Raising monarch butterflies from eggs isn't rocket science, but a bad raising process can end up hurting the monarchs you hoped you were helping. Here are 21 tips to help bring you more raising success, while helping the monarchs recover from their 90% decline.
Keep your monarchs in an environment that brings all the benefits of nature without the dangerous extremes. We keep our caterpillars in a breathable mesh cage in our three-season porch with the windows open.
A large % of people that post comments on this blog, ask questions about monarch diseases and how they can cure them. The bad news is, you can't. The good news is, a proven raising process will largely eliminate the raising conditions that cause monarch disease.
A journal is a great way to reflect on the season and see how you've progressed. It's also a tool you can use to help determine the cause of issues that arise during the raising process.
We use breathable mesh cages that keep caterpillars in, and deadly predators out. Most alternatives have holes that baby monarch caterpillars can easily escape from. When a caterpillar hatches it's less than 1/10″ long, and can slip through most makeshift cages. If a baby caterpillar escapes, it's like finding a needle in a haystack…maybe worse.
Preparation Tip 5- Don't Mix Cats with Cats…or Dogs!
Unfortunately, some of our curious feline friends don't mix well with butterfly 'cats' and could kill the monarchs you're trying to protect.
If you're lucky, your pet will only sniff them, like our dog does. If your pet is more paws on, make sure your raising cage is out of harm's way.
Butterflies can spread parasites to caterpillars so they shouldn't be kept in the same cage. Raise one batch of monarchs at a time and don't collect more eggs until the last butterfly is released, and your cage has been cleaned. Your other option is to keep two raising cages on hand.
Don't use household cleaners, apply flea treatments, lotion, hairspray, or hand sanitizers around your monarch guests, as these can prove deadly. If you've handled these (or similar) items, please wash/dry your hands before handling milkweed or monarchs. Don't forget to wash after petting a flea treated dog!
In its two week life span, one caterpillar can consume an entire milkweed plant. Do yourself a favor and have plenty of milkweed available before you begin.
A patch of milkweed should consist of 6-10 mature plants for feeding hungry monarch caterpillars. Grow at least 2-3 different species of milkweed, and grow several patches (and mini-patches of 2-3 plants) around your yard/garden if possible.
If you are picking milkweed leaves from another location, find out if they're being treated with pesticides or are scheduled for a date with the city mower!
Large potted plants give hitchhiking predators too many hiding places. Individual leaves dry out too quickly…but milkweed cuttings make the perfect monarch meal.
Keep your Milkweed Fresh…for Days!
If you're just learning how to raise monarch butterflies indoors, you haven't experienced your first milkweed emergency…yet!
Milkweed emergencies occur when your heart brings in more eggs/caterpillars than your can milkweed can handle, and you run out of must-have monarch meals.
Know your emergency options including nearby parks, neighbors, and nurseries that carry pesticide-free milkweed plants.
The sap from milkweed is toxic and can cause corneal damaged if rubbed into your eyes. Always wash your hands after handling milkweed.
This is also a good rule of practice before handling monarch caterpillars, in case there's something on your hands that could be toxic to them or spread disease.
You can also greatly decrease the risk of tachinid parisitoids by bringing in small instar 1-2 monarch caterpillars.
You can't save all the monarchs and that shouldn't be your raising goal if you want to raise healthy monarchs and promote a healthy local ecosystem. Set a goal and once you reach it…stop looking for eggs!
Egg Tip 14- Where to Find Monarch Eggs?
Lucky for us, monarchs have one-track minds, and only lay eggs on milkweed plants. Since they are a migratory species, they'll lay eggs on almost any milkweed variety. Where should you look to find eggs on milkweed?
Milkweed should be thoroughly rinsed so that caterpillars food is clean, while providing extra hydration. A mesh cage provides good air circulation so mold shouldn't be an issue.
Don't put large instar 4-5 caterpillars next to small instar 1-2 caterpillars or the babies could end up becoming part of a milkweed meal.
A dirty, frass-filled cage can be the catalyst to spreading disease, so clean regularly. For large caterpillars, you can easily clean up their frass (poop) with a low-power handheld vacuum.
Our raising cages are 2ft wide by 2ft long. We can fit about 30 caterpillars in each cage without worrying about crowding them. For 30 caterpillars we would use 6-8 cuttings containers. How many containers you use ultimately depends on the size of each milkweed cutting and size of your monarch caterpillars.
Chrysalis Tip 20- Don't Touch That Chrysalis!
Don't ever try moving a monarch caterpillar that is hanging upside down to form a chrysalis, or has spun a silk pad to hang from. This is arguably the most fragile time in the monarch life cycle.
Newborn butterflies must dry their wings 2-3 hours before they're released. Otherwise, they'll be defenseless against predators and/or territorial monarch males. In fact, monarch males are notorious for snatching new females for mating before their wings are dry!
Sun dry butterflies outside in a mesh enclosure to energize monarchs for release.
If you want to learn the exact process I use to raise monarchs indoors with a 95% survival rate, check out my how to raise monarch butterflies book so you can have more success raising healthy monarch butterflies this season….Happy Raising!
Please Read the Comments Section below for more Helpful Tips on Raising Monarch Butterflies.
I've just had two monarch butterflies hatch that appear to be ill. One has a bend in it's wings and the other looks normal but doesn't seem able to fly. Any info or advice would be appreciated.
Hi Tony, I have a problem. I was moving a chrysalis and the stem broke! I don't know how to hang it now. I have tried tape, it doesn't stick to top of the chrysalis, neither does glue. There is not enough stem to tie string to or to put pin through. Help! I don't want butterfly to come out and not be able to dry right. I should have about four days more before it comes out.
I have caterpillars eating the milkweed now (Sep 25th), I was wondering if it is too late in the year for them to develop into butterflies and migrate. I live on Long Island, NY. The weather is getting up to 65-70 degrees day and mid 50s at night. I have always planted a butterfly garden but I am only learning about Monarchs now (lifecycle, migration, ect). The caterpillars are pretty large, would it be possible to raise them indoors or should I leave them alone and let nature take its course. Thanks, I will be doing much more research on these guys!
I now have 2 monarchs (one hatched yesterday, one this morning, 9/30) and am in CT where its supposed to rain for the next 3-4 days and todays temp is 55. How long can I keep them inside? Can I put them in the same "cage"? I only have one container large enough for them to roam a bit. First one is in there now, the one that hatched today is still in a small container and is trying to stretch her wings….
I live in the state of Iowa, where a few native milkweeds survive in the ditches each winter. Last year I harvested seeds that grew a block from my home, and planted them in my vegetable box garden after all the old plants were removecd and the soil was ready for the winter months of dormancy.
All of the milkweeds came up in the early spring and grew nicely. I watched them until September, and then found two Monarch caterpillars on a couple of the plants. I brought them in, with a good supply of milkweed leaves, and put them into a gallon jar with cheesecloth over the opening. The two caterpillars were quite advanced already, so they pupated in two days. They are now hanging on twigs in the jar, which I keep in my kitchen on a small table where they can get light – and even now we are having high humidity and still finding fresh milkweed, which is no longer needed. The caterpillars are to emerge about 4 days, if all goes well.
We are almost devoid of flowers outside now..t hey are dying off and have little pollen at all. I am concerned about releasing these two Monarchs in late September into an area with little to offer for food. The daytime t emps are still around 60 – 70 degrees and night temps around 50 – 60 degrees. How can I make certain that these butterflies survive at this time of year ? And if they are the 9th generation, will they have time to migrate to their so uthern destination?
We are happy to see these two " survivors" of modern Iowa farming practices…and if this is successful, I will plant more seeds in November for next year. This is my first time at raising Monarchs inside the house.
PS we do have a species of predatory w asp, which is very tiny, that ate the caterpillars that hatched in my garden the year before (2015). What can I do to keep them away next year? I definitely cannot use pesticides of any kind! Thank you….
Thank you so much, Tony, for your reply to my first comment. Just wanted to let you know that my two Monarchs both remerged from their chrysalis earl y this morning. Both are drying their wings at this point, and hopefully I will be able to release them this afternoon.
I have decided to release them onto a potted blooming plant that is still putting out flowers, which will be placed close to a bed of red petunias, which is also putting out flowers and lots of pollen. The only competition may be hummingbirds that are migrating in large numbers, but which do not eat insects (to my knowledge) like large butterflies. Our weather is supposed to be warm all of next week, so hopefully the Monarchs will do well.
Since these are possibly from the last generation for this year, can I assume that they are the "9th generation" that will migrate so uth to breed and then return to lay eggs in the spring of 2017? If so, I may try tagging them with my initials and the year to see if t hey return . If they do ret urn, will I possibly find them somewhere in my yard later,, assuming that they come back to where they hatched. Do they do this, like the birds do ?
So many questions, and I do appreciate your patient replies to my them!
Hi Mary, the butterflies that return from Mexico will return to the deep south and most won't make it further north…you very well could see their children though! Remember, it's not the same monarchs that migrate to Mexico each season, but their descendants…somehow they know where to go.
Some markers have been shown to damage butterfly wings so I wouldn't mark them.
Great website. I have a question, I'm in the process of raising a monarch caterpillar indoors right now. It started to pupate about 7 days ago. I noticed that the chrysalis is very small. It's only about 3.175 cm maybe even less. Is this normal? I'm worried that it might not make it for its long journey to Mexico. I'm up here in Toronto, Canada. It's starting to turn translucent I can vaguely make out the black and yellow pattern inside the chrysalis. Did I do something wrong? Like not feeding it enough milkweed? I had it inside a large glass jar during its fifth instar. Kept a good supply of fresh milkweed leaves from my garden.
This would be my first attempt at raising a monarch indoors. Fingers crossed.
Chrysalis Problems + normal development Hopefully your first monarch will emerge soon. good luck!
I, too, had a seemingly small chrysalis. I brought in a 5th instar caterpillar a couple weeks ago for my kids to watch. It was smaller than others I had seen, but was the last one on my milkweed. I had to handle the cat, and it curled up into a protective circle, like a grub for a couple hours. It didn't eat any milkweed we provided in the cage. It pupated 24-36 hours later into a smallish chrysalis. Like you, I was concerned, and thought the handling may have disrupted the feeding.
This morning, a large female monarch emerged. She's drying her wings, and then we'll release her. So, even if the chrysalis seems too small for a large butterfly to develop, all may not be lost. They use that small space very efficiently!
I've been watching a monarch chrysalis that was hanging from the bottom row of siding on my house. Today when my husband mowed the lawn, it fell. I've tied thin thread from the black stalk part of the hardened chrysalis and have it hanging from a branch in my home. It's not enclosed, is that a mistake? I plan on taking it outside shortly before it hatches and retieing it to a tree branch.
Hi Amanda, I would let the butterfly dry for a couple hours before tasking it back outside. Otherwise, it will be vulnerable to predators. good luck!
What you do is get a small snack container, like the kind you put in your kid's lunches to hold Goldfish or jelly beans. Then, get some mesh net fabric from a craft store. Make sure the holes are big enough for your escapee to crawl through! Simply put the milkweed in the snack container, rubber-band the fabric on top, and set out your trap, checking it every couple hours. Hopefully, the caterpillar will crawl back and hang around long enough for you to find him or her. And this way, your cat (or dog) can't get either the caterpillar or the milkweed.
Thank you for having this very informative site.
I discovered 2 monarch caterpillars last weekend on a small narrow leaf milkweed plant that I have growing in a pot in the backyard. The were already in their 5th instar! Very plump and healthy looking. To protect them from predators or any danger, we covered the entire plant with the caterpillars with a soft fine mesh fabric that let in air and light, tucking the fabric under the plant pot. The only issue were the little pesky aphids that were on some of the leaves.
The caterpillars morphed into chrysalises within a few days, smaller than the chrysalises of monarch caterpillars I raised to butterflies about 10 years ago.
Because it's been windy and foggy for most of the days this past week, here in the Bay Area, we relocated the chrysalises to a large round pop up mesh laundry hamper. It was easy to relocate them because, since the caterpillars had attached themselves to the mesh fabric over the plant, we simply cut large pieces out of the fabric around the chrysalises, then clipped the top edge of the fabric pieces to the inside of the top edge of the mesh hamper. So the chrysalises had minimum disturbance, and are hanging in the same vertical position.
My question for you : we have the chrysalises in the mesh hamper on a small table in our little front entrance lobby. It gets filtered light all day because the front door there is made of glass panes in a wooden frame. It also gets good air circulation because air comes in through the space between the door and the floor. We turn on the lobby light at night for security reasons, so at night we cover the top of the mesh hamper, and most of the sides, except where it faces the wall with a black cotton sheet, to keep it darker in there for the chrysalises.
Is it okay for the chrysalises if the room isn't completely dark at night?
Also, the chrysalises are only about 3/4 inch in length, so quite small. Is it possibly because they are female? They certainly had a good food supply of fresh growing milkweed.
Great news – our chrysalises eclosed today!
Before I left for work I checked the chrysalises and saw that that they were almost black, with the distinctive monarch colors showing through.
I knew that today would be the day.
Since I was going to be gone until evening I cut a small slice of watermelon and put it on a paper towel at the bottom of the mesh hamper, and clipped two fresh zinnia flowers with long stalks to hang diagonally in the hamper.
When I got home 10 1/2 hours later, there they were, 2 beautiful monarchs hanging from the top of the hamper. Now and then they flexed their wings.
I boiled some sugar water, like I do for our hummingbird feeder and will soak some cotton balls in the nectar for the monarchs tomorrow morning.
Then I hope to release them in the backyard near our zinnia plants once the sun is out, probably late morning.
Thank you so much for your site!
Hi everyone from New Zealand!
I've raised over 100 butterflies this year – the season went on longer than I've had before as it's been so warm. So much so that we're just about to hit winter (June 1 is tomorrow) and I still have caterpillars on swan plants. I've brought them inside today as it is getting chillier.
Should I release them outside though when they hatch …even though it's winter?
The Beautiful Monarch good luck!
Thanks Tony. I love your site – it's full of fabulously helpful information!
I'm very, very new to this. Last fall I ordered some milkweed. They did horribly, died…and a few came back with sparse leaves. I still tried to get them healthy, but they've continued to grow poorly. That all being said, two weeks ago I saw a little larvae on one of my few leaves. I was shocked and happy…brought him inside and read everything I could on raising them. The cat was probably Instar #2. The plant he was on was either Ascleplas specious a (Showy Milkweed) or Indian Milkweed. Again neither plant could sustain a cat for long, hardly any leaves. So I went and bought 4 new plants, but they are a different variety, Asclepia 1….it looks different than the others. Here's my question. Do you have to feed it the exact same milkweed, it definitely seems to prefer the one I found it on….but it has no choice but to eat the ones I purchased. And today I went out and found another Instar #2…I was shocked…they're can't be more than three leaves on the plant. I brought this one inside also..and I've separated them, as the large one looks like he's ready to stop eating and start the chrysalis process. Should I worry about getting new plants. Thanks for all of the information I've gotten off your site.
Hi Cin, congrats on finding two caterpillars. It sounds like your milkweed isn't very happy where it was planted…you might try planting some in a different microclimate of you yard and see if it thrives in different growing conditions. Perhaps try growing a couple more species and talk to local gardeners to see what works best for them…good luck!
After losing lots of caterpillars and crysallis to various causes last year, I set up a habitat in a mesh cage this year. Things were going well, but 2 of my first 6 cats going to the "J" didn't fully emerge from their skins. The skin split open at the bottom to show the bright green, but didn't continue any further, and eventually died. Didn't see this at all last year.
Hi Richard, if they weren't parasitized by tachinid flies (you'd see maggots/pupae on the cage floor) dying during pupation is a common sign of pesticide exposure.
Wow, this is the first year I have Generation 1 monarchs! An ELF found my milkweed patch a couple weeks ago and laid 6 eggs before a thunderstorm chased her off. All hatched and I have 6 happy cats.
One thing I learned last year was to keep eggs separate from each other because not only did the hatchlings eat their egg shell, but some wandered away and ate their neighbor's egg shell—with neighbor still in it.
Thanks so much for your awesome pdf on how to raise Monarch Butterflies. I ordered the Monarch Butterfly Kit and a second big cube back in February. Around January 30th, I was surprised to find that the Monarch butterflies were laying eggs on my native milkweed plants, Asclepius Perennis, that I was nursing along in pots on the front porch (Ocala, Florida) before putting the plants out in the backyard. I wasn't planning on raising butterflies. I definitely had a milkweed shortage. With the help of a new found friend, whose neighbor had a nice patch of tropical milkweed in her yard, I was able to raise and release 28 lovely, healthy Monarch butterflies out of 8 eggs and 25 caterpillars by March 14. I am so grateful for the supplies and information you put together so well in the kit. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to get the best start possible in this exciting contribution to the planet.
Hi Janice, I'm so excited to hear of your success, and glad you found the cage/guide helpful in your raising journey. I'm glad you were able to find help during your "milkweed emergency"…one of the most stressful parts of raising is running out of milkweed. Hooray for new friends and their neighbors!
Since April 8 I've had 56 butterflies emerge. 53 have been healthy, but unfortunately the last 3 have been unable to fly and have died with in a day or two of emerging. Any idea what could be causing this? Should I be worried about the rest of my "herd"?
Thank you as always for your wisdom.
Another issue just came up. I just looked and I had a J-stage caterpillar oozing a clear liquid. I have separated him out and cleaned the cage the best I could with so many cats and chrysalis hanging in the cage. He is not discolored. No other signs that something is wrong. Should I euthanize? Will my other caterpillars get sick? I took my other large enclosure to my son's school and lent my smaller one to a friend so I don't have a lot of options to separate out the remaining 4/5 instar caterpillars that are in the cage, but can certainly put them in a smaller container and feed them cuttings from the yard and move the 19 chrysalises to another location as well if you think that would be best to clean the cage immediately and change the food source out.
Thanks for your advice. Sorry for all the questions. You're the only guy that writes back.
Good news! The oozing caterpillar turned into a beautiful butterfly! So glad, I went with the wait and see approach.
Doing great thus far. 6 healthy butterflies to date, 26 chrysalies, and 20 additional 4/5 instar caterpillars! I stopped collecting eggs till I catch up so don't have any smaller ones. I also have abou 150 Native and Tropical milkweed seeds germinating successfully so I'll have a better food source for future generations.
I've had 2 chyrsalises not eclose which was difficult, but not as difficult as what I experienced this morning. I just had a beautiful butterfly eclose, but sadly he has a horribly deformed proboscis. Both pieces are yellow and one side is completely hard and straight. At first I thought something was stuck to him, but then I realized what it actually was. I don't see how this little guy will ever be able to eat even though I think he will be able to fly.
Hi Joanne, if it doesn't look like the butterfly is going to be able to take in nectar I would probably euthanize. It's hard to say without seeing the butterfly, but doesn't sound good from your explanation.
I have a monarch caterpillar that has attached itself onto the side of my net enclosure and is in the J-hook position. Is there anything I can do to move it, so it has more room to turn into a chrysalis? I'm afraid it's not going to be able to fully turn into one. Thank you.
Hi Sheralyn, I would wait to move it until after the chrysalis has formed and hardened (24 hours after) good luck!
But will it be able to turn into a chrysalis when it's hanging from the side of the netting and not the top of the netting?
Hi Sheralyn, it will have to. If the caterpillar didn't climb to the top to pupate, there may be something wrong with it. All you can do at this point is monitor, and move it after the chrysalis hardens. good luck!
I'd like to know if the butterfly eclosed normally? I've had cats pupate this way, and the chrysalides still end up hanging vertically. Butterflies were able to emerge normal and healthy.
In the picture under tip #9, what kind of containers are the stem cuttings in and what size are they and do you know where a person would obtain them? I feel the mw tubes don't hold enough water.
Hi Pam, those are glad food storage containers and they come in 4oz. or 8oz. The floral tubes we use are 15ml. I don't like the smaller ones because they run out of water too quickly.
Thanks for all your info – I am learning so much!
you're welcome Laura…I hope the info here will help you to have a fantastic monarch season!
I want to raise monarchs this year in your mesh cages as I lost a lot of baby caterpillars last year due to storms and (I think) birds. Would it be safe to place the mesh cages on an outdoor patio with a roof over it? Thank you.
Hi Donna, you would need to put something heavy inside the cage so it wouldn't blow away. Also are there large predators that would bother a cage outdoors? or smaller predators like mice that might chew through the cage? I can't answer these questions, but they are points to consider before making your decision. We keep ours in a porch, where these aren't potential issues.
Last year I read some info about freezing milkweed leaves to keep on hand for emergency feeding. I had been pulling up the common milkweed since it was being so invasive in my garden. Once they grew to about 1-2 feet I dug it up, stripped the leaves (smaller are better), washed & dried them & placed them in layers of paper towel. I then placed them into gallon baggies & froze them. By October (the end of the season here) my cats had eaten everything available so I started pulling out the frozen common leaves, thawed them at room temperature & fed them to the cats. They ate them up & survived!
That's a great way to eliminate milkweed emergencies, especially since you'd be tossing out the dug up plants anyway.
I also did something similar with milkweed leaves last year. I would pick them from my regular sources then bring them home. Then wash each leaf carefully and keep in the fridge in a plastic sealed container along with a damp paper towel. I took care of it like I would keep lettuce fresh. It stayed very nice fresh and moist.
I released 76 Monarchs last season it was my first time doing so and loved it. I cut back my Milkweed last year and it came back incredible. I must have 3-4 times as much Milkweed now. Just waiting for the Monarchs to come.
I use Styrofoam coffee cups with plastic lids, that I put a hole in for my indoor Milkweed or even McDonald or Starbucks cold coffee or soda cups with the plastic tops too. They work great for my indoor cuttings for the Monarch cats.
Can't wait for this season to start. I have seen a few Monarchs that I had raised during the winter come by so far. Thanks for all the information, I love your site.
A couple months ago, I brought in about 25 cats over several weeks. Every single of them died while making the "J" — after getting big and fat and healthy looking. 3 or 4 made chrysallis but none emerged. I've never had this problem before.
I thought that my milkweed had somehow gotten tainted with pesticides, even though it came from my yard. However, my mother and a friend gave me milkweed from their yards, and I also bought 7 plants from a non-spraying nursery. All cats who ate that milkweed died as well.
So, now I'm wondering if there might have been something on my butterfly castles that killed them? They would have had to walk up the castle walls to make the J. I don't spray harsh chemicals in my house, but had sprayed some non-toxic stuff for fleas on the carpet last year, and I may have used diotamaceous earth on the carpet in that room. Maybe it got on the walls of the castles that were folded up in the room? I don't know. I'm grasping at straws at this point.
What can I wash the castles with that will wash off whatever might have killed the cats, but won't be toxic to them? (Even though most of my milkweed was eaten to the ground a few months ago, and is barely sprouting back out, I saw at least a dozen cats out in the garden last weekend. I'm afraid to bring these guys in for fear that whatever is wrong will kill these too).
I raised the last bunch of cats on mostly cuttings from my yard or my mother's and friend's yards. None of us spray pesticides. I put whole potted milkweed plants in the castle, from the non-spraying nursery, when I ran out of milkweed and had several big fat cats left. I knew they would devour those plants in a day or so, so no use cutting. I never saw any caterpillars on the cage floor and I always put down a layer of papertowels to catch "stuff". I'm guessing that the diotamaceous earth floated up on the sides of the castles, since they would have been in the room but folded up, when I put it on the carpet. Honestly, I don't know. I'm just guessing since so many cats died from so many different milkweed cuttings or plants. The only constant was my castles. Just sickening to lose so many.
I'll soak my 2 caterpillars castles good before I try bringing anymore in. Seems like I always see at least 1 Monarch in my backyard year round, so I'm sure there will be more cats out there in no time.
Hi Bett, if you already rinsed out and dried the castles, it's hard to imagine there could be enough DE to cause a mass die off, but yes, try rinsing them out again, just in case.
Keep us posted on your progress and good luck with your next monarchs!
I have 40+ caterpillars at various stages, but most of them are 4th and 5th instar. This was unexpected. I'm running out of milkweed. They are eating the stems. And, an intense storm is passing through SoCal. It's been very wet, cold and rainy. It also hailed several times today. The temp will drop tonight to the mid 40's. The daytime temp for the next 3-days will be in the mid 60's…then rain is expected again. Will they be okay? I can't move them.
Hi Michele, they are pretty tough so hopefully they can stay secured under leaves and ride out the storm. They can definitely survive Mid 40's for a low temp. Perhaps you can plant some more milkweed seeds and plants when the storms let up…good luck!
Hi, Tony – I am raising my first Monarchs of the season and have 2 cats that turned into chrysalids, but did not completely shed their skins. There is a black cap that is still attached at the top of the chrysalis where the webbing is. Will the butterfly still be able to eclose normally? The rest of my first batch (14 in all) are all normal and my first butterfly emerged today.
Hi Lisa, if the skin and face back is just crumpled up at the top of the chrysalis, that's not a problem. You can leave it there. If the caterpillar shed its skin only half way up the chrysalis, this means it died while forming it's chrysalis. If the chrysalis is fully formed, it should be OK.
Hi Dale, it sounds like you have big plans for the season. Good luck with your spring planting!
Great info. I have been doing this a couple of years. This spring was the first year I did not have to run out for emergency milkweed. I have released about 50 butterflies this week. I'm glad you mentioned separating cats by size. Those fatty fifth instars mow through whatever is in their eating path!
Hi Tanya, it sounds like you had quite a successful season. Those milkweed emergencies can be stressful…glad to hear your garden is now keeping up with demand.
I want to recommend butternut squash as a supplemental emergency food source for caterpillars. I cut the squash into pyramid shapes, hard rind down. That way there is plenty of surface area for cats to share space. Plus the poop falls off the slanted sides.


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"La trattativa è ancora in corso."
Translation:The negotiation is still in progress.
I would have said that something "in the works" is in preparation, and hasn't yet started.
This translation seems unlikely to be used in English. It would be regarded as colloquial, even sloppy. Would "The negotiation is still in progress" or "The negotiation is yet ongoing" be more acceptable?
I agree, the meaning fits the Italian, even if I cannot be sure that the English is spotless. Please report that the given English sentence seems wrong and your suggestions!
I agree, I think "in progress" is better than "in the works"
I tried "The negotiation is still going on" but it wasn't accepted.


Land use and land cover changes (LULC) and their impact on potential soil erosion, road density as transfer routes of material and water to channels as well as channel level changes were studied in three catchments (~20 km2 each) in the central part of the Polish Western Carpathians in 1975-2015. It was hypothesised that short-term LULC changes during transition from a centrally planned to a free-market economy are sufficient to modify selected elements of the environment and that these changes can be identified in a measurable way.The analysis of aerial photographs and socio-economic data indicates that during the investigated period, the forest area increased by 20-27%, with a continuous decrease of cultivated land by 89-93% in the three catchments. LULC changes were accompanied by continuous population density growth by 29-50% and a decrease of the population dependent only on agriculture to less than 5%. Analyses confirmed the hypothesis that the environment was significantly modified due to the LULC changes. Abandonment of cultivated land, forest succession and a decrease in used road density, have resulted in lower efficiency of slope wash and sediment transport within the 4th-order catchments. This has led to an interruption of aggradation and initiated channel deepening by approximately 1 cm∙year-1 after the introduction of a free-market economy in 1989.


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[Artificial Intelligence] MORGAN Film Review: Humanoid With Soul
Posted on 09 July 2019 at 15:45
MORGAN Film Review: Humanoid With Soul - Photo credit: liveforfilm, edition by Amber255 via bitLanders
Humanity was always guided by the desire to move closer to the Almighty as close as possible, taking over from him some of the functions that create civilization. As soon as we realized ourselves and began to reveal our true position on the planet, we decided that we own too little opportunities. If you reread the old chronicles and legends, then you can see that people of the distant past tried to create their own kind, subjugate them and thus become the truly dominant force on Earth.
But if the bygone days' experiments playing with the universe left a big question about its success, then with the onset of the technological revolution's era, the idea to grow a person from a test tube gradually turns into reality.
But where truly incredible opportunities are revealed, comparable to the power of God, completely unhealthy desires are born, the consequences of which are very difficult to assess.
Morgan is a film that grabs your attention and makes you question whose side you want to be on.
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Even in the Renaissance, the genius of scientists and the creator Leonardo Da Vinci created a model of an artificial mechanism capable of becoming in the service of man. And since that time, disputes have not stopped on the fact that once people really will create assistants for themselves, shifting some of their responsibilities to them. Only the place of steel mechanisms with limited possibilities is gradually occupied by creatures made of flesh and blood, with the unique advantages of the human body, strengthened by the achievements of genetic engineering. Or humanoids with synthetic DNR - biosynthetic creatures.
And the film MORGAN in the naked form speaks on the subject of risks associated with the obsessive desire of people to play a role that was previously completely dominated only in Heaven and Nature itself.
Luke Scott shot a chamber thriller mixed with science fiction, and it turned out to be a very good idea, in connection with the plot and good actors.
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Somewhere in deep, deep forests, in complete wilderness, scientists decided to conduct an experiment.
Judging by the film, we are shown the not so distant future. Among the dense North American forests, behind a deceptive facade of a seemingly outdated estate, a secret laboratory is hidden, where a group of scientists is working on the formation of a synthetic person - by synthesizing artificial DNA and a living cell, they manage to create an individual genetically close to a real person - an android named Morgan, who externally has the gender characteristics of a young girl.
The fruit of the painstaking efforts of scientists is developing by leaps and bounds and shows amazing results, pleasantly surprising its creators with remarkable strength, intelligence, and a tendency to telepathy. Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) is smart, strong, self-learning.
After an accident occurs in the laboratory, the company involved in this project sends a crisis manager Lee Weathers (Kate Mara) to the laboratory to determine the possible consequences on the spot. The trouble is that emotional problems and mental stability of Morgan are big problems. The object of research is out of control. A crisis manager's task is to evaluate the feasibility of the experiment and the further fate of the creation of the offspring, which has recently shown a clear tendency to aggression
And in a good way, she goes under the write-off. But everything is complicated because the scientists who created Morgan, consider her a real person.
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MORGAN - the debut work of Luke Scott. Not anyone, but the son of the legendary British director Ridley Scott and such a circumstance makes the viewer with particular attention and zeal to turn his attention to the result of his works. Almost immediately it becomes obvious: Scott Jr. decided to follow in the footsteps of the illustrious father, devoting his film to the problems touched by the cult futuristic Blade Runner, shot by an eminent parent in the first half of the 80s.
And again we are witnessing the confrontation of artificial and human intelligence, their possibility of mutual coexistence, and adaptation of the artificial creation of human hands in modern society.
The classic dilemma: does a creature created by man, conscious, and able to recognize itself as a person, can be completely self-sufficient and independent?
Well and, of course, will the person eventually not suffer the inevitable reckoning for his games of God?
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As you know, people are not the first dozen years trying to create artificial intelligence, not inferior to their own. The motives for this are different: your own defense, the conquest of other planets, research activities, military power, or elementary help in everyday life. In a word, something that will greatly facilitate our life and make it easier.
Every year, science and technology make more and more new breakthroughs, machines literally coexist with us, we see them every day and what yesterday seemed like fantasy and a reckless fruit of the most insane imagination, is already becoming a reality today. This alone at least provides a genuine audience interest in this film.
The film touches many moral dilemmas of varying degrees. First of all, the problem of the creator, the self-identification of a being created in the image of a human being (to the question of whether a person can in principle create something that is not cruel) and human nature. What makes you human? Is it always best to be yourself? What love can be and much more.
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Important questions are raised about life and death, human morality, terrible, correct, or necessary decisions. It makes you think about whether we have the right to solve certain issues. And what are the consequences of this or that choice?
Humanoid With Soul - Morgan
The film is built around a bio-robot, whose name is Morgan. She looks like a human being, and she has intelligence and strength, and even, oddly enough, the ability to experience feelings. But after an unforeseen failure, an emergency situation expert arrives to determine the suitability of Morgan for further research.
Unlike many other movies that tell about various secret experiments and even experiments with people, Morgan has an emotional part that allows the viewer to empathize with the young lady Morgan. An innocent child, who grows unwillingly the way he grows and can do nothing with his nature, with his instincts.
On the one hand, we see an ordinary handsome teenager imprisoned in a concrete location without the possibility of escape. The girl dreams of seeing the forests, the fields, finally the blue sky, but by the will of the scientists, she has to be supervised, only dreaming about how to get rid of them.
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On the other hand, interference with the DNA structure, leading to doubled intellectual abilities and amazing strength, is in itself alarming, since in most science-fiction novels we know, man-made artificial creature rebels in most cases against its mentor and leaves him no chance the rescue.
And Luke Scott does not miss the opportunity to demonstrate all the nightmares emanating from Morgan, albeit in an overly frank action-form.
Anya Taylor-Joy performed the role of Morgan. A sort of artificial being having synthetic DNR, exploring the world and trying to understand what it was created for. Anya showed all the facets of her emotions in a short hour and a half, and sometimes you do not understand how her heroine will react to this or that word, maybe she will kill you because she really can, or she will just nod in response.
It was precisely such moments that did not allow us to break away from the screen; the acting data of this girl surprised me very much.
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Anya Taylor-Joy plays a complex character, and the girl had a really hard time, because at one point she had to play a humble teenager, and on the other turned into a frenzied beast driven by the desire to bite off someone's neck and rip out a juicy piece of meat.
Playing such opposing emotions is very difficult to even for experienced actors, but Taylor-Joy was able to prove that in addition to her attractive appearance, she has a talent that takes her to the position of one of the most sought-after actresses of her generation.
The efforts of Ani Taylor-Joy must also be appreciated because, in most of the episodes, she only had to play with facial expressions and looks, which is very difficult.
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Lee Weathers
The second memorable role - Kate Mara, who played the role of Lee Weathers. She is the peculiar inquisitor on which the fate of Morgan depends. She is very strange. Her logic prevails over emotions. A robot, not a man. Here is the whole essence of the film.
The cold, calculating, and decisive girl, clearly following job descriptions and ready to do anything to fulfill the order from the above.
Arriving at the destination, Lee begins to realize that the long work on Morgan in conditions of voluntary recluse led the team of scientists to an impermissible eccentric, but the real interest is not the nurses or doctors, but the experimental girl herself, as the company's management places special hopes on her.
Step by step, investigating the situation in the complex, Lee eventually comes to difficult conclusions, and they must be solved without unnecessary sentiments. However, there is no doubt about her professionalism, because her tough and, at the same time, balanced decisions - this is exactly the reason why she was sent on a business trip.
Kate Mara becomes the connecting link of the plot, but the actress on the set didn't show anything special, acting as a kind of attractive props with a chilling glow in empty eyes.
It was a pity, of course, to see her not with lush red hair, but with a short haircut.
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The film does not have any terrible moments and, therefore, MORGAN does not fit the horror genre. But here are many murders showed. What is most interesting, they are all different: there is strangulation, there are broken necks, there are people shot and drowned, there are poisoned ones. In a word, in this component, director Luke Scott decided to show off his imagination.
The fundamental flaw in the entire film is as follows: taking the interesting idea as a basis, the authors, instead of developing it comprehensively, thereby making the tape deeper and smarter, on the contrary, considerably simplified it, reducing the on-screen narration towards an ordinary thriller.
Of course, this does not go in plus the overall achievement, as well as an element of some understatement - this applies to certain skills and abilities of the experimental hero, the nature of which has remained unknown. And as a general result - initially tempting with its plot, the story turns into a channel of banal denouement.
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But in this case, the form prevailed over the content, and it was the director's instincts and the presentation that pulled the outwardly predictable spectacle to a new, more advantageous height. Here it's important not how the idea is implemented, but how it is presented to the viewer. The storyline is built so it attracts from the very first seconds, and it is evenly divided into two parts, observing a clear and distinct rhythm.
This film, despite its slow pace, is interesting to watch from the first to the last second. The first thing that catches your eye is, of course, the quality of the video sequence: the film is very beautiful, saturated with deep, dark tones, which allows us to immediately note that Luke Scott, like his father, is a talented visualist.
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On A Final Note
Many worthy films were shot on the danger of experiments with the universe, and to tell the truth, MORGAN cannot offer the audience anything really revolutionary, but the film can cause quite serious interest, as it has a number of advantages.
Director Luke Scott paid special attention to the development of the image of Morgan. So the viewers could see in this experiment, the light and dark sides of genetic research that raises many difficult questions. Genetic experiments equal biosynthetic experiments shown in the film.
Of course, MORGAN cannot be called an exemplary discussion on the rule of people over the forces of nature and vice versa, and yet the tape of Luke Scott can cause a certain interest. She is intriguing, has attractive visual merit, worthy actors trying to play, and not just in the frame, good action, and the beginnings of philosophy, which causes the thinking process.
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I don't argue that in some scenes that are critical to the dramatic development of events, Luke Scott went too far with cruelty, literally reveling in the opportunities provided to him, but in general, Morgan causes mostly positive feelings.
Summarizing what he saw, it can be stated with confidence that Scott Jr., having an interesting idea, could not properly implement it, but thanks to the impeccable style, expressed in high-quality technical formulation and the plot principle, which draws the viewer's eye almost instantly, the drawbacks of the picture do not catch the eye too much. In any case, for the debut - very good.
Anchored by Mara's rigidly controlled performance and Taylor-Joy's tremulous yet quietly menacing work, Morgan is an effective tension generator that unfortunately falls apart at the end.
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Mauricio Umansky Net Worth is $40 Million (as of 2020)
It has been announced that the total amount of the current Mauricio Umansky net worth is as much as 30 million dollars. Mauricio Umansky is one of the most well known names in real estate industry, where he is one of the best real estate developers of Mexican origin. In addition to that, he is also known as a TV show star. Thus, both of these involvements have added up a lot to the total sum of Mauricio Umansky net worth.
Nationality: Mexico
Occupation: Real Estate Broker
Mauricio Umansky has become well known to the public because of his marriage to Kyle Richards, who is a star on the TV show called "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills". Thus, because of her appearances on this show, Mauricio Umansky also started to appear in it. However, Mauricio Umansky managed also to make his name famous because of his career in real estate industry and as such he is working in the area of Southern California.
Mauricio Umansky was born in Mexico City. In 1976, however, he moved to live to Bel Air, California. Today, Mauricio Umansky is mostly known for his own real estate firm called "The Agency", where he is a CEO. The company is well known for selling luxurious properties all around the world, but mostly in the area of Bel Air and Beverly Hills. Thus, this company is also considered as one of the main sources of Mauricio Umansky net worth. A lot of properties which are sold by his company are in Beverly Hills, Malibu, Holmby Hills and Brentwood.
On the website of is company it has been stated that Mauricio Umansky has property which is worth more than 350 million dollars. In fact there is one single house which is worth as much as 68.5 million dollars. The company is known for selling high end properties and representing owners or renters of these properties.
In 2013, Mauricio Umansky's name was included in the list of the best realtors in California where he was placed in the 1st position. The list was compiled by the Wall Street Journal. In the same journal, Mauricio Umansky was placed in the third position in the list of the best realtors in the United States.
Up until now his company has worked only in the area of Los Angeles, but quite recently it has expanded to Cabo San Lucas, Las Vegas and Palm Springs. Thus, his career in real estate has made him a well known man and also added up to the total estimate of Mauricio Umansky net worth.
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Black Leaders Matter
On MLK Day, a historian's reminder that many generations of leaders contributed to the civil rights movement's accomplishments.
By Brian J Purnell, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine | Via The Conversation
Martin Luther King Jr Memorial at night in Washington, DC. (Photo by Scott Ableman, Creative Commons License)
The civil rights movement produced many different types of leaders.
Thurgood Marshall, argued successfully before the Supreme Court that racial segregation laws violated the US Constitution.
Diane Nash, a college student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, led sit-ins and freedom rides. Those efforts helped outlaw racial segregation in public places.
Selma Blurs Line Between Past and Present
Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most significant civic leaders in American history, inspired common people and influenced US Presidents. For over a decade, he led a nonviolent movement that promoted social, political and economic justice.
King, Nash, and many others exerted tremendous pressure on President Lyndon Johnson and the US Congress, and those efforts helped pass national voting rights legislation.
But for all these achievements, Americans have more work to do.
Economic, education, legal inequalities
Today, black people living in urban ghettos suffer the effects of decades of housing segregation. They live far from employment opportunities. Almost all of their neighbors are poor, which limits the types of professional networks they can access.
The cost of living in American cities rises each year while for decades wages for working people have flat-lined. Public schools in cities like New York City and Philadelphia are now more racially segregated than they were in the 1960s. The Supreme Court has limited policies that promoted affirmative action and voting rights. Many police departments, district attorneys, judges and juries arrest, imprison, and even kill black people at rates significantly higher than the African American proportion of the total population.
We are witnessing a contemporary civil rights crisis in America.
In recent months, new waves of protest for social justice have arisen across the country. Like the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, today's leaders are fighting for African Americans' human and civil rights.
They have articulated a simple and powerful idea: "Black Lives Matter."
Inevitably, the effectiveness of the Black Lives Matter Movement will hinge upon whether its leaders can produce tangible changes in America's political, educational, and criminal justice systems.
Helpful to examine those who went before
Biographies of past leaders offer many useful lessons for today's citizens and activists. Well-researched biographies teach the importance of leaders having clear political ideas, strategic alliances, well-organized institutions, and effective tactics. They also show that many different styles, ideas, and approaches existed. The civil rights movement's successes came from the diversity, dynamism, and dedication of its leaders, not the charisma and influence of a single messiah.
Life stories of significant leaders, especially those who are not well-known, also reveal that they sometimes did not live to see their efforts end in success. Generations of leaders contributed to the civil rights movement's accomplishments. Successful movements often span many lifetimes.
A brief sketch of the life of Charles Hamilton Houston illustrates these points.
Born in 1895, Hamilton graduated from Amherst College and served as a First Lieutenant in the US Infantry during World War I. It was that experience that helped set his eventual path:
"The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
Hamilton attended Harvard Law School where he was the first African American to become editor of the Law Review. He became a professor at Howard University Law School in the 1920s, and then dean in the early 1930s.
Houston trained the cadre of civil rights attorneys who, under his direction, played a major role in nearly all of the civil rights cases before the US Supreme Court in the 1940s and 1950s.
The strategy he developed led to the landmark Brown vs Board of Education case in 1954, which famously struck down "separate but equal" doctrine that perpetuated racial segregation in public schools. It was a major civil rights victory.
Houston had a clear philosophy about the law and how black lawyers could affect real change in a racially entrenched society. He believed that the law should promote positive, peaceful forms of "social engineering."
Gradual changes in our legal system, Houston argued, would ensure justice for all American citizens, especially African Americans. As an educator, Houston's goal was to train lawyers to become "sentinels guarding against wrong." He often told students, "a lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society." The work and accomplishments of just one of Houston's protégés, Thurgood Marshall, proved his philosophy's effectiveness.
In the late 1930s Houston also led the legal team for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Before he died in 1950, he had mounted legal challenges against racial discrimination in housing and employment. Looking back on the civil rights movement's tremendous legal victories, Marshall told an audience in 1978 that "Charlie Houston," was the "engineer of it all."
Houston was a powerful leader because he possessed a clear vision of how black lawyers, and the law itself, could change American social life in positive ways. He advanced this idea through institutions and organizations. He trained other leaders to carry on this work.
Houston did not live to see his work's greatest achievements but, for a time, the legal victories Houston helped design made America a more just and equitable society.
After Houston died, whenever Marshall and other lawyers who worked on the Brown case got stuck on a problem, they'd often ask, "What would Charlie say?"
It is a question we would do well to keep asking.
Brian J Purnell is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
This article first appeared in The Conversation. Click here to go to the original.
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Ein Zuwachsbohrer ist ein spezieller Bohrer, der vor allem in der Forstwirtschaft verwendet wird und im 19. Jahrhundert durch den Forstwissenschaftler und Ökonomen Max Preßler entwickelt wurde.

Der hohle Bohrer (Verdrängungsbohrer) wird mit einem T-förmigen Griff per Hand in Baumstämme gedreht, um Bohrkerne (meist 5 mm Durchmesser) zu entnehmen. Auf diese Weise kann der Holzzuwachs, also das jährliche Wachstum des Baumes verfolgt und das Alter des Baumes bestimmt werden. Außerdem können Aussagen über die Gesundheit des Baums (Fäulnis) getroffen sowie mit einem Fractometer die Holzfestigkeit (Bruch- und Biegefestigkeit des Bohrkerns) und einfache sensorische Eigenschaften (Geruch) geprüft werden. Das Bohrloch wird mit Harz verschlossen.

Um 1900 wurde der Bohrer als Tascheninstrument mit ca. 1,5 cm im Durchmesser in zwei Ausfertigungen angeboten: als Klein- oder Hartbohrer (Länge 13 cm), und als Tiefbohrer (Länge: 20 cm).

Einsatz und Auswirkungen
Der Einsatz von Zuwachsbohrern in der Forstwirtschaft ist umstritten. Pro Bohrung entsteht ein Bohrloch mit durchschnittlich etwa 10 mm Durchmesser. Durch diesen Kanal können Bakterien und Pilze in den Stamm eindringen. Außerdem wird das Holzgewebe durch den Bohrer verletzt, Gefäße werden gequetscht bzw. zerschnitten. Die dadurch ausgelösten Wundreaktionen können das Holz großflächig schädigen. Rings um das Bohrloch kann es zu Verfärbungen kommen. Ein weiterer Nachteil des Zuwachsbohrers liegt darin, dass unregelmäßige Holzschädigungen nur schlecht erkannt werden, wenn nicht mehrere Bohrungen vorgenommen werden. Aufgrund dieser Auswirkungen auf den Baum geht der Einsatz von Zuwachsbohrern kontinuierlich zurück, heute werden sie vor allem bei offensichtlich erkrankten Bäumen, etwa zur Erregeridentifikation, eingesetzt.

Literatur

  Max Neumeister: Der Zuwachsbohrer, in: Mutter Erde. Technik, Reisen und nützliche Naturbetrachtung in Haus und Familie. Erster Band. W. Spemann, Berlin und Stuttgart 1899, S. 235–236 (Abb.)

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U.S. tells Nigeria, Cameroon to obey international law
The United States (U.S.) has condemned the attitude of Nigerian and Cameroonian authorities towards the 47 Anglophone detainees who were repatriated to Cameroon from Nigeria.
A statement by the U.S. Department of State, signed by Ms Heather Nauert, the Department Spokesperson noted that Nigeria and Cameroon have violated the rights of the detainees by forcibly repatriating them back to their countries of origin.
It however, urged both countries to respect the human rights of the detainees and follow due process in handling their matter, while urging them to refrain from embarking on forceful repatriation of asylum-seekers.
"We also call on the Government of Cameroon to respect the human rights, including due process, of the 47 Cameroonians forcibly returned from Nigerian custody to the Cameroonian authorities on Jan. 26.
"This is in addition to many of whom had reportedly submitted asylum claims in Nigeria.
"We urge the Governments of Cameroon and Nigeria to adhere to their obligations under international law to refrain from forcible returns to asylum-seekers back to their countries of origin.
"The 47 Cameroonians are now held in detention in Cameroon allegedly in connection with tension and violence in North West and South West Regions.
"We expect the government of Cameroon to afford these and other individuals previously detained all the rights and protections enshrined in Cameroon's constitution, consistent with the nation's international obligations and commitments."
The U.S. condemned the ongoing violence in Cameroon's Anglophone regions, including the murder of two Cameroonian gendarmes in the North West Region village of Mbingo.
It also condemned the murder of a Cameroonian soldier outside of Bamenda on Feb. 1, and an electoral official of Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) in Bangem.
The U.S. further condemned the reported deaths of four civilians in Bemenda and Belo on Feb. 2 and 3.
"We offer our deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and to the people of Cameroon," it said. (NAN)
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Dame Fashion won't stop at anything — so she's skipped right past shoe tops and now three or four rows of fur on Milady's stocking is the latest.
Do you think it shocking — we mean the stocking. Just glance at the illustration.
The new style, so far, is only used on filmy, thin stockings to be worn with a dancing frock and slippers.
An endless variety of kinds of furs are called into use by the new fad for one's stockings must match the color of one's evening frock and, of course, the fur must be of the same color as the stockings.
Three rows of fur are most popular, but four rows are quite proper. And do they show? Of course they do, when one tangoes in a dress with the latest full-blown or hoop-skirted effect.


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Gaffer Relishing Festive Fixtures
Ahead of an exciting set of festive fixtures for his side, Gary Johnson is looking forward to his side continuing their excellent run of form.
Table-topping Torquay United take on Yeovil Town at home on Boxing Day, before making the relatively short visits to Weymouth on December 28th, and for the return match against The Glovers on January 2nd.
With the next immediate fixture always taking precedence, The Gulls' boss is focusing on the return to Plainmoor first, where the Yellow Army will once again be in attendance for what promises to be a gripping West Country derby against one of his former clubs.
"I'm looking forward to the game, I always look forward to Christmas games" began Johnson.
"Their last result was a decent one at Bromley. They find themselves near the bottom of the table, but they'll be looking to climb back up the table if they can.
"However, we've got a squad that's very much looking forward to the game, and it's fantastic that we are, at this moment in time, one of only two teams that can have fans in the stadium – us and Weymouth. Hopefully those fans will get behind the lads, I know they will, as the Christmas period is a great period to pick up points.
"We won't take Yeovil lightly, as we know from last year. The wounded animal – at this moment in time – is dangerous, but we have to play our own game, and cope with theirs."
With Boxing Day marking the final home game in what has been a challenging year for all concerned, the gaffer sent a festive message out to all of the Yellow Army, with a positive 2021 very much on the agenda.
"Despite all the circumstances, I hope you have a Merry Christmas, and a much happier New Year!"
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The cheapest flight from San José to London Heathrow was found 40 days before departure, on average.
High season is considered to be June, July and August. The cheapest month to fly is April.
How long does a flight from San José to London Heathrow take?
An average nonstop flight takes 10h 20m, covering a distance of 5356 miles.
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American Airlines (1 times daily), Aer Lingus (1 times daily), Finnair (1 times daily) are the most frequent flyers on this route.
What's the cheapest day of the week to fly San José to London Heathrow?
For San José to London Heathrow, Sunday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Tuesday is the most expensive. Flying from London Heathrow back to San José, the best deals are generally found on Friday, with Tuesday being the most expensive.
Pros: Timely departure; early arrival. Customer service oriented crew. Due to an oversight on the crews' part (turbulence during distribution of meals), my neighbor and I were not provided meals. When they eventually discovered their oversight and our choice of meal was no longer available, they provided us with meals from first class. Applaud owning a mistake and fixing it.
Cons: Chair configuration is appalling. Paid extra to sit in exit row of standard economy, seat 30J (middle seat). Leg room was ample, seat width was adequate (for someone of small stature) but separation from neighboring seats was non-existent. My neighbors on either side were both plus-sized. I had nowhere to place my arms and effectively had to sit with my arms folded from SJC to LHR. Room for improvement.
Pros: The entertainment was great. The food was enjoyable and happy to see they offer vegetarian choices. Overall great experience.
Cons: The flight crew was a bit rude and unprofessional. They were short with passengers, they ran my foot over with their cart and hit me in the elbow multiple times because they raced down the aisle with no care. While doing clean up of the food service one stewardess through a piece of food on me. She was aiming for their bin and shot too high. It landed on me and they just walked away. Pretty unprofessional.
Cons: No complementary water on Baird.
Pros: Comfort. Entertainment. Service. Comfort. Did i mention it was comfortable? Also dark. Very dark. Which is exactly what you need on a long flight. Food was also exceptionally good for an airline. The bathrooms were also clean and had nice sinks.
Pros: Flying in 787 is always a joy. Quiet; great movie and music selection; nice contemporary user interface.
Cons: The seat legroom was not the worst I had but sleeping in the chair was somehow very hard. I think the seat needed a little more backward inclination. There was a headrest, which was a good idea but didn't work out as expected.
Cons: Changed flight , couldn't check in. I bought ticked on kayak but vayama was the actual ticket seller on behalf of Iberia which is a British airlines company. I couldn't check and and customer service of vayama didn't want to help and asked me to call Iberia. I called Iberia and after staying on hold for 40 min they told me to use the same confirmation number of Iberia flight on British airlines website. After a long day and a long and expensive uber ride I made it to sfo to see the flight has been delayed... never ever ever going to buy an international flight from Iberia, and very hesitant about kayak redirecting sales.
Pros: Large seats, fast service.
Cons: Nasty food! Frozen solid salad.
Pros: Movie selection was great!
Cons: Short staffed. No coffee with breakfast! Cream and sugar on tray. Flight from London to Stockholm delayed one hour due to air traffic!
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Q: I need some guidance in the Future Asynchronous Calls with flutter and dart, sometimes things happen out of order The following code works fine, because it return only a simple list, but in some cases that I need to do nested Firebase calls, I can't make things happen in the right order, and the main return statement comes incomplete. What can I do to improve my Future Asynchronous Calls?
Future<List<MyNotification>> getNotifications() async {
    var uid = await FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser();

    List<MyNotification> tempNots = await Firestore.instance
        .collection("notifications")
        .where("targetUsers", arrayContains: uid.uid)
        .getDocuments()
        .then((x) {
      List<MyNotification> tempTempNots = [];
      if (x.documents.isNotEmpty) {
        for (var not in x.documents) {
          tempTempNots.add(MyNotification.fromMap(not));
        }
      }
      return tempTempNots = [];
    });
    return tempNots;
  }

A: The most important thing; don't use then inside your async functions. I modified your code like this;
Future<List<MyNotification>> getNotifications() async {
  // Using the type definition is better.
  FirebaseUser user = await FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser();

  // The return type of getDocuments is a QuerySnapshot
  QuerySnapshot querySnapshot = await Firestore.instance
      .collection("notifications")
      .where("targetUsers", arrayContains: user.uid)
      .getDocuments();

  List<MyNotification> tempTempNots = [];

  if (querySnapshot.documents.isNotEmpty) {
    for (DocumentSnapshot not in querySnapshot.documents) {
      tempTempNots.add(MyNotification.fromMap(not));
    }
  }
 return tempTempNots;
}

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If the ectopic pregnancy is of risk to rupture or it has already ruptured in a fallopian tube, an appropriate treatment is a surgery, because, in this situation, it is life-threatening. It is also an only way for the women who have high hCG levels, damaged fallopian tubes, severe symptoms or ruptured fallopian tubes.
You can be lined up to have the laparoscopic surgery which involves the very small cut and tiny camera where no damage to the fallopian tube will occur. Surgeons prefer using this method instead of doing the surgery with the larger cut. But to some cases, this is not possible. If the tube been severely damaged or has ruptured and you have had serious bleeding, you will probably require emergency surgery using the bigger incision. When using this method, the surgeons may have to remove the fallopian tube.
Once the surgery is done, the doctors will now watch the hCG levels to ensure they're going down and confirm the pregnancy was removed well. There are some women who need the methotrexate injection, therefore, everything comes to normal.
Once all is done you need to communicate with the doctor when you want to conceive again. About ten to twenty percent of the women are known to have repeat ectopic pregnancy; the doctor may require you to come for the early checkup in the next pregnancy to confirm that a sac is in the uterus.


This week's Dvar Torah on Parashat Metzora is written by Rabbi Norman Lipson, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Dor Dorim in Weston, and one of our talented Melton & More faculty members. He will be teaching a 4-session Summer mini-course on "Poetry For Fun and Prophet" starting Mondays, July 8, 10:30am-12:00noon at Temple Judea and Tuesdays, July 9, 10:30am-12:00noon at Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center.
Metzora is one of the most unpopular Torah portions for B'nai Mitzvah students preparing Torah summaries, rabbis working on a Shabbat sermon, or for the individual who volunteers to write a Dvar Torah on it [note to self!].
Conducted during the Temple period and before, the above-mentioned rituals came to an abrupt end with the Destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. and the subsequent Diaspora of our People. The burgeoning Pharisaic/Rabbinic system of non-sacrificial based Judaism, maintaining a radically different understanding and reinterpretation of not only the word "Metzora" but also the process and symbolism of its purification procedure, brilliantly transformed Metzora from a physical into a spiritual and societal illness.
Beginning with the premise that the meaning of Metzora is from two Hebrew words [connected to its root letters]: Motzi Ra- Bringing forth/speaking evil, the Rabbis then deduced that the disease of which the Torah speaks, is obviously… Gossip!
According to Rabbinic understanding, the destructive spread of Metzora/ Gossip begins its destructive rampage by ironically, first infecting the one who spreads gossip. If unchecked, it next seeps into the very essence of the individual, symbolized by its infecting his possessions. If further unchecked, the Metzora eventually causes the destruction of his home.
Motzi Ra- the plague of Gossip is ultimately karmic, in that it destroys not only the innocent, but also the originator of the gossip as well.
Two such cautionary examples are especially poignant for us.
Moral: One needs absolutely nothing-- neither fame, fortune, material goods, nor any activity-- to feel Arrogance.
Metzora will always remain one of the most unpopular Torah portions for B'nai Mitzvah students preparing Torah summaries, rabbis working on a Shabbat sermon, or for the individual who volunteers to write a D'var Torah upon it. Nevertheless, it will also remain as an excellent example of the Rabbinic process at work, as it continually molds, remolds and remolds again, the ever living words of Torah, warning us of the plagues within society, theMetzora of gossip and arrogance and our ever present attraction to them.


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Q: How to debug: Multiple assemblies with equivalent identity have been imported? I just upgraded an MVC project from .NET 4.0 to 4.5 and I'm getting some errors when trying to build.
I have no idea where to start debugging this, so any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Or a solution, of course.

Multiple assemblies
  with equivalent identity have been imported:
  'C:[PATH]\packages\Microsoft.Bcl.1.1.10\lib\net40\System.IO.dll' and
  'C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference
  Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5\Facades\System.IO.dll'.
  Remove one of the duplicate references. [projectname]
  C:[PATH][PROJECTNAME]\CSC
Multiple assemblies
  with equivalent identity have been imported:
  'C:[PATH]\packages\Microsoft.Bcl.1.1.10\lib\net40\System.Runtime.dll'
  and 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference
  Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5\Facades\System.Runtime.dll'.
  Remove one of the duplicate references. [projectname]
  C:[PATH][PROJECTNAME]\CSC
Multiple assemblies
  with equivalent identity have been imported:
  'C:[PATH]\packages\Microsoft.Bcl.1.1.10\lib\net40\System.Threading.Tasks.dll'
  and 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference
  Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5\Facades\System.Threading.Tasks.dll'.
  Remove one of the duplicate references. [projectname]
  C:[PATH][PROJECTNAME]\CSC

What I've Tried
When I googled the error, this often seemed to be mentioned in relation to EF, so I tried uniinstalling that, and undating to the latest version, but this didn't have any noticable effect.
I also tried updating a bunch of nuget packages to the latest versions, but again, this didn't seem to have any noticable effect.
I have also tried uninstalling Microsoft.Bcl, but it won't let me because:

Unable to uninstall 'Microsoft.Bcl.1.1.10' because
  'Microsoft.Net.Http.2.2.29' depends on it.

Finally, it seems related to this question, but there is no answer there, and TBH even the question is slightly over my head!
Update
I read this (recommended uninstalling and reinstalling Bcl packages).
I unistalled Microsoft.Net.Http.2.2.29 and the bcl packages.  The project built, but when running it locally I got:

Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Helpers' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)

So I reinstalled them. But now I'm still getting the same error message!
I installed System-Web-Helpers.dll to no effect.

A: I have been struggling for a day with this problem.
Reinstalling the bcl nuget package did not help i got the same error
The solution was to unload the project open the csproj file and remove the references by hand (remove all three packages):
    <Reference Include="Microsoft.Threading.Tasks">
      <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.Bcl.Async.1.0.14-rc\lib\net40\Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>

You also need to reinstall them. This step is only if the build doesen't work after package reinstallation


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The tech giants of silicon valley design their products to hook even the most sophisticated adults. Imagine then, the influence these devices have on the developing minds of young people. Touted as tools of the future that kids must master to ensure a job in the new economy, they are in reality the culprits, stealing our children's attention, making them anxious, agitated, and depressed.
What's worse, schools across the country are going digital under the assumption that a tablet with a wi-fi connection is what's lacking in our education system. Add to that the legion of dangers invited by unregulated access to the internet, and it becomes clear that our screen-saturated culture is eroding some of the most important aspects of childhood.
In Be the Parent, Please, former New York Post and Wall Street Journal writer Naomi Schaefer Riley draws from her experience as a mother of three and delves into the latest research on the harmful effects that excessive technology usage has on a child's intellectual, social, and moral formation. Throughout each chapter, she backs up her discussion with "tough mommy tips"—realistic advice for parents who want to take back control from tech.
With the alluring array of gadgets, apps, and utopian promises expanding by the day, engulfing more and more of our lives, Be the Parent, Please is both a wakeup call and an indispensable guide for parents who care about the healthy development of their children.
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Savings Groups provide access to basic financial services in underserved markets and contribute to both financial inclusion and broader development objectives. The community-managed model requires minimal infrastructure and no long-term investment, and it and reaches poorer and more vulnerable populations than formal financial service providers (FSPs).
Recent evidence, however, suggests mixed results of Savings Group programs to target and effectively serve more vulnerable populations. Building on the State of Practice Report: Savings Groups and the Dynamics of Inclusion, this webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of Savings Groups and the dynamics of inclusion and describe effective and promising strategies, approaches and tools to improve the outreach and outcomes of Savings Groups among marginalized populations. The webinar will identify lessons and good practices – including smart targeting and outreach strategies, and straightforward adaptations to project design and group methodology – that enable Savings Group interventions to better reach and serve the world's most vulnerable people, including the extreme poor, people with disabilities, and forcibly displaced people.