Want to get rid of earwigs inside and outside?
If you have never heard of an earwig before you may think they are little wigs that go over the ears to keep the ears warm, but that is so far from the truth. Earwigs are actually little insects you can find throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Superstition has it that these long skinny insects crawl into the ears of humans while they are sleeping and that is how the insect got their name, but both those facts are myths. Their scientific name is actually skin wings because they have a pair of pincers on their abdomens and membranous wings with short forewings folded under the first set of wings.
Many people find these insects to be pests because these nocturnal bugs do damage to vegetable, fruit and flower gardens as well as foliage on bushes and fruit trees and beautiful green vines that take years to grow. If able, these insects love making their way into homes and hanging out in kitchen cabinets, the pantry and in grains such as cereals, flours, oats and rice. Farmers hate these insects because they can destroy crops.
Thankfully, there are methods that are helpful when it comes to preventing the insects, or getting rid of them.
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What are some useful methods for preventing and ridding earwigs?
Keeping outdoor lights off at nighttime when they are not being used at all because these insects are attracted to warm lights.
Destroy earwig nest and eggs using sea salt, bleach or pesticides before they create an infestation inside your home.
Eliminate places the insects can hide to help keep them out of gardens and large crop fields.
Remove old dead logs, brush and piles of leaves from the yard to help prevent them from being attracted to your yard.
Spray insecticide around the foundation of your home or areas you desire to keep the insects away from.
Plant mint plants around your yard, garden or fieldsKeeping pantry items sealed up in containers or zip lock bags.
Fill in cracks and holes with cocking within the foundation of your home, barn, sheds or any other structural place you wish to keep them away from.
If you have a centipede infestation get rid of it fast since centipedes tend to attract earwigs.
Eliminate high moisture areas on your property and inside your home.
I need urgent earwigs control for my place!
There are many methods you can use too prevent and rid earwigs than the ones just discussed. If you have tried some of the methods above and none of them works, you can always do more research to come across some other tried methods that have worked for other people such as getting chickens.
Chickens love eating insects and do wonders for keeping the insect population down within yard and on a farm. Other people have tried spraying pesticides around their home in early spring and summer to help repel the earwigs away to prevent them from even entering onto their property and raising hell.
However, you have to find the method you prefer and works best for you home, yard, garden or crops.


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Q: How do I use the result of idata.frame()? I'd like to use the much-praised idata.frame() function to speed up some large plyr functions, but it's not returning an immutable data frame in the form that I'm expecting.
All the examples I've seen suggest that I can just assign idata.frame(baseball) to a new variable and start working with it, but I'm getting unexpected results from the function:
> ibb <- idata.frame(baseball)
> str(ibb)
Classes 'idf', 'environment' <environment: 0x0d0f15d8>
> ibb
<environment: 0x0d0f15d8>
attr(,"class")
[1] "idf"         "environment"

Thanks for any tips. I'm using R version 2.14.1 with plyr 1.7.1.
EDIT: in the example above, it's possible to run ddply(idata.frame(ibb), .(year), "nrow") successfully, so the immutable object is working as expected in that regard. I'm wondering why certain data.frame behavior isn't available, and if there's any documentation as to the difference.

A: I wouldn't expect much beyond the plyr functions that Hadley wrote to handle idata.frame to work. I don't think Hadley wrote methods for anything beyond his own plyr functions, and even then his own documentation states that it is experimental.
If you want a more complete integration with data.frame, Matthew Dowle is right, use data.table.

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Sparta est une localité située dans le comté de Gallatin (Kentucky) et le Comté d'Owen (Kentucky) dans l'état du Kentucky.

Sa population était de 231 habitants en 2000. À proximité on trouve le circuit automobile Kentucky Speedway.

Notes et références

Comté de Gallatin (Kentucky)
Comté d'Owen (Kentucky)

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Microsoft cuts cloud game streaming bandwidth by over 80%
By Matthew Humphries 05.25.2015 :: 12:31PM EDT 05.25.2015
@mthwgeek
Game streaming is quite a wasteful way of playing games if you think about it. Rather than using the processing power inside whatever device you are playing a game on, you instead stream it from a remote server that does all the work. That in turn requires a lot of bandwidth to ensure a buffering-free play experience.
You'd think a company like Sony would be at the forefront of game streaming tech breakthroughs due to its PlayStation Now service, but it's actually Microsoft that's pushing game streaming forward. Working with a researcher at Duke University, they've managed to cut the bandwidth required to stream graphics-intensive games by over 80%, or just one-sixth of what was previously required.
The bandwidth reduction is thanks to a new tool called Kahawai, which is the Hawaiian word meaning "stream." It works using the simple concept that not all the work should be done remotely while a game is being played. Instead, the performance contained in the hardware local to the player, e.g. their games console or smartphone/tablet, should help.
Kahawai enables collaborative rendering, which means that instead of the server doing all the work, the rendering load is split with the GPU in the player's device. The server is still doing most of the heavy lifting with regards to shadows, texture mapping, and fine-grain details, but the local GPU can provide the graphical basics of a level, what the research team refers to as the "rough sketch."
The splitting of workload makes a huge difference to the amount of data that needs to be streamed without having any impact on how each game plays. An experiment was done using Kahawai with Doom 3 streamed at 60fps, and there was no discernible difference between streaming with and without Kahawai enabled except for a very large saving on the streamed data total.
This is great news for mobile gamers especially as it will save them a lot of data on their capped contracts, albeit it at the cost of increased battery use. It also means games could run more reliably on slower connections with the graphics level adjusted accordingly. There's also many applications beyond gaming, for example, in the fields of medical imaging and computer-aided design.
Kahawai

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Q: Deleted branch in GitX, now can't leave branch in terminal I deleted my active branch in GitX, and now I can't seem to get out of it in the terminal.
When I try to check out any other branch, it tells me I have unstashed changes -- but I can't stash them (I get "fatal: bad revision 'HEAD'").
I've tried to re-create the branch, but then I get "fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born"
And I've tried to merely check out the branch, but of course, since it's deleted, I can't.
How can I get un-stuck?

A: I faced the same issue. When I was trying to checkout to other branch I got
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
 message. I did a sample commit on a local branch (which is already deleted) but did not push the changes. And then I was able to checkout to some other branch. Now you can delete the local branch.

A: git reset --hard [SHA of previous master commit]


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Minor signs of wear consistent with age and some stains to the bag's interior. Otherwise good vintage condition.


Free Anckaert's playlist #12: TR/ST, Kedr Livanskiy, mgz and more!
As sure you can be the best pop comes from Sweden, that how it's a certainty the best weird electropop find its origin in Canada. TR/ST is one of my all time favorites and with "Bicep", he's going more coldwave than ever. The fast rhythmic baseline, ominous dark synths draped with the shrill-ish voice of Robert Alfons bring enough new and classic TR/ST elements to call it one of his best songs ever.
Since her marvellous debut EP "January Sun", Yana Kedrani aka Kedr Livanskiy is one of my new favourite ambient though melodic electronic singers/producers. Not as catchy and straightforward as Kelly Lee Owens but compensating with lots of weirdness and dusty noises – recalling the early Grimes – she sounds very 'now', as even the dreampop shoegaze influences are there. "Ariadna" is the melancholic though euphoric sad song of the two, "Love & Cigarettes" the opening song at a dark hipster club.
My discovery of this week: YOUNG VIBEZ. A Spanish collective/label mixing latin American uplifting vibes with the new hipster-gabber trend. Not a lot is known about the collective, but I wanna dance on their VIBEZZZZ.


I love Apologia Educational Ministries so when I was given the chance to review their Ultimate Homeschool Planner (Orange Cover), I was excited to say the least! The Ultimate Homeschool Planner is not a small little flimsy planner. It is about the size of a "5 Star" 5 subject notebook. It has a variety of planner "modes" inside, transcript helps, suggestions of 8-12th courses, Bible scripture, etc. You are given the ability to plan for up to 6 children with this planner, but it is perfectly suitable for less, as well. The Orange and Blue covers allow for 48 weeks of planning, while the yellow cover allows for 52 weeks. This is part planner and part journal, all combined together! In addition to all of that, it's just right down pretty to look at! For this review, I received one Orange Cover planner.
Now, I'm not a planner person. Remember? HAHA! I always forget to use them, or I lose them, or they just don't have what I need in them. Well, that's not the case with The Ultimate Homeschool Planner. This planner is not easy to lose. It is not huge, but it's not small and pocket sized either. A pocket sized version, or companion, would be FANTASTIC though! (Hint Hint Apologia?!) This is about the size of a 5 subject notebook, to give a comparison analogy. Inside, the pages are just as pretty as the cover! These are the boring old black and white sterile planner pages you may be used to! While you can use this to plan for up to 6 students, it is perfectly suitable for only 1 or 2. That is usually not the case with planners that allow that many students. I often find myself with a lot of additional pages, etc. that I don't need or use. But this planner is not like that at all. These are works of art, with inspiring Bible scriptures on the pages.
This is on one of the first pages. I really like the emphasis that is placed on God and family. My only complaint, not every homeschool teacher is a mom (There are dads, too!) and not every mom is married. It is a pet peeve of sorts when I read things such as "The remaining steps are designed to help you execute and maintain the plan you and your husband set." I was once a single homeschooling mother, and a line such as this may have put me off somewhat. And I also think of the husbands who are doing the educating, again this line is a little out of place. I'm sure that is just nit picky at worst, but I personally feel it is an issue that could be addressed easily by deleting the "and your husband" phrase. Other than that, I really do appreciate the emphasis placed on family time.
From the first page, there are words of encouragement.
I also really enjoy the verses and quotes that are spread through out.
The Monthly calendars are pretty great for keeping track of appointments, especially for us with all of the doctor appointments B has had lately. It's nice to have everything right there.
Here is a shot of part of the weekly planner. I like the amount of space I'm given for each day, and the note section on the right hand side.
This is my favorite part of the weekly planner. It's what I call my personal Bible Battle Plan! It's also the journal area. Here is where I jot down happy memories, funny things, or even things that have bothered me.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the pockets on the insides of both covers. GREAT for holding the week's printed work!
There are numerous areas for resource lists, field trips and outings, reading lists, and even a plan for 8th-12th grade classes. Here are a few photos that show those.
Finally, this is my personal copy!
Overall, I have found this to be a really useful planner chalked full of goodies that I never knew I needed, but I do! The pockets on the side is a great addition to hold the week's printed work. I can put what needs done on one side and allow Mr. B to put what needs graded on the other. It's a great system. I love the resource lists, and of course my Personal Bible Battle Plan! I really like this planner, and hope to use it for a long time to come!