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G6560, Reviewed February 2012
Plant pieces cut from a parent plant and rooted to form new plants are called "cuttings." Use of cuttings is a simple, inexpensive way to multiply houseplants and garden plants.
Many plants can be propagated by cuttings. Each new plant will have the characteristics and genetic makeup of its parent plant. Table 1 lists some plants that can be easily propagated at home and indicates the type of cutting or other suitable propagation technique to use for each.
Cuttings may be taken from stems, leaves or roots. Herbaceous stem cuttings, sometimes called slips, are commonly used. Popular plants such as African violet and begonia are propagated from leaf cuttings. A few plants may be propagated by cutting their long stems into segments, and others can be propagated by simple division.
Herbaceous stem cuttings
The type of stem cutting suitable for propagating most houseplants is the herbaceous cutting, which is made from tender growth of terminal shoots. Herbaceous cuttings are commonly used to propagate geranium, chrysanthemum or coleus (Figure 1). Cuttings taken from a rubber plant, dracaena or croton usually contain more woody tissue and are often called softwood cuttings. Techniques for taking and rooting these cuttings are the same, however.
Figure 1. Five-inch coleus stem tip cutting that contains a terminal growing point.
Leaf cuttings
Leaf cuttings include only a leaf blade or the blade and a portion of the petiole (Figures 2 and 3). Leaf cuttings of plants such as African violet should not be rooted with long petioles. Trim the petiole to no more than 1/2 inch long.
If a small portion of the main plant stem containing a bud is included with the petiole, the cutting is known as a leaf-bud cutting. Use of leaf-bud cuttings is limited. Hydrangea and rubber plants, however, are sometimes started with leaf-bud cuttings.
Figures 2 and 3
Violet leaf cutting without the petiole and cutting with a 1/2-inch petiole.
Plants from stem sections
A few houseplants may be propagated by cutting 1- to 2-inch sections from the stem (Figure 4). These segments, without leaves, are placed in the rooting medium in a horizontal position and covered slightly.
Figure 4
Stem section cutting with a prominent axillary bud.
Take cuttings from vigorous, healthy shoots. Most cuttings should be 4 to 6 inches long. Cut just below a node (where a leaf is attached) with a sharp, clean knife.
Remove leaves from the lower half of the cutting. Use a rooting hormone on all except easy-to-root plants such as coleus. Rooting compounds are available from many garden supply stores, mail-order seed and nursery companies, and mass merchandisers. Carefully use the hormone as directed. Keep cuttings clean. Don't place cuttings in dirty containers or on dirty tables.
A 6- to 8-inch plastic pot filled with quality potting soil can be used to root several cuttings. Place the pot in a large plastic bag, and seal the bag to maintain high levels of humidity (Figure 5). Do not place the bag in direct sunlight.
Figure 5
Large zip-type plastic bag secured at base of pot with a rubber band.
Clean, coarse, construction-grade sand is suitable for rooting many cuttings; however, it needs to be heat-sanitized prior to use. It is also excellent mixed with an equal volume of peat moss.
Vermiculite is a lightweight material used for rooting. It holds water well and promotes root growth.
Perlite is another excellent propagation material. It is lightweight and provides good aeration for rooting. Perlite makes one of the best rooting materials when mixed with an equal volume of peat moss.
Don't use field soil as a rooting medium. It packs too tightly when wet and is prone to develop diseases.
Compressed peat pellets are available for seeding and can also be used for rooting cuttings. The pellets expand rapidly when soaked in water. Place them in plastic bags after soaking and draining; insert a single cutting in each pellet and close the bag at the top. No additional watering is necessary until the cutting is rooted and the bag opened.
Pots, medium and equipment used for rooting cuttings must be clean and sterile. Pots should be washed thoroughly using a household cleaner and disinfectant. Tools should also be washed in such a solution or dipped in alcohol. Any rooting medium that is not known to be sterile can be moistened and heated thoroughly in an oven at 150 to 200 degrees F for 20 to 30 minutes. Peat moss, vermiculite and perlite don't need sterilization when new.
Inserting the cutting
Promptly place the prepared cutting in the rooting material. Stick the base of the cutting 1 or 2 inches deep, depending on the length of the cutting. Firm the medium around the base and settle the medium by watering.
Never allow the propagation medium to dry out during the rooting process.
Because the cuttings have no root system, high humidity must be maintained at all times. Clear plastic is inexpensive and easy to use for covering the cuttings. A plastic bag slipped over a pot is simple and airtight. Support the plastic with wire loops or stakes if necessary to keep it from resting on the leaves.
Never place a plastic-covered container in direct sunlight. Heat will build up under the plastic and burn the foliage.
The time needed for cuttings to form roots differs greatly among plants. Check the cuttings occasionally by carefully removing a few from the medium. When a cutting has roots at least 1 inch long, transplant it into a separate container.
The move from high humidity and moist rooting conditions to lower humidity and drier soil is the most critical step in successfully growing new plants from cuttings. Closely monitor the young plants the first few weeks after the move.
A good potting medium designed for houseplants is suitable for potting newly rooted cuttings and can be found at local garden centers or mass merchandisers.
After a cutting has become established in the medium, apply a soluble houseplant fertilizer according to directions. Then fertilize at monthly intervals. When the cutting is growing vigorously, normally in spring and summer, fertilizer may be applied every two weeks. During the winter, fertilize once a month.
Division is the easiest method of multiplying plants that naturally produce offsets or basal shoots. These new shoots usually have a few roots and can be separated and planted individually (Figure 6).
Figure 6
Spider plant offset from the parent plant.
Layering is a method of rooting a new plant while the stem is still attached to the parent plant. This easy propagation method can be done in the home without special equipment or structures. The four layering techniques — simple, tip, air and compound — are discussed in detail in MU Extension publication G6970, Home Propagation of Garden and Landscape Plants.
Figure 7
Air layering steps
Remove strip of bark around the branch.
If stem is weakened by the cut, use a stick splint for support.
Cover with a ball of moist sphagnum.
Wrap a piece of clear plastic around the branch and tie at each end.
Air layering
Compound layering
Compound layering is suitable for long vines that may be alternately covered and exposed. Wounds should be made on the lower portion of each curve. For more information, see MU Extension publication G6970, Home Propagation of Garden and Landscape Plants.
After rooting, the vine can be cut into segments, each containing its own roots.
Care after rooting
Root systems of newly rooted layers are small in relation to the canopy. After the new plants are severed from the parent plant and potted, the humidity must be kept high. Enclose the new plants in a loose, clear plastic bag for the first week or until they are well established and do not wilt excessively.
Table 1. Propagation techniques for selected houseplants.
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This rubber plant cutting was a terminal cutting, which means it was taken with a functional growing tip. It was rooted in clean sand.
This rooted leaf and petiole of a peperomia has a new plant developing from the petiole.
Begonia leaves can produce new plants not only from the petiole, but also from cuts made in the leaf veins.
Some tropical plants such as sansevieria can be propagated using leaf pieces. This piece has roots developing at the base.
With stem cuttings, plants such as the dracaena shown can produce both roots and new shoots.
Propagating many tropical houseplants is easily done with good potting soil and a plastic bag.
The bark on this rubber plant is being removed in a cylinder around the stem. This makes it unable to move sugars down the stem, but water and nutrients can still move upward.
Sphagnum moss will keep the damaged area moist and protect new roots as they form.
Properly wrapping the damaged area will retain the necessary moisture.
For this completed air layering procedure, some leaves were removed to provide enough room for the operation.
The sphagnum moss has been removed to show the beginning of root formation at the top of the wrapped area. After you see roots, you may remove the cutting from the parent plant and pot it.
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DENVER – Danilo Gallinari scored a game-high 27 points, Kenneth Faried had 19 points and nine rebounds and the Denver Nuggets beat the Houston Rockets 118-110 Wednesday night.
Andre Iguodala had 15 points for the Nuggets, who have won five straight and beat Houston for the third time this season.
Jeremy Lin scored 22 points to lead the Rockets and James Harden and Chandler Parsons added 21 each. Houston had won three straight, including a 45-point win at Utah on Monday.
Two 3-pointers by Gallinari and some missed shots by the Rockets sparked a 24-3 Nuggets run that gave them a 101-88 lead with 6:54 left.
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Navionics+ UK, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, France N (iPad)
Overview of coverage boundaries illustrated above. Coverage includes but is not limited to: ► all ocean coasts of United Kingdom and Ireland plus select inland rivers and lakes; ► Shetland Islands, North Sea oil fields, Scotland; ► portions of west Denmark and Germany; ► north coast of Brittany France, all of Netherlands and Belgium
This award-winning Navionics® collection of both navigation charts and sonar bathymetry is optimized for use in the iNavX™ app for iPad™, iOS 7 or greater (iPhone version sold separately). Download once, use charts offline. Get chart revision updates via on-demand download, bonus backup to a secondary iPad, restoration re-downloads in case of memory resets, plus expert technical support. All of this with a 365 day subscription (non-recurring) purchase — including option to renew at unbeatable discounts.
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Coverage summary
Download instructions summary
In iNavX, tap the upper-left corner menu Charts | Account for one-time entry of Fugawi.com email + password login.
On the Charts | My Charts tab, select this Navionics title.
Tap Download Chart List (or Refresh Chart List for subsequent chart updating) and answer Yes to the prompts.
From the list of chart regions, tap on those individual regions you need and answer Yes to the confirmation prompt.
» » » Select this web page's HOW TO DOWNLOAD tab for illustrated and more detailed step-by-step guidance, tips, advice « « «
Additional Assistance
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Read these instructions on a computer monitor as you follow along, tap by tap, in the iNavX app on your iOS device
From any chart screen, tap the menu (upper-left corner) Charts | Account.
Enter your Fugawi.com account's email + case-sensitive password; tap Login.
On the My Charts tab, select this subscribed Navionics chart title.
Tap Download Chart List; answer Yes to the prompts.
Select any desired chart region; answer Yes to the download prompt.
The detailed instructions below assume...
- a few minutes of reasonable quality Internet connection, preferably via home based Wi-Fi
- iNavX 5 was purchased / updated via the iTunes App Store
- this chart subscription was purchased once granting 365 days of chart downloads / updates / restorations for two iPad units
- From a iNavX screen displaying the world chart or any brand name chart, tap the menu Charts in the upper-left corner and then Account.
(Equivalently, you may select the More tab at the bottom of any chart, then Account.)
- Enter your Fugawi.com account's Email and case sensitive Password.
Tip: a password without punctuation characters such as ~ @ # % & / etc. avoids potential problems.
Tap the Login button and OK to the success prompt.
Help note #1 - if you see the "Forbidden" error...
When the Account page of NavX issues the "Forbidden" error, most likely you need to carefully re-enter the password correctly or create a new easier password. Tip: a reliable, handy password composed of only numbers (0-9) and case-sensitive letters (a-z / A-Z) may save you trouble.
- The screen refreshes and, by default, displays the My Charts tab. (You may ignore the Store tab in this context.)
Find this subscribed Navionics title in the list and tap on it.
Help note #2 - if this chart title not listed...
Should your subscribed chart title not appear, go back to Account, log out, re-enter the Fugawi email + password, then login again. This should force the chart title to list under My Charts. Another way: slowly finger drag the "NOAA" gray colored title bar downwards for a few seconds, then release to refresh the screen.
- Tap Download Chart List.
Answer Yes to the prompt for updating and Yes to activate the subscription to this one licensed iOS device.
Help note #3 - Refresh = delete previous chart downloads...
After activating the chart list, the top-most option changes to Refresh Chart List. Since refreshing deletes all old charts in memory, only refresh when the device has good Internet access. If a chart subscription is expired, no refresh is possible.
- From the presented list of named chart regions, tap any one region you wish to download.
Note that chart region names may change from month to month, regions may be added or merged, the chart list is not fixed and permanent.
Help note #4 - if chart list seems short, missing regions...
Have the Magnifying Glass icon selected in the top-right corner to reveal the full list of all possible chart regions in the collection. (See illustration below.) The other filter options shorten the list but do not delete chart regions.
- Tap the red Yes button to download only the single selected chart region.
A percentage indicator shows the progress of the download; the chart files are typically a few tens of Megabytes (MB) and so the usual completion time is under a minute or so.
Alternatively, tap the second button Yes, All Navionics... to download every chart region in the collection in one large batch taking several minutes. This is not recommended if you have a relatively slow Internet connection and/or the app reports error messages when trying to download charts.
Help note #5 - if you see "invalid import" error...
One possible fix is to (i) turn off 3G/4G cellular Internet connectivity and use only quality Wi-Fi, preferably not Wi-Fi via virtual private networking or heavily firewalled connections or 4G-to-WiFi access points; and (ii) tap Refresh Chart List to get a fresh start at downloading any regions in the collection, starting with whatever single region was problematic before.
- The vector chart may first display in overview showing only land outlines and coverage area rectangles. Zoom in (spread thumb and forefinger open) on areas bounded by the thin red rectangles. When sufficiently zoomed in on an area of coverage you will see depth soundings, markers, buoys, etc. Sometimes an adjacent chart region may have more detail in a given spot than the region currently examined.
- Help-note #6: To prevent the chart from leaping away to your current GPS position (which may be blank, outside the chart's boundaries) tap the Settings icon in the upper-right corner. Configure the option Pos Icon Loc (position icon at location) to None, which removes the boat icon and auto-centering on GPS location. But when you go back to actively navigating, set this to CTR (center at GPS) to see the boat icon.
- Help-note #7: If this chart subscription is expired, the app will be unable to update the charts or re-download them after a device memory reset. You may renew the chart subscription at a reduced price depending on current available discounts and promotions. Or contact firstname.lastname@example.com for consultation on the status of your subscriptions.
Q: Can I use this same chart subscription with an iPhone running iNavX?
A: No, this chart collection is iPad only (any model of iPad with iOS 7 or higher). The license conditions for re-selling the charts are specialized per device type family, so a purchase of iPad-only charts allows for download to 2 target iPads -- but not software on iPhone, not Windows, not Android, etc.
Q: If I replace my iPad hardware, can I migrate the Fugawi based Navionics charts over to the new iPad?
A: The chart files do not move from device to device or transfer via iCloud. Rather, you get a fresh download the whole chart collection again using the second of the two chart subscriptions included in the original purchase. Apply the "How to download charts" instructions to the new iPad's iNavX app. If you have no spare subscription to use yet there is an extraordinary situation, discuss this with email@example.com.
Q: I have the Navionics Boating app; can I use those charts within the iNavX app?
A: No, the iOS does not allow one app to reach into the another app's copyrighted and digital rights protected data and replicate / share that data, such as charts. Besides that fact, Fugawi's re-seller license conditions are for providing the downloads in a manner specialized and compatible with iNavX.
Q: How do charts download to the older iNavX version 4.x?
A: New downloads to the legacy version 4.x of iNavX are no longer possible, an error 200 will block the attempt. If you are unable to update iNavX to version 5.x because your old iOS 5 or 6 iPad is ineligible for upgrade, we recommend buying a new iPad capable of running iNavX 5.x.
Q: How long do these charts remain viewable? What are the subscription license conditions?
A: Your iOS devices retains the Navionics chart collection indefinitely, the charts are not timed to disappear due to subscription expiration. However, chart collections are licensed for use on only two supported iPad units, owned by you. When a download is made to an iPad, the charts and subsequent updates are effectively locked to that iPad. Charts are not backed up by USB synchronization to iTunes; so if you need to restore charts, configure iNavX to download them again. Fugawi guarantees to maintain your access to these Navionics charts and also provide chart content updates for as long as a subscription is maintained (default: one year, option to renew available). Therefore you may update and re-download this chart collection as many times as you like, onto the same iPad, for the standard one year subscription time. Discounted subscription renewals are available on your account's My Products page.
Q: Are special Navionics features like Tides and Currents data, User Generated Content, and Aerial Photography embedded and viewable in these downloadable Navionics+ charts?
A: The Navionics chart downloads from Fugawi contain fundamental objects like depth soundings, navigation aids, land references, etc. Other advanced content is not embedded in the download file. Or, in the case of Tides and Currents data, is not accessed directly by iNavX which favors specialized companion software such as the AyeTides app, for purchase in the App Store.
Q: How do I report missing or incorrect features in a Navionics chart?
A: Navionics encourages users of all its products to submit feedback regarding any discrepancies that may be found to ensure that their products are the best and most accurate available. Your feedback counts! Help to make Navionics products even better. Submit the chart content issue on the Navionics web site.
Q: Why should I choose Navionics charts if I already have coverage from the NOAA RNCs?
A: The choice is yours. However the Navionics charts are generally clearer to read at varying zoom scales and many people prefer the "look and feel" of the crisp and clear Navionics charts. And the NOAA RNC charts generally do not cover many inland fishing lakes. The Navionics HotMaps charts of U.S. freshwater lakes are the industry "gold standard" with the widest coverage and exclusive high-definition 1' contours for select lakes from Navionics' own on-the-water surveys.
Q: How much memory do these Navionics charts use?
A: The sum total of charts in a typical collection may take up about 50 to 500 MB. However iNavX gives you the option to selectively download the individual chart regions you actually need. An individual chart file download may be between 5 to 90 MB but are typically about 10 to 20 MB – a tiny fraction of an iOS device's total memory.
Q: If chart regions are deleted / refreshed, does that remove waypoints, routes, or tracks I have recorded?
A: When you find the ideal fishing spot, iNavX lets you save your position (a waypoint) or a route (a string of sequential waypoints). Waypoints and routes do not embed into the chart data itself, they live in separate memory and are unaffected by chart updates or chart deletions. You can save as many waypoints and routes as you like. iNavX has Import and Export options under the WP+ tab for transferring data to Fugawi cloud storage or emailing out as GPX or KMZ data files.
Q: Can I get these charts as an in-app purchase inside iNavX?
A: Yes, this collection is available as an in-app purchase in the Store tab of iNavX version 5.x.
Q: How can I get more help?
A: For questions about charts, weather, data overlays, anything purchased from Fugawi.com, email email@example.com for expert assistance and suggestions. For issues not having to do strongly with downloadable data, consult the help services at http://inavx.com/support (which includes a Contact link for email support requests).
What is iNavX?
iNavX is like a chart plotter in your hands. Though iNavX comes with free USA NOAA raster charts, the Fugawi service offers additional charts to load into this mobile plotter and route planner. Momentum Labs LLC, whom Fugawi is pleased to partner with, are the authors of iNavX.
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More FAQs about iNavX
Q: Can I get iNavX to use the charts embedded in the Navionics Boating app or from a media card?
A: No. Like most iOS apps, iNavX has its own memory "sand box" for data and cannot reach outside to extract chart data from elsewhere, regardless of the chart's name branding. There are no cross-promotion deals for sharing one Navionics chart license (from a microSD card for example) among any arbitrary assortment of hardware.
Q: What are the system requirements and hardware preferences for iNavX?
A: As of iNavX 5, the device must have iOS 7 or higher (9 or 10 preferred). A few hundred spare Megabtyes (MB) of device memory is typically enough for both the app and many charts. Seeing a live GPS boat icon at the center of a chart requires some way of the device recieving GPS data; the easy solution is a 3G/4G enabled iPad but external GPS add-on devices function as an alternative, particularly for Wi-Fi only devices.
Q: Can I run iNavX and share its charts on a MacOS or Windows computer or Android device?
A: No. Apps that run in the world of iOS stays in the world of iOS; you would need different software for other platforms. The charts from Fugawi.com would also likely have a different version and price for other platforms. Some third party hardware allows for viewing an iOS screen and its apps on a larger computer screen -- maybe that would be enough for your needs. In late 2017, an Android version of iNavX was released.
Q: Is there a way to share waypoints, routes, and tracks between iNavX and other software?
A: Yes. iNavX uses the universal flexible file formats of GPX and KMZ for waypoints, routes, and tracks. Many other software packages and many modern chart plotters also use at least GPX, and possibly KMZ (ex. Google Earth). Study the import / export options within iNavX. Or just email GPX or KMZ file attachments to and from your iOS device; tap & hold on any GPX or KMZ until the iOS prompts you with an option to copy the data over to iNavX.
Q: How is the iNavX app related to Fugawi / Johnson Outdoors Canada?
A: The iNavX software is independently authored by Momentum Labs LLC and they sell it through the iTunes App Store. Any purchase of iNavX or in-app purchases are done exclusively through the Apple iTunes Store, thus Fugawi (formerly X-Traverse) is not a direct party to such transactions. What Fugawi does is re-sell various chart brands compatible with iNavX.
Q: Where can I find an iNavX user guide and more assistance with the apps features?
A: The online guide to iNavX is here: www.inavx.com/help/. A third-party ebook on how to use iNavX is available in the iTunes Store. Search Youtube.com for several iNavX tutorials. Or contact iNavX support by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Fight for pole position key to deciding Italian GP
MILAN (AP) — The race for pole position will go a long way to deciding the winner of the Italian Grand Prix this week, with Sebastian Vettel looking to edge a step closer to a fourth straight Formula One title.
He silenced talk of a comeback by Lewis Hamilton with one of his most dominant performances of the season at the Belgian GP 10 days ago and extended his championship lead to 46 points over Fernando Alonso and 58 over Hamilton.
The 3.6-mile Monza track features four long straights where drivers reach speeds of 205 mph. That suits Vettel, because the Red Bull driver is notoriously hard to stop once he makes a flying start.
Five of the past six winners at Monza started from pole.
"Monza is the fastest circuit of the year," Vettel said. "This track brings back great memories from my first win there in 2008 with Toro Rosso. I can't describe the feeling of standing on the top of the podium for the first time, and Monza was one of the best places to experience it because of the thousands of passionate fans that stand beneath."
The last driver to win from behind the front row was Rubens Barrichello in 2009, starting from fifth. Despite the straights, overtaking is difficult and that is good news for Hamilton, who won last year's race from the front. The Briton is seeking his fifth consecutive pole position this season.
Although Hamilton was overtaken by Vettel after just 31 seconds at Spa, that was a much bigger, wider track, and it is unlikely to happen so easily in Monza.
"The layout and atmosphere of Monza are very special and it really feels like you are going back to Formula One's roots," Hamilton said. "The car has a completely different aerodynamic package to anywhere else on the calendar with really low downforce."
Alonso drove superbly at Spa to move up from ninth on the grid to finish second and reclaim second spot in the title race.
Although that was an encouraging sign for a Ferrari team that is struggling for consistency, there appears little belief that Alonso can really catch Vettel with eight races left.
Instead, Ferrari has given two races to close the gap and then they'll likely give up and focus on next season. Teams face a big decision as to when to start pumping resources into next year's car, when the regulations change dramatically with the introduction of new 1.6-liter V6 turbo engines.
"The changes that we are facing are the biggest changes we have ever had in Formula One," Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali said. "It is really important to get it right, otherwise you're lost."
Domenicali says switching all their efforts to 2014 after the Singapore GP could help them get a head start on their rivals.
"At the end of September we will then basically switch everyone, depending, of course, on how the situation is with the championship," he said. "All the top teams realize that if they want to be a force in 2014, then they have to start very quickly to switch resources, as it is a very complex matter. My guess is that we might see huge surprises."
Personnel changes are expected at Ferrari next year, with Brazilian driver Felipe Massa under pressure to keep his seat after managing just one podium finish so far.
"My favorite choice would be to keep Felipe because he is a very good guy, very dedicated to the team," Domenicali said. "But, of course, we need good results from Felipe."
For the time being, Alonso looks set to stay.
The two-time former champion was linked to the vacant seat at Red Bull for next year, as was Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen. But the guessing game ended on Monday when Australian Daniel Ricciardo was announced as Mark Webber's replacement.
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Doris J. Weinum, a 39 year area resident passed away on Friday, February 15, 2013 at Orange Regional Medical Center in the town of Wallkill. She was 90. Daughter of the late Harry Fryer and Gertrude K. White Fryer, she was born in Brooklyn on August 24, 1922.
Doris is survived by her husband, Kenneth A. Weinum at home; sons, Kenneth M. Weinum of Massapequa, NY, Thomas K. Weinum of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA; daughter, Mary C. Schmitt and her husband, James of Monroe; grandchildren, Meghan E. Schmitt and Daniel P. Schmitt; nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her sister, Gertrude and her brothers: Harry, George and Raymond.
Visitation will be held on Monday, February 18th from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at Smith, Seaman & Quackenbush, Inc. Funeral Home, 117 Maple Avenue, Monroe. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, February 19th at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church, 26 Still Road, Monroe. Interment will follow in Ascension Cemetery in Monsey.
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BT App Connects Smartphone to Landline Tariff
BT, which has 20 million landlines in the U.K. has launched a service that could reduce the income of cellphone networks. The free SmartTalk app for Android or iOS works over Wi-Fi or 3G to give BT customers mobile calls at their landline rate. That means, for instance, if a landline calling plan provides free evening calls, they will be not be charged when using the smartphone app either.
BT SmartTalk competes with other VoIP services such as Skype and Viber. Pocket-Lint has a fairly detailed look at how the new service works and points out some of the pitfalls, such as the need to watch out for data charges if using 3G in the U.K. or abroad. On the other hand, there are obvious advantages. A BT customer calling home from a hotel with free Wi-Fi anywhere in the world will only need to pay their standard home landline charge.
Set-up is relatively straightforward. After installing the app (Android or iPhone), you have to supply your home phone number and mobile number and go through an authorisation process. This will let you link your mobile to your BT landline account to activate the service from that device...
Once you're in a call, you get an indicator to tell you whether you're on Wi-Fi or 3G, as well as normal in-call features such as loud speaker or number pad. Call quality in our initial tests seemed reasonable too, but we've not used it enough to really make an evaluative judgement.
The article also points out that using the app all the time will mean that customers could be paying for 3G data while losing out on free call minutes included in cellphone contracts.
To decide whether BT SmartTalk is going to offer you an advantage is really a case of determining whether your BT tariff offers you better value for money over your mobile tariff or other third-party services like a Skype subscription.
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Damn it Claptrap!
Hahahaaa... very good. Keeps on giving, awesome.
You spelt "you" wrong...
arghhh curse you Claptrap!
1 is intended 1 isnt? :O
you are an evil, evil man.
"Diffuse: to spread or scatter widely or thinly; disseminate"
Nope, he meant Diffuse, not Defuse. Defusing bombs is not in character with this comic. Diffusing nuclear particles at higher altitudes, causing the enemies weapons to malfunction, that is in character.
I totally read the Claptrap parts in his voice. 8)
Fuck you, Claptrap. Fuck you.
Happy 200th! This is one of the best webcomics on the internet.
You sir, are a dick. I was all excited about hearing what Gabe had to say and then you went and did that. I would've done the exact same thing. High Five!
Dammit Claptrap! How many times do we have to shoot you before you shut the fuck up?
Claptrap: "Look at me, I'm diffusing!"
Holy Hannah, a Skies of Arcadia reference.
And poor Metro...
Another reason why we should destroy all robots, other then the sensible "before they rebel against their masters".
Congrats on 200, nicely done.
This episode is one big noodle incident.
Anybody know a good way to quickly murder a claptrap?
What? No gratuitous sex scene? Metro doesn't get the props he deserves.
Good one Shamus. You come up with some cool action and more hatred for Claptrap. Excelsior!
Here's to 200 more!
Intergalactic Assassin or no, there will be Claptraps dining in hell tonight!
When do I get my "Read 200 Stolen Pixels" badge? xD
What he said.
When i first read "200 strips" i thought "hmmm 200 crispy strips **drule**" but that might be my KFC addiction. Anyway GZ ! Good luck with youre next 200.
Nice work on hittin the ol' 200's!!!
my immediate response to ClapTrap ->
Diffuse a nuke???
Although........diffuse a nuke? Not defuse? - You mean like, spread it around to an area of lower concentration?
Wait, actually, that might work.....
Congratulations. Truely a worthy celebration of the 200th strip. Made me smile. There´s so much story behind each image.
>_< Dislike Claptrap so much right now
I thought that ClapTrap was as annoying as annoying gets in the game itself, but I was proven wrong....
What an amazing comic and moderately related news article?
What's all this about the robot?
Oh, yeah. That douchebot.
Interplanetary Ninja assassin!!!
Claptrap can be very funny and very annoying in borderlands.
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Three of Latin music's biggest names co-headline the Gigant3s tour: Marco Antonio Solis, one of Latin music's most successful singer-songwriters, who can melt hearts with his ballads (the full string section for this tour can only enhance his melodious songs); Chayanne, who didn't miss a beat after being told he was too young to be in the popular '80s boy band Menudo and became a multiselling Latin pop star; and Marc Anthony, who, although he has captured an audience outside of music with his acting roles in movies and on TV, plays best as a salsa and pop legend.
Why go: There are no flashy stage presentations — just three Latin pop stars offering some of the best they've got.
Reconsider: It's bittersweet to have Anthony here only a couple of weeks after ex-wife J.Lo was.
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Rugby League Rep Calendar - My Wish List
That time of year again - where player fatigue is an issue and the representative calendar is the hot topic. Interesting to read Cameron Smith's comments recently about shortening the season and scheduling Origin matches on a stand alone weekend.
Perhaps we go one step further. Perhaps we include a bigger representative 'month' that showcases country/ international rugby league, as well as highlighting the NRL and includes the origin series played over 3 consecutive Monday Nights? Similar to soccer's approach to World Cup qualifying, or the NBA's approach to its midyear 'All Star' match. The competition proper simply shuts down and to avoid having too many players with 3 weeks off, we incorporate some more games into a celebration of league including some old traditions and some new, successful initiatives.
This suggestion also responds to the issue of a season too long and subsequent meaningless matches at the beginning of the year. Many league supporters know that teams only need to start winning around June to make the top 8 and this takes away from some performances in early rounds. Shorten the season and every match will mean something - bigger crowds will come. Stop the season during origin and you won't have matches played with a skeleton 17 that barely resembles the NRLs best players, and you minimise player burnout.
So - to my suggestion. The NRL shuts down on a Sunday afternoon, origin players are selected and go into camp and a 3 week festival of football begins.
Week 1
Friday Night - Tonga v Samoa
What a spectacle in 2009 during the Rugby League World Cup!! A passionate game of football attended by a huge crowd at Penrith Stadium. This was an instant success and a great advertisement for the islander population of our great game. Marketed properly it could continue as a great tradition.
Saturday Night - City v Country
Play this game as a genuine showpiece of young talent in the NRL, but also use it to gauge players' performance against the best in NSW. This still makes it an origin trial - but for future series or possibly for games 2 and 3 of the series. If not an origin selection trial, this match still has a link to history and will help keep country rugby league alive.
Monday Night - Origin 1
Week 2
Friday Night - Indigenous All Stars v New Zealand.
This gives both teams more time together as preparation for their respective 'other' matches. The Indigenous team now have the February All-Star' game as a highlight, and NZ will use this match as a warm up to a possible post origin series (or one off test) or end of year tri nations, which probably should be held every 2 or 3 years - not every year. Admittedly, the Indigenous team would be missing troops on origin duty, but this puts more onus on development. A great opportunity for young talent to learn at a higher level and a good earner for a worthy charity. This match could also be moved to Saturday or Sunday to accommodate the large number of interstate and rural league fans in attendance.
Saturday Day/Night - Rugby League 7s tournament
With a number of players who could be 'on holidays' during this month, include them in the 7s and bring back an entertaining concept. Marketed well, this could be a highlight. That brings us to a relevant issue. The NRL is currently owned and marketed by a media company. When this finally changes, the successful marketing of a representative


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Until now, incentives for the average consumer to recycle have been mostly "pays good" or "feels good." Increasingly, though, we may be moving toward a different approach "Make it increasingly expensive not to."
Two of the influences pushing in that direction are the greenhouse-gas alarm and the shrinkage of local government revenue due to the economic downturn. Offering policy viewpoints in both arenas is Alcoa Inc., Pittsburgh, a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which favors a cap-and-trade program and creating effective technology for carbon capture. Other backers are Rio Tinto Alcan and Chrysler LLC.
The metals-producing sector is divided on cap and trade. Steelmaker Nucor Corp., for example, envisions the consequence as dramatically higher prices for all types of energy and a setback in global competitiveness.
Also on Alcoa's wish list is "pay-as-you-throw"—volume-sensitive fees for trash collection, so less garbage would mean lower payments by a household or business. Faced with such a pocketbook impact, many customers would suddenly feel motivated to maximize the removal of recyclables from trash, and the local agency or company handling garbage pickup would equally as suddenly encounter less trash and more recyclables.
"You know, there's been a long-standing view in the recycling world that if you pay enough money you can get a sufficient supply of recycled material to meet your needs," Alcoa's Greg Wittbecker, director of corporate metal recycling strategy, said during a conference call arranged by brokerage Canaccord Adams Inc. "That theory doesn't seem to be quite working for us in the aluminum industry," he said, referring to the mild impact of the 2007-08 scrap price run-up on beverage can recycling.
In a later conversation, he noted that San Jose, Calif., is one of the largest jurisdictions using "pay-as-you-throw." Homeowners there decide what size garbage container to use, and the city's pickup fee is pegged to the size of the container. The financial incentive to use smaller trash containers has led to a shift of material out of the trash and into the recycling pickup stream.
In a period of economic downturn, of course, pay-as-you-throw has a second virtue. With local government budgets facing great stringency, garbage collection fees are a way to restore lost revenue.
State legislatures could foster pay-as-you-throw, according to Wittbecker, by setting mandatory landfill diversion targets for local government, with specified rewards and penalties.
Another option for state lawmakers is a program of container deposit fees, often labeled "bottle bill" although also covering beverage cans—a strategy that sets a deposit fee on canned and bottled beverages that is refunded when the container is returned for recycling. "Recycling rates in deposit states are 75 percent; in non-deposit states, 35 percent," Wittbecker said, portraying that approach as a worthwhile option although not a cure-all. Deposit systems exist in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon and Vermont.
Electronics manufacturers are encountering their own special version of pay-as-you-throw. Some states are requiring computer and TV manufacturers to set up their own free takeback programs or else write checks to a broader program not under their control. These are alternate forms of what's called manufacturer responsibility.
Faced with such a choice, some major TV and computer manufacturers have decided that do-it-yourself is better than paying into a statewide recycling structure. And once they have their own structure for manufacturer responsibility under way, they sometimes extend the takeback program into other jurisdictions where their role is voluntary. Such a path has been followed by the Panasonic-backed Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Co.
One justification for imposing extra costs on non-recyclers is that recycling momentum has fizzled since the turn of the century, probably because the easy changes were already made. That's the impression left by estimates contained in a report commissioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The major gains in recycling occurred between 1990 and 2000, according to the report, Municipal Solid Waste in the United States. In 1970, 93.4 percent of the garbage and recyclables handled by (or for) local government went to landfill. The following two decades saw declines to 90.4 percent and 83.8 percent, roughly 10 percentage points in 20 years. The century's final decade was impressive, falling more than one percentage point a year to end at 71 percent of the trash and recyclables intake going to landfill. But the pace of diverting stuff from landfill has slowed, with the report putting the most recent landfill figure, for 2007, at 66.6 percent.
The report showed that the best recycling rate in municipal solid waste in 2007 was scored by nonferrous metals other than aluminum, a category including vehicle batteries, with a 69.3 percent ratio. The other scores were 54.5 percent for paper and cardboard, 33.8 percent for steel, 23.7 percent for glass, 21.8 percent for aluminum, 15.9 percent for textiles, 14.7 percent for rubber and leather, 9.3 percent for wood and 6.8 percent for plastics.
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How LSU and Ohio State Met in the 2008 BCS Championship Game The calm voice on the intercom intoned: "We have good news. . . ."
The pilot was informing the Louisiana State University football team, on its way home after winning the Southeastern Conference Championship Game in Atlanta, that the No. 1 team in the country, the University of Missouri, had lost – cracking the door for the Tigers to get a shot at the national title.
Ecstatic cheers, heavy backslapping and hugs ensued, but the sudden celebration was cut short as the plane took a severe dip and the sounds in the cabin changed immediately to shrieks of alarm. But the plane quickly climbed again to its correct altitude and continued a steady journey back to Baton Rouge with its cargo of happy Tigers, now all tightly squeezing their armrests.
"Man, I said, 'We need to get off this plane before we start celebrating some team losing,'" Tiger tackle Carnell Stewart sagely said afterward. Yet there would be more rejoicing: When LSU landed there was more good news. No. 2-ranked West Virginia also lost, to four-touchdown underdog Pittsburgh, flinging the championship gates wide open for LSU.
The wild plane ride was a precise reflection of the previous four months of college football.
In the craziest season in the almost 140-year history of college football – which opened with an upset of No. 5-ranked Michigan by lower-division opponent Appalachian State and featured the biggest upset of all-time with 41-point underdog Stanford beating Southern California, ranked No. 1 in the ESPN and Harris polls. The season featured Top 10 teams losing to unranked teams a staggering 20 times; Top 5 teams losing to unranked opponents an unprecedented 13 times; and the No. 1 and No. 2-ranked teams both losing on the final day of the regular season, each a step short of a chance to hoist the Waterford Crystal Ball, emblematic of the BCS title.
And, in the end, after the stunning developments on the last weekend of the 'Season of the Upset,' the last teams standing were Ohio State and LSU – both of which had been previously ranked No. 1 and lost; the Tigers twice.
This crazy season proved to be a killer of high aspirations for elite standing. But when Missouri and West Virginia lost, the Big Ten champion Buckeyes (11-1), then in third place in the BCS rankings, were lifted to the top spot. LSU (11-2), which had dropped to seventh, rose to second, passing five other contenders.
Oklahoma (11-2) and Southern Cal (10-2) could, and would, make arguments that they were just as worthy, but LSU's total body of work (a national-best 6-1 against opponents ranked at season's end, and having beaten five teams in the Top 15 while the Trojans defeated none) appeared to be the deciding factor.
The Buckeyes were getting a chance at redemption. After a 41-14 blowout at the hands of underdog Florida in the BCS title game the year before, all Ohio State heard was that it didn't belong on the big stage, that Big Ten teams couldn't compete with the speed of Southeastern Conference teams and that the Buckeye opposition didn't measure up.
The stage itself was as intriguing as the matchup. Since 1935 more national champions appeared in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans than anywhere else. This was not, of course, truly a Sugar Bowl game, but it wouldn't have been played in the Big Easy without the Sugar Bowl. This was properly viewed as "The BCS National Championship Game – hosted by the Sugar Bowl."
Recap excerpted from the book "Sugar Bowl Classic: A History" by Marty Mulé, who covered the game and the organization for decades for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.


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During the season, ETSU head volleyball coach Lindsey Devine has agreed to sit down with the media relations staff to answer some questions about the team.
Below are her answers to the first set of questions this season…
Coach, after having nine matches under your belt, talk about your thoughts on the team's play at this point of the season.
As we head into our third and final tournament for the 2012 preseason, I feel our team has demonstrated they are a group of determined players. These preseason tournaments have exposed us to a variety of learning situations that we could be faced throughout our conference season. We have had to battle from behind, demonstrate patience with each other, and trust the system the coaching staff is trying to implement.
With having only two upperclassmen and 11 underclassmen, talk about how important it has been for this team to get off to the strong start.
I really feel the core of returners did a fantastic job training hard throughout the summer. This is the first time in my coaching career here at ETSU where we had 95% of the team return to campus early. The returners really helped our freshmen understand what is expected of them. Kayla (Williams) knows she only has one more season here, and together, she and I have had many conversations as to what footprint she wants to leave at ETSU. It was important for Kayla, along with Jamie Rutledge to join with Megan (Devine) and be our team captains. Each one of these players offers so much to our program, but in their own way. I give a great deal of credit to these three young ladies for reinforcing an atmosphere of passion, 100% effort, and trust within our team.
What has been the biggest surprise you have seen with this team from preseason training through these first nine matches?
The biggest surprise I have seen with this team from the preseason is our battle mentality. With only one senior and one junior, we are still a very young team. We have been faced with matches this year where we have had to dig a little deeper and string some plays together in order to get a win. In the end, I love how this team has established a "No Quit" attitude.
If there's one thing you want to see improved on this weekend, what would it be and why?
Going into this last preseason weekend at Alabama, I really want our team to continue to have the confidence to take risks. I want some players to take rips from the backcourt and regardless of whether we get the kill or not, to do the same play again and again with the same confidence. Also, I want our team to be confident on the service line. I want this group to see they are a pretty special team… We will "Battle, Breathe, and Believe!"
The ETSU volleyball team is gearing up to play Alabama State (10 a.m.) and Austin Peay (3 p.m.) on Friday, while closing out the Bama Bash with Lamar (3 p.m.) and Alabama (8 p.m.) on Saturday. Following the tournament, the Blue and Gold return home to face Western Carolina on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. inside Brooks Gym.
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My crowdsourcing radar used to consist of Google Alerts and a RSS feed from Technorati. Then I installed TweetDeck on my laptop. I'm not sure if it was the best or the worst thing I've ever done. I had thought of Twitter as a broadcast tool, but it's become far more valuable to me as a listening device. I used to say that keeping track of crowdsourcing's growth was a full-time job (the punchline being that I already have a a few full-time jobs). Now it would take an entire newsroom (okay, a small one) to cover the diverse, imaginative—and occasionally wrong-headed—ways crowdsourcing is manifesting in our culture. Anyway, here were a few of the more significant developments from the week:
Open for Questions, or Open for Vote Rigging?
President Obama held the first crowdsourced press conference. The administration used Google Moderator to collect questions from citizens, and vote for those already posed. Results were decidedly mixed. The marijuana lobby turned out in force, effectively stuffing the ballot box for decriminalization topics. My colleage Nick Thompson has done my work for me here, here and here. The long and short of it is that one interest group gamed the system to vote their concerns to the top. As scores of other people have pointed out, decriminalization is a legitimate topic for a press conference, but hardly represents a pressing issue. My read: Open for Questions highlights that the ideastorm model of crowdsourcing is still very much in a beta phase, useful for some applications and counter-productive for others.
An Index of Crowdsourcing
Boy has this been a long time coming. Anjali Ramachandran, a strategist at London-based digital agency Made by Many, posted a wiki with 135 companies currently engaging in some form of crowdsourcing. It's a great start, and Anjali is asking us all to help expand it. Such efforts are crucial to the maturation and understanding of crowdsourcing. The phenomenon has grown so rapidly (and so haphazardly) that it's exceeded any single person's capacity to track it. I know there are a lot of crowdsourcing junkies reading this post. I'd encourage you all to go contribute.
Um, Do You Know How We Can Get Out of This Mess?
Ireland's economy has been especially hard hit by the Great Recession. Enter "The Ideas Campaign," or "the People's Campaign for Economic Growth," an open innovation project operated and paid for by Irish Web consulting firm, AMAS. Here's Springwise: "Launched just a week ago, the Ideas Campaign is asking the citizens of Ireland to propose innovative ideas to boost economic activity in the country across 19 key areas including manufacturing, technology, construction, retail and education." Great idea. Horrible execution. The ideas are collected, vetted and posted back to the site without any opportunity for the community to vote, comment or otherwise interact with them. A perfect use for aforementioned Google Moderator. Would the Dope Lobby—or more to the point, some special interest—have gamed this site like they did President Obama's? Possibly, but that's an argument for enhanced moderation, not locking out the crowd's input on, well, the crowd's input. If it works for Ireland, maybe Iceland will give crowdsourcing a spin.
Smartsourcing vs. Crowdsourcing
Pete Peterson has a very thoughtful essay at techPresident this week in which he examined the Obama administration's mixed results from such crowdsourcing experiments as the Citizen's Briefing Book (another ideajam that was stampeded by the drug lobby). He advocates bringing together "select group of citizens."
The government can serve a vital role as convener – bringing together smart people from a variety of viewpoints to collaborate and debate online over particular policy initiatives. These policy discussions – whether in wiki or blog format – can be kept transparent and open to the public's view, but as we have seen during the Transition, these must be controlled in such a way as to prevent hijacking by small, organized groups."
I couldn't agree more. I would just like to point out that smartsourcing (great term!) is crowdsourcing. In my original article on crowdsourcing as well as in my talks, I've always said, "First—pick the right crowd." This has theoretical underpinnings. Scott E. Page, who's probably done more work than anyone in collective intelligence, calls this a "crowd of models." Diversity will trump ability, he notes, but only if a certain level of talent and ability are mixed in with that diversity. At any rate, Peterson's post is the read of the week, in my view.


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Although some skeptics remain wary, Mary Tapia, of Mount Prospect, is convinced there are benefits to the "Paleo Diet," which promotes unprocessed foods that were the diet of hunter-gatherers during the Paleolithic era — primarily meats, fish, fruits, and vegetables.
Most dieters define success as losing weight. But Tapia, 45, faithfully followed a 30-day "Paleo Challenge" recently that meant swearing off sugar, grains and dairy, without shedding a pound.
Tapia, 45, said the Paleo Diet has resulted in a dramatic change in her overall body composition, including an 8 percent decrease in body fat, and a nearly 3-pound gain in muscle mass.
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The sentence:
The very form of the adjective "scientific" might give pause to those who would force the word to cover such topics as the skill of boxer, or a knowledge of the theory and practice of the sacraments.
What exactly does "form" mean here?
Your guess is as good as mine, I'm afraid.
You mean you don't understand it either?Originally Posted by tdol
I'm going to take a crack at this. :)
In the dictionary, one of the 16 definitions of form was
The essence of something.
I am going to assume that what the reader is trying to imply is that the essence of the word "scientific" should not be used to describe the workings of such things as the skill of a boxer or the practice of [religious] sacraments, as that is against the very nature (or form) of the word "scientific"
It means, shape/arrangement of parts and it's in reference to the suffix -ic, which means, characteristic of_______. Click HereOriginally Posted by Taka
I don't think your suffix analysis works, Cas.Originally Posted by Casiopea
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Science is no static body of knowledge but rather an active process that can be followed through the ages. The sheer validity and success of the process in our own age has given rise to a good deal of misunderstanding of its nature and not a little misapplication of such terms as "science" and "scientific". We hear of the scientific methods of some prize-fighter, and a book has been published on the Science of the Sacraments. There is nothing in the laws of any country which forbids its citizens from giving to the words of their language such significance as the may choose, but science and scientific as employed in these connections have no relation to the great progressive acquisition of the knowledge with which we have here to deal. The very form of the adjective "scientific" might give pause to those who would force the word to cover such topics as the skill of boxer, or a knowledge of the theory and practice of the sacraments. By derivation scientific implies knowledge making, and no body of doctrine which is not growing, which is not actually in the making can long retain the attributes of science.
Nahualli's idea sounds interesting.
LOL! Taka, you must be tired or something today. :? Re-read the paragraph. 'form' refers to the adjectival us(ag)e of 'scientific'.
I'm not tired at all, Cas. Or are you?Originally Posted by Casiopea
Read the paragraph carefully. The entire paragraph is saying that science is not an absolute, perfect thing, as the ordinal people would think. So whether it's "science (noun)" or "scientific (adjective)", we shouldn't misuse it; we just have to be careful about anything which is called "science" or "scientific". That's the whole message, I think. Therefore, I don't think the grammatical form as you pointed out really matters in this case.
Contextually, Nahualli's interpretation works a lot better, IMO.
Yawn. :wink:Originally Posted by Taka
Does "yawn" imply "Sorry, I was wrong." in your language?Originally Posted by Casiopea


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Pachis owner Juliana Flores developed the concept when she was in college and working with kids.
"A lot of the time, art is mistaken for craft, and just putting together construction paper and glue sticks and other little simple things, rather than giving it more meaning and letting the kids explore what they can do," Flores said. "To me it was really important to have them look at art as a way of expression rather than another subject in school."
The Pachis curriculum is built around four main topics called "My Self, My Community, My World and My Art." The topics inspire learning and expression about the child's individuality, other people, the community, the world, different cultures and various styles of art.
Flores said the program helps children feel comfortable with themselves, learn about their role models, discover how to contribute positively to their community and gain a wide perspective about cultures and people around the world.
"To me, it's really important for kids to understand what other kids their age are doing in any other part of the world, and also understanding why we look different or why we do things differently in terms of traditions and holidays," Flores said.
Topics like recycling and conservation are also important parts of the workshops. Flores said art can really be done with anything as long as the child has the freedom to create what they want.
"It's a little bit ridiculous that we're cutting art from the budget and from schools because you can do a lot without having to spend a lot of money," Flores said. "You can still give kids that sense of expression for a least an hour a day to make something that comes from their heart rather than just their brain."
The workshops, offered to children 4 to 12, are a unique combination of class structure and artistic freedom. Flores said allowing children to express themselves while learning has been successful.
"They really like the freedom of expressing themselves, but also having the structural part of a class," Flores said. "At the end of the day, they're learning something, they're getting something out of it, they're making something that they get to take home."
Flores said the program focuses on individual inspiration, rather than instilling technical skill. While children do learn how to work with different media, the projects they create are their own. She said kids can paint with tooth brushes to explore different textures and discover the endless things they can create with each art supply.
After each class, every student creates something completely unique, which Flores said is really how art should be.
"I went through art school and I absolutely hated being graded or my fellow students being graded over something that the teacher didn't think was the best," Flores said.
Flores said it's important for kids to create art from a young age and continue. The studio features a gallery of art and handmade items by artists from San Diego and Tijuana to show children that they can make a living as an artist.
"I think you can become a better person. It sounds really cheesy, but I honestly believe you can become a better person if you have your artistic side a lot more developed," Flores said. "It makes you communicate better, it teaches acceptance, it teaches respect and caring for others. I think there's a lot of value to exposing children to that form of art rather than, 'We're all going to draw dolphins and they have to look like this.'"
For class schedules and registration information, visit www.mypachis.com.


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(Thanks to Steven for today's pun)
For a long time it seemed that my work, and Jeroen's, on the 1.5 support
in Japitools was taking forever and nothing was actually being
achieved. We had file formats specced out, sure, and later on we had
data structures built to represent 1.5 features, and that kind of
thing. But it was all under the hood, and most of the time Japize
wouldn't even run, and even if it did japicompat couldn't make heads or
tails of its output. This state went on for weeks - months, actually,
the file format spec was originally written a long time ago, although
for most of that time no work was being done.
So it's quite surprising and very rewarding that within a week of the
first successful japicompat results being produced we suddenly appear
to have almost feature-complete 1.5 capability. Annotations are missing
- they'll be worked on next - and there are a few loose ends to tie up.
I also want to compare the results line-by-line to the released version
on all pre-1.5 versions and make sure every difference is accounted for
before I start suggesting that people primarily use this version. But
It's nice to have progress of my own to report instead of just watching
in awe as the Classpath hackers churn through the percentages, but
they've certainly not been standing still. It was September 5th that I
first was amazed to see Classpath creep past the 90% mark against 1.4 for
the first time; now it looks like 95% will most likely be achieved
sometime this weekend. You guys have halved the gap in less than a
The remaining 1.2 bugs are rapidly biting the dust too. Roman
implemented ActivationGroup_Stub and - YES! - the loadClass method that
was the last remaining 1.1 error. Tom fixed the two BeanContextServices
svuids and nipped an incorrect ActivationGroup_Stub svuid in the bud.
Thomas sorted out the incorrectly-abstract method in java.awt.print.
The upshot of all this is that there are now only 6 errors outside of
swing against 1.2. You might think there are only 5, but I'm afraid the
CVS Japi knows how to look for fields declared in the wrong place and
it found another one in java.awt.image. Oh, and only a single missing
field in javax.naming on top of these would limit 1.3 errors to only javax.rmi.CORBA,
javax.sound.sampled, and swing...
(I'm running out of puns for post titles - suggestions in the comments please! ;) )
I've put very preliminary CVS Japi results between Classpath's generics branch and JDK1.5 up. Thanks to Andrew, these will be regenerated every night using the very latest japitools.
There are an awful lot of known bugs and limitations right now. If
you intend to use these results for anything, I strongly suggest being
very careful to confirm by other means that there really is a problem
before wasting any time trying to fix it.
If anyone's looking for an easy way to contribute to Japitools, one
thing that would be extremely handy would be a regression test system.
Given a .java file, compile it, Japize the result and confirm that it's
equal to the expected result (apart from the timestamp etc). Or, given
two .java files, compile them both, Japize them both, japicompat them,
and confirm that the expected errors show up. As everyone knows, code
without regression tests is just asking for things to break and nobody
to notice.
Sven tackled the last 1.2 Font issue, but the BeanContext one turned
out to be, quite literally, one step forward and two steps back. Fixing
the Japi bug that had led to an incorrect SVUID revealed that two other
classes in the same package had trusted the old Japi information, so
now they're wrong instead. So still 9 errors total...
C:\projects\japitools\src>jikes -d .. net\wuffies\japi\*.javaFound 1 syntax error in "C:/projects/japitools/src/net/wuffies/japi/Japize.java": 955. if (i != index && excps[i] is ClassType && <>*** Syntax: instanceof expected instead of this tokenC:\projects\japitools\src>
Talk about friendly error messages! How did it know? Does jikes encounter confused C# programmers often?


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Denver, Colo., Feb 11, 2013 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Numerous American bishops voiced their gratitude to Pope Benedict for his nearly 8 years of service as Bishop of Rome, noting the pontiff's constant desire for the good of the Church.
"Pope Benedict XVI has, in all circumstances, placed the will of God for the good of the Church before every other consideration….he has now shown great courage in deciding, after prayer and soul-searching, to resign his office at the end of this month," Cardinal Francis George of Chicago wrote.
"He has taught with clarity and charity what God has revealed to the world in Christ; he has handed on the apostolic faith; he has loved all of God's people with all his heart."
At 12:30 p.m. in Rome on Feb. 11, Pope Benedict XVI announced to a gathering of cardinals that he no longer has the strength to carry out the office of the Papacy and will resign on Feb. 28. He is 85 years of age.
"After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," the Pope declared.
Cardinal George, who will vote in the conclave to elect the Pope's successor continued, saying that "with the gratitude of sons and daughters in our hearts, we ask the Lord to bless him and give him strength, as we begin to pray now for the one who will succeed him as Bishop of Rome, Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ."
Cardinal Dolan of New York, who was appointed to the College of Cardinals by Pope Benedict, similarly accepted the announcement.
"The Holy Father brought the tender heart of a pastor, the incisive mind of a scholar and the confidence of a soul united with His God in all he did. His resignation is but another sign of his great care for the Church. We are sad that he will be resigning but grateful for his eight years of selfless leadership as successor of St. Peter."
Cardinal Dolan recounted the worldwide trips made by the Pope, who was elected to the See of Rome at age 78.
Pope Benedict has taught us eternal truths, Cardinal Dolan said, such as the value of human life and the strength of what unites Catholics in the Church.
Cardinal Dolan went on to cite the Pope's concern for "schismatic groups" as well as the poor of the world.
"In all he said and did he urged people everywhere to know and have a personal encounter with Jesus Christ."
"His decision to resign is a beautiful, Christ-like act of humility and love for the Church. This is the act of a saint, who thinks not about himself but only about the will of God and the good of God's people."
Archbishop Gomez noted his personal affection for and gratitude to Pope Benedict, saying he tries "to learn every day from his words and example." He exhorted everyone to entrust him to "our Blessed Mother Mary" and to "pray that he will continue to have joy and peace and many more years for prayer and reflection."
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia noted the Pope's "intelligence, eloquence and extraordinary self-sacrifice."
The decision to resign, Archbishop Chaput said, "is another sign of his placing the needs of the Church above his own."
Archbishop Samuel Aquila of the Denver Archdiocese, asked that all people of good will join him in "lifting their hearts in gratitude to the Father" for Pope Benedict's ministry.
Pope Benedict, he said, "has faithfully served the Church throughout his life in diverse ways, always obedient to Christ and seeking the will of the Father. The witness of his life and work has borne incredible fruit and will continue to do so in his retirement."
Bishop Robert Deeley, an auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Boston, offered his "personal gratitude" to Pope Benedict "for the experience of working closely with him during my time in Rome with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."
Bishop Deeley continued, saying, "I know of his deep and abiding love for the Church."
"We assure the Holy Father of our prayers and fidelity during these final weeks of his service as the Vicar of Christ."


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WILMINGTON, Mass. — The best news for Brad Marchand today was that he was able to remember what happened to him last night.
After that 18-wheeler in a Montreal sweater with Subban on the back ran him over in the first period of the Canadiens' 4-3 win, Marchand would've been forgiven had he suffered from a touch of amnesia or worse.
But after the Bruins held meetings and off-ice workouts today, Boston's rookie winger said he just had the wind knocked out of him by the P.K. Subban hit, which beat out the Johnny Boychuk hit on Benoit Pouliot as the best hit of the game in a TheBruinsBlog.net poll. Marchand returned to the game and skated a total of 11 shifts on the night.
"I saw him last second," said Marchand. "I wasn't really expecting him to step up. … I think I started around center ice, wheeled around behind our net. I had a lot of speed, but I think that only made it worse."
Here's how the poll ended:
Which was the best hit in the Bruins-Canadiens game?
- PK Subban on Brad Marchand (71%, 25 Votes)
- Johnny Boychuk on Benoit Pouliot (29%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 35
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After less than one week, Grundy County's new Human Resources Director has quit.
Lindsay Ferguson was hired as the part-time director in January, her first day was Monday, and she quit Friday morning, said Grundy County Board Chairman Ron Severson.
Ferguson came to the county with six years experience in human resources at Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers. The county's previous HR director, Denise Kasper, resigned from the position in November with one day notice. She said then she was taking another job.
Personnel Committee Chairwoman Vicki Geiger said Ferguson called her Friday morning to resign.
"She was in a lot of meetings this week . . . we have a lot of severe issues and concerns going on in the county right now and she felt she might not be the best person to get us to a resolution on these issues," said Geiger.
Geiger said she had received compliments about Ferguson all week that she was a good fit for the county, but added she appreciated Ferguson's honesty so that the county could find someone qualified to handle the county's controversial issues occurring recently.
The Personnel Committee will be revisiting the other applications it has received for the position, and Geiger said she hopes the county will have the situation resolved by the end of next week.
The severe issues Geiger is referring to include the county looking into county departments giving unapproved bonuses. Although not illegal, Severson has said the county will be changing procedures so this doesn't happen again.


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As Peter Emslie points out in the comments to Part 16, the delaying action gives the Colonel his brief moment in the sun. He finally gets to take action. It's an important moment because it shows that Tibbs and the Captain respect the Colonel for valid reasons and they're not simply indulging him. The story forces limitations on how successful the three can be, though, so as not to distract from the main characters.
This is a sequence which is pretty much cast by animator. Frank Thomas has a major hand in animating the dogs, especially the adults. Blaine Gibson contributes some animation to Pongo and Perdita. Hal King takes care of the personality close-ups of the puppies while Ted Berman gets the their long shots. John Lounsbery animates the Colonel in addition to some scenes of the Baduns. Cliff Nordberg animates Tibbs. Julius Svendsen continues to animate the Captain.
The first part of the sequence is low key, bringing down the tension and the action in preparation for the long chase to come. Frank Thomas is the right choice to animate the dogs here as what's needed is a stong feeling of warmth between the parents and the pups. Once Horace and Jasper arrive, the chase is back on and with the exception of the upcoming sequence with the cows, the tension continuously rises from here until the climax of the film.
Pongo's snout is something that should have been better defined on the model sheets. Frank Thomas draws Pongo with a prominent bump on his snout. Other animators who handle the character treat the bump differently.
If you think it looks bad here, imagine how it looks on a theatre screen.
Shot 63, with pups sliding on the ice, has the animation and the pan done on two's and there's noticeable strobing as a result. There are also continuity issues. When the Captain is about to kick Jasper in shot 45, he has his left rear leg raised. But when he kicks Jasper in shot 46.1, he does it with his rear right leg. I wonder if this a mistake or if someone decided it made for clearer staging?


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European equities scaled fresh two-year highs on Tuesday, boosted by miners, as optimism about economic recovery gained momentum following encouraging U.S. home price data and comments over growth in top metals consumer China.
A report earlier showed U.S. home prices rose in November, adding further to evidence of a housing market recovery there. China's top think tank, meanwhile, lifted its economic growth forecast for 2013 to 8.4 percent from 8.2 percent, with faster expansion seen in the first half of the year.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 provisionally ended up 0.5 percent at 1,178.55, its highest close since Feb. 18, 2011, taking the rally off its June lows to around 24 percent. Mining stocks ended the day up 1.8 percent.
Fund managers said that while there was the possibility that equities would level off after such hefty gains, they deemed a significant near-term sell-off as unlikely.
"You will get to the point where that squeeze higher will have absorbed all of the cash that was destined to go into equities and it's at that point markets will be vulnerable - but I don't think we're there yet," said Andrew Cole, a fund manager at Baring Asset Management, which has 32.4 billion pounds ($50.9 billion) of assets under management.
London's FTSE 100 posted the biggest gains out of the country-specific stock indexes, as a result of the rally in mining stocks, which came after Anglo American said it will take a $4 billion impairment charge on its Minas-Rio project, indicating it expects the much-delayed project to eventually commence. The charge was in line with analysts' expectations.


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All students who grabbed a Loco Pass this year can take advantage of free bus and ticket to each UCSB game in the 2013 Big West Basketball Tournament at Honda Center in Anaheim, Thursday, March 14 - Saturday, March 16.
The final two regular season games this week at the Thunderdome (Cal State Fullerton on Thursday and UC Riverside on Saturday. Both at 7 p.m. Students free with ID) will determine when the Gauchos will play their first round game (quarterfinals) on Thursday, March 14. The game time is expected to be either at Noon or 6:00 p.m.
- Bus leaves at 7:30 a.m. (from the Thunderdome) if UCSB is the No. 7 seed for 12 p.m. game. Bus will leave 30-minutes after the game.
- Bus leaves at 1:00 p.m. (from the Thunderdome) if UCSB is the No. 8 seed (play Long Beach State) for 6 p.m. game. Bus will leave 30-minutes after the game.
Loco Pass students will receive bus ride from UCSB to the Honda Center and back along with a game ticket for each game the Gauchos play. Reservations must be made in advance via this link for bus or by signing up in person at the UCSB Athletics Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building (ICA) before Tuesday at 4 p.m. Students who haven't taken advantage of the Loco Pass yet (free game-day t-shirt, bus and student ticket for tournament) can do so at the Athletics Ticket Office before Tuesday, March 15th by Noon.
Loco Pass students who travel to the Honda Center on their own can pick up their free ticket at the UCSB ticket table located in the main Honda Center lobby in the Northwest corner. Tickets are available for pick-up by showing current UCSB Access Card and official 2013 "Gaucho Pride" t-shirt.
If the men play Friday the student bus will leave UCSB at 1:30 p.m. and return after the game. Possible game times on Friday are 6:30 p.m. at 8:30 p.m. Buses will have Wi-Fi available.
For more information visit this link or call 893-UCSB. To sign up in person for the Loco Pass visit the UCSB Athletics Ticket Office from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.