, yay!!! ) I didn't have any time to take a picture of my doodle paintings. (scanner is acting up boo!)
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I love pan watercolors ;u; The one's in tubes are hard to use cause I suck OTL
my ugleh painting ;u;
Pooo! D: For some reason the link takes me to gmail and says "Were sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable" (when I go to gmail by another link gmail is working fine o.e)
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Ermagersh b e r m p!
B u m p!!! D;
I'm working in this right now C:
Oh dangit! I forgot about this thread!! xD
Aphetide! Whadda heck you talkin' about!? It looks amazing! I love how you used purples and yellows to create the skin tone, and the eyes are just beautyfull!!! *_* I love the colors you can do with watercoloooooor! Sadly I haven't done watercolor in quite awhile. ._. I'm so lazy! >_<
I love watercolours but I dont really use watercolour paper.
I use bristol board \ illustration board.
Its mainly for wet on dry, but you can wet the surface and go from there.
But because its not textured or absorbant like paper is, if too much is put on it runs.
As for stretching paper. I normally use gum tape which I hate using but I have yet to find another method, but I rarely use paper anyway.
For having too much paint on brush, just have a tissue or sponge in other hand and just wipe off the excess paint.
I bought some last July. Used them once. Then gave up xD
I will learn how to use them one day.
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uGotGame necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 182 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
C*tholic Paradise.com - Heaven for Booklovers!
(replace * with 'a')
Progressive, hip C*tholic bookstore seeks banner to extend across the entire header of our website to drive brand recognition, brand ethos, customer loyalty and marketing.
First, forget everything that you know about C*tholicism from watching TV:
This is not about Mother Angelica, EWTN, smells and bells or rosary beads.
In short, this is not your father's Oldsmobile. This is progressive, spiritual, au courant, joyful and alive faith.
This is about connecting progressive C*tholics with the great books, ebooks, and music that will feed their thinking minds and nourish their spirits.
We want customers in the market for C*tholic books to come to us first rather than amazon. Their left brain will like our low prices and their right brain will like the feeling they get from the mood created by your banner.
Progressive C*tholics of all ages.
people who consume digital media.
people who think that curling up to a good book is better than sex (it certainly lasts longer!)
people who believe if you burn a book, you burn the whole world, but if you save a book, you save the whole world!
progressive people who care about social justice, peace, human rights and the environment.
You are going to create Paradise, Heaven
The mood is light, airy, spacious, welcoming, happy, joyful, serene, simple, expansive, timeless, pure, transcendent. In short, looking at your banner, people will actually feel like they're in paradise! Their blood pressure will drop, they will breathe deeply and they will spend hours buying books and music. They will want to tell all of their friends about C*tholic Paradise.com
for inspiration, eden.co.uk banner. see attached postcard which we created using an online template. we like the feeling that emanates from it but obviously it's used by 1000's of other businesses.
Your banner will have text:
C*tholic Paradise.com
The tagline: Heaven For Booklovers (with a mini "TM" trademark superscript at the end of the tagline.
Our toll-free number: 866-IONA-711
(don't include the "1-" prefix that you see in the postcard graphic.)
we don't want the banner to be too busy so, only if it makes aesthetic sense, include:
discounted prices and free shipping!
(all lowercase)
980px wide by no more than 100px high jpeg banner to span entire width of C*tholic Paradise.com. (We're going to move the currency converters and search box from the header to give you the full canvas for your banner.)
So we're thinking -- the basics:
naturally, blue skies, sunshine, nice puffy white clouds
perhaps a rainbow (see sample grapic postcard attached)
we don't want the banner to be too busy so,
possibly a few 21st century-looking angel(s) – one wearing headphones, one reading on a tablet computer, one reading one of those books with paper pages. All having the time of their lives in the present moment. Might be sitting up against a tree or lying on a cloud in casual, varied, comfortable positions. Multi-racial angels.
colors: obviously, we're thinking pastels with lots of blues and white.
the colors do not have to coordinate with the current colors on our website (C*tholic Paradise.com) which is just a stock template. we will revise website colors to coordinate with your fabulous banner.
fonts: use your creative genius
The attached postcard uses VAGRounded for C*tholic Paradise.com
and Humanist521 for the tagline. We're not wedded to these fonts. We like how they are light and airy and rounded with no sharp edges to cut you. Make sure whatever font you choose for the phone number that the number '1" is distinguishable from the capital 'I" in "IONA."


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A flamenco hip-hop beat with a jazzy but dirty beat drums. This tune has a very mellow vibe. "Flamenco Hip-Hop" is also very relaxing, laid back and soothing. It's varied enough to be interesting yet not too busy, and can work great as a music bed behind a video project, trailer, website or commercial.
Both mixes have MP3 and WAV versions for your convenience.
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|2010-11-18, 03:50
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Age: 27
The Classic Rock Thread! (Recommend/Discuss)
The Classic Rock Thread
Bringing back the good old days for music!
Welcome, everyone! Remember that fabulous time known as the 70s? How about the 80s? Of course you do! It was a golden age for music - Wurlitzer keyboards, guitar harmonies and over-the-top creative lyrics were just a few things available in this age. We're not talking about rock like Red Hot Chili Peppers here. We're talking about straight up classic rock - bands like Boston, Toto, and Steely Dan! Originally, this thread would have included the genre of classic pop, but since pop is just short for popular, I figure good "pop/rock" bands like ABBA and The Beatles are naturally included.
Well, every day I will post a new song in this genre, but hopefully anybody else that enjoys this music can discuss and share their own opinions/songs as well! And please remember...it's the classic rock thread
Spoiler for Day 1: Toto - "I'll Supply The Love":
Spoiler for Day 2: Hall & Oates - "You Make My Dreams":
Spoiler for Day 3: Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky":
Spoiler for Day 4: Queen - "Scandal":
Spoiler for Day 5: The Rolling Stones - "Brown Sugar":
Spoiler for Day 6: Aerosmith - "Love in an Elevator":
Spoiler for Day 7: Huey Lewis and the News - "Perfect World":
Spoiler for Day 8: The Guess Who - "These Eyes":
Spoiler for Day 9: Billy Joel - "The Stranger":
Spoiler for Day 10: Michael Jackson - "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)":
Spoiler for Day 11: Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet":
Spoiler for Day 12: Supertramp - "Breakfast in America":
Spoiler for Day 13: Tears For Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World":
Spoiler for Day 14: Boz Scaggs - "Lowdown":
Spoiler for Day 15: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Mary Jane's Last Dance":
Spoiler for Day 16: Trooper - "We're Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)":
Spoiler for Day 17: Stevie Wonder - "Part Time Lover":
Spoiler for Day 18: Steve Miller Band - "Keeps Me Wondering Why":
Spoiler for Day 19: Steely Dan - "Haitian Divorce":
Spoiler for Day 20: Simon & Garfunkel - "The Boxer":
Spoiler for Day 21: Rush - "Superconductor":
Spoiler for Day 22: Paul McCartney & Wings - "Band on the Run":
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|2010-11-18, 04:34
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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I shall be lurking this thread for music because I am sure great things are bound to show up. I listened to the stuff my father put on growing up, but I don't know the song names or who does them. However, I remember the songs themselves and how they sound. So I hope to take a trip down memory lane.
|2010-11-18, 14:41
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Age: 27
Don't Fear the Reaper, excellent! One of my favorites as well
Thanks for sharing, and a new song of mine has been uploaded^^
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|2010-11-19, 14:30
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Mama there goes that man!
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: UK
Here are two more:
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|2010-11-19, 18:18
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: East Cupcake
Here's some of my favourites (only a taste of the greatness of Rock 'n' Roll):
Zappa was the end all be all for me for quite awhile, and "Willie the Pimp" (from Zappa's first solo album) is a simply amazing song (hell, the entire album is gold).
Humble Pie was a perfect blend of Steve Marriot's bluesy folk/country and Peter Frampton's city/rock, "Home And Away" (from their 69 album Town and Country) is a great example of their perfect blend of genres.
Listening to this, while stoned, will open a doorway into the beyond, especially around 2:20 when Mandrake unleashes its sitar, and transports the listeners to a Psychedelic Spaceship in the sky...
Faces, from Steve Marriot's Samll Faces, was a wondefully rough and sloppy rock 'n' roll band. Sadly, too many are turned off by the fact that Rod Stewart was the lead singer to give this wonderful band a chance.
T.Rex...they had everything. Rock, glam, funk, punk, grundge, all of this and more owes so much to T.Rex's it's not even funny. "20th Century Boy" was their last great song (though not their last song), and one of their best.
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Mama there goes that man!
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Someday the luck of the Columbia Gorge Marathon will run out and it will see runners gathered on a day with nothing but gray clouds and constant rain. Sunday was not that day.
Blessed with blue skies and unseasonably warm weather, around 1,100 runners total between the marathon, half-marathon and team half-marathon participated in the third annual event.
"It went exceptionally well," event director Chad Sperry said. "The weather could not have been better."
The only hiccup in the race was a delayed start in the half-marathon, after late-arriving runners created a backlog for shuttle buses to deal with. The start of the half wound up being pushed back by approximately a half hour, and Sperry said he hopes to be better at encouraging people to arrive early next year.
As for the race itself, MJ Engle cruised to victory in the men's race with a winning time of 2:35:13.4. William Strick took second with a time of 2:42:57.4 and Wes McCullough was third at 2:52:51.1.
Theresa Hailey won the women's marathon with a time of 3:14:07.8 in her first-ever marathon.
"My key was not starting out too fast," she said, "as well as stopping and drinking water at every aid station."
Heather Pola was second in 3:15.35 while Jill Hasselbach was third in 3:17:27.3.
Ryan Goldstein won the half-marathon with a time of 1:16.38.6, while Mike Olson was second in 1:21:05.3 and John Horvick as third in 1:22.34.3.
Sarah MacKay won the women's half-marathon with a time of 1:21:48.21, Hallie Janssen was second in 1:24:09.2 and Gwen Thomas was third in 1:25:29.1.
Sperry said the marathon is looking at a cap of around 1,500 for next year and will continue working with local groups to figure out traffic congestion at the intersection of Highway 35 and State Street caused by the larger volume of runners.
"It seems like there is a lot bigger buzz after this year," he said. "We should be able to hit the cap next year."
One runner who hopes to come back is Hailey, who now has a title to defend.
"It was really pretty," she said. "It didn't feel that bad even though it was really hilly. I hit the wall at about mile 18, but I really liked it."
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April Fool's Day came early at City Hall.
According to City Clerk Linda Smith, a citizen noticed that the municipal election was mistakenly scheduled for April 1 and alerted a city council member.
"Turns out, the citizen was correct," Smith said.
The municipal election will be April 8.
Smith, who has been city clerk for 17 years, had announced that elections would be held on April 1. After reviewing the city charter, she saw her mistake.
According to the charter, municipal elections are required to be held on the first Tuesday in April. Smith, however, didn't realize that the charter also stipulates that the election is held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in April. April 1 is the first Tuesday, but April 8 is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April.
Smith said the city's website has also been updated to reflect the proper election date, and notices will also be delivered with city water bills.
Candidates now have until March 7 to file qualifying papers.
Smith said three candidates have successfully filed for the election, including city council incumbents Bob Archibeque and Shawna McLaughlin. Former Mayor Orly Lucero has also filed as a candidate.
Smith said Raquel Moss and Jim Price are also expected to file nomination forms.
Four posts are open. The top three voter-getters will serve four-year terms, and the fourth will be assigned to a two-year term.
The new seven-member city council, which will be sworn into office on April 22, will appoint the new mayor and mayor pro-tem by majority decision.
Municipal election poll locations include the Montezuma County Annex Building for residents north of Main Street and the Montezuma Valley Presbyterian Church for those south of Main Street.
Absentee ballot applications are available at City Hall through Friday, April 4.
The deadline to register to vote for the April 8 election is March 10.
Seats up for election include Mayor Dan Porter's and councilmember Matt Keefauver's, both who are term-limited, along with two posts held by council incumbents Archibeque and McLaughlin.
Council members are paid $400 per month.
Council members Karen Sheek, Ty Keel and Tom Butler are not required to run for re-election. Their terms in office expire in 2016.
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text: If you were one of the more than 100 people who relaxed on blankets or beach chairs on the front lawn of City Hall Thursday evening, you'd swear Frank Sinatra was performing, as Chris Jason and The Night Life Orchestra played some of Frankie Blue Eyes' biggest hits, as well as a few jazz numbers. The band is under management of General Reggie Centracchio of the National Guard, who introduced them to the stage, rather, the front steps of City Hall. The Apponaug Area Improvement Association presented the music series, appropriately dubbed Music for a Summer Night, which kicked off in June. According to Derek Anderson, the event's chair, they've raised at least $1,600 for the Association. Funds will be used for two $1,000 scholarships that are awarded annually to a high school student living in the Apponaug area, as well as the upkeep of Brayton Cemetery. (Photos by Jessica A. Botelho)


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Over-calculating one's own athletic feats is a common phenomenon in extreme sports, and in the Gorge, there are few better examples of this than with the sport of kiteboarding. When flying through the air at high speeds attached to a kite by four thin lines, it's easy to look down at the water and estimate a 40-, 50-, even 60-foot jump.
Meanwhile, your friends on the beach watch the same jump and dismiss it as a mere 20-footer, averse to giving you due credit for much of anything. You argue it was way bigger, but they hear none of it; and up until recently, other than the most likely truth of precisely halfway between your guesstimate and that of your friends, there was really no practical way of determining just how high a jump was, or who, through all the ribbing fellow kiters can dish out to one another, actually goes the biggest.
Enter Xensr. It's a waterproof iPhone case with an integrated gadget that connects to the phone and utilizes its 3-axis gyroscope technology to accurately track and record motion, rotation, speed and, in the case of kiteboarding, the precise height of any jump.
Kiteboarding 4 Cancer: This weekend at the Hood River Event Site. Endurance race is all day Saturday. www.athletes4canc... for details.
13th annual Bridge of the Gods Kite Fest: July 27-28 in Stevenson. www.botgkitefest.com for details.
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"Kiters like to talk big game about how high they jump," said Mike Duhaime, who works for Naish in Bingen. With fellow local kiteboarding enthusiast Ken Lucas and Casey Hauser of Xensr, the three organized and ran a successful first-of-its-kind event Wednesday called Hood River Huck Fest. "Now that we have a way to see who actually goes the biggest, we decided to hold a big-air event using the sensors."
Using 12 arm-mounted sensors provided by Xensr for the event, the Huck Fest drew 45 competitors to Rufus all day Wednesday to take advantage of strong west winds, rolling swell and the uncrowned stretch of river in the arid eastern Gorge.
"With a format that completely leveled the playing field, we were able to keep it as the grass-roots event that we wanted," Duhaime said. "We had full-on amateurs competing against pro riders, and with no subjective judging, only the numbers mattered."
With 10-minute heats of four riders at a time, the elimination-format whittled the field of 45 down to final rounds of men, women and junior categories based on who could jump the highest with the conditions they had to work with. Although the final numbers aren't all that exciting in terms of max height — due to variable wind — Duhaime said the event was an overwhelming success, especially as a first, that he expects will turn into a popular annual contest.
On a 12-meter kite, Liquid Force team rider Brian Smith posted the highest jump of the final heat, at 45.37 feet, to win the men's heat. In the women's division, Colleen Carol reached 39.05 feet for the win, and junior division winner Marcus Catlett just barely edged out the other two finalists with a 32.49 jump.
Final round top three (in feet):
Men: 1st: Brian Smith, 45.37
2nd: Jesse Richman, 43.70
3rd: Brandon Scheid, 43.62
Women: 1st: Colleen Carol, 39.05
2nd: Laura Maher, 37.38
3rd: Kirsten Cook, 30.76
Junior: 1st: Marcus Catlett, 32.49
2nd: Austin Keillor, 31.49
3rd: Brendan Kerr, 31.10
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