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Question: Why are there holes in my pecans?
Answer: Many people had problems last season when harvesting pecans and discovering white larvae inside instead of a pecan. The pecan weevil was a common pest problem late last season. By the time most people discovered the problem it was too late to control. The pecan weevil is a pest to start controlling in August and September to prevent discovering problems later this year.
The pecan weevil causes two types of damage. The first type is when the adult weevils puncture the nuts in early August, causing the nuts to fall after two or three days. The adult pecan weevils are reddish-brown to gray beetles with long slender snouts and thin legs. Larval feeding within the nut causes the second type of damage. The larva chews a circular hole through the shell, and, as nuts fall to the ground, it exits the nut, and burrows into the soil. Larvae are creamy white, legless grubs with reddish brown heads.
Understanding the life cycle of the pecan weevil helps explain why the weevils cause two types of damage. The adult weevils emerge from the soil from August through September. The majority of weevils fly to the tree trunk or tree canopy while a small number walk. After the female adult weevils puncture the nut in early August, the eggs are laid inside the developing pecan. At maturity the larvae exit the nut and burrow into the soil. They remain in the soil until the following August where they pupate and emerge as adults. Then the cycle begins again with the adult weevils puncturing the pecan nuts.
Now that we know how those white larvae get into the pecan, the next question is how to get rid of the pecan weevil. Because the adult weevils are emerging from the ground during August in search of pecans to puncture, that is the time when you want to control them. You want to control the adult weevils as they are emerging from the ground because they cannot be reached once they are in the nut or while they're in the soil. The weevil's emergence from the soil is during a two-month period of August to September, so monitoring for when the adults emerge from the soil is important. Also keep in mind that the weevils usually emerge from the soil after a rainfall. A dry or hard soil provides a physical barrier to the adult weevils, delaying their emergence from the soil. Several techniques can be used to monitor for when the adults emerge from the soil. A simple way to monitor is inspecting nuts that have dropped to the ground for puncture holes.
There are many traps available for monitoring the pecan weevil varying in cost and in the amount of labor required to set up. A homeowner can avoid the cost of a trap by wrapping burlap around the pecan tree three to four feet above the soil and tying it in place at the bottom. The remaining burlap is overlapped and then tied at the top. This causes the weevils to walk over each flap thus delaying their trip up the tree and allowing time for grower observation. If you did choose this monitoring method, you want to set it up just before August and monitor it daily for weevils to indicate when to start spraying. As you monitor for the weevils you can go ahead and destroy the weevils you do find on the burlap to provide some control. One downfall to using this monitoring method is that you only know how many are walking up the tree and since most fly to the tree, you may not be getting an accurate idea of when the adult weevils are moving to the tree.
If you decide to use insecticide to control the pecan weevil, applications should be made every 7 days from mid-August through mid-September using an insecticide that contains the active ingredient carbaryl. If you want to try to avoid using insecticides or want additional control along with the insecticide, a good control method is to gather and destroy weevil-infested nuts as they fall to prevent the larvae from entering in the ground and hanging around until next growing season.
August through September is the time to be on the lookout for the pecan weevil. With an understanding of the pecan weevil's life cycle and knowing when to watch for the weevils emerging from the ground you may prevent the disappointment of opening pecan shells during harvest just to find those white worms enjoying your pecans instead of you.
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Tropical and subtropical mangroves
support adjacent marine communities and ecosystems, including seagrass beds and coral reefs. However, little is known about the intra-wetland processes that regulate those interactions and how they are affected when the coastal zone is altered by eutrophication.
The objectives of this study are to determine the patterns of nutrient limitation across mangrove forests in Bocas del Toro and the effects of nutrient availability of plant growth, within-plant nutrient conservation mechanisms, litter turnover rates, soil chemistry, and primary consumption.
This study is part of our effort to understand general patterns of nutrient availability in mangrove ecosystems. Our goals are to compare plant growth, photosynthesis, nutrient cycling processes, and animal-plant interactions in response to nutrient enrichment in mangrove forests.
We propose to investigate patterns of aboveand below-ground growth, faunal composition and abundance, herbivory patterns, soil chemistry, and nutrients cycling that occur in the ecotones connecting the open water mangrove forests with the interior mangrove forests at Bocas del Toro. Data from this experiment will be compared to other ongoing fertilization experiments in mangrove forests elsewhere in the Neotropics and in Australia.
These experiments are fundamental to understanding the role of mangroves in absorbing and capturing nutrients in eutrophying systems and the impact of nutrient enrichment on these systems.

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Conference on Censers in Bern, organised by Beate Fricke together with Ittai Weinryb
The burning of incense is one of the most pervasive religious practices today and throughout history. The fragrant smoke filling the air can be witnessed in any tradition, whether polytheistic or monotheistic, whether in the Ancient Near East, Modern US, or Medieval Europe. Censers are ubiquitous among religious paraphernalia, and on a truly global scale. Surprisingly, however, little scholarly attention has been given to censers and the rituals they facilitate. In this conference we propose to explore these commonly used yet seldom studied objects from a comparative perspective. This investigation entails consideration of the material fabrication of censers themselves and their subsequent significations, as well as the role of the incense itself as it vaporizes in the course of religious ceremonies. By comparing we aim to unveil resemblances and differences across various religions that at the same time can give evidence to the particularities of a specific tradition. Through these objects we also hope to interrogate dominant narratives in Art History defined by exclusive categories like "the era of art" or by retrospectively defined periods or artistic developments aligned with dynasties.
The study of censers is particularly timely in the fields of History of Religion, History of Art, Archaeology, material culture and Anthropology, and not only for filling gaps in the objects' documentation. The combination of the solid censer and the ephemeral smoke produced by the burning of incense offers a fertile ground for examining questions central to these fields of study regarding the relation between the material and the immaterial, and between artifacts, biotic substances, and codified practices. Centering on the censer thus not only places the object in a constellation of other religious artefacts, but also relocates the importance of rituals that have long been placed at the margins of the study of religion, art, and ritual. Emerging from this, we hope, is a better grasp of the role of sensorial elements in the fostering of the devotional practices of world religions. Acknowledging the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the profound questions provoked by the censer as object and as site, the project aims to unite scholars from different fields of study in an exploration of the censer and its materiality, ontology, and presence.

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Can someone explain me in simple words what $\sigma$-additivity is? For example, if we have a probability space ($\Omega$,$\mathcal{F}$,P), what it means that the application $$ B \mapsto P(A\cap B) $$ is $\sigma$-additive over $\mathcal{F}$?
I found it for the first time in probability theory and I don't understand the implication that it has in the theory.
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A map $m\colon \mathcal F\to \Bbb R_{\geq 0}$ is $\sigma$-additive if for each sequence $\{B_n\}\subset \mathcal F$ of pairwise disjoint measurable sets, we have $$m\left(\bigcup_{n=1}^{+\infty}B_n\right)=\sum_{n=1}^{+\infty}m(B_n).$$ This is the formal definition.
This means that the "measure" of a disjoint union is the sum of the "measures" of each elements of the union. The letter $\sigma$ expresses an idea of countability, as we can work with maps finitely-additive. It allows us to work with sequences of sets.
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An $f$ function is additive, if for any finite sequence of elements $a_i$, $$f\left(\sum_i a_i\right) = \sum_i f(a_i)$$ Then, $f$ is $\sigma$-additive, if it also holds for any countable infinite set $\{a_i\}_i$ of elements.
In measure (and probabilistic) context, it is only said so for pairwise disjoint sets in place of the $a_i$'s, and $\sum a_i$ is meant their union. And its meaning is the usual 'additivity' property of the area (and volume and similar) notion.
$P$ is a probability measure, so, by definition it is assumed to be $\sigma$-additive, and so is $B\mapsto P(B\cap A)$.
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The difference between alloy steel and tool steel
The difference between alloy steel and tool steel
Other alloy elements (such as chromium, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, titanium, copper, tungsten, aluminum, cobalt, niobium, zirconium, and other elements), and some steels that also contain certain non-metallic elements (such as boron, nitrogen, etc.). According to the content of alloy elements in steel, it can be divided into low alloy steel, medium alloy steel and high alloy steel.
The difference between alloy steel and tool steel1. Steel means that the steel contains no alloys other than alloy elements such as silicon (generally does not exceed 0.40%) and manganese (generally does not exceed 0.80%, and the higher content can reach 1.20%), which is involved in deoxidation. Elements (except scrap elements) of steel. According to the unevenness of the content, it can be divided into low carbon steel (carbon content is generally less than 0.25%); medium carbon steel (carbon content is generally between 0.25% and 0.60%); high carbon steel (carbon content is a show It was 0.60%).
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2. Definition of alloy steel: steel containing other alloy elements is alloy steel. The total content of alloy elements can reach 10 ~ 28%, which is high alloy steel.
Alloy steel, in addition to iron and natural elements in steel, also adds other alloy elements in order to change or improve certain characteristics of steel. For example, CrNiMnMoWVB. In addition to iron and carbon, some other metals are intervened in alloy steel to change the function of the material. The effect of chromium is to make steel resistant to corrosion, and the effect of nickel is to reduce the austenitizing temperature of stainless steel.
3. Definition of tool steel: Machining tool steel does not contain other alloy elements; tool steel is also a steel with a carbon content of less than 1.35%.
Tool steel, that is to say, except for the iron element, the material is generally only natural elements of carbon, silicon, manganese, phosphorus and sulfur, and no other alloy elements are added.
4. The difference between alloy steel and tool steel: tool steel does not contain useful alloy elements, but alloys with iron, carbon and manganese as the primary elements. Mechanical performance is generally inferior to alloy steel. In addition, the price of tool steel is much lower than that of alloy seamless steel pipe. From the above two points, Gusu alloy steel suppliers believe that the performance of alloy steel exceeds tool steel is the biggest difference.
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Definitions for salmonberryˈsæm ənˌbɛr i
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
salm•on•ber•ryˈsæm ənˌbɛr i(n.)(pl.)-ries.
the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
the plant itself.
Origin of salmonberry:
cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, bakeapple, baked-apple berry, salmonberry, Rubus chamaemorus(noun)
creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
salmonberry, salmon berry, thimbleberry, Rubus parviflorus(noun)
white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis(noun)
large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries
A bush, taxonomic name Rubus spectabilis, found on the Pacific coast of North America
The fruit from this bush, similar in appearance and texture to the blackberry and raspberry


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A term used in medicine to refer to a doctor's overall collection of skills and tools to perform the art of healing. A physician's armamentarium may contain surgical procedures, access to an MRI scanner, bedside manner, the basic ability to diagnose illness and a prescription pad.
Armamentarium may also refer to a general collection of equipment possessed by a medical institution, or procedures available to the medical community in general.
In becoming a dermatologist, Dr. Fishman added many chemical peel procedures to her armamentarium.
Modern medicine has a massive armamentarium of antibiotic therapies for combating bacterial infection.


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The suffix of place is -re or -ra meaning - place/place of
Earlier we learned of bu - this - and şu or o - that. Putting these words together by suffixing -raplace of plus the static (locative) suffix -da - in, on, at - then we form the words meaning - here and there etc. These words are used for a general sense of location.
burada - here - [lit: bu-ra-da - this-place-at]
şurada - there - [lit: şu-ra-da - that-place nearer-at or in between-at]
orada - over there - [lit: o-ra-da - that-place yonder-at]
nerede? - where? - [lit: ne-re-de? - what-place-at?]
In conversation you will hear the above words shortened (abraded) to - burda, şurda, orda, nerde?
A little note: There is really no such suffix -deki in Turkish. -deki is actually two suffixes together, -de plus an added -ki.
-de means - on, in, at - while -ki is - that which is
But you will find most grammar books gloss over this construction although it is in constant daily use to make an Adjective of Location. It is for this reason that I began teaching it as a suffix in its own right - and it was far easier for my students to grasp the intention of meaning. Therefore I will treat it as a suffix for Manisa Turkish website. Let us call it a "pseudo" suffix. Sokaktaki araba - The car which is in the street - [Lit: Sokak-ta-ki street-in-which-is car.] - here we can see that -daki makes an Adjective of Location - that which is in.
This pseudo suffix is very important as it is used a lot in daily conversation and reading.
The -deki or -daki - is added to words to produce an adjective to describe the location of an object. This is best shown by example. For instance if we say: The telephone [which is] in my bedroom is broken, then Turkish trying to turn everything into an adjective will say thus: [lit: Bedroom-of-me-which-is-in telephone broken-is.] - Yatak odamdaki telefon bozuktur. - [Yatak oda-m-daki telefon bozuk-tur]. Here odam-daki telefon is used as an adjective to describe just where the telephone is! - ie. Room-my-in-which-is telephone.
This point is a particular difficulty when beginning to learn Turkish as we do not use an adjectival construction. Instead in English we use a Relative Construction - The telephone which is in my bedroom is broken.. It is important to understand this adjectival construction of location, as it is in constant daily use in Turkish. It can also be used as a location in time scale as some of the examples below will show. Note also that the vowel in -ki is invariable - it does not follow Vowel harmony Rules, so the full Suffix of Adjectival Location is either -deki or -daki.
Masadaki kitap - The book (which is) on the table.
Masadaki kitabı bana verin. - Give me the book (which is) on the table.
Kilitteki anahtar. - The key (which is) in the lock.
Kilitteki anahtarı çıkarınız - (Would you) take the key out of the lock. - [Lit: Lock-in-which-is key-the take out!] - [We have used the polite imperative in this example]
Kutudaki kibritler nemlidir. - The matches (which are) in the box are damp.
It can be seen from the above example that the Turkish aspect is different from English and this can only be appreciated by usage and practice, as it is an alien construction for English speakers
Önümüzdeki hafta. - (Ön-ümüz-deki hafta.) - The week in front of us - [Lit: Front-of-us-which-is week.]
Önümüzdeki haftanın havası çok güneşli olacak. - The week ahead's weather will be very sunny.
As already stated this is at first sight a difficult construction and can be assimilated by reading, listening and using whenever possible
If we need to show movement from or movement to a place or places then we must use a different suffix such as -dan - from or -a - to, towards.. in order to modify the meaning:
buradan [bu -ra -dan] - (burdan as spoken) - from here
We also use the same construction in English. If a child strays too near to the fire, then the mother will say: "Get away from there!".
şuradan [şu -ra -dan] - (şurdan as spoken) - from there
oradan [o -ra -dan] - (ordan as spoken) - from over there
nereden? [ne -re -den?] - (nerden? as spoken) - where from?
Word Adding -a - to, towards:
buraya - [bu -ra -ya] - to here
şuraya [şu-ra-ya] - to there
oraya [o-ra-ya] - to over there
nereye? [ne-re-ye?] - where to?
We in English do not say - come to here - or - come to there., although in Older English we did use these forms - Come hither - or - Go hence. However Turkish must use the -a suffix to show movement towards the place. Basically Turkish is using - hence and hither - and even - thence and thither - which we in English no longer use in daily speech. To re-iterate, we used to say - hither and thither - in the old days - this is what Turkish is basically doing.
The plural forms buralarda, şuralarda, oralarda, nerelerde cause the meaning to be:
1. More vague: - buralarda - hereabouts, around here
2. More spatial: - şuralarda - thereabouts, around there,over there
3. More generalized: - oralarda - thereabouts, over there, around about
3. Any mixture of the three: - nerelerde? - whereabouts?
Here we can see then the meanings have become more generalized in both space and location.
We should also remember that the meanings based on şuralarda are in the near vicinity whilst the meanings based on oralarda are more distant (let's say in another country).
The Plural Forms are also extended with -dan - from.. and -a - towards..
buralardan (bu-ra-lar-dan) - from hereabouts
şuralardan (şu-ra-lar-dan) - from around there
oralardan (o-ra-lar-dan) - over around there
nerelerden? (ne-re-ler-den?) - whereabouts from?
buralara (bu-ra-lar-a) - to around here
şuralara (şu-ra-lar-a) - to around there
oralara (o-ra-lar-a) - to those parts
nerelere? (ne-re-ler-e?) - whereabouts to?
As we can see the plural forms are vaguer and wider, but they are used just as we in English make these distinctions in place and space.
Buralarda bir güzel restoran var mı? - Is there a good restaurant around here?
Buraya gel! - Come (to) here!
Orada yeşil araba var. - There is a green car over there.
Şurada büyük otel var. - There is a big hotel there.
Kredi Bankası nerede? - Where is the Kredi Bank?.
Çarşı nerelerde? - Whereabouts are the shops?.
Buradan saat sekizde çıkalım - Let's leave (from) here at 8 o' clock.
Particular Locations - right here, right there and just where?
If we need to communicate a more particular place and sense of location then as in English we have to be more precise. This precision in Turkish is achieved by using the suffix -i or -si meaning - its. By adding this suffix Turkish makes the place particular:
burası (bu-ra-sı) - right here [Lit: its place (exactly) here.]
şurası (şu-ra-sı) - right there.
orası (o-ra-sı) - right over there.
neresi? (ne-re-si?) - just where? [Lit: where exactly?]
Note that the -si suffix is the Possessed part of the Possessive Relationship and that sometimes the Possessor is "understood", we should really be using this expression as a complete relationship as in: "bankanın burası" or "evin şurası" or "İngilterenin orası", but this is a bit pedantic. (See note below)
As Stated above for exact locations the Possessive Adjective suffix -(s)ı is added to make the meaning become more exact. For instance if someone asks you on the telephone:
Neredesin? (ne-re-de-sin?) - Where are you?
Then you might answer: Ankara' dayım - (Ankara'-da-y-ım) - I'm in Ankara
However, if they ask you:
Oranın neresinde? (ne-re-si-n-de?) - Where (of there) exactly?
Then you might answer: banyodayım (banyo-da-y-ım) - I am in the bath


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Aleksander Rutkowski, European Commission
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This Country Focus discusses the relation between public investment and economic growth in Poland. Theoretical and empirical work has shown that improvements in the quantity and quality of public infrastructure have a positive impact on growth in the medium and, possibly, in the long run. The effect is even more important for economies in transition engaged in a catching up process.
The analysis presented supports these conclusions. It also provides statistical evidence suggesting that higher public investment stimulates growth in Poland. In recent years, a significant effort has already been made to increase public spending in infrastructure. This has contributed to smooth the economic downturn in Poland during the crisis.
However, significant infrastructure investments are still needed, notably in the area of transport. In the current post-crisis environment, the envisaged efforts to further improve public infrastructure seem to be an appropriate way to support the recovery.
Spending reallocation within the budget and a more extensive use of EU funds would allow financing these new investments. This would avoid increasing the budget deficit or introducing distortionary taxes, which would partly or fully offset the positive impact of the additional investments.
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Why is the pure A2 Ghee costlier than the regular ghee
Why is the pure A2 Ghee costlier than the regular ghee
Let us understand the importance of A2 ghee before we understand why it is priced high.
Several researches have concluded the health hazards associated with HF cows A1 milk consumption because of A1 beta-casein present in the milk, the report continues to prove that A1 milk and its products lead to diseases like Type 1 diabetes, cancer etc.
On the other hand indigenous cows milk contains A2 beta-casein, which is good for health in numerous ways (no wonder why our ancestors called milk as Amruth)
Milk is milk and why is there is a difference in pricing? Don't worryWe will de-code everything in a minute.
A2 milk comes from Indian/African indigenous cows, which gives 2 to 6 liters of milk per day based on the bread type.
Now, since indigenous cow gives less milk and considering its rich nutritive value, one liter of milk is sold between 60-100 rupees in the Indian market. Secondly, the reason for its high pricing is also for the reason that these cows produce less milk.
Now Coming to the point, let us understand the cost to prepare one KG of pure ghee in bilona method.
Technically it takes about 22 liters of milk to prepare 1 KG of pure A2 cow ghee. So, if you see it costs a manufacturer approximately 1600 rupees to prepare one KG of ghee.
The majority of brands sell ghee at 600 rupees per KG by labeling it pure ghee and these are the brands who spend crores of rupees on marketing it with a 'PURE GHEE' tag.
Anyways keeping the marketing costs aside, even if it is milked from a buffalo or a HF cowthe cost of preparing ghee comes up to 1200 rupees considering 25 liters of milk, heating cost, rent, labor, transportation and miscellaneous expenses.
Now, if you are still wondering how? the answer is – It is just not ghee. Instead, it is Vanaspati or dalada ghee made from vegetable oil which contains very low nutrients and obviously comes with tons of unhealthy ingredients that are used to make it smell and taste like ghee.
These unethical practices in the market is costing people's health with an increased rate of heart attacks and obesity.
By the way, mysteriously the pure A2 ghee melts inside the human body at 37 degrees celsius against normal body temperature of 37.2 degrees. It is interesting to see how nature has fine-tuned ghee for human consumption with no chance of cholesterol build-up when compared to the adulterated ghee does not melt easily and continues to store up in your body as bad fat.
Research claims that A2 ghee benefits are immense:
 - In maintaining Mental & Physical Health
 - Healthy Hair and Skin
 - Healthy Vision
 - Anti-aging properties
 - Maintaining Bone Health
 - Overcome Weakness & Fatigue
 - Strengthening Immunity
Some of you who are lucky enough must have come across your mother or grandmother preparing ghee by storing butter on a daily basis.. Double lucky you are if you still have access to indigenous cow milk to enjoy the delicious ghee and its granules.
Think again before purchasing ghee next time because we are what we eat.
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 - Dhiraj Gupta Reply
 This post is flawed in every way from fantastical health claims to magical temperature but I will point the math error here the author assume that ghee should cost 1200 per kg because it uses 25 liters of milk and anything cheaper is fake as if the skimmed milk after removing fat/ghee is not sold but thrown away this shows bogus claim on focus on painting other manufacturers bad to justify high price
 February 26, 2021 at 9:16 am
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 We appreciate your comment Gaurav. The cost of a A2 ghee is not less than 75 rs/ liter. Secondly it is highly priced because of shortage and the limited quantity of milk indigenous cow provides per day.
 So, even after using the butter milk and all possible bi products. It would not be possible to produce A2 cow ghee anything less than 1200 rupees..
 March 1, 2021 at 9:20 pm
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 Some of the claims of A2 milk benefits are cogitated from the book Devil in the Milk
 March 1, 2021 at 9:25 pm
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 - dtt_maxerr: Maximum error on dt measurement, MWCS points with values larger than that will not be used in the WLS (default=0.1)
 - dtt_maxdt: Maximum dt values, MWCS points with values larger than that will not be used in the WLS (default=0.1)
The dt/t is determined as the slope of the delays vs time lags. The slope is calculated a weighted linear regression (WLS) through selected points.
1. The selection of points is first based on the time lag criteria. The minimum time lag can either be defined absolutely or dynamically. When dtt_lag is set to "dynamic" in the database, the inter-station distance is used to determine the minimum time lag. This lag is calculated from the distance and a velocity configured (dtt_v). The velocity is determined by the user so that the minlag doesn't include the ballistic waves. For example, if ballistic waves are visible with a velocity of 2 km/s, one could configure dtt_v=1.0. This way, if stations are located 15 km apart, the minimum lag time will be set to 15 s. The dtt_width determines the width of the lag window used. A value of 30.0 means the process will use time lags between 15 and 45 s in the example above, on both sides if configured (dtt_sides), or only causal or acausal parts of the CCF. The following figure shows the static time lags of dtt_width = 40s starting at dtt_minlag = 10s and the dynamic time lags for a dtt_v = 1.0 km/s for the Piton de La Fournaise network (including stations not on the volcano),
It seems obvious that these parameters are frequency-dependent, but they are currently common for all filters!
../_images/static.png../_images/dynamic.png
In order to use the dynamic time lags, one has to provide the station coordinates!
2. Using example values above, we chose to use only 15-45 s coda part of the signal, neglecting direct waves in the 0-15 seconds range. We then select data which match three other thresholds: dtt_mincoh, dtt_maxerr and dtt_maxdt.
Each of the 4 left subplot of this figure shows a colormapper matrix of which each row corresponds to the data of 1 station pair and each column corresponds to different time lags. The cells are then colored using, from left to right: Delays, Errors, Phase Coherence and Data Selection.
Once data (cells) have been selected, they are analyzed two times: first using a WLS that is forced to pass the origin (0,0) and second when a constant is added to allow for the WLS to be offset from the origin. For each value, the error is computed and stored. M0 and EM0 are the slope and its error for the first WLS, and M, EM together with A and EA are the slope, its error, the constant and its error for the second WLS. The output of this calculation is a table, with one row for each station pair.
Date, A, EA, EM, EM0, M, M0, Pairs
2013-01-06,-0._PHONE_,0._PHONE_,0.00208377,0.00096521, 0.00682021, 0.00037757,BE_GES_BE_HOU
2013-01-06, 0._PHONE_,0._PHONE_,0.00179566,0.00454172,-0.00145738, 0.00741478,BE_GES_BE_RCHB
2013-01-06, 0._PHONE_,0._PHONE_,0.00096543,0.00089832, 0.00083714, 0.00104507,BE_GES_BE_STI
2013-01-06, 0._PHONE_,0._PHONE_,0.00153137,0.00150261, 0.00302331, 0.00302451,BE_GES_BE_UCC
2013-01-06,-0._PHONE_,0._PHONE_,0.00039019,0.00041347, 0.00025836,-0.00042709,BE_HOU_BE_MEM
2013-01-06, 0._PHONE_,0._PHONE_,0.00076824,0.00216383,-0.00030791, 0.00112692,BE_HOU_BE_RCHB
2013-01-06,-0._PHONE_,0._PHONE_,0.00069968,0.00078207,-0.00066133, 0.00027102,BE_HOU_BE_SKQ
2013-01-06, 0._PHONE_,0._PHONE_,0.00131522,0.00131182, 0.00051626,-3._PHONE_,BE_HOU_BE_STI
2013-01-06,-0._PHONE_,0._PHONE_,0.00010340,9.1996e-05, 0.00073635, 0.00076238,ALL
To run this script:
msnoise compute_dtt
Grouping Station Pairs
Although not clearly visible on the figure above, the very last row of the matrix doesn't contain information about one station pair, but contains a weighted mean of all delays (from all pairs) for each time lag. For each time lag, delays from each pair is taken into account if it satisfies the same criteria as for the individual data selection. Once the last row (the ALL line) has been calculated, it goes through the normal process of the double WLS and is saved to the output file, as visible above. In the future, MSNoise will be able to treat as many groups as the user want, allowing, e.g. a "crater" and a "slopes" groups.
Forcing vs No Forcing through Origin
The reason for allowing the WLS to cross the axis elsewhere than on (0,0) is, for example, to study the potential clock drifts or noise source position variations. By default, the msnoise plot dvv plot shows the results of the 'Not Forced WLS.
Mean of All Pairs vs Mean Pair
the ALL pair is still calculated and output in the DTT files, but its output is no longer displayed on the graphs. new in 1.6.
The dt/t calculated using the mean pair (ALL, in red on subplots 4 and 5) and by calculating the weighted mean of the dt/t of all pairs (in green) don't show a significant difference. The standard deviation around the latter is more spread than on the former, but this has to be investigated.


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Write a java program that prompts the user in the Java console (using Scanner) or in a Dialog Box (using JOptionPane.showInputDialog)for their gender, age, and name. The program should use this information to instantiate(construct) a Person object using the Person class as template : Person.java
The program should suggest a pet based on the Person's gender and age. You will need to use if else if statements. Make sure when displaying the Person's name in the output to call the getName() method for the Person Object you created.


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What is a brownfield?
Brownfields are contaminated and abandoned properties. They can be found in big cities, small towns, suburbs and rural areas. Left untouched, brownfields pose environmental, legal and financial burdens on communities and taxpayers. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation works with other state and federal agencies, local governments, developers, and businesses to clean up these sites so that the land can once again be put to useful purposes. Many cleaned up brownfields sites have been used to develop businesses, parks and recreational areas, and housing. Remediated brownfield sites also create jobs, improve the local economy, and boost neighborhood pride.
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definition of a brownfield


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Marriott's® Strategy for Contributing to Environmental Conservation
With an increase in global travel comes corporate responsibility for mitigating our business impact on the natural environment. Both in our hotels and beyond, we seek to understand and act on the direct and indirect environmental impacts of our business operations.
Our goals include:
- Further reduce energy and water consumption 20% by 20201. Energy 20 percent per kWh/conditioned m2; Water 20 percent per occupied room (POR). Baseline: 2008
- Empower our hotel development partners to build green hotels2.
- Green our multi-billion dollar supply chain.
- Educate and inspire associates and guests to conserve and preserve
- Address environmental challenges through innovative conservation initiatives including rainforest protection and water conservation


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Study: The Pose of a Champion is Innate
A Sighted athlete showing pride after an Olympic triumph. This response may have evolved as an survival skill.
CREDIT: PNAS/Tracy & Matsumoto/Bob Willingham
Everyone knows what an Olympic champion looks like, and apparently, how to behave like one.
It turns out that the stereotypical image of a victor — head tilted back, chest puffed out and arms in the air — may be an innate human response to success.
A new study found that blind athletes who have never seen such a display make similar gestures of pride as sighted athletes when they win, and also slump their shoulders and narrow their chests in shame when they lose.
The findings imply that expressions of pride and shame may have evolved to be programmed into human behavior.
Researchers Jessica Tracy of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and David Matsumoto of San Francisco State University analyzed photographs taken during judo competitions in the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games. They found that physical reactions to winning and losing among sighted people, congenitally blind people (those who have been blind since birth), and people who went blind later in life were notably similar.
The scientists detail their results in the Aug. 11 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In general, when blind and sighted competitors won, they would expand their bodies, and when they lost, they would pull themselves inward.
The only differences the scientists saw were in the expression of shame. Sighted athletes from Western countries that value individualism, such as the United States, were less likely to show shame than congenitally blind Western athletes or sighted or blind athletes from cultures that value collectivism, such as Asian countries.
"My read was that the Westerners felt shame in those situations but they were inhibiting those responses, and I think that is supported by the blind findings," Tracy told LiveScience. "In American and other Western cultures, we're taught from a very early age not to show shame — it's stigmatized — whereas in the East it's appropriate to show shame in a major Olympic failure, for instance."
People who are blind from birth likely haven't learned to suppress their natural physical reaction to shame because they haven't seen how others from their culture react in those situations.
The researchers suggest that these universal expressions may have evolved as a form of social communication.
"With pride, the original function may have been actually, if I make myself larger that tells others, 'I'm someone to watch out for. Hey, I'm dominant, powerful, in control,'" Tracy said. "Over the course of evolution, humans would acquire the innate propensity to associate this display with success."
Expressing shame may also be a survival skill.
"There are many times where it's not that adaptive to show shame — essentially you're saying, 'I just screwed up,'" Tracy said. "But if you really feel yourself weaker than an adversary, and you could convey that, that you agree, 'You're more powerful than me, I submit to you, don't hurt me, and we both save resources compared to if we had to fight.' My guess is that's why it's still around."
Previous research has shown that these pride and shame gestures are widely recognized around the world in many different cultures. But this is the first study to probe whether the expressions are innate or learned — i.e. nature vs. nurture.
The discovery that congenitally blind people show the same behaviors implies that they may be part of human nature.
"Here are people who have never seen people express this," Tracy said. "The only possible explanation you could make is, well, maybe their parents physically move their bodies in this way to teach them. Given the specificity of the response — we're not just talking about a simple arm stretch, but chest expansion and shoulders pulling back and everything — to me that seems like a less parsimonious suggestion than it being innate."
The researchers now want to compare the gestures they found in humans to behaviors among other primates.
"Primatologists have found that chimps show an inflated display: When the alpha chimp is about to fight, he puffs his shoulders and walks in a cocky gate." Tracy said. "Submission displays have been documented that involve cowering, lowering of the body. That's pretty similar to hunching the shoulders and the shame display. But there's a difference between these anecdotal observations and an empirical study. No one's coded a bunch of chimps and seen what are the exact behaviors you see in these situations."
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The main Tripos examinations
The Part I and Part II examinations are in late May and early June. Each examination paper has equal weighting in the assessment. Each paper is of three hours' duration. For each Part I option and Part II Specified Subject, candidates take one paper and answer three questions. Part II Special Subjects are examined by means of a Long Essay and a three-hour examination on 'gobbets' taken from the set sources. For the Historical Argument and Practice examination, candidates sit one paper and answer only one question.
The compulsory Themes and Sources Long Essay constitutes an examination paper, submitted in the January before Part I. Optional Part II Dissertations are submitted at the beginning of the Easter Term. The compulsory Part II Special Subject Long Essay is submitted at the beginning of the Easter Term. Candidates are therefore examined in both parts of the Tripos partly on work done outside the examination room.
- How to revise for Part I (link to CARET skills website - Cambridge University only)
- Past examination papers (Cambridge University only)
- The Faculty's policy on the retention of examinations data (Cambridge University only)
Tripos Examination Timetables 2015 (available April 2015):
Part I (start date 26 May)
Prelim to Part II (start date 29 May)
Part II (start date 29 May)
Prelim to Part I
The Prelim to Part I examination is taken at the beginning of the Easter term of the first year.
This is not classed, and does not count towards Part I. It is intended to provide candidates with informal guidance about their progress to date. To appear on the list of successful candidates, students must pass an examination in three papers: the first two of the Part I outline papers that they have studied, together with Historical Argument and Practice (HAP).
The scope of Papers 2–18 is that of the corresponding papers in of the Tripos. The scope of Paper 19 is that of Papers 21 and 23 in Part I.
Paper 1. Historical Argument and Practice
Paper 2. British political history, _PHONE_
Paper 3. British political history, _PHONE_
Paper 4. British political history, _PHONE_
Paper 5. British political history, _PHONE_
Paper 6. British political history, since 1880
Paper 7. British economic and social history, _PHONE_
Paper 8. British economic and social history, 1050-c.1500
Paper 9. British economic and social history, c._PHONE_
Paper 10. British economic and social history, _PHONE_
Paper 11. British economic and social history, since c.1880
Paper 12. European history, 776 BC-AD 69
Paper 13. European history, 31 BC-AD 900
Paper 14. European history, 900-c.1215
Paper 15. European history, _PHONE_
Paper 16. European history, _PHONE_
Paper 17. European history, _PHONE_
Paper 18. European history, since 1890
Paper 19. World history, from 1400 (N.B. This paper consists of questions arising from papers 21 and 23 of Part I)
Prelim to Part I Timetable (start date 21 April)
Prelim to Part II
The Prelim to Part II examination is taken by students who need to take Part II over two years (usually those transferring from another Tripos). They will offer seven papers in total, as follows:
- Year One (Prelim to Part II): Paper 1 (HAP) and two papers from Sections C-D;
- Year Two (Part II): They are re-examined in Paper 1 and the two papers offered at Prelim; plus a Special Subject (Papers 2 & 3) and either two more papers from Sections C-D, or a dissertation and one more.
The three papers examined at the end of the first year (Prelim to Part II) are for practice only; no marks are carried over into the Part II classification.


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Variant of scrag
- a lean, scrawny person or animal
- a thin, stunted tree or plant
- the neck, or back of the neck, of mutton, veal, etc.
- Slang the human neck
Origin of scragprobably ; from Old Norse as in Norwegian skragg, feeble, stunted person, Danish skrog, Old Norse skröggr, fox (nickname) ; from Indo-European base an unverified form (s)ker-, to shrivel, shrink


How To Break Steering Lock On Motorcycle?
Can you break a steering wheel lock?
So, how do you break the steering lock? Step 1- Push a screwdriver in between the plastic cover on the steering column and the steering wheel. Use force from your hand or a breaker bar to pry the cover off the column. The plastic cover may break, so keep in mind replacement may be necessary.
How do you unlock a steering wheel without the key?
Another method for how to break steering wheel lock without key is using loosening sticky locks.
 1. Put an electrical cleaner into the keyhole.
 2. Spray canned air into the ignition.
 3. Slide the key gently in and out of a number of times.
 4. Ensure the key is not bent or damaged.
Can Disklok be broken?
The design of the Disklok is round, there is no simple point on a Disklok that if you hit it, it'll break. A chisel, hammer, mallet, saw, screwdriver and various other tools do not have any way to have a go at it, making manual labour a nightmare.
How do you break an ignition with a screwdriver?
You could also hammer a screwdriver straight into the ignition lock breaking the pins in the cylinder and then just turn to start. The final method is to just remove the plastic ignition switch from the rear of the lock then insert a screw driver turn and the car will start.
You might be interested: Often asked: How To Take Care Of New Motorcycle?
What causes steering to lock up?
If your steering wheel locks up while the car is in motion, perhaps the most likely culprit is a lack of power steering fluid, or dirty power steering fluid. Especially at lower speeds like parking lot maneuvers, the power steering system allows you to turn the wheels with ease.
What happens when your steering wheel locks?
If your steering wheel is locked, you won't be able to start your car: either your ignition switch won't turn or, if your car has a start-stop button, you'll see a warning light about the steering lock. Fortunately, it's easy enough to unlock your steering wheel and get your car started with the following simple steps.
Why does the steering wheel get hard?
Can I start my car with a screwdriver?
The first thing you should do is take a screwdriver and place it into the keyhole of the ignition system (which is called the ignition tumbler). Turn the screwdriver and see if it can start the car that way. With a small number of cars, this is all you'll need to do to start the engine.
Why is my steering wheel locked and car won't start?
In order to turn the key and start the vehicle, you will have to move the steering wheel from side to side, while at the same time attempting to turn the key in the ignition. When doing the two actions at the same time you can exit the steering wheel lock and then start your vehicle.


Quick Answer: Are Dragons Evil Or Good?
Are Red Dragons evil?
Red dragons, referred to by sages as D.
conflagratio horribilis, were covetous, evil creatures, interested only in their own well-being, vanity and the extension of their treasure hoards.
The largest and most powerful of the chromatic dragons, red dragons were also the most fearsome and cruel..
What do dragons hate?
Depends on the dragon… but if we are talking about sapient aetheric entities (and not fantasy species or symbols) dragons hate the followings mostly:stupidity.ignorance.small talks.emotionalism.
Are dragons bad luck?
What is the most evil dragon?
Glaurung1) Glaurung (from JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion) The most evil of all the evil dragons I've encountered in books, TV or movies over the years is, without a doubt, Glaurung. In the history of Middle Earth, Glaurung is the Father of Dragons, the first dragon bred by the evil god Morgoth.


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Why Now? - If the Occoquan Dam has been there for 50 years, why are you just now installing a siren system?
Great question! We have installed the sirens for two reasons. First, because of changing regulatory requirements, our regulatory agency - the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - has suggested that we install a sound-related system to inform people downstream of the dam in the extremely unlikely event of a dam structural failure. The second reason is that when we worked with the communities closest to the dam, namely the Town of Occoquan, it was the Town's feeling that a siren system would be the most effective and desired form of communication to alert people to the extremely unlikely event of a dam failure.
How strong is the dam?
Very strong. The structural integrity of the Occoquan Dam is very sound. In fact, through rigorous maintenance and improvements, it is even stronger today than when it was constructed. The dam is approximately 72 feet tall and 70 feet wide at its widest point. It is anchored to the bedrock below the bottom of the dam and to the sides of the reservoir. It contains more than 100,000 cubic yards of reinforced concrete. That is equivalent to:
What does the siren sound like?
You can hear what the siren sounds like by clicking here.
What if I have other questions that I can not find the answer to here?
You can direct any further questions you may have to Fairfax Water's Public Affairs Department by email. Please click here to submit a question.


updatearea; /* Represents the area to update. */
 short usehalftone; /* True if screen has a halftone. */
 WindowPtr window; /* The window of the view port. */
 gxViewPort parent; /* The parent's view port. */
 gxViewPort screenview; /* The view port to buffer. */
 gxShape page; /* The shape that we're asked to */
 /* draw. */
 gxRectangle bounds; /* The offscreen's bounds. */
 gxMapping invmap; /* The inv offscreen view port */
 /* map. */
 gxPoint viewdelta; /* The last delta for the */
 /* offscreen. */
typedef struct viewPortBufferRecord viewPortBufferRecord;
You don't need to understand all of the fields in the viewPortBufferRecord data structure to use the library. However, if you start having problems getting things to work inside your application and find that you need to modify the screen buffering library, see "The viewPortBufferRecord Data Structure" for some additional helpful information.
The following is an accounting of all of the fields of the viewPortBufferRecord data structure.
 - group, device, view -- These are the three elements of an offscreen drawing environment in QuickDraw GX. We need one of each to draw offscreen.
 - buffer, bits, storage -- These objects represent the bits of the offscreen device in decreasing order of abstraction. The field buffer is a bitmap shape that represents the "screen" of the view device. The field bits parallels the contents of buffer and is used to keep information about the offscreen bitmap around between invocations of DrawShapeBuffered, the routine that draws the buffered shape. Finally, the storage field is the handle in Temp Mem (the MultiFinder temporary memory heap) that contains the offscreen data.
 - offxform, on_xform -- These are QuickDraw GX transform objects. offxform has a view port list that contains just the view port for the offscreen device. on_xform has a view port list for the parent of the view port that's being buffered. You may expect that the view port list would be the view port being buffered and not its parent, but when drawing onscreen we've already taken into account all of the transformation and clips of the view port we're buffering, and we just need to copy the end result to the screen. This is why we use the view port's parent and not the view port proper.
 - eraser, marker -- These are the auxiliary shapes used to erase the offscreen buffer and to draw the incoming shapes. The shape eraser is of type gxFullType (a "full" shape) and is the color of the background. The marker (so named to complement eraser) is a picture shape that will be used to draw into the offscreen buffer. The reason for using the marker rather than swapping in the transform of the incoming shape to be offxform (thereby causing the shape to draw offscreen) is that the swapping operation would invalidate the caches for the incoming shape. Instead we use the property of picture shapes of redirecting any drawing to their view port list instead of the shape's own in order to cause incoming shapes to render offscreen. Furthermore, if the incoming shape is the same for every invocation of DrawShapeBuffered, we can test for it and not change the contents of the marker.
 - updatearea -- This is a rectangle shape used to compute the size of the offscreen buffer that is to be generated and what devices it falls on.
 - usehalftone -- This is a Boolean indicating whether to use a halftone in the offscreen buffer.
 - window, parent, screenview, page -- These fields hold incoming parameters to the library. The window field is the window in which drawing will occur. The parent field is a cache for the parent of the view port being buffered (see page 7-18 of Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX Objects to learn more about view port hierarchies). The screenview field indicates the view port that will be buffered. The page field is a reference to the last shape passed to DrawShapeBuffered.
 - bounds -- This field indicates the visible area of the screenview in the coordinate space of that view port.
 - invmap -- This is a mapping for translating between the coordinate system of the shapes being drawn in the window and the space of the window itself. If your view is zoomed in at 2x magnification, this mapping will be at 1/2 scale.
 - viewdelta -- This is the position of the upper left corner of the area being buffered, in the local coordinate system of the window. This parameter is used to adjust the drawing in the offscreen buffer so that only the correct part of the shape being buffered is drawn, and to position the content of the offscreen buffer when it's being transferred onto the screen.
In general terms, the code works by allocating a number of QuickDraw GX objects and reusing them as required. Memory for the offscreen buffer is allocated from the MultiFinder temporary memory heap (Temp Mem). Allocation of the storage block is postponed until the last possible moment, and the block is kept locked and nonpurgeable only during the drawing operation. That is, after the resulting image has been transferred to the screen, the block is unlocked and marked purgeable but not disposed of. This permits the same block to be reused in case the memory for the buffer isn't purged.
While most users will keep their windows entirely within the bounds of one screen, it's important to handle the case where a window spans more than one device. Each time the DrawShapeBuffered routine is called (as described later), the code walks the device list checking to see if the area that needs to be buffered intersects a given screen. If it does, the code creates a buffer with the right settings and draws into that device. The process is repeated for each screen.
You'll need one view port buffer for each window in your program. To create a view port buffer, use the NewViewPortWBuffer routine.
viewPortBuffer NewViewPortWBuffer(WindowPtr window,
 gxViewPort view, const gxColor *backgroundColor);
Look at the Initialize routine in the file "flicker free.c" for an example of how to use NewViewPortWBuffer. Here's a description of the parameters:
The window that the buffering code should draw into.
The view port created by your application to draw into the given window. Note that this is different from the object obtained by calling GXNewWindowViewPort, in that this view port should have the window view port set to be its parent.
A pointer to a gxColor data structure indicating which color should be drawn to erase the offscreen buffer. Passing nil is equivalent to specifying white as the background color.
Let's look at what it takes to create an offscreen buffer in the NewViewPortWBuffer routine (Listing 1). In QuickDraw GX, the place where drawing occurs (for example, the screen or an offscreen buffer) is described by a view device, so the primary purpose of the routine is to create a view device and store it in the device field of the viewPortBufferRecord data structure. Because we want the offscreen device that we specify to be as close as possible to the one into which we will eventually be drawing, you might think that we would go ahead and set all of the attributes of the view device now. But in fact, all that we want to concern ourselves with right now is allocating the gxViewDevice object. Later, when we get to the drawing part, we'll check the screen and our offscreen device and update the gxViewDevice object accordingly.
Listing 1. NewViewPortWBuffer
viewPortBuffer NewViewPortWBuffer(WindowPtr window, gxViewPort view,
 const gxColor *backgroundColor)
 Handle sbHdl;
 if (sbHdl = NewHandleClear(sizeof(viewPortBufferRecord))) {
 gxInk background;
 gxHalftone halftone;
 viewPortBufferRecord *sbPtr;
 sbPtr = * (viewPortBufferRecord **) sbHdl;
 sbPtr->window = window;
 sbPtr->screenview = view;
 sbPtr->parent = GXGetViewPortParent(view);
 /* We don't allocate storage until we need it. */
 sbPtr->storage = nil;
 sbPtr->buffer = GXNewShape(gxBitmapType);
 sbPtr->group = GXNewViewGroup();
 sbPtr->view = GXNewViewPort(sbPtr->group);
 sbPtr->device = GXNewViewDevice(sbPtr->group,
 if (sbPtr->usehalftone =
 GXGetViewPortHalftone(view, &halftone))
 GXSetViewPortHalftone(sbPtr->view, &halftone);
 sbPtr->offxform = GXNewTransform();
 GXSetTransformViewPorts(sbPtr->offxform, 1,
 sbPtr->on_xform = GXNewTransform();
 GXSetTransformViewPorts(sbPtr->on_xform, 1,
 background = GXNewInk();
 if (backgroundColor)
 GXSetInkColor(background, backgroundColor);
 else {
 gxColor backcolor;
 = gxRGBSpace;
 backcolor.profile = nil;
 = 0xFFFF;
 GXSetInkColor(background, &backcolor);
 sbPtr->eraser = GXNewShape(gxFullType);
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Whistle Use
Whistle Use
When should the referee blow the whistle?
Simply put, there are three instances when the whistle should be blown.
 1. To stop play: During active play if the referee blows the whistle it always means STOP, the ball is dead.
 2. To restart play: Always to be blown for the start of the half or quarter, at other times only if you have told the player to wait for you to blow it.
 3. To draw attention to yourself during a dead ball situation.
The whistle should never be blown during active play to indicate the play should continue or that you are playing the advantage.
The whistle is a means of communication, the tone and length of your whistle can convey how you feel about a particular situation. However a single short sharp blow should be all that is needed for most situations.
Much has been written about how long you should blow the whistle to start the game vs. how long you should blow it for a free kick. It is not necessary to worry about this. If a player has just fouled someone I doubt they will deduce from the length of your whistle that you intend for the second half to start right now. Similarly if there are two players standing in the center circle with the ball on the center mark at the start of the second half, it is unlikely that they will think that you have spontaneously decided to award a penalty from the length of your whistle. It is necessary just to blow it so that it can be heard and understood.
If it is obvious that the ball has gone out of play or left the field, there is little point in blowing the whistle. This goes for goals as well. It is only necessary to point to the center circle after an obvious goal has been scored. If there is some question whether the ball is in play or not, or if a goal has been scored or not, then blow the whistle only if the ball is out or the goal has been scored. I find for the younger age groups that it helps to point in the direction of the throw and to also call out the color of the team who should throw it. It saves confusion and keeps the game moving.
For free kicks it is necessary to blow the whistle to award the free kick, but it is not necessary to blow it before the free kick is taken. A quickly taken free kick is part of the game and should not be discouraged. The exception to this is if you tell the attacking team to wait for your whistle so that you have enough time to carry out some other chore you may have, such as showing a red or yellow card, or moving a wall back 10 yards. If the player does not wait, you should show them a yellow card for unsportsmanlike conduct and have the kick retaken. This is probably a bit harsh for the younger age groups.
If you wish to draw the attention of a player, for instance if they are taking a free kick from the wrong location, blow the whistle once as you approach them and give them verbal instructions. If they ignore you blow it again with more force.
The whistle can be used to prevent a situation from arising or continuing, such as when two players face each other down in a threatening way while the ball is not in play. Approach the players and blow the whistle a number of times to indicate that you will tolerate none of that.
At the end of the game or half, point to the center circle and blow the whistle three times. This indicates the game is over. It can be distinguished from your gesture indicating a goal has been scored by the fact you blew the whistle three times.
Constant unnecessary use of the whistle can cause players to tune you out, much the way they tune out their parents. You want the players to realize when they hear a whistle that the ball is dead and they need to look at you to see what your call is.
Again remember blowing the whistle during active play means stop.
If you blow your whistle by accident play must stop, and the correct restart is a drop ball at the location where the ball was when you blew your whistle.
Click on the whistle to hear the samples of three whistle types you are likely to use during a game.
 Stop! – Free kick, ball out of bounds, etc
 Don't even think about it, cut it out (good to prevent trouble before it escalates)
 Game over/Half time


The story of York Barbell all begins with one man, Bob Hoffman. Hoffman first began lifting and making weights in his oil burner factory in York, PA in 1929. The athletic club at that factory quickly took up weightlifting until eventually it would be the main staple of the club. The name was then changed to the York Barbell Club and attracted musclemen from all over the world into the little town of York.
During the 1932 Olympic Games the United States showed an extremely poor performance in weightlifting. Shortly after this Hoffman began promoting weightlifting heavily and began publishing his own magazine on the topic. From this effort stemmed new interest in the sport and the first US victory in weightlifting since 1904 in the 1936 Olympic Games. The winner, it just so happened, was a member of the York Barbell Club.
Two years later Hoffman sold off his interest in the oil burner company and in 1938 York Barbells began its concentration on weightlifting equipment. The interest caused by this company is part of the reason that by the late 40's York was known as "Muscletown."
After over a half-century York Barbell is still the industry standard in weights. The York name appears on more barbells than any other name in the world and is currently the only Olympic certified United States based manufacturer of weights.


Cost of Raising a Child in China
ID-10055547The Chinese economy has been flourishing at a rapid rate. However along with the steady economic progress, the cost of living in China has also been growing over the years. The higher cost of living in China is such a stark reality for its citizens that when in 2013 the Chinese government eased up on 'one child policy', it raised concerns among the people.
If the cost of raising children in China is a matter of anxiety for its citizens, how does it affect the expatriate community in China?
The concerns
Bringing up kids is not an easy thing to do, even when parents do not have any financial or personal problems. There are a million things that could go wrong or there is always a nagging feeling at the back of parents' mind if they are doing all they can for their children. This is a part of parenting. However, the parenting anxieties could double if you are living the life of an expat and need to raise your kids in a foreign country. The concerns could more than double if you are living in a country like China where the cost of living is very high and expats face language barriers as well as strong cultural traditions.
If you are raising children in China, you must already be aware of the problems and concerns of being a new parent in a foreign country. After the announcement by the Chinese government allowing couples to have a second child if one spouse is an only child, there have been a flurry of surveys and opinions running rampant in the media. To some Chinese couples the announcement means nothing, as they believe raising one child has been tough enough. So how does higher cost of living affect foreigners raising their children in China.
The expenses
In all the surveys conducted, the high cost of education has been cited as the number one concern by parents. The figures floating around indicate that the cost of one kindergarten semester alone costs about 10,000 yuan. While middle class families are spending about 100,000 yuan for education alone and well-off families up to 300,000 and this doesn't include university cost; this calls for serious planning and savings on the part of parents who are raising their children in China.
Other expenses like food and insurance for kids also run into thousands of yuan. And let's not forget the hospital bills if you are giving birth in China. So if you are a new parent who would be raising children in China or giving birth to your first kid in China, it would help you a great deal if you to research and plan for the things you wish to have for your child and to save money accordingly. Every family's budget is different, so each family's plan will look different.
Public or Private?
English service available?
Are foreign doctors available?
Does hospital direct-bill insurance companies?
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 Thanks for the article! I was wondering how the hospital costs through pregnancy and the actual birth differed from China to America.
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Maghrebi Charoset is a dried fruit and nut based paste served during the Jewish celebration of Passover by Jews from Northwest Africa.
See also: Cookbook:Charoset
 1. Plump dried fruit in juice.
 2. Mash reconstituted fruit with almond and spices to get a mortar-like texture.
 3. Adjust texture with matsoh meal and if needed, sweeten with honey.
 4. Serve as part of the Seder. The north west African tradition uses bitter greens such as endive rather than horseradish with the Charoseth.


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Mangano Calcite Massage Wand (UV Reactive)
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Mangano Calcite Wand (UV Reactive)
Self Love - Self Worth - Tranquility
Chakra: Heart
Approximate Size and Weight:
Small: 3-4" (0.15-0.35 LB)
Medium: 4-5" (0.35-0.55 LB)
Large: 5-6" (0.55-0.75 LB)
It is believed that Mangano Calcite can promote inner peace, compassion, self-love, and self-healing. It is also believed to get rid of negative energy within so one can reach harmony and mental peace. It is suggested to meditate and hold Mangano Calcite to soothe and comfort ones self in times of high stress and anxiety.
Mangano Calcite, also known as Manganoan Calcite, is a manganese calcium carbonate mineral and member of the Calcite family. Its color ranges from light to dark pink depending on the amount of Manganese in it. Mangano Calcite was first discovered in 1846 by A. Breithaupt in Banská, Štiavnica, Slovakia. He named it in reference to the inclusion of Manganese found within.
Chemical Formula: (Ca,Mn)CO3
Hardness: 2.5-3


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System Management
Gathering WMI Data without Writing a Single Line of Code
John Kelbley
At a Glance:
 - Data available to WMI
 - Simple command-line data collection in WMIC
 - Formatting the output
Download the code for this article: WMIC2006_09.exe (151KB)
can be intimidating, but leveraging the relatively unknown command-line interface of WMI, called WMIC, makes it easier. What is WMIC, and why do I like it so much? Read on.
WMI is the Microsoft implementation of an industry-wide initiative called Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), which defines standards for accessing and managing systems in an enterprise environment. WMI gives you control over many components of your systems, from the hardware all the way up to installed applications. You can use it to access event logs, operating system attributes, processes, installed applications, and much more. When you want to know the MAC address of a network card, the size of installed DIMMs, a list of running processes, user account information, installed operating system patches, and so forth, you can retrieve them via WMI. But getting all that information is not straightforward.
Easier Access
Before WMIC, the power of WMI was typically accessed via programs or custom scripts. For example, let's say you wanted to find out the type of CPU inside your system. In the past, you might have written a short VBScript script that uses WMI to query the name of the CPU on the local system:
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor",,48)
For Each CPU in colItems
 Wscript.Echo "Name " & CPU.Name
Then you'd execute the script using a command line like so:
cscript /NOLOGO cpuname.vbs
And the output of the script would look something like this:
Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
That's a lot of heavy lifting to get the name of the CPU!
Look how easy it is to retrieve the same information using WMIC. Just type the following at a regular command prompt:
Here's the output:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
As you can see, using WMIC vastly simplifies accessing information via WMI. WMIC lets you modify your system configuration as well. You can start or stop processes and change various configuration options—all from one command. And you can save the all the information in useful CSV or HTML files.
Using WMIC
Now that I've whetted your appetite, open a command window and type WMIC. The first time you do this, WMIC installs itself and drops you at a command prompt within the WMIC shell; your prompt changes to wmic:root\cli>. Start by typing /? to get a helpful listing of what you can do within WMIC. The help output (some of which is shown in Figure 1) is organized into two key sections: global switches and aliases. Try it on your own to see the full output.
[global switches]
The following global switches are available:
/NAMESPACE Path for the namespace the alias operate against.
/ROLE Path for the role containing the alias definitions.
/NODE Servers the alias will operate against.
/IMPLEVEL Client impersonation level.
/AUTHLEVEL Client authentication level.
/LOCALE Language id the client should use.
/PRIVILEGES Enable or disable all privileges.
/TRACE Outputs debugging information to stderr.
/RECORD Logs all input commands and output.
/?[:] Usage information.
For more information on a specific global switch, type: switch-name /?
The following alias/es are available in the current role:
ALIAS - Access to the aliases available on the local system
BASEBOARD - Base board (also known as a motherboard or system
 - board) management.
BIOS - Basic input/output services (BIOS) management.
BOOTCONFIG - Boot configuration management.
CDROM - CD-ROM management.
COMPUTERSYSTEM - Computer system management.
CPU - CPU management.
CSPRODUCT - Computer system product information from SMBIOS.
DATAFILE - DataFile Management.
DCOMAPP - DCOM Application management.
DESKTOP - User's Desktop management.
DESKTOPMONITOR - Desktop Monitor management.
DEVICEMEMORYADDRESS - Device memory addresses management.
For more information on a specific alias, type: alias /?
CLASS - Escapes to full WMI schema.
PATH - Escapes to full WMI object paths.
CONTEXT - Displays the state of all the global switches.
QUIT/EXIT - Exits the program.
For more information on CLASS/PATH/CONTEXT, type: (CLASS | PATH | CONTEXT) /?
Global Switches are universal modifiers to the WMIC command line you'd like to execute, and aliases are references to the actual WMI data you'd like to manipulate.
When you try it on your machine, look through the alias section—it's packed with commands to get all sorts of great information. Perhaps you'd like to know which processes are running and the amount of memory they are using. That's simple enough—at the WMIC prompt, type:
This gives you a dump of all the active processes on the system in a predefined, default layout (the same as if you had typed "process get" at the WMIC prompt). Notice all the information you receive for each process, organized in nice labeled columns. Scroll all the way to the right to make sure you don't miss anything. Of course, all this data may be more than you want. Once you know the columns you're interested in, you can select only those by using the get verb with names of the attributes. Perhaps all you want is the process name and the memory it is using. If you type the following, you'll get the output you see in Figure 2:
process get name, workingsetsize
Figure 2 Processes and the Memory They Use
Getting Data from Remote Systems
WMIC lets you access systems remotely as well as locally, which makes it extra useful for the busy administrator. To get the process listing from a remote system, simply add the /NODE: global switch followed by the remote computer name:
process get name, workingsetsize
You can provide the names of multiple computers in a command line at the same time if you like:
process get name, workingsetsize
In a multi-node query like this, it makes good sense to ask for the computer name as well, otherwise you might not know which system the process is running on. Here's how:
process get CSName, name, workingsetsize
The /NODE global switch can also accept the name of a text file containing a list of host names you'd like to access via your WMIC command line. Simply create the file and include system names or IP addresses, one system per line, and WMIC will process each entry. Here's the command to access a file called serverlist.txt:
/node:_USER_.txt process get CSName, name, workingsetsize
When processing WMIC commands against multiple systems, it's a good idea to use the /FAILFAST:on global switch, which tells WMIC not to wait around for an unresponsive host. Here is an example of how you could use the /FAILFAST switch to check the OS version on several systems:
/failfast:on /Node:johnkelnc6000, "
johnkel-fer" os get Caption, CSDVersion, CSName
Output Formats
The default text output of WMIC is useful, but it's not exactly easy to read. WMIC supports a variety of output formats, including HTML, CSV, MOF, and XML. The two I use most often are CSV and HTML. CSV is perfect for manipulating data using Microsoft® Excel® or for importing into a database tool such as Access or SQL Server™. To generate a CSV formatted file, you simply use the /OUTPUT global switch, specify a file, and select the appropriate format:
/output:c:\os.csv os get /all /format:csv
This generates output values separated by commas and written to the file c:\os.csv.
Note that WMIC doesn't add the double quotes that Excel uses to parse a typical CSV file, so you will likely have to open the file from within Excel and select the appropriate delimiter to properly parse the data (see Figure 3).
Figure 3 Data in Excel
Figure 4 HTML Output in Tabular Form
WMIC does a nicer job with HTML output and provides multiple ways to organize the output (see Figure 4). First let's output the same operating system data into a tabular format similar to the CSV file:
/output:c:\os1.html os get /all /format:htable.xsl
The output is the same as that in the CSV file, but formatted as HTML. This is useful when listing and evaluating multiple lines of similar data—perhaps for comparing operating system information for multiple systems. Here is the code that does that. Figure 5 shows the output:
/output:c:\os_list.html /Node:johnkelnc6000,
"johnkel-fer", "johnkel-lhsrv"
os get Caption, CSDVersion /format:htable.xsl
You can see how useful this tabular HTML format might be for retrieving and comparing information from multiple systems, processes, or volumes. Not all data is best displayed in tabular format, though.


Customize CUDA Fortran Profiling with NVTX
The NVIDIA Tools Extension (NVTX) library lets developers annotate custom events and ranges within the profiling timelines generated using tools such as the NVIDIA Visual Profiler (NVVP) and NSight. In my own optimization work, I rely heavily on NVTX to better understand internal as well as customer codes and to spot opportunities for better interaction between the CPU and the GPU.
Two previous Pro Tip posts on Parallel Forall showed how to use NVTX in CUDA C++ and MPI codes. In this post, I'll show how to use NVTX to annotate the profiles of Fortran codes (with either CUDA Fortran or OpenACC).
NVTX has a lot of features, but here I'll focus on using it to annotate the profiler output with timeline markers using nvtxRangePush() and nvtxRangePop(). I'll show you how to insert markers with custom labels and colors. Continue reading
CUDA 7.5
Simple, Portable Parallel C++ with Hemi 2 and CUDA 7.5
The last two releases of CUDA have added support for the powerful new features of C++. In the post The Power of C++11 in CUDA 7 I discussed the importance of C++11 for parallel programming on GPUs, and in the post New Features in CUDA 7.5 I introduced a new experimental feature in the NVCC CUDA C++ compiler: support for GPU Lambda expressions. Lambda expressions, introduced in C++11, provide concise syntax for anonymous functions (and closures) that can be defined in line with their use, can be passed as arguments, and can capture variables from surrounding scopes. GPU Lambdas bring that power and convenience to writing GPU functions, letting you launch parallel work on the GPU almost as easily as writing a for loop.
In this post, I want to show you how modern C++ features combine to enable a higher-level, more portable approach to parallel programming for GPUs. To do so, I'll show you Hemi 2, the second release of a simple open-source C++ library that I developed to explore approaches to portable parallel C++ programming. I have written before about Hemi on Parallel Forall, but Hemi 2 is easier to use, more portable, and more powerful.
hemi-logo-blogIntroducing Hemi 2
Hemi simplifies writing portable CUDA C/C++ code. With Hemi,
 - you can write parallel kernels like you write for loops—in line in your CPU code—and run them on your GPU;
 - you can launch C++ Lambda functions as GPU kernels;
 - you can easily write code that compiles and runs either on the CPU or GPU;
 - kernel launch configuration is automatic: details like thread block size and grid size are optimization details, rather than requirements.
With Hemi, parallel code for the GPU can be as simple as the parallel_for loop in the following code, which can also be compiled and run on the CPU.
void saxpy(int n, float a, const float *x, float *y)
 hemi::parallel_for(0, n, [=] HEMI_LAMBDA (int i) {
Hemi is BSD-licensed, open-source software, available on Github. Continue reading
Combine OpenACC and Unified Memory for Productivity and Performance
The post Getting Started with OpenACC covered four steps to progressively accelerate your code with OpenACC. It's often necessary to use OpenACC directives to express both loop parallelism and data locality in order to get good performance with accelerators. After expressing available parallelism, excessive data movement generated by the compiler can be a bottleneck, and correcting this by adding data directives takes effort. Sometimes expressing proper data locality is more effort than expressing parallelism with loop directives.
Wouldn't it be nice if programs could manage data locality automatically? Well, this is possible today with Unified Memory (on Kepler and newer GPU architectures). In this post I demonstrate how to combine OpenACC with Unified Memory to GPU-accelerate your existing applications with minimal effort. You can download the source code for the example in this post from the Parallel Forall GitHub repository.
Jacobi Iteration with Heap Memory
I'll use the popular Jacobi iteration example code which is representative of many real-world stencil computations. In contrast to the previous OpenACC post, I modified the array data allocation to use heap memory instead of using automatic stack-allocated arrays. This is a more common scenario for real applications since real-world data arrays are often too large for stack memory. This change also makes it a more challenging case for OpenACC since the compiler no longer knows the size of the arrays. The following excerpt shows the main loop of the Jacobi iteration with 2D index computation. Continue reading
Increasing the Luminosity of Beam Dynamics with GPUs
Adrian_CERNWhat is dark matter? We can neither see it nor detect it with any instrument. CERN is upgrading the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), which is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built, to explore the new high-energy frontier.
The most technically challenging aspects of the upgrade cannot be done by CERN alone and requires collaboration and external expertise. There are 7,000 scientists from over 60 countries working to extend the LHC discovery potential; the accelerator will need a major upgrade around 2020 to increase its luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond the original design value.
Ph.D. student Adrian Oeftiger attends EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland which is one of the High Luminosity LHC beneficiaries. His research group is working to parallelize their algorithms to create software that will offer the possibility of new kinds of beam dynamics studies that have not been possible with the current technology.
Brad: How is your research related to the upgrade of the LHC?
Adrian: My world is all about luminosity; increasing the luminosity of particle beams. It is all about making ultra-high-energy collisions of protons possible, and at the same time providing enough collisions to enable fundamental particle physics research. That means increasing the luminosity. I'm doing my Ph.D. in beam dynamics in the field of accelerator physics.
High Luminosity LHCThese days, high-energy particle accelerators are the tools of choice to analyze and understand the fundamental building blocks of our universe. The huge detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, buried about a hundred meters underground in the countryside near Geneva, need ever-increasing collision rates (hence luminosity!): they gather statistics of collision events to explore new realms of physics, to detect extremely rare interaction combinations and the tiniest quantities of new particles, and to find explanations for some of the numerous wonders of the universe we live in. What is the dark matter which makes up 27% of our universe made of? Why is the symmetry between anti-matter and ordinary matter broken, and why do we find only the latter in the universe?
CERN is preparing for the High Luminosity LHC, a powerful upgrade of the present accelerator to increase the chances to answer some of these fundamental questions. Increasing the chances translates to: we need more collisions, so we need higher luminosity. Continue reading
CUDA 7.5
CUDA 7.5: Pinpoint Performance Problems with Instruction-Level Profiling
[Note: Thejaswi Rao also contributed to the code optimizations shown in this post.]
Today NVIDIA released CUDA 7.5, the latest release of the powerful CUDA Toolkit. One of the most exciting new features in CUDA 7.5 is new Instruction-Level Profiling support in the NVIDIA Visual Profiler. This powerful new feature, available on Maxwell (GM200) and later GPUs, helps pinpoint performance bottlenecks, letting you quickly identify the specific lines of source code (and assembly instructions) limiting the performance of GPU code, along with the underlying reason for execution stalls.
In this post, I demonstrate Instruction-Level Profiling by showing how it helped understand and improve the performance limitations of a CUDA kernel that implements the Iterative Closest Point algorithm (the original source code, by Thomas Whelan, is available on Github). I'll show how instruction-level profiling makes it easier to apply advanced optimizations, helping speed up the example kernel by 2.7X on an NVIDIA Quadro M6000 GPU.
Profiling the kernel using the Guided Analysis feature of the Visual Profiler showed that the kernel performance was bound by instruction and memory latency. Latency issues indicate that the hardware resources are not used efficiently since most warps are stalled by a dependency on a data value from a previous math or memory instruction. Figure 1 shows that the compute units are only 40% utilized and memory units are around 25% utilized, so there is definitely room for improvement.
Figure 1 Kernel Performance Limiter (Bound by instruction and memory latency).
Stall Analysis in Previous Profiler Versions
Before CUDA 7.5, the Visual Profiler was only capable of pointing out performance issues at the application or CUDA kernel level. For stall latency analysis, the CUDA 7.0 Visual Profiler produces the pie chart in Figure 2 by collecting various stall reason events for the entire kernel.
Figure 2 Legacy (CUDA 7.0) pie chart for stall reasons (generated using events collected at kernel level).
Figure 2 Legacy (CUDA 7.0) pie chart for stall reasons (generated using events collected at the kernel level).
This pie chart shows that the two primary stall reasons in this kernel are synchronization and memory dependencies. But if I look into the kernel code, there are lots of memory


Adding Object to the Hierarchy
Once you have configured the hierarchy (set up where in the hierarchy each object type will go), you can start adding the actual objects. To do that, you must create a new root object type, which represents the beginning of the hierarchy.
 1. On the toolbar, click New and select your root object type. In our example it will be Production.
 2. In the Create a new… section, enter the details.
 3. Click Save to finalise.
 4. Now you will be able to add the next level of objects to the hierarchy. In our example the next level of objects will be 'Series'. In order to add the next level of objects, there will be a button as shown below. In our example the button will be an Add Series button, as we have specified that the 'Series' object type is always a child of the 'Production' object type. Your button may read something like "Add Episode" or "Add Media Asset" depending on the object type you have chosen.
 5. Once you have clicked the Add… button, you will be taken to the Create a new… screen, where you can add the details for that specific object. So in our case, we will add the details for a Series.
 6. Click Save.
 7. The object, (in this case, a new Series) is added to the hierarchy.
 8. If you click on the object you have just added (in this case 'Series') you will see an Add… button which allows you to add an object to the next level of the hierarchy.


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The brilliant orange and scarlet flowers in this long-blooming perennial Hummingbird Container Garden are sure to draw hummingbirds from your entire neighborhood. The Penstemon and Agastache are the upright growers while the Zauschneria drapes over the edges of the container as a "spiller." Grow this container in full sun and plant it in a large pot (16 to 20" diameter and 12 to 15" deep) to give the plants plenty of root room to thrive. The plants will bloom their first growing season and get larger and fuller in the following years. Total of 6 Plants.
Each pre-planned garden includes premium plants, a planting and care guide, with a simple planting diagram. Hardy in zones 5-9. In zones 4-6, grow with special care (see special care notes for Zones 4-6 below).
The Hummingbird Container Pre-Planned Garden should be planted in a large pot and includes the following plants:
Container Garden Care:
- Use a premium quality potting mix (NOT garden soil) to fill the container.
- During the growing season, fertilize regularly with a fish emulsion based liquid fertilizer at least twice monthly (at recommended rates on the bottle).
- Deadhead the plants as the flowers fade to keep them tidy and blooming.
- In zones 4,5 and 6, provide winter protection by moving the pots into the garage before night temperatures drop into the low teens/single digits. In warmer zones 7-9, move the pot up against the east of north side of the house to protect the plants from excess sun.
- Indoors or outdoors, water moderately once or twice per month so the soil doesn't get bone dry.
- Leave the plants standing over the winter and clip them back hard in mid-spring before moving the pot outdoors for the next growing season.
Plants are subject to change due to availability. Any substitutions will feature plants with similar attributes suitable to the garden design. Not all plants will be in bloom at the same time, as may be depicted in the artist's rendering.
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Garden of 6 Plants
Hummingbird Container Garden
5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Kudos™ Mandarin Agastache: 18" tallCompact Pineleaf Penstemon: 10" tallOrange Carpet® Creeping Hummingbird Trumpet (Zauschneria): 4-6" tall
Kudos™ Mandarin Agastache: 16" wideCompact Pineleaf Penstemon: 12" wideOrange Carpet® Creeping Hummingbird Trumpet (Zauschneria): 15-18" wide
Late spring to early fall
Sandy Soil, Average Soil, Well-Drained Soil
Attract Hummingbirds, Native, Fragrant Flower / Foliage
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West, Western Only, Southwest, Pacific Northwest
Spring / Summer, Fall
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