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Outstanding among small, flowering potted plants, African violets in a good location should flower without interruption for years (Figure 1). In addition to their free-blooming character, they are well adapted to home conditions, easy to propagate and available in a wide range of flower colors. Miniatures as well as more compact standard varieties are usable in limited space.
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African violet.
African violets rebloom easily in the home. If located properly and watered regularly, little need be done besides occasional fertilization. Use either special African violet fertilizers or a houseplant fertilizer high in phosphorus. A very dilute fertilizer solution at each watering keeps growth constant and eliminates any chances of over fertilization.
Pale green leaf color may indicate too much sunlight or low fertility. Do not use water softened by a system using salt in the process.
African violets seldom need pots larger than 4 inches in diameter. The danger of overwatering and development of root and crown rots increases if pots are too big.
Old plants sometimes develop long woody stems. The tips of these plants may be cut off and rooted to form new, more compact plants. However, plants developed from leaf cuttings are generally more vigorous and bloom more abundantly.
Amaryllis (Figure 2) produce large, showy flowers before most of the foliage develops. Large bulbs produce two stems of flowers; smaller bulbs usually have only one. Bulbs ready for bloom or plants with bloom stalks started are available in early winter. With proper care these bulbs bloom yearly.
Figure 2
Despite its short flowering period, spectacular flowers rebloom easily in future years. Care is most important during spring and summer. After bloom is completed, remove blooms and stalks promptly so no seeds form. Do not damage or cut off any leaves. Place plants in direct sunlight. If the pot is small and the bulb large, transplanting may be necessary. The pot should be at least 2 inches larger in diameter than the bulb. Standard potting mixtures are quite satisfactory. When repotting, avoid as much root damage as possible. Repot before flowering but not after fully developed leaves are actively growing. The completion of flowering is the last time to replant.
Provide good soil drainage; never grow plants in pots without bottom drainage. Keep bulbs at temperatures between 60 and 70 degrees F. After danger of frost is past, potted bulbs may be moved outdoors. If garden space is available, sink pots to the rim. Position in sufficient sunlight where they can be easily watered. Move gradually into a sunny location to reduce or avoid leaf burn. Keep plants actively growing during the summer. As danger of frost approaches, lift out pots containing the bulbs and store in a cool room (about 45 to 50 degrees F at night). Withhold water until the foliage dies. Light is not necessary. Bulbs require a two to three month rest period before growth and flowering begin again.
Flower buds should appear several weeks after moving plants to a warm temperature and watering is resumed. Bulbs that had four or more healthy leaves throughout the summer should be large enough to flower; those with less foliage may not flower. However, with proper care nonflowering bulbs can be redeveloped for blooming in future years.
The popularity of potted azaleas has increased rapidly since they have become available throughout the year. Several types are used for forcing, but the care of all of them in the home is similar.
Reblooming azaleas in the home is not a simple matter. After flowering has finished, remove withered flowers and keep the plant in a cool, sunny location. Shift the plant to a larger pot if it appears to be potbound. Azaleas need shifting only once every few years. It is unlikely that a newly purchased plant will need immediate repotting.
A good mixture for repotting can be made from three parts acid peat moss and one part soil. With careful fertilization and watering, azaleas can be grown in peat moss alone.
Submerge the potted plants outdoors in May in a semi-shaded, protected spot. Don't neglect it during the summer. It will need water and fertilization regularly. Watch for insect pests.
If foliage becomes yellow or chlorotic, iron uptake may be limited. This can mean root loss from too much or too little water. It can also result from a pH that is too high (soil too alkaline), or it may actually be a lack of iron in the soil. Apply a chelated iron or iron sulphate to correct the situation. Ammonium sulphate fertilizer also helps to lower the pH and maintain the acidity of the soil. Apply about one half teaspoon each of iron sulphate and ammonium sulphate to one quart of water. Apply this to the plants about every two to three weeks. About every third fertilization use a complete houseplant fertilizer instead of the above combination.
Before July 1, shape the plant by removing the tips of rapidly growing shoots. Keep the plant outdoors as long as possible in the fall. Protect it on the first cool or light frost nights, but bring it indoors when hard frost is likely. Place the plant in a sunny, cool room. It needs 40- to 50-degree temperatures from Nov. 1 to Jan. 1. Do not fertilize during this period and water only enough to keep the plant from wilting.
Buds should develop and swell. In January, move to a sunny window in a room where temperatures are near 60 degrees F at night. In a few weeks flowering should begin. If temperatures are excessively high during this period buds often develop poorly and new shoot growth begins. In warmer areas of the state, some of the Kurume varieties may be planted outdoors. None of the Indica, or Belgian, hybrids are hardy here.
The oval, balloonlike flowers of calceolaria make its common name, "pocketbook plant," quite appropriate (Figure 3). It is usually available as a spring-flowering plant from about Valentine's Day through Easter.
Figure 3
Calceolarias are annual plants grown from seeds. After flowering is completed, plants gradually decline and cannot be rebloomed successfully. Excessive heat or drying at any time makes them collapse quickly.
Potted chrysanthemums are the most popular year-round flowering gift plant. They are available in a wide range of colors and forms. Although chrysanthemums normally flower in November, newly developed methods encourage flowering all seasons of the year. Potted mums last several weeks to a month when given proper care in the home.
Chrysanthemum varieties used for flowering potted plants are not usually suitable for Missouri gardens. However, if there is a desire to keep the plant, it may be rebloomed with proper attention.
Florists often pot several plants together. Separate these plants after flowering and repot them individually. Use a 5- to 6-inch pot. Keep these plants well watered and at temperatures close to 60 degrees F. When new shoots appear, move them to full sun and give plenty of water.
In summer, sink the pots outside in a sunny area where they can be given good care. Apply a complete liquid fertilizer about every two weeks. Additional plants can be started by rooting cuttings from the new growth.
To develop large, bushy plants, pinch out the tip of each new shoot when it becomes about 5 inches long. Remove only the soft shoot tips. Do not pinch the plants after Aug. 15.
Keep the plants outdoors as long as possible in fall. When light frost threatens, cover the plants or lift the pots and bring them indoors. They often can be returned outdoors during periods of mild fall weather. When cold, freezing temperatures persist, bring the plants indoors to stay. Place them in a sunny south window. Night temperatures around 60 degrees F are ideal. Day temperatures of 70 to 75 degrees F are best.
Chrysanthemums flower only in response to short days (long nights). Until the color shows in the buds, plants must be kept where they will not be exposed to any light at night from a light fixture. Even dim light for short periods can disrupt flowering. When the buds begin to open, light at night will no longer effect them.
Do not expect plants forced at home to be as perfect as those grown in a greenhouse. Greenhouse conditions are difficult to provide in the normal home.
Hardy garden mums also grow in pots. These are suitable for outdoor planting. Set them out in a sunny, well-drained location in spring when the ground is warm. To keep these plants low and bushy, pinch out shoots when they are about 4 to 5 inches long. Discontinue pinching about mid-July.
Cineraria is a spectacular flowering plant for use on Easter and Mother's Day. Masses of daisylike flowers in either red, pink, blue, violet or white rise above a nosegay of large leaves. Cinerarias are seed propagated and grown at cool temperatures.
With good care, cinerarias should be attractive for several weeks. These plants are grown from seed and are best handled as an annual. Once flowering is completed, they naturally decline and should be discarded.
Cyclamen is available from Christmas through the spring holidays (Figure 4). Leaves are heart-shaped, often with attractive gray-green mottlings. Flower petals reflex back from the centers and are held on long stems above the foliage. Colors are pink, salmon, red and white.
Figure 4
Cyclamen is a perennial plant and may rebloom a second season. After flowering, gradually withhold water until the foliage dies off. This begins the rest period. Do not water for six to eight weeks.
By midsummer, begin watering gradually. Repot if the bulblike corm is fairly large in the pot. When repotting, keep about half of the "bulb" above the soil line. At this time, a lightly shaded, cool spot outdoors, or a cool, shaded window indoors provides the best location. As new leaves develop, resume normal watering and fertilization and move plants to a sunny location. Keep soil moist at all times, and feed with a houseplant fertilizer according to manufacturer's directions. Move plants indoors before danger of frost. Plants treated in this way should rebloom by midwinter.
If young leaves become stunted or curled, a pest known as cyclamen mite may be present. Although insecticides may combat this problem, infected plants are best discarded before the pest can spread to other plants.
The Easter lily is a popular holiday plant that needs little special treatment. Well-tended plants should bloom successively for several weeks in the home.
The glossy, deep green foliage and fragrant, waxy white flowers of gardenia (Figure 5) make it a beautiful plant, but not an easy plant for home culture. Although available at other times, they are primarily potted plants used for the spring holidays.
Figure 5
Unless located in a suitable environment, gardenias decline rapidly and should be discarded after flowering. Loss of flower buds is sometimes a problem with new plants. To help reduce bud drop, provide the best conditions possible. Misting over the plant while it becomes adjusted to a new location may help reduce bud drop.
When repotting is necessary, use a slightly acid soil mix high in peat moss. Repot in late spring after flowering is completed. If moved outside for the summer, they prefer a slightly shaded location. Most benefit from the addition of iron sulphate at three to four week intervals. Use 1/2 teaspoon to each quart of water. Soil acidity should be near pH 6.0 or slightly less. In early summer or at the time they are placed outdoors, prune back plants that have become too large.
Plants are subject to attack by common houseplant pests, including spider mites, scale and mealy bugs.
Care of the gloxinia (Figure 6) is similar to that of the African violet, a close relative. Its large trumpet-shaped flowers rise above large, velvety leaves. Vivid colors include pink, red, white, blue and purple in solid colors as well as spotted or bordered with white. Gloxinias are most popular during the late winter and spring holidays.
Figure 6
Plants produce a fleshy tuber, which with proper care, may be rebloomed. After the plant has stopped flowering, gradually taper off watering until the leaves yellow and die. Place pot and tuber in a cool, dark location and stop watering. Give the tuber a rest period of eight to 10 weeks. As new growth appears, move the pot to a bright location and begin watering gradually. Tubers may be repotted at this time if necessary.
For spring bloom, do not water the tubers until after Christmas. Then remove the tuber from the old soil and plant shallowly into a new potting mixture. Place the top of the tuber above the soil line. Use only one tuber per pot. For starting plants, pots 4 or 5 inches in diameter are adequate. As shoots enlarge and leaves fully expand, begin normal watering and light fertilization. Plants should begin flowering in about four months.
Young plants may also be started from leaf or shoot cuttings. Techniques for starting plants from leaves are the same as for African violets.
Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus and Easter cactus are three tropical cacti that naturally flower near each of these holidays. Recent development of vigorous new hybrids, which flower between Thanksgiving and Christmas and in different colors and shades, has increased their recent popularity. In general, holiday cacti bear the stem characteristics of the Thanksgiving cactus. The Thanksgiving cactus has stem segments with saw-toothed margins; the Christmas cactus has rounded margins. Easter cactus is more intermediate in shape but develops more small spines at the junctions of the stem joints.
For flowering in future years, keep plants in a sunny window and fertilize regularly but lightly. Plants are epiphytic, that is, they grow in decaying organic matter rather than soil. When repotting, use sphagnum moss or a very loose mixture of organic materials. They do not need extremely large pots.
Keep in a bright window indoors during the summer, hang from branches of trees or set in other lightly shaded locations outdoors.
About mid-September, flower buds should begin to develop. Night temperatures of 55 degrees F result in the development of flower buds. When cool night temperatures are not possible, induce flowering by giving plants short, preferably nine-hour days, from about mid-September to mid-October. Cover with a light-tight box every evening for 15 hours of complete darkness. Flowering occurs about 2-1/2 months later.
Reduce watering and withhold fertilization during flower bud development and flowering stage.
Plants are relatively disease- and pest-free. However, overwatering or poor drainage of the potting medium may cause root rot and result in collapse of roots. Plants root easily from stem segments. To start new plants, break off the healthy older branches and root the tops in fresh, clean sphagnum moss. Water sparingly until rooting occurs and new growth begins. Wilted segments, if not too badly damaged, will recover and become firm as new roots develop.
The potted hydrangea is popular for Easter and Mother's Day. With good care it should last several weeks in the home.
Compact varieties of kalanchoes (Figure 7) in a greater range of flower colors have been developed recently. As a Christmas plant, the red-flowered types have been popular, but pink, orange and yellow varieties are available for other times of the year. The kalanchoe has thick, waxy leaves. Flowers are small, four-petaled, in abundant clusters held well above the leaves.
Figure 7
With good care, kalanchoes may be rebloomed for another season. After flowering, shift the plant to a slightly larger pot. Use a well-drained, general-purpose potting soil. Cut back tall growth and old flower stems. Keep well watered in a sunny, warm window. Indoors, keep the plants in a sunny location, but after danger of frost move them outdoors for the summer. Gradually adjust them to outdoor conditions, so tender leaves will not burn. Keep in a bright, lightly shaded spot. New plants may also be started from cuttings taken in the spring or early summer.
Kalanchoes, like poinsettias, require short day lengths for flower bud development. Natural day lengths between Oct. 1 and March 1 allow flower buds to form. During this time, keep the plant in a room where lights are not turned on during the natural dark hours. About six weeks of natural winter day lengths are required for flower buds to appear. After the flower buds are large enough to be seen above the foliage, day length is no longer critical. At this time, place plants in any location regardless of night lighting. Plants exposed to natural short day lengths in early October should begin flowering by January.
The red flowering poinsettia is by far the most popular flowering potted plant for the Christmas season. White, pink and variegated white and pink are also available. Many new, long lasting varieties of poinsettias are now available. If properly cared for they may last a month or more after Christmas.
Poinsettias are perhaps the most difficult flowering potted plants to rebloom in the home. Unless there is a special interest to try the technique, discard the plant after flowering.
After blooming, gradually withhold water. The leaves will then yellow and fall. Store the dried-off plant in a cool place with temperatures 50 to 60 degrees F until spring. Water only enough to keep the roots from drying out.
In spring, place the plant in a warm room and prune the stems back to about 6 inches. If there is more than one plant in the pot, divide and repot them at this time.
For repotting, use a well-drained soil. Houseplant potting soils available at garden shops are satisfactory. Or use one part garden soil, one part peat moss or leaf mold and one part sand or perlite.
After repotting, place the plants in a bright, sunny south window until frost danger is past. Sink the pot outdoors where it gets some wind protection but where it gets sun most of the day. Light shade in the hottest part of the summer afternoon is desirable. Lift the pot occasionally to keep roots from growing into the surrounding soil.
As new shoots develop, cut them back to allow two nodes or pairs of leaves to remain. Do not pinch back shoots after mid-August.
Plants may be started from cuttings, but rooting is fairly difficult under home conditions.
Keep the plant in good growing condition by watering and feeding regularly during the summer. Add a complete liquid fertilizer about once every two weeks.
Watch carefully for insect or disease problems and control immediately. Discard diseased plants.
Before the weather becomes cool in fall, bring the plant indoors and place it at a bright, sunny south window. Night temperatures for flower development should be between 60 and 62 degrees F. At higher temperatures flower development will be poor. Day temperatures may be 70 to 75 degrees F.
The poinsettia is a short day (long night) plant. Make sure that it receives no additional light at night while flowers are forming. This critical period begins about Oct. 1 and continues until colored bracts and flower buds are visible. Even short periods of dim light can prevent flowering. If the plant is kept in a lighted room, cover it every night at dusk with a light-tight bag or cover. Remove the cover at about 8 a.m. each morning.
If these procedures are followed carefully, the plants should flower by midwinter.
Spring flowering bulbs often forced into bloom in pots are tulip, hyacinth, narcissus (daffodil), grape hyacinth and crocus. For maximum enjoyment, these plants are best purchased in the bud or early stages of bloom.
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Reblooming potted bulbs
Do not try to rebloom indoors bulbs that have been forced. They can, however, be moved into the garden and will often flower the next spring. Discard any bulbs that have been forced in water such as hyacinths or paperwhite narcissus.
When the bulbs have finished flowering indoors, move the plant to a sunny location. Keep them wet enough so that leaves are able to mature and dry gradually. When the tops have died, remove the dry foliage and soil from around the bulbs. Store them in a dry place until fall, then plant them outdoors in the garden.
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The MiaGreen Expo & Conference is the only event in the United States providing access to the ever-growing, non-stoppable green, renewable and sustainable markets for ALL the Americas. This annual, well-established, business-to-business event is one-of-a-kind and grows bigger and better every year.
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phandel needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 157 designs submitted by 65 freelance designers.
Need innovative, clean, contemporary, a-typical logo for banking industry web site.
Need a corporate/website logo for a company that provides content to the banking industry. Content includes webinars, virtual conferences, banking links and a banking events calendar.
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- An appropriate use of reflection and/or 3D could be good
- bankerstuff should be one word and all lowercase
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M.Steiner wrote:Discord is a free chat app designed by gamers, for gamers.
Lots of other cool features too & more to come as well!
- It's very easy to join & use. Absolutely no set-up guide necessary.
- Connect via your browser, the desktop client (PC & Mac with Linux to come) or even the free phone app (for both iOS & Android) to use whilst you're out & about or at work.
- Instantly invite someone to our channel via a simple and short link.
- Supports multiple channels for both text & voice chat, all connected to the same server window and only a mouse click away from each other.
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IBM Technical Computing, also referred to as high performance computing (HPC), bolstered its Platform Computing Symphony product for big data mainly by adding enterprise-ready InfoSphere BigInsights Hadoop capabilities. The Platform Symphony product now includes Apache Hadoop, map/reduce and indexing capabilities, application accelerators, and development tools. IBM's recommended approach to simplifying and accelerating big data analytics entails the integration of Platform Symphony, General Parallel File System (GPFS), Intelligent Cluster, and DCS3700 storage.
This is not to say that IBM is leaving the traditional supercomputing and HPC market. Its Sequoia supercomputer recently topped the industry by delivering over 16 petaflops of performance. Earlier this year it also unveiled the new LRZ SuperMUC system, built with IBM System x iDataPlex direct water cooled dx360 M4 servers encompassing more than 150,000 cores to provide a peak performance of up to three petaflops. SuperMUC, run by Germany's Bavarian Academy of Science's Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, will be used to explore the frontiers of medicine, astrophysics, quantum chromodynamics, and other scientific disciplines.
But IBM is intent on broadening the scope of HPC by pushing it into mainstream business. With technical computing no longer just about supercomputers the company wants to extend technical computing to diverse industries. It already has a large presence in the petroleum, life sciences, financial services, automotive, aerospace, defense, and electronics for compute-intensive workloads. Now it is looking for new areas where a business can exploit technical computing for competitive gain. Business analytics and big data are the first candidates that come to mind.
When it comes to big data, the Platform Symphony product already has posted some serious Hadoop benchmark results:
- Terasort , a big data benchmark that tests the efficiency MapReduce clusters in handling very large datasets—Platform Symphony used 10x less cores
- SWIM, a benchmark developed at UC Berkley that simulates real-world workload patterns on Hadoop clusters—Platform Symphony ran 6x faster
- Sleep, a standard measure to compare core scheduling efficiency of MapReduce workloads—Platform Symphony came out 60x faster.
Technical computing at IBM involves System x, Power, System i, and PureFlex—just about everything except z. And it probably could run on the z too through x or p blades in the zBX.
Earlier this month IBM announced a number of technical computing enhancements including a high-performance, low-latency big data platform encompassing IBM's Intelligent Cluster, Platform Symphony, IBM GPFS, and System Storage DCS3700. Specifically for Platform Symphony is a new low latency Hadoop multi-cluster capability that scales to 100,000 cores per application and shared memory logic for better big data application performance.
Traditionally, HPC customers coded their own software to handle the nearly mind-boggling complexity of the problems they were trying to solve. To expand technical computing to mainstream business, IBM has lined up a set of ISVs to provide packaged applications covering CAE, Life Science, EDA, and more. These include Rogue Wave, ScaleMP, Ansys, Altair, Accelrys, Cadence, Synopsys, and others.
IBM also introduced the new Flex System HPC Starter Configuration, a hybrid system that can handle both POWER7 and System x. The starter config includes the Flex Enterprise Chassis, an Infiniband (IB) chassis switch, Power7 compute node, and an IB expansion card for Power or x86 nodes. Platform Computing software handles workload management and optimizes resources. IBM describes it as a high density, price/performance offering but hasn't publicly provided any pricing. Still, it should speed time to HPC.
As technical computing goes mainstream it will increasingly focus on big data and Hadoop. Compute-intensive, scientific-oriented companies already do HPC. The newcomers want to use big data techniques to identify fraud, reduce customer churn, make sense of customer sentiment, and similar activities associated with big data. Today that calls for Hadoop which has become the de facto standard for big data, although that may change going forward as a growing set of alternatives to Hadoop gain traction.


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High court asked to hear whistleblower appeal
High court asked to hear whistleblower appeal
KEOKUK, Iowa —
A former Lee County maintenance worker who sued under Iowa's whistleblower law is asking the Iowa Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's ruling setting aside the $186,000 that a jury awarded him.
The Burlington Hawk Eye reports that Rick Carter has appealed the judge's ruling last year.
Carter was fired in 2010. His lawsuit says he was fired because he reported problems with the Lee County Jail during its construction and accused the county board of malfeasance.
In February 2013, a jury awarded Carter $141,000 in back wages and $45,000 in lost benefits.
But several weeks later, District Judge Mary Ann Brown set aside the jury award, saying Carter was fired for incompetence, not in retaliation for his public accusations.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Apr 2013 11:21 UTC
Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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Definitely. I was sad when they cast their lot in with Microsoft. I wanted a Nokia android phone.
I can see why they didn't go that route, I think they were thinking they couldn't compete well enough with Samsung, HTC and Motorola (and the long tail of other Android handset manufacturers).. So they went with Microsoft to differentiate, and also, how can you say no to $1 Billion.
If they can hang on for a few years they may be able to climb up to some level. It's going to be very difficult to dethrone Apple and Google's Army of manufacturers in that timeframe though.


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(All CDs also available from Michel Cardin.)
The last three CDs in this welcome survey of the London Manuscripts by late Baroque composer Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) keep up the same high standard as achieved by the earlier nine disks. On CD 10 Cardin is alone playing a Baroque lute from the late 1970s, a reproduction by Matthias Durvie of an instrument by J.C.Hoffman from the early eighteenth century. On CDs 11 and 12 Cardin's lute is by Nico van der Waals from 1982 after a lute also by Hoffman from c.1730; and he is joined by Christiane Laflamme, who plays a Baroque flute by Alain Weemaels with a flute from 2000 after G.A.Rotternburg (1709-1790). The contribution of the flute is tender, sensitive and both leading as well as complementary. Laflamme's playing is intimate, restrained and full of expression. When required she is at one with Cardin – in the second movement of the Concert d'un luth et d'une flûte traversière, S-C 6, for example. When required she makes more of the running. After so much solo lute music, one might expect the stringed instrument to retire shyly in deferential relief. But No: it holds its own in what is really a pleasing and fresh sound full of melody and forward-striking tempi. So these last three CDs are a little different from the others so favorably reviewed here in recent months. But every bit as worthy of attention.
There is still very much the sense of being offered (not overhearing) a labor of love on Cardin's part. Indeed, as the celebrated Canadian lutanist points out in his exhaustive essays that are included in the CDs' booklets, there are occasions when it has been necessary for him to complete and re-edit (sections of) Weiss' manuscripts.
The temptation is perhaps to think that there must be a sameness, a restricted appeal, to yet another three and a half hours of a total of over 15 hours' worth of solo lute music from a figure whose output isn't known to so many as clearly it should. Remarkably this isn't the case as you sit down to listen to even a very few of the varied, original and highly inventive pieces here. Indeed, one aspect of Cardin's achievement is to make the creativity and heterogeneity of Weiss work so apparent. Even though Weiss worked so consistently using dance movement, duo (concert) and similar intimate, small scale forms, they expand to fill a world of emotion and thought. The melody, drive and sober ingenuity of, say, the "Courante Royale in G Major" [Vol.10, tr.10] is intriguing, full of surprises; yet lacks bluster. Rather, it emphasizes great sensitivity and bears repeated listening. Cardin has the music's measure here – as in all such pieces – and exposes the unwary listener to its wonders as though they were every day fuel to a very warm and inviting flame.
It is to be remembered that there are now no fewer than three cycles (complete and projected) of Weiss' lute music in the catalog:
In these three final volumes there is no sense of scraping the barrel. True, Cardin has programmed groups of single dance movements on Volumes 10 and 11 and the four concerts on Volume 12. But this is a happy way to finish the series: from some of the sequences of individual movements complete Suites can be constructed in skeleton. Volume 10 was recorded on two occasions – in January and March (of 2002), during which time new lute strings had become well used, so the sound is markedly different. Throughout the series it's been obvious (even to non-players) how intimately an understanding, or at least an awareness, of the mechanics and particularities of the instrument to hand determine and enhance appreciation of Weiss' music.
Weiss is a players' composer to be sure. But this is not to say that "lay" listeners can't enjoy and marvel at his imagination and originality. Especially when the playing is by a performer as dedicated and fluent as Cardin. The gentle and poignant L'Amant malheureux [Vol.10, tr.15], for example, contains a whole world: every note counts, every nuance offsets every other, every harmonic tells a tale… almost as in a Schubert Lied. Equally remarkable is the Fantaisie in C minor [Vol.10, tr.16], redolent yet again of Bach! Indeed, this section of the disc contains a sequence of slow, thoughtful, melancholy pieces culminating in the Tombeau sur la mort de M. Cajetan Baron d'Hartig [Vol.10, tr.19]. Cardin brings out the delicate yet searing qualities of such striking pieces with a sensitivity and deftness that's only borne of lengthy and concentrated reflection on their deeper workings and (hence) deeper meanings.
Volume 11 breaks new ground for this series, then, by including the flute of Christiane Laflamme in the last four moevements [tr.s15-18]. Also Canadian, she has performed with a number of north American Baroque ensembles including Aradia in their Naxos Castor et Pollux (Rameau). The dozen and a half movements on this CD are as remarkable as any for the sheer variety of moods, temperaments and feelings evoked: austerity, rejoicing, majesty, playfulness, serenity, quirky, confident, reticent. In a perverse way, Volume 11 would make an ideal introduction to Weiss' œvre. Attention should be drawn to the Minuet and Trio in G [tr.4]: it has been claimed that Weiss could not have composed it&helip; inferior technique, insufficiently challenging etc. Cardin writes of how he too held such a view – until he played it! Equally worthy of our admiration is the Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy [tr.6]; Logy was a lutanist who inspired and influenced Weiss. A piece long associated with Julian Bream, it clearly means a lot to Cardin and may stand to epitomize the subtlety, profundity and creativity of this neglected composer.
Volume 12 contains the four pieces that comprise the final segment of this long and pleasing journey. In alluding to something of a revival of more general interest in Weiss, Cardin makes the point that the composer's chamber music stands well in comparison with that of his contemporaries. But the breadth and depth of the world of his solo music (and to a portion of which this excellent SNE series has been dedicated, of course) may yield just as much, if not more. But efforts to accord the Weiss solo œvre appropriate status are somewhat hampered because there are few comparable bodies of contemporary compositions, those of Handel, Bach and Telemann notwithstanding. This is all satisfying music nonetheless. Note that the Concert in B Flat Major S-C 8 [tr.1-4] is actually by Weiss' brother, Sigismund (c.1695-1737).
Volume 10 also contains a reproduction of portrait by Georg Platzer (1704-1761) which Cardin conjectures may well be of Weiss himself; it's accompanied by a useful and illuminating essay (by Jean-Luc Bresson). Interestingly, too, Cardin points out that the tablature (the scheme of notation which uses finger positioning on the strings, rather than notes on a staff) of these manuscripts suggests that Weiss had long, thin fingers. Could that impart account for the seemingly unstoppable flow and openness of most of this music? A biographical note in the booklet for Volume 11 also refers to recent work which confirms that Weiss was born in 1687 in Grotkau (and not in 1686 in Breslau). Usefully, Cardin also outlines the pre-eminent position which Weiss must now be accepted as holding musicologically in terms of the advances in instrumental aesthetics: he must have been writing for lute knowing that harpsichordists (and eventually pianists!) were emulating the instrument. It is also to be noted that Weiss played his duos in Dresden with Pierre Gabriel Buffardin (1690-1768), who was professor to members of the Bach family and Quantz.
In conclusion it should be said that this series is a triumph. The recordings, presentation, pricing and standard of musicianship are all excellent. The repertoire belies what may seem as if it would be routine or pedestrian. Cardin's great achievement is to have got inside the music's skin to such an extent that it becomes as robust (in its appeal) as it sponsors curiosity. He is a powerful advocate: for every note Cardin has refused to coddle, he has also eschewed forcing it upon us as some sort of oddity or specimen. He has made Weiss' remarkable music live.
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text: New Kenyan Mining Act: A big step forward Mining Updates Share this 8 FEB 2017 By: Peter Finan Beatrice Nyabira Background This article examines the new Mining Act 2016 in Kenya (the Act) which, after a lengthy legislative process, was finally signed into law by President Uhuru Kenyatta on 6 May 2016. The Act replaces the former Mining Act which had been in force since 1940 which many viewed as not only out-dated but also a significant hurdle to investment in Kenya's mining sector. Championed by the Kenyan Ministry of Mining as being "the continent's most progressive mining act", investors can take comfort from the fact that the Act establishes a more modern, predictable and transparent legal regime which is generally consistent with those introduced by other African countries in recent years. Importantly, the Act brings the provisions of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 into effect which require greater public participation in the exploitation, management and conservation of the environment and natural resources for current and future generations. Coupled with the ongoing investment in Kenya's infrastructure development, which is another "key economic pillar" of Kenya's Vision 2030, the government hopes the reform of the mining sector, together with the Act, will pave the way for a new era of mining in Kenya. Key changes introduced by the act Government participation The newly introduced "free carry" provision has perhaps attracted the most industry attention. It will entitle the State to a free ten per cent interest in large scale mining projects. While this mirrors the mining laws of other African countries, Kenya has gone further and introduced a new concept which requires investors, involved in mining projects with capital expenditures over a certain threshold, to offer a minimum of 20 per cent of their shares to the public on a local stock exchange (likely to be the Nairobi Securities Exchange). Licenses and permits The Act greatly simplifies the types of mining rights that may be granted to investors as well as the acquisition process for such rights. Prospecting and mining rights will now be in the form of either a permit (for small scale operations) or a license (for large scale operations). The old restriction on prospecting licences being held by a company has also been lifted (formerly they could only be granted to an individual "as agent of the company"). Environment and social protections The Act also contains a range of environmental, social and local content provisions which include requirements to use locally produced goods and services, engage companies or businesses owned by Kenyan citizens and submit detailed mine closure plans. Applicants for mining licences must provide an environmental protection bond or similar security, sufficient to cover the costs associated with the implementation of their environmental and rehabilitation obligations. The Act also requires miners to invest in and facilitate social responsibility activities with local communities, which includes capacity building, skills transfer, and giving priority to Kenyans when employing staff for mining projects. Transparency As part of a strong commitment to transparency, the Act requires a range of mining industry information to be made available online which includes mining revenues paid to Government, production volumes of mining operations and copies of signed mineral agreements (which must be entered into with the State before engaging in mining activities under a mining license). Making this information more readily available follows steps taken by other African nations in recent years (such as the Republic of Guinea), and should lead to greater stability and confidence for all stakeholders in the Kenyan mining sector. These requirements follow the launch of the Mining Cadastre Portal in February 2015 which provides for an online automated licencing and payment system with maps of current tenements, and which has been welcomed as a further step towards greater efficiency and transparency in the Kenyan mining sector. Investment and wealth division As may be expected, the reform of the mining sector has created high expectations in communities situated in areas where mineral deposits are located. In accordance with the Constitution of Kenya 2010, these local communities and their economies have an express entitlement to benefit from mining investments. The Act requires, among other things, that mining operations take into account the local community values as well as the conditions of community development. As lands the subject of mineral rights are most likely owned by local communities, the Act requires that the consent of such communities and their county governments is obtained before mineral operations are carried out on their land. Furthermore, and of great significance for Kenya, the Act establishes a National Mining Corporation as the Government's investment arm with responsibility for ensuring that mineral wealth is protected and harnessed for present and future generations. The Corporation will also be able to invest on behalf of the Government, engage in mineral prospecting and mining, and hold interests in mining projects. Mining Royalties Alongside the introduction of the Act, Kenya may also make changes to the fiscal framework of its mining sector. This is provided for under section 183 of the Act which states that the Cabinet Secretary "shall prescribe" the royalty rates payable by holders of mineral rights. In the meantime, the royalty rates set out in the Mining (Prescription of Royalties on Minerals) Regulations of 2013 will apply which include rates on extraction of 5% for gold and silver, 8% for manganese and iron ore, 8% for coal, 10% for titanium ores and rare earths and 12% for diamonds (all applied to the "gross sales value"). Further royalties may apply, including the current 'exportation royalty' on gold at 2% of the gross value to be exported, and a 'dealership royalty' on gemstones at (a) 5% on the export value of raw gemstones or (b) 1% on the export value of value-added gemstones. The Act itself requires that the mining royalties will be split as follows: 70 per cent to the National Government, 20 per cent to the County Governments and 10 per cent to the community where the mining operations occur. Further to earlier discussions between the Ministry of Mining and various international mining companies, the Act requires the Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Mining to facilitate the establishment of a Minerals and Metals Commodity Exchange in Kenya to help address the difficulties in accessing capital faced by entities investing in the country. Welcome development for Kenyans The Act contains a range of provisions which have been introduced for the benefit of Kenyan citizens and, in particular, communities located in the vicinity of mining operations. While the most obvious benefits to the State will be through the free carry provisions and enhanced royalties, the requirement to give preference to local products and services, the employment of Kenyan citizens and to businesses owned by Kenyan citizens promises to provide longer lasting benefits. The requirement to divide up mining royalties between the government and local communities should be welcomed by many, particularly local communities who are traditionally most affected by the mining activities. Conclusion While some corners have questioned the level of discretion afforded to the government under the Act as likely to discourage investment, even critics concede that an update to the existing mining legislation is well overdue and that many of the changes will bring Kenya in line with the other African countries who have recently reformed, or are in the process of reforming, their mining sector legislation. The government hopes the Act's introduction will allow the mining sector to play a key role in Kenya's Vision 2030, helping the mining sector play its part in developing Kenya into a "globally competitive and prosperous nation... providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030 within a clean and secure environment." Co-authored with Beatrice Nyabira, Partner at IKM, DLA Piper Africa, Kenya.


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text: Gary has been an educator for over thirty years, which means he's been broke most of his life and started teaching at age 12. He has taught at the college/university level for 22 years. He has taught at numerous fine schools and locations including: University of Hawaii, U.C.L.A., Purdue University, University of Saint Francis, The American School of Nouackchott Mauritania, and at 93rd and Hoover in da hood in South Central L.A. He has been teaching at CFCC for eight years and has enjoyed every moment of it. He is a published author and poet. He has been published in numerous small periodicals and journals and rejected from most of the FINEST periodicals in the world. He currently LOVES spending time with and raising his young son Gage Sterling. He also likes surfing, disc golf, and camping. Contact Gary via campus Cruiser or visit him in S301- I.


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Indiana Republicans oust 2 over gay marriage votes
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana voters ousted two Republican legislators who helped keep a gay marriage ban off the November ballot, but most incumbents prevailed Tuesday in a primary election lacking a galvanizing issue or marquee statewide race.
Social conservatives in northeast Indiana helped tea party candidates defeat Reps. Rebecca Kubacki of Syracuse and Kathy Heuer of Huntington. Both women voted in favor of a measure that delayed, at least until 2016, an effort to let voters consider whether to amend the Indiana Constitution to solidify the state's gay marriage ban.
But another lawmaker targeted for the same vote, Rep. Casey Cox, R-Fort Wayne, held off challengers in the primary race.
Economic concerns weighed heavily for the small number of Indiana voters who hit the polls.
With no statewide contests on the ballot, the 2014 primary season was far quieter than two years ago, when tea-party-backed state Treasurer Richard Mourdock defeated longtime U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in the GOP primary. Mourdock lost to Democrat Joe Donnelly in the November general election.
This year's election is largely focused on races for the state Legislature -- all 100 House seats are open, along with about half of the state Senate seats. Indiana's nine members of Congress all make it through their primaries unscathed, allowing them to prepare for November battles.
Most members of the Legislature who faced tough challenges survived the night.
House Speaker Pro Tem Eric Turner, R-Cicero, turned back Sheridan architect Parvin Gillim. Turner was cleared by a House ethics panel after privately lobbying to protect millions he earns through the nursing home industry.
And State Sen. Jim Merritt, R-Indianapolis, fended off tea party challenger Crystal LaMotte.
"I don't think there are any really hot buttons so to speak to push," said Jack Hart, 69, who was working at Westfield Town Hall as a Republican election inspector. "The most part the people who are in the offices in the party I'm involved with, Republican, I'm happy with."
For Republicans, a supermajority in the state House hangs in the balance. The supermajority allows Republicans to conduct business without worrying about minority Democrats stalling business by walking out, as they did during labor battles in 2011 and 2012.
As of early Tuesday evening, a handful of tight Statehouse races hung in the balance.
In the state Senate, John Waterman, R-Shelburn, was facing a well-organized and well-funded opponent in Washington City Councilman Eric Bassler. Indiana business interests and some of the political staffers associated with former Gov. Mitch Daniels were helping Bassler. Waterman, a financial adviser, considered a run against Daniels in the 2008 primary but ultimately stayed out of the race.
House Education Chairman Robert Behning, R-Indianapolis, picked up a surprisingly strong challenge from Michael Scott, a union electrician who has gained the backing of the state's unions. Conservative education overhaul supporters have flocked to Behning's defense; the Indianapolis Republican was instrumental in the passage of sweeping changes in 2011 and has continued pushing for expansions of the school voucher program.
For most of those drawn out by any specific issue, it was the economy, even though Indiana's unemployment rate was 5.9 percent in March, well below the national level and some of its neighboring Midwest states.
Turnout on Tuesday was light though workers in some precincts said that was typical for a midterm election. At one location at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, only 10 people had voted during the first three hours. By 3 p.m., only 53 people had voted at a precinct in the Indianapolis suburb of Westfield.
The election process seemed to be running smoothly, with officials reporting a few problems with voting machines, none of which disturbed the small number of voters who turned out. Erin Kelley, spokeswoman for the Marion County Clerk's office in Indianapolis, said 295 of Indianapolis's 296 polling locations opened on time. One polling site opened late because an election worker had trouble finding transportation.
The winners of Tuesday's contests will head to November showdowns. Next up for the Republican and Democratic parties are nominating conventions this summer, where party activists will decide who runs for auditor, secretary of state and treasurer.


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Loyola, League of Women Voters discuss what works in NOLA public schools
Loyola press release - April 16, 2012
The Loyola University New Orleans Institute for Quality and Equity in Education, along with the League of Women Voters, will hold an educational forum designed to identify positive steps and initiatives achieved by certain high-performing New Orleans public schools in efforts to replicate these accomplishments system-wide. The forum, "High Schools in New Orleans – What Works?," will be held April 19 in Miller Hall, Room 114, from 7 – 9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, with free parking available at the West Road Garage, located adjacent St. Charles Avenue.
The forum, moderated by Andre Perry, Ph.D., associate director of educational initiatives for the Institute for Quality and Equity in Education, will include Michael E. Booker, Ph.Ed., the principal of Lake Area New Technical Early College High School; Mary Laurie, lead administrator at O. Perry Walker College and Career Preparatory High School and Community Center; and Warren Easton Charter High School Principal Alexina Medley.
"We want to have an in-depth discussion on exactly how these schools have been successful in overcoming serious problems that have plagued our public school system for decades," said Ann Meese, Ph.D., who serves as the education chair of the League of Women Voters. "We want these administrators to share their experiences on a variety of issues, including how to increase parental involvement, monitor and reward teacher performance and meet the needs of those failing academically or behaviorally."
"The responsibility of rebuilding our entire New Orleans school system is a monumental task," Perry said. "In order to be successful, we have to operate together and not be tied to just one way of educating our children. If something is working, we all need to know about it, talk about the pros and cons and at least be open to trying new approaches to education."
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I posted a while ago about pressure to give up and got lots of lovely responses.
I am back again to have another moan because I literally have nobody else to talk to, there is a LLL meeting in my area on the 15th of this month which I am going to but until then I just feel so sad.
I NEVER talk about feeding my baby as it just provides ammo for family members, I even go into a different room (even in my own home if they are there) to feed her (she is nearly 5 months).
It all got too much this week as my eldest has been sick and vomited day and night for 5 days, on day 4 of very very little sleep (when my son wasn't being sick, my daughter was feeding from me!) I gave in and asked for help. I got lots of, "if you weren't breast feeding, we could have her". I did point out that if I wasn't feeding her, she probably would have caught it too and even if I wasn't, I wouldn't want my (in my eyes still tiny) baby away from me for any stretch of time. However, it hit a nerve as I felt I wasn't doing the best for my oldest as he couldn't have my undivided attention, likewise, if I was feeding my baby and my son threw up, I had no choice but to leave her screaming while I cleaned him up.
Today, things kind of reached a peak. I was tucking into my Mother's Day roast dinner and there were very direct comments about my weight. "Even breast feeding isn't going to burn that many calories" "the sooner you stop feeding that baby, the sooner you can shift that weight"
It really upset me, I am my heaviest ever and for me, breast feeding does certainly not make me lose weight, it makes me starving!!! But this has also struck a nerve as I am determined to try and provide a positive body image to my daughter. I want to be happy with my figure but I also want to carry on feeding her.
So, as I said when I posted before, I can't say anything to them but I feel like I have to vent somewhere and I felt so much better after coming here last time, I am not usually so self pitying and this kind of post would make me roll my eyes (ie somebody actively seeking people to say nice things to her!).
I hope I make lots of breast feeding mama friends at my meeting and I won't need to seek solace from strangers on a forum!


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Kerns, Thomas, Musacchio to be honored on Senior Day
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 11, 2012) – The ETSU women's soccer team returns home for its final two games of the regular season this Friday and Sunday, as it takes on Northern Kentucky and Lipscomb in Atlantic Sun play at Summers-Taylor Stadium.
ETSU (9-4-0, 3-2-0 A-Sun) will be holding its annual Pink Game against Northern Kentucky (4-10-0, 1-5-0 A-Sun) on Friday, helping to raise money and awareness about breast cancer. The Lady Bucs will be sporting their pink jerseys, and give away a signed ball from the team. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Sunday's game against Lipscomb (2-8-4, 0-4-2 A-Sun) is Senior Day at Summers-Taylor Stadium. Prior to the start of the game, the team and coaching staff will honor three departing Lady Bucs in Ramey Kerns (Kings Mountain, N.C.), Morgan Thomas (Maryville, Tenn.) and Katherine Musacchio (Nashville, Tenn.).
Kerns continued her high-production season last Saturday against USC Upstate. The junior striker – a senior academically – put in her 14th and 15th goals of the season, and entered this week as the nation's top goal scorer. She is tied with Georgetown's Daphne Cortez and Central Arkansas' Adriana Lucar for the most goals, and stands alone at the top with 1.154 goals per game.
Freshman sensation Sarah Zadrazil (St. Gilgen, Austria) tallied her eighth assist of the season against Upstate, and trails the single-season record of 10, set by Katie Green in 2007, by two. She also has four goals to total 16 points heading into the final home weekend.
ETSU's Last Outing
ETSU went down to Spartanburg, S.C. last Saturday, and took care of business with a 3-0 shutout of USC Upstate. Thomas scored just six minutes into the game, intercepting a Spartan clear attempt following a corner from Zadrazil, and firing a shot off an Upstate defender and in for her second goal of the season.
Less than 10 minutes before halftime, Thomas created ETSU's second goal. The Maryville, Tenn. native created danger in the penalty area, and was tripped up by a defender causing referee JJ Blodgett to award the Lady Bucs a penalty kick. Kerns stepped up and converted her third successful penalty of the season to put ETSU up by two.
Kerns added to her day four minutes later when she was fed a fantastic through ball from Zadrazil, taking a shot that hit the right post and went in for her second goal of the game. Kerns' two goals moved her point total to 33, surpassing Erin Ashton for the ETSU single-season points record. Ashton had 30 in 2005.
Scouting the Norse
NKU is in its first year of Division I athletics, transferring in from D-II. The Norse have registered four wins and one A-Sun victory this season, defeating Stetson in DeLand for their first D-I conference victory. The NKU women's soccer team earned a victory in its first ever D-I game, defeating Canisius, 2-0, on Aug. 17.
Martha Staab leads the NKU attack with three goals off just seven shots. Four other Norse players have scored twice, including Kelsey Zwergel, Megan Frye, maria Silbersack and Kelsey Laumann. Goalkeepers Stephanie Glass and Cassie Lingenhoel have split time in goal. Each keeper has played in all 10 games, allowing opponents 1.83 goals per game.
Scouting the Lady Bison
Lipscomb enters the weekend looking for its first in since Aug. 28, when it defeated Austin Peay 1-0. The Lady Bison have since gone 0-6-4, including two ties in A-Sun play against Mercer and Stetson. Their other victory came in the season opener, getting past Jacksonville State, 2-0.
Baylee Linnell holds the goals lead for Lipscomb, having scored four times. She also has two assists to accrue 10 points and lead the Lady Bison in that department as well. Other threats include Molly Bray with three goals, Brittany Rupple with two goals, and Caroline Chadwell with two goals and one assist. Keeper Erin Zerio has played every minute in goal, allowing opponents a GAA of 1.46.
Series History
Friday's game will be the first time ETSU and NKU have met. Sunday's game with Lipscomb marks the ninth all-time meeting in that series, with ETSU holding a decisive 7-1-0 advantage. The Lady Bucs have won the last three meetings.
Live stats will be available for both games through Stat Broadcast on ETSUBucs.com. Free live streaming video will also be provided courtesy of ASun.TV.
ETSU Notes
- Ramey Kerns entered the week No. 1 in the nation in goals (15) and goals per game (1.154). She has broken ETSU's single-season record in both departments.
- Sarah Zadrazil has eight assists this season, and is two shy of the ETSU record for single-season assists. Katie Green currently holds that mark, posting 10 in 2007.
- ETSU is 7-0 when leading at halftime, compared to 0-3 when trailing at the half.
- The Lady Bucs are currently sixth in the A-Sun standings, but are just one point behind Kennesaw State, two points behind both Mercer and Jacksonville, and four behind leaders North Florida and FGCU.
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Luis Ernesto Rodriguez eyed the metal door as he waited for his little girls. Now 6 and 5 years old, they were his only children, inseparable, with thick black hair and mischievous smiles that reminded people of little mermaids.
More than two years had passed since he had last seen them. What would they be like now? Would they recognize him? He had shed 20 pounds during the long journey north.
The door opened and his girls bounded into the tiny room. They shouted and laughed the same way they did when he used to carry one in each arm on the way to day care.
But their smiles melted away when they saw the thick wall of Plexiglas between them and their father, clothed in an orange jumpsuit worn by detainees at an immigration detention center in California's Imperial Valley. There would be no hugs, no kisses.
The girls pressed their palms to the barrier. Rodriguez did the same. His older daughter showed him how to shape a heart with her hands. Rodriguez did the same.
"Be patient," Rodriguez said. "I promise I'll be with you again."
Rodriguez last caressed his daughters in the predawn darkness of their cluttered apartment in South Los Angeles. The girls were asleep under the pink sheets of their shared bed when he kissed them and then rushed out to seek day laborer work at the
It was there, on that morning in November 2008, where police converged on Rodriguez, weapons drawn, and arrested him on suspicion of armed robbery. A short man with a bristly mustache, Rodriguez, then 39, fit the description of a man who had swiped three gold rings from a woman.
It was an apparent case of mistaken identity. No charges were filed, but Rodriguez wasn't going back to his girls.
An immigrant from El Salvador with a troubled past, he had a deportation order dating to 1991. He spent the next two months in jails.
The girls ended up with their maternal grandmother, who was destitute and suffered from memory lapses, so social workers took them away. They joined the thousands of children nationwide who are under custody of child protection agencies after their parents have been placed in deportation proceedings or deported. An estimated 5,000 such children are in foster care, about 1,000 of them in Los Angeles County, according to juvenile court attorneys and the Applied Research Center, a nonprofit racial justice think tank.
Many follow their deported mothers and fathers, if the parents can convince U.S. agencies that they can provide a stable life in their home countries. In such cases, social workers from Los Angeles escort the children to parents at joyous airport reunions, usually in Mexico and El Salvador.
But sometimes parents fail. Their children either languish in foster care or they're adopted by American couples. Some never see their biological parents again.
In January 2009, Rodriguez was placed on a flight to El Salvador, a nation he had fled as a teen, when it was rife with war.
He had hours to agonize over his girls' fate. "Being away from them was tearing me apart," he recalled.
Rodriguez had been through such a separation before. In 2007, social workers had taken his daughtersfrom Rodriguez's dirty, near-empty apartment in South Los Angeles. Rodriguez and his wife, Blanca, were cocaine users.
He was not arrested and, after 13 months of parenting classes and drug tests, Rodriguez got them back. Blanca was deported and eventually lost her custody rights. He became a single father. A social worker who visited his home a few months later gave him high marks.
Now, Rodriguez was headed back to El Salvador with only an extra pair of pants in his backpack. He settled in with his brother, another deportee, in Quezaltepeque, a crime-ridden city outside the capital. He sold quesadillas at a textile factory and began the work of getting his children back. He got in touch with his attorney in Los Angeles. He took drug tests. He attended parenting classes. He called his daughters regularly, hoping that would prove that their bonds remained deep.
His persistence impressed officials at the Institute of Human Rights at the University of Central America, who decided to pay some of his legal costs.
The case of Luis Ernesto Rodriguez was now a cause: a symbol of the struggle many Salvadoran parents go through to reunite their families.
Back in Los Angeles, the girls missed their father. They didn't like living with strangers. They cried and fought and were passed from one foster home to another.
On May 14, 2010, several attorneys and social workers gathered in Room 415-2 at the Children's Court in Monterey Park. Presiding was the former mayor of Los Angeles, James Hahn, now a Superior Court judge.
Rodriguez pressed a cellphone to his ear and paced around his home in Quezaltepeque, straining to hear the proceedings 2,000 miles away.
He heard his attorney, Thomas Pichotta, tell the court that Rodriguez had passed the drug-testing and counseling requirements. His housing situation was more problematic. A video of the home sent to social workers showed saggy ceilings, an outhouse and a dirt kitchen floor. In a letter, the Salvadoran human rights group made a case that housing in El Salvador should not be judged by U.S. standards.
Midway through the hearing, Rodriguez's phone died. He ran to buy another $20 calling card, but by the time he restored communication the hearing was over. Pichotta gave him the news: Hahn had approved the reunification. His daughters were coming to El Salvador.
"I felt such peace at that moment," Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez had only weeks to prepare. He put up shelves and set up a reading table in the girls' room. He pictured sweeping them up in a hug, buying them secondhand clothes, showing them the volcano towering over their new hometown.
But then he looked more closely and saw a less idyllic picture: The ramshackle house was little more than a shelter. The girls' room was dank and stained with water marks. His brother, whom he barely knew, was abusing drugs; his brother's girlfriend, who had offered to provide day care for his daughters, wasn't interested anymore. The tiny house shook with the couple's arguments.
Outside, gang members controlled the streets. They extorted from Rodriguez $2 of the $7 he earned daily. Thugs clustered outside corner stores and were known to recruit children.
Would a responsible father bring his daughters to this place of grinding poverty and danger?
"I found myself in a country where there is nothing for me. Maybe it's my fault. But I never thought I'd be thrown out empty-handed."
Rodriguez begged the court for more time. In June, the court rejected his request.
Social workers canceled the girls' flight and mounted the girls' photos in albums that were browsed by parents seeking to adopt children.
Through the summer and into winter, Rodriguez tried to return to Southern California, where he knew he could find an apartment and a job and establish the stable home life that the court required if he wereto get his daughters back. He hitchhiked and rode atop trains across Mexico, taking odd jobs along the way. Twice he was caught by Mexican authorities and sent back to El Salvador.
On Feb. 9, 2011, Rodriguez made it to the mountainous border between Tecate, Mexico, and the backcountry east of San Diego. The date was fortuitous, he thought: his younger daughter's birthday. For six hours he hiked through canyons, reaching state Highway 94, where he heard a dog running after him. He lay on the ground, motionless. Then he felt the hot breath of a Rottweiler beside him and the boot of a
Rodriguez was held at the El Centro Service Processing Center in California's Imperial Valley. He asked for asylum, claiming that gang members would kill him if he were deported. He would wait two months for a hearing.
On March 12, 2011, a guard told him he had visitors. A social worker had escorted his daughters to the detention center. They were waiting for him.
Rodriguez didn't expect the Plexiglas wall that separated them in the visitors' room. The reunion dissolved into tears, despite his best efforts to cheer up his girls. "My heart broke," he said.
But he had reason for optimism. They had not been adopted yet. And they still called him Daddy.
In May 2011, a judge rejected the asylum claim. Rodriguez was sent back to El Salvador.
A few weeks after the reunion, a couple knocked on the front door of the girls' foster home. They were in their 40s, childless, with a large home in the Inland Empire.
They had seen the girls playing at an adoption fair at a park. Now they wanted to spend time with them. They took them out that day. Soon, they started visiting the girls every weekend, taking them for pizza, to movies, to the aquarium in Long Beach. .
They took them to their home. The girls, whose names are being withheld to protect their privacy as minors, had never seen anything like the couple's house — two stories, on a cul-de-sac. Lawns carpeted the neighborhood, and they could walk to parks. In June 2011, the girls moved in.
There would soon be a court hearing to terminate Rodriguez's parental rights.
Pichotta, Rodriguez's attorney, wanted to stall the process, but he couldn't find his client. It turned out Rodriguez was making another months-long journey back to California and had lost his backpack trying to outrun Mexican police. It contained his Bible, where he had scribbled the phone numbers of his attorney.
In November 2011, Rodriguez surfaced at the border, in Mexicali, Mexico. He lived in an abandoned hotel and was earning pesos washing cars outside the post office. He planned to apply for political asylum in the U.S.
He looked forward to Sunday afternoons. That's when he got to speak with his girls. He knew their foster family's telephone number by heart.
One day in January 2012, his older daughter picked up the phone. She said she had learned her multiplication tables. He was impressed.
"You've got to keep practicing, OK, mama?
"I miss you big time," he said. "Pretty soon I hope and I pray to God that we will be together."
"OK," she said.
The younger daughter got on the phone. She seemed distracted.
"You don't want to talk to me? Are you busy or something?"
He told her he loved her. "I miss you so much."
"OK," she said.
They hung up. Rodriguez slumped on the park bench. Something didn't seem right.
A few days later, one of Rodriguez's attorneys finally reached him by phone. He had terrible news. His parental rights had been terminated at a hearing in October 2011, three months before. Too much time had passed for him to appeal, the attorney added. The girls' adoption would soon be final.
His three-year ordeal ended in the shadow of the 18-foot border fence.
The new parents would give them a good life, he acknowledged. There would be toys, dresses and schooling that he could never provide. The only thing left for him to offer his daughters was love, Rodriguez said.
"It's important that they know that I'm fighting, doing everything possible to see them again, to hug them again," he said. "They need to know that I didn't abandon them."
Rodriguez crossed into the U.S. in February and requested political asylum. Once again, his claim was denied. Once again he was sent back to El Salvador.
While he was detained in California, he tried calling his daughters many times.
No one ever answered.
Special correspondent Alex Renderos in El Salvador contributed to this report.
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The U.S. has deported more than 1 million illegal immigrants since 2008. This is one in a series of occasional stories chronicling the people and the communities affected. For this article, Times staff writer


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If there's one thing that can derail a development project in a hurry — especially in New Jersey — it's when consulting fees stack up before it even gets before a planning board.
That's why Edward Ayuso is drawn to South Orange, where developers have a forum to brainstorm, negotiate and tailor a plan with village officials before they have to break the bank.
"It's all about the bottom line," Ayuso said. "So if you're going to go in and know that you can reduce your due diligence costs, it certainly makes it much more attractive."
The developer, whose firm EEA Industries LLC is based in the village, is more than halfway into a project that will add 57 luxury apartments and 9,000 square feet of retail to the former site of an auto dealership. He said he expects the so-called Gateway building, a joint venture with SWH Residential Properties, to open by the fall.
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It's the latest project for the 2.9-square-mile town, which has sought to revitalize its main business district for nearly 20 years. That has meant major streetscape improvements and the addition of amenities such as a performing arts center, paving the way for the type of mixed-use development that feeds off its downtown train station.
Local officials say their motivation has been to ease the property tax burden on its single-family homeowners while bringing new foot traffic to its downtown businesses. That has led them to open their doors to developers who are willing to help South Orange achieve its vision.
"I think there's a lot of people out there looking to invest in towns like South Orange," Village President Alex Torpey said. "And we definitely like to make it as accessible as possible for people to come here. We think we have a lot to offer."
The village seeks to extend that mentality to every department involved with a development project — from building inspectors to engineers — while integrating resources such as the South Orange Village Center Alliance, Torpey said. The nonprofit business-improvement district group takes a role in helping property owners fill new or vacant retail spaces, he said.
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"I'd like to think that we try and offer as much support as possible throughout the whole process," said Torpey, the village president since 2011.
Cooperation with the private sector has helped foster projects such as the Marketplace at Eden and the Avenue at South Orange, a gourmet grocery store and a 79-unit condominium building developed by Sterling Properties. The projects opened in 2008 and 2010, respectively, reviving the former site of a supermarket near the train station.
But new development is viable only with a clean, safe and walkable downtown, stakeholders say. That's where the South Orange Village Center Alliance comes in with another key resource: a small but active cleaning staff that patrols the business district.
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Ayuso's mixed-use project, which has River Drive Construction as its general contractor, broke ground in May after the site sat dormant for years. The former Beifus Mercedes dealership was demolished in 2003 in anticipation of development, but the financial woes of its prior owner kept that from happening.
Once Ayuso's firm acquired the land in 2011, the improvements around the downtown had added to the appeal of an already-coveted site on West South Orange Avenue.
"Everything fell into place," he said. "It made it a much smoother transition for everything."
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An Apostle is one who is sent out by our Lord Jesus Christ to spread the gospel that he is the Messiah, that he is risen, and that we are being saved as a result.
The word apostle comes from the Greek αποστολος, literally meaning "one who is sent out." Originally a military term referring to a sortie sent out against the enemy, apostle has in the Christian context come to refer to a missionary spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Twelve
Our Lord originally appointed twelve apostles as his initial Church community, commissioned with the task of sharing the faith. As told in the Gospels, Judas Iscariot was originally one of them, but with his apostasy and death, he was replaced with Matthias. Their collective feast day is June 30. The Apostles' names are listed at Matthew 10:2, Mark 3:14, Luke 6:12, Acts 1:13, 26.
After Judas' replacement, the Twelve consisted of the following:
Hymns to the twelve
Troparion (Tone 3)
- O holy Apostles of Christ
- Pray to our merciful God,
- That he may grant us remission of our sins.
Kontakion (Tone 2)
- Today Christ the Rock gladly glorifies the rock of faith,
- The chosen disciple, together with Paul and the entire company of the Twelve.
- As we celebrate their memory,
- We glorify him who has glorified them!
The Seventy
The Seventy Apostles are those whom the Lord chose (described in Luke 10:1-16) in addition to the Twelve and sent forth to assist in the work of preaching. Over time, the Twelve added others to their number, who were sent out with the original Seventy to preach the gospel. Although this number eventually exceeded seventy, they were all nevertheless referred to as "of the Seventy" out of reverence to the number which the Lord originally chose. Their collective feast day is January 4.
It is difficult to determine a comprehensive and accurate list of the Seventy, but here are some of their names:
Achaicus, Agabus, Alphaeus, Amplias, Ananias (who baptized Paul), Andronicus, Apelles, Apollo, Apphia, Aquila, Archippus, Aristarchus, Aristobulus, Artemas, Asyncritus, Barnabas (leader of the Seventy and companion of Paul), Caesar, Carpus, Cephas, Clement, Cleopas (who accompanied the Lord to Emmaus), Crescens, Crispus, Epaphroditus, Epenetus, Erastus, Evodus, Fortunatus, Gaius, Hermas, Hermes (bishop of Dalmatia), Herodian, James (the Brother of God, also called "the Less"), Jason, Junia, Justus (brother of the Lord), Linus, Lucius, Luke the Evangelist (companion of Paul and author of the Gospel that bears his name), Mark the Evangelist (companion of Paul and author of the Gospel that bears his name), Narcissus, Nathaniel, Nicanor (one of the original seven deacons), Olympas, Onesimus, Onesiphorus, Parmenas (one of the original seven deacons), Patrobas, Philemon, Philip (one of the original seven deacons), Philologos, Phlegon, Priscilla, Prochorus (one of the original seven deacons), Pudens, Quadratus, Quartus, Rodion, Rufus, Silas (companion of Paul), Silvan, Sosipater, Sosthenes, Stachys, Stephen the Protomartyr (one of the original seven deacons), Terpnus, Tertius, Thaddeus (sometimes confused with Jude of the Twelve), Timon (one of the original seven deacons), Timothy (companion of Paul), Titus, Trophimus, Urban, Zacchaeus, and Zenas.
Hymns to the seventy
Troparion (Tone 3)
- Holy apostles of the Seventy,
- entreat the merciful God
- to grant our souls forgiveness of transgressions.
Kontakion (Tone 2)
- O faithful, let us praise with hymns
- the choir of the seventy disciples of Christ.
- They have taught us all to worship the undivided Trinity,
- for they are divine lamps of the Faith.
Other Apostles
The Apostle Paul (June 29) is also referred to as an apostle, though he is not one of the Twelve or of the Seventy. Other missionary saints are also referred to as apostles, though usually not as an initial title, but rather as an epithet, e.g., "Apostle to the North" (though some regard this usage as not traditionally Orthodox). Further, other saints have the epithet "Equal-to-the-Apostles" (in Greek, Ισαποστολος), usually because of their significant work in building up the Church. St. Paul shares the collective feast day with the Twelve Great Apostles. He was beheaded in Rome during the reign of Emporer Nero.
- Apostle to the Abyssinians: Saint Frumentius
- Apostle of the Ardennes: Saint Hubert, 656 - 727
- Apostle to the Armenians: Saint Gregory the Illuminator, 256 - 331
- Apostle to Karantania: Bishop Virgilius of Salzburg, 745 - 784
- Apostle to the English: Saint Augustine, died 604
- Apostle to the Franks: Saint Denis, 3rd century
- Apostle to the Franks: Saint Remigius, ca. 437 - 533
- Apostle to the Frisians: Saint Willibrord, 657 - 738
- Apostle to the Gauls: Saint Irenaeus, 130 - 200
- Apostle to the Gauls: Saint Martin of Tours, 338 - 401
- Apostle to the Gentiles: Saint Paul
- Apostle to the Germans: Saint Boniface, 680 - 755
- Apostle to the Goths: Bishop Ulfilas
- Apostle to Hungary: Saint Anastasius, 954 - 1044
- Apostle to India: Saint Thomas
- Apostle to Ireland: Saint Patrick, 373 - 463
- Apostle to Noricum: Saint Severinus
- Apostle to the North: Saint Ansgar, 801 - 864
- Apostle to the Parthians: Saint Thomas
- Apostle to the Picts: Saint Ninian, 5th century
- Apostle to the Scots: Saint Columba, 521 - 597
- Apostle to the Slavs: Saint Cyril, ca. 820 - 869
- Apostle to the Slavs: Saint Methodius
- Apostle to Spain: Saint James the Great, d. 44
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Endive is a green with narrow curled, finely divided leaves. Escarole is another name for an endive with broader, less curly leaves. They are both close relatives of chicory and fairly bitter greens. It is the inner leaves that are more yellow that are enjoyed in salads. The inner and outer leaves however, can both be used.
Endive and Escarole are therapeutic for the heart, gall bladder and liver. The bitter flavor stimulates digestive secretions. They help rid the body of infection, stimulate bile production and increase the appetite. Endive and escarole have been used in traditional medicine to remedy acidosis, arthritis, asthma, candida, constipation, diabetes, edema, gas, gout, hypertension, hypoglycemia, jaundice, liver enlargement, obesity, rheumatism, and inflammatory skin conditions such as acne, boils, and eczema. Their properties include being diuretic, laxative and tonic. They are traditionally eaten in the spring as a "blood purifiers." They are considered nourishing to the eyes and exciting to the central nervous system. They are cool and moist. The leaves are used as a poultice for inflammation, abscesses and boils.
Endive and Escarole are rich in beta-carotene, vitamin C, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium.
Mix endive and escarole in with other milder salad greens.
The wild chicory, (Cichorium intybus) is a common edible blue wildflower. The Swedish botanist, Linnaeus used chicory in his floral clock, as the flowers open and close with such regularity.