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Since the 1980s, the term "blockbuster" has become the fashionable word for the special spectacular museum, art gallery or science centre exhibitions. These exhibitions have the ability to attract large crowds and often large corporate sponsors. Here is one of some existing definitions of a blockbuster: Put by Elsen (1984), a blockbuster is a "… large scale loan exhibition that people who normally don't go to museums will stand in line for hours to see …" James Rosenfield, writing in Direct Marketing in 1993, has described a successful blockbuster exhibition as a "… triumph of both curatorial and marketing skills …" My own definition for a blockbuster is "a popular, high profile exhibition on display for a limited period, that attracts the general public, who are prepared to both stand in line and pay a fee in order to partake in the exhibition." What both Elsen and Rosenfield omit in their descriptions of a blockbuster, is that people are prepared to pay a fee to see a blockbuster and that the term blockbuster can just as easily apply to a movie or a museum exhibition.
Merely naming an exhibition or movie a blockbuster, however, does not make it a blockbuster. The term can only apply when the item in question has had an overwhelmingly successful response from the public. However, in literature from both the UK and USA the other words that also start to appear in descriptions of a blockbuster are "less scholarly", "non-elitist" and "popularist". Detractors argue that blockbusters are designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator, while others extol the virtues of encouraging scholars to cooperate on projects and to provide exhibitions that cater for a broad selection of the community rather than an elite sector.
Maintaining and increasing visitor levels is paramount in the new museology. This requires continued product development. Not only the creation or hiring of blockbuster exhibitions but regular exhibition changes and innovations. In addition, the visiting public has become customers rather than visitors, and the skills that are valued in museums, science centres and galleries to keep the new customers coming through the door have changed. High on the list of requirements are commercial, business, marketing and entrepreneurial skills. Curators are now administrators. Being a director of an art gallery no longer requires an Arts Degree. As succinctly summarised in the Economist in 1994 "business nous and public relation skills" were essential requirements for a director, and the ability to compete with other museums to stage travelling exhibitions which draw huge crowds.
The new museology has resulted in the convergence of museums, the heritage industry, and tourism, profit-making and pleasure-giving. This has given rise to much debate about the appropriateness of adopting the activities of institutions so that they more closely reflect the priorities of the market place and whether it is appropriate to see museums primarily as tourist attractions. At many institutions, you can now hold office functions in the display areas, or have dinner with the dinosaurs. Whatever commentators may think, managers of museums, art galleries and science centres worldwide are looking for artful ways to blend culture and commerce, and blockbuster exhibitions are at the top of the list. But while blockbusters are all part of the new museology, there is proof that you don't need a museum, science centre or art gallery to benefit from the drawing power of a blockbuster or to stage a blockbuster.
But do blockbusters held in public institutions really create a surplus to fund other activities? If the bottom line is profit, then according to the accounting records of many major museums and galleries, blockbusters do make money. For some museums overseas, it may be the money that they need to update parts of their collections or to repair buildings that are in need of attention. For others in Australia, it may be the opportunity to illustrate that they are attempting to pay their way, by recovering part of their operating costs or funding other operating activities with off-budget revenue. This makes the economic rationalists cheerful. However, not all exhibitions that are hailed to be blockbusters will be blockbusters, and some will not make money. It is also unlikely that the accounting systems of most institutions will recognise the real cost of either creating or hiring a blockbuster.
Blockbusters require large capital expenditure, and draw on resources across all branches of an organisation; however, the costs don't end there. There is a Human Resource Management cost in addition to a measurable 'real' dollar cost. Receiving a touring exhibition involves large expenditure as well, and draws resources from across functional management structures in project management style. everyone from a general labourer to a building servicing unit, the front of the house, technical, promotion, education and administration staff, are required to perform additional tasks. Furthermore, as an increasing number of institutions in Australia try their hand at increasing visitor numbers, memberships (and therefore revenue), by staging blockbuster exhibitions, it may be less likely that blockbusters will continue to provide a surplus to subsidise other activities due to the competitive nature of the market. There are only so many consumer dollars to go around, and visitors will need to choose between blockbuster products.
Unfortunately, when the bottom-line is the most important objective to the mounting of blockbuster exhibitions, this same objective can be hard to maintain. Creating, mounting or hiring blockbusters is exhausting for staff, with the real costs throughout an institution difficult to calculate. Although the direct aims may be financial, creating or hiring a blockbuster has many positive spin-offs; by raising their profile through a popular blockbuster exhibition, a museum will be seen in a more favorable light at budget time. Blockbusters mean crowds, and crowds are good for the local economy, providing increased employment for shops, hotels, restaurants, the transport industry and retailers. Blockbusters expose staff to the vagaries and pressures of the market place and may lead to creative excellence. Either the success or failure of a blockbuster may highlight the need for managers and policymakers to rethink their strategies. However, the new museology and the apparent trend towards blockbusters make it likely that museums, art galleries and particularly science centres will be seen as part of the entertainment and tourism industry, rather than as cultural icons deserving of government and philanthropic support.
Perhaps the best pathway to take is one that balances both blockbusters and regular exhibitions. However, this easy middle ground may only work if you have enough space, and have alternate sources of funding to continue to support the regular less exciting fare. Perhaps the advice should be to make sure that your regular activities and exhibitions are more enticing, and find out what your local community wants from you. The question (trend) now at most museums and science centres, is "What blockbusters can we tour to overseas venues and will it be cost-effective?"
The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-H
Which paragraphs contains the following information?
Write the correct letter A-H, in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once.
1 A reason for changing the exhibition programs.
2 The time people have to wait in a queue in order to enjoy exhibitions.
3 Terms people used when referring to the blockbuster
4 There was some controversy over confining target groups of a blockbuster.
Instead of being visitors, people turned out to be 5……………………………., who require the creation or hiring of blockbuster exhibitions as well as regular exhibition changes and innovations. Business nous and 6………………………….. simply summarized in a magazine are not only important factors for directors but also an ability to attract a crowd of audiences. 7………………………… has contributed to the linking of museums, the heritage industry, tourism, profit-making and pleasure-giving. There occurs some controversy over whether it is proper to consider museums mainly as 8…………………………….
Choose TWO letters A-E.
Write your answer in boxes 9-10 on your answer sheet.
The list below gives some advantages of a blockbuster.
Which TWO advantages are mentioned by the writer of the text?
A To offer sufficient money to repair architectures.
B To maintain and increase visitor levels.
C Presenting the mixture in the culture and commerce of art galleries and science centres worldwide.
D Being beneficial for the development of local business.
E Being beneficial for the directors.
Choose THREE letters A-F.
Write your answer in boxes 11-13 on your answer sheet.
The list below gives some disadvantages of a blockbuster.
Which THREE disadvantages are mentioned by the writer of the text?
A People left hesitated to choose exhibitions.
B Workers has become tired of workloads.
C The content has become more entertaining rather than cultural.
D General labourers are required to perform additional tasks
E Huge amounts of capital invested in specialists.
F Exposing staff to the fantasies and pressures of the market place.
Thanks to modern remote-sensing techniques, a ruined city in Turkey is slowly revealing itself as one of the greatest and most mysterious cities of the ancient world. Sally Palmer uncovers more.
The low granite mountain, known as Kerkenes Dag, juts from the northern edge of the Cappadocian plain in Turkey. Sprawled over the mountainside are the ruins of an enormous city, contained by crumbling defensive walls seven kilometers long. Many respected archaeologists believe these are the remains of the fabled city of Pteria, the sixth-century BC stronghold of the Medes that the Greek historian Herodotus described in his famous work The Histories. The short-lived city came under Median control and only fifty years later was sacked, burned and its strong stone walls destroyed.
British archaeologist Dr Geoffrey Summers has spent ten years studying the site. Excavating the ruins is a challenge because of the vast area they cover. The 7 km perimeter walls run around a site covering 271 hectares. Dr Summers quickly realised it would take far too long to excavate the site using traditional techniques alone. So he decided to use modern technology as well to map the entire site, both above and beneath the surface, to locate the most interesting areas and priorities to start digging.
In 1993, Dr Summers hired a special hand-held balloon with a remote-controlled camera attached. He walked over the entire site holding the balloon and taking photos. The one afternoon, he rented a hot-air balloon and floated over the site, taking yet more pictures. By the end of the 1994 season, Dr Summers and his team had a jigsaw of aerial photographs of the whole site. The next stage was to use remote sensing, which would let them work out what lay below the intriguing outlines and ruined walls. "Archaeology is a discipline that lends itself very well to remote sensing because it revolves around space," says Scott Branting, an associate director of the project. He started working with Dr Summers in 1995.
The project used two main remote-sensing techniques. The first is magnetometry, which works on the principle that magnetic fields at the surface of the Earth are influenced by what is buried beneath. It measures localised variations in the direction and intensity of this magnetic field. "The Earth's magnetic field can vary from place to place, depending on what happened there in the past," says Branting. "if something containing iron oxide was heavily burnt, by natural or human actions, the iron particles in it can be permanently reoriented, like a compass needle, to align with the Earth's magnetic field present at that point in time and space.' The magnetometer detects differences in the orientations and intensities of these iron particles from the present-day magnetic field and uses them to produce an image of what lies below ground.
Kirkenes Dag lends itself particularly well to magnetometry because it was all burnt at once in a savage fire. In places, the heat was sufficient to turn sandstone to glass and to melt granite. The fire was so hot that there were strong magnetic signatures set to the Earth's magnetic field from the time – around 547 BC – resulting in extremely clear pictures. Furthermore, the city was never rebuilt. "if you have multiple layers confusing picture because you have different walls from different periods giving signatures that all go in different directions," says Branting. "We only have one going down about 1.5 meters, so we can get a good picture of this fairly short-lived city."
The other main sub-surface mapping technique, which is still being used at the site, is resistivity. This technique measures the way electrical pulses are conducted through sub-surface oil. It's done by shooting pulses into the ground through a thin metal probe. Different materials have different electrical conductivity. For example, stone and mudbrick are poor conductors, but looser, damp soil conducts very well. By walking around the site and taking about four readings per metre, it is possible to get a detailed idea of what is where beneath the surface. The teams then build up pictures of walls, hearths and other remains. "It helps a lot if it has rained because the electrical pulse can get through more easily," says Branting. "Then if something is more resistant, it really shows up." This is one of the reasons that the project has a spring season when most of the resistivity work is done. Unfortunately, testing resistivity is a lot slower than magnetometry. "If we did resistivity over the whole site it would take about 100 years," says Branting. Consequently, the team is concentrating on areas where they want to clarify pictures from the magnetometry.
Remote sensing does not reveal everything about Kerkenes Dag, but it shows the most interesting sub-surface areas of the site. The archaeologists can then excavate these using traditional techniques. One surprise came when they dug out one of the fates in the defensive walls. "Our observations in early seasons led us to assume that wall, such as would be found at most other cities in the Ancient Near East," says Dr Summers. "When we started to excavate we were staggered to discover that the walls were made entirely from stone and that the gate would have stood at least ten metres high. After ten years of study, Pteria is gradually giving up its secrets."
The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-G
Write the correct letter A-G, in boxes 14-17 on your answer sheet.
14 The reason why various investigative methods are introduced.
15 An example of an unexpected discovery.
16 The methods to survey the surface of the site from above.
17 The reason why experts want to study the site.
Exploring the Ancient City of Pteria
The relevant work was done ten years ago. To begin with, experts took photos of the site from the ground and then from a distance in a 18…………………………… To find out what lay below the surface, they used two leading techniques. One was magnetometer, which identifies changes in the magnetic field. These changes occur when the 19…………………………… in buried structures have changed direction as a result of great heat. They match with the magnetic field, which is similar to a 20………………………….
The other one was resistivity, which uses a 21…………………………….. to fire electrical pulses into the earth. The principle is that building materials like 22………………………… and stone do not conduct electricity well, while 23……………………………. does this much better. Archaeologists preferred to use this technique during the 24……………………………………, when conditions are more favourable. Resistivity is mainly being used to 25……………………………….. some images generated by the magnetometer.
How do modern remote-sensing techniques help at the site?
A They avoid the need for experts to dig any part of the site.
B They bring parts of the site into the light so that key areas can be researched further.
C They show minute buried objects for the archaeologists to dig up.
D They make the investigation more flexible as they can be used at any time of year.
Knowledge in medicine
What counts as knowledge? What do we mean when we say that we know something? What is the status of different kinds of knowledge? In order to explore these questions, we are going to focus on one particular area of knowledge – medicine.
How do you know when you are ill? This may seem to be an absurd question. You know you are ill because you feel ill; your body tells you that you are ill. You may know that you feel pain or discomfort but knowing you are ill is a bit more complex. At times, people experience the symptoms of illness, but in fact, they are simply tired or over-worked or they may just have a hangover. At other times, people may be suffering from a disease and fail to be aware of the illness until it has reached a late stage in its development. So how do we know we are ill, and what counts as knowledge?
Think about this example. You feel unwell. You have a bad cough and always seem to be tired. Perhaps it could be stress at work, or maybe you should give up smoking. You feel worse. You visit the doctor who listens to your chest and heart, takes your temperature and blood pressure, and then finally prescribes antibiotics for your cough.
Things do not improve but you struggle on thinking you should pull yourself together, perhaps things will ease off at work soon. A return visit to your doctor shocks you. This time the doctor, drawing on years of training and experience, diagnoses pneumonia. This means that you will need bed rest and a considerable time off work. The scenario is transformed. Although you still have the same symptoms, you no longer think that these are caused by pressure at work. You know have proof that you are ill. This is the result of the combination of your own subjective experience and the diagnosis of someone who has the status of a medical expert. You have a medically authenticated diagnosis and it appears that you are seriously ill; you know you are ill and have the evidence upon which to base this knowledge.
This scenario shows many different sources of knowledge. For example, you decide to consult the doctor in the first place because you feel unwell – this is personal knowledge about your own body. However, the doctor's expert diagnosis is based on experience and training, with sources of knowledge as diverse as other experts, laboratory reports, medical textbooks and years of experience.
One source of knowledge is the experience of our own bodies; the personal knowledge we have of changes that might be significant, as well as the subjective experiences are mediated by other forms of knowledge such as the words we have available to describe our experience, and the common sense of our families and friends as well as that drawn from popular culture. Over the past decade, for example, Western culture has seen a significant emphasis on stress-related illness in the media. Reference to being 'stressed out' has become a common response in daily exchanges in the workplace and has become part of popular common-sense knowledge. It is thus not surprising that we might seek such an explanation of physical symptoms of discomfort.
We might also rely on the observations of others who know us. Comments from friends and family such as 'you do look ill' or 'that's a bad cough' might be another source of knowledge. Complementary health practices, such as holistic medicine, produce their own sets of knowledge upon which we might also draw in deciding the nature and degree of our ill health and about possible treatments.
Perhaps the most influential and authoritative source of knowledge is the medical knowledge provided by the general practitioner. We expect the doctor to have access to expert knowledge. This is socially sanctioned. It would not be acceptable to notify our employer that we simply felt too unwell to turn up for work or that our faith healer, astrologer, therapist or even our priest thought it was not a good idea. We need an expert medical diagnosis in order to obtain the necessary certificate if we need to be off work for more than the statutory self-certification period. The knowledge of the medical sciences is privileged in this respect in contemporary Western culture. Medical practitioners are also seen as having the required expert knowledge that permits them legally to prescribe drugs and treatment to which patients would not otherwise have access. However, there is a range of different knowledge upon which we draw when making decisions about our own state of health.
However, there is more than existing knowledge in this little story; new knowledge is constructed within it. Given the doctor's medical training and background, she may hypothesize 'is this now pneumonia?' and then proceed to look for evidence about it. She will use observations and instruments to assess the evidence and – critically – interpret it in light of her training and experience. This results in new knowledge and new experience both for you and for the doctor. This will then be added to the doctor's medical knowledge and may help in the future diagnosis of pneumonia.
Complete the table
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 27-32 on your answer sheet
Source of knowledge
Symptoms of a 27………………………… and tiredness
Doctor's measurement by taking 28……………………………. and temperature
Common judgment from 29…………………………… around you
Medical knowledge from the general 30……………………….
e.g. doctor's medical 31…………………………
Examine the medical hypothesis with the previous drill and 32………………………
Write the correct letter A-I, in boxes 33-40 on your answer sheet.
33 the contrast between the nature of personal judgment and the nature of doctor's diagnosis
34 a reference of culture about pressure
35 sick leave will not be permitted without the professional diagnosis
36 how doctors' opinions are regarded in society
37 the illness of patients can become part of new knowledge
38 a description of knowledge drawn from non-specialized sources other than personal knowledge
39 an example of collective judgment from personal experience and professional doctor
40 a reference that some people do not realize they are ill


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Q: Core Data NSPredicate search in multiple Attributes columns I want to search keywords in Hotels Entity in two attributes (hotelName & cityName)
i'm looking for hotel
"The Kensington Studios" is in hotelName Attribute
"London" is cityName Attribute
in search bar, if i type middle of the hotelName and cityName(just like below) it should identify and display the results.
to achieve this, i'm doing like
let charSet = CharacterSet(charactersIn: " ")
let words = searchText.components(separatedBy: charSet)
let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "(hotelName IN %@) OR (cityName IN %@)", words, words)

But its giving empty results.
Please guide me..

A: words object returns [String] array. You have to use each object of the array. So the code should be like

let words = searchText.components(separatedBy: " ")

        var predicateArr = [NSPredicate]()
        for word in words! {
            let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "(hotelName contains [c]) OR (cityName contains [c])", word, word)
            predicateArr.append(predicate)
        }

        let compound = NSCompoundPredicate(orPredicateWithSubpredicates: predicateArr)
        let output = array.filtered(using: compound)

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Myles Kenlock was keen to head out on loan amid a frustrating start to the season but has ended the campaign as an Ipswich Town regular and has earned an extended stay at Portman Road.
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Kenlock played just six minutes of football under former Ipswich boss Paul Hurst and had to wait until the final game of 2018 to make his first appearance under Paul Lambert, but has now started the Blues' last seven games.
With his contract due to expire this summer, the Blues have taken the 12-month extension option in his deal, after the homegrown left-back was able to prove his worth on the pitch.
"It was a frustrating start to the season for me, not playing any football and then picking up an injury, but as the season has gone on I've got back to full fitness and have got some game time and now it's about doing all I can for the team," Kenlock said in an interview with the matchday programme.
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"It was frustrating because all I wanted to do is be out on the pitch playing games. That wasn't happening for me so I would have liked to have had the opportunity to go out on loan but it's worked out for the best as I'm getting games now.
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New Lawmakers to Attend Expert Presentations At Winter Meeting of Legislators from Gaming States, January 4-6 in New Orleans
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NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Council of Legislators from Gaming States ("NCLGS") will welcome new legislators from across the country who want to learn the basics about regulated gaming with a special forum titled "The Big Picture" when the organization holds its Winter Meeting, January 4-6 at Harrah's New Orleans.
Registration and host-hotel reservations for the three-day conference are now open to the public at http://www.nclgs.org/meetings.html.
"With some form of gambling legal in 48 states, it is important for legislators to understand the regulatory, performance, economic and social issues associated with the various forms of gaming. We have assembled a panel of experts in different disciplines to educate new legislators – and refresh more experienced legislators," said NCLGS Vice President Jennifer E. Benson, a Representative from Massachusetts.
The Big Picture will feature presentations on different aspects of the gaming industry. The expert presenters are as follows:
Commercial Casinos: Lynne Levin Kaufman, Partner Cooper Levenson Law Firm
Lotteries: May Scheve Reardon, Executive Director, Missouri Lottery
Sports Betting: Lee Richardson, CEO, Gaming Economics, and Principal, Spectrum Gaming Sports Group
Economic Impacts, Tax Policy: Michael Pollock, Managing Director, Spectrum Gaming Group
Responsible Gaming: Keith Whyte, Executive Director, National Council on Problem Gambling
Indian Gaming: E. Sequoyah Simermeyer, Associate Commissioner, National Indian Gaming Commission
Pari-Mutuels: Eric Hamelback, CEO, National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association
More than 200 attendees, including dozens of state legislators, are expected to attend the three-day NCLGS Winter Meeting. The conference agenda includes:
Keynote Luncheon Address from former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose arguments before the Supreme Court resulted in overturning the federal prohibition on sports betting
Six legislative committee sessions: Casinos, Emerging Forms of Gaming, Lotteries, Pari-Mutuels, Sports Betting/iGaming, and State-Federal Relations
Two Masterclasses presented by the International Masters of Gaming Law
Friday evening welcome reception
Saturday afternoon offsite event
Sunday general session focusing on the relationship between gaming and tourism
To view the NCLGS Winter Meeting agenda, register, and book hotel rooms at the host hotel at special attendee rates, visit http://www.nclgs.org/meetings.html
NCLGS is the only organization of state lawmakers that meets on a regular basis to discuss issues relating to gaming. Members of NCLGS serve as chairpersons or members of state legislative committees responsible for the regulation of gaming in their state legislative houses. NCLGS does not promote or oppose gaming but is primarily concerned with the regulation and economic and social impacts of the industry. The NCLGS Foundation is the educational and research arm of NCLGS. The 501(c)(3) non-profit is a source of non-partisan data on issues of gaming legislation and regulation.
Spectrum Gaming Group, which has performed advisory and consulting work for gaming operators, regulators and legislatures in 36 US states and territories and in 47 countries on six continents, serves as the Executive Director of NCLGS.
SOURCE National Council of Legislators from Gaming States
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Welcome to Paradise Park ...
Paradise Park is located in Santa Cruz County.
Paradise Park is 50 feet [15 m] above sea level.<1>.
Time Zone: Paradise Park lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time
Communities near Paradise Park ...
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance and not the distance if you are driving.<2>.
Ben Lomond [Map] --- NW 5 miles [8 km]
Campbell [Map] 42,466 N 19 miles [30.6 km]
Capitola [Map] 10,080 SE 5 miles [8 km]
Los Gatos [Map] 30,680 N 16 miles [25.7 km]
Monte Sereno [Map] 3,487 N 15 miles [24.1 km]
Opal Cliffs [Map] --- SE 5 miles [8 km]
To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Nearby Page for Paradise Park.
Communities Also Named Paradise Park ...
Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are 9 communities that are also named Paradise Park - they are located in Florida, Georgia (3), Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas and Utah.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Paradise Park.
We have a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Paradise Park. If available, we provide a satellite view of the cemetery.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Paradise Park. Our list includes information such as whether the community had a post office or railroad service in 1895.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Paradise Park.
These sections can be found on our Genealogy Helper Page for Paradise Park:
TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Paradise Park ...
Looking for more information about Paradise Park? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.
While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Paradise Park, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Paradise Park.
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The official website for Santa Cruz County: www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/
The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/
<1> The elevation is an estimate for the area around Paradise Park - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<2> Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Paradise Park) to Point B.
If you need the driving distance (or directions), we recommend that you use one of the Mapping Services listed on our Map Page for Paradise Park. Since we usually use Google Maps, we've provided the following link: Google Map and Driving Directions starting from Paradise Park
Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Paradise Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0106, Longitude: -122.0441 [Map].
<3> Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Paradise Park.


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Washington State poker player stabs four in unprovoked poker-room attack
As we hinted at in our previous post, maybe it's the holiday-season craziness that's bringing out the worst in everyone. From a poker-room robbery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast to a stabbing incident in a poker casino in southwest Washington State, not that far from Portland, Oregon, here we go again.
And it's another 40-something loser at the core of this tale as well. On Monday night, just a few minutes before midnight, 41-year-old Scott Robert Harmier snapped in what authorities called a "random, unprovoked attack," stabbing four people multiple times at the Last Frontier Casino in La Center, Washington.
The Last Frontier Casino is a poker-only room, as many "casinos" offering poker exist up and down the West Coast, and it sits just north of Vancouver, Washington, which is across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. Out of nowhere, in what is the type of random and violent occurrence that every poker player fears, Harmier suddenly pulled out a hunting knife and began stabbing other players at the table.
The Clark County (WA) Sheriff's Department, which ended up arresting Harmier after a high-speed vehicular chase, issued what it calls a "flash statement" about the Last Frontier incident. It starts like this:
"Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency (CRESA) received several 911 calls from people at the casino stating at least three people had been stabbed in what was described as a random, unprovoked attack. Several employees and visitors at the casino witnessed the event and attempted to confront the suspect but he was still armed with what was described as a hunting knife. The suspect, described as bald, heavy-set male, approximately in his mid-40's with a gray hoodie, fled the location in a white Nissan sedan that was reported to be heading toward Interstate 5."
Later, the bulletin offered some greater detail about the actual attack:
"Detectives were able to review video from the casino. The video showed the suspect sitting at a poker table when he reached down with his right hand and grabbed something. Without provocation or warning, the suspect then appeared to stand and began to stab the male sitting to his left approximately five times in the head and chest area. Multiple patrons attempted to intervene, but the suspect began swinging the knife at them. The suspect then approached a female that was sitting at the same poker table and appeared to try and stab the female three times. The suspect then chased a male outside into the parking lot while swinging at the male. The male fell to the ground and the suspect appeared to stab him two more times. A large amount of blood was on the ground in the parking lot where he was stabbed. The suspect was then seen getting into a white sedan and driving off."
Harmier made it into his car, out of the casino's parking lot, and onto the nearby interstate, heading south toward Vancouver, where he resides. But within 15 minutes, Clark County sheriff's patrols had spotted his car and began a high-speed pursuit, first south on the interstate, then east on a major four-lane beltway just outside Vancouver.
The pursuing police then did a PIT maneuver on Harmier's car, successfully disabling it, and Harmier was taken into custody without further incident. He was arraigned in a Clark County courtroom the next morning and charged with four counts of felony assault. He'll likely face additional charges related to the high-speed pursuit, though if some sort of plea deal is offered and accepted down the road — no pun intended — those secondary charges often go away. (Update: Late on Tuesday: Clark County prosecutors added a count off felony eluding to the charges against Harmier — hh.)
Harmier, meanwhile, sits in the Clark County jail without bond. What remains unknown publicly is what triggered the bizarre attack, though Harmier himself has a shadowy past. The Columbian's report on the attack, chase, and arrest includes some background and shows that Harmier has a lengthy criminal record, including one or more convictions for violent domestic abuse.
There's some good news out of the violence. The Clark County Sheriff's flash report stated that all four stabbing victims received non-life-threatening wounds, and while all of the victims were transported to a local hospital, three of the four were released within hours. The Last Frontier issued a statement itself wherein it expressed its sadness over the incident and stated that counseling services might be offered to the victims and other who were affected by the attack.
And as for poker? Just a few hours later, the room began its return to normal, as the games resumed late Tuesday morning at the Last Frontier. That part seems both normal and typical; poker has a way of carrying on through such events, doesn't it.
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When Los Angeles Police Department reserve officer Merrick Morton and LAPD historian Lt. John Thomas began researching historic criminology photos, they didn't expect to find a treasure trove of stunning black-and-white images dating back to the 1920's, systematically stored in the vast 47,500 square foot Los Angeles City Records Center. The LAPD's Special Investigations Division was the nation's first crime lab – the precursor of CSI – and photography was a standard part of their forensics procedures as far back as 1925. Hundreds of boxes of case files, each with their accompanying evidence photos, were discovered in the Records Center, and Morton and Thomas have now preserved some of the best images as noir style art photos.
Recording events ranging from the Onion Fields gangster killings to the arrest of the notorious Manson family, these photographs are considered to be exceptional examples of historical art. Selected examples were recently included in the prestigious Paris Photo exhibition, and prints can be seen at Morton's gallery: http://www.fototeka.com/lapd/index.html. These extraordinary images could easily have been lost or destroyed if not for the efforts of Morton, Thomas, and the dedicated document storage pros of the L.A. City Records Center.


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Are Paige & Emily Going to Last on 'PLL'?
By Allyson Koerner
As exciting as the fear-inducing Christmas episode was (only I. Marlene King can make the joyous season a frightful one), some Pretty Little Liars and Paily fans were left gasping for air. Will this beloved couple last? Are they headed for splitsville? Now that Paige's parents want her to move to California (because Rosewood is not safe... duh), her future with Emily looks grim. PLL Season 5B is returning Tuesday, Jan. 6 with a new episode titled "Through a Glass, Darkly," meaning we're going to get a bigger glimpse into Paily's future.
Per the episode description, the winter premiere opens up three months later and we see Emily and Paige reaching a "crossroads". What exactly does that mean? Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it doesn't sound good for the duo. According to Lijah Barasz, a writer for PLL who spoke with Alloy Entertainment, during that first episode of 5B "it's time for Paige to make that move." She added,
Emily is not at all ready to let her go, and they have some really beautiful, heartbreaking scenes. Paily has an emotional, hard-won kind of love, and it's not something either girl will just get over and forget about. Not to mention, anyone who comes after Paige has a lot to live up to.
If that isn't foreboding enough, HollywoodLife.com obtained this premiere clip with Emily and Paige discussing their future. Emily tells Paige, "I thought three months I'd get used to the idea of you leaving, but I haven't." Apparently, Paige is all packed, has enough credits to leave school early, and is ready to fly off to the West Coast. If that isn't depressing enough, the two won't even get to attend prom or graduate together. With that said, we don't know for sure if Paige actually ends up leaving, but according to these interviews and clip, all signs point to Paily coming to an end.
However, even if Paige does exit Rosewood that doesn't mean she and Emily will breakup. Maybe they'll do a long-distance relationship. Then again, how long can that really last, especially when this is a TV show and PLL fans love to see our Liars fall in love and get some action? If they don't make it work, well, that's life, plus they're only teens. They have their whole lives ahead of them. Also, a split doesn't mean Paily is officially over. There's a good chance the two could find their way back to one another. If anyone can handle relationship troubles, it's these two. If we analyze it, there's a lot of negatives and positives. Anything can happen in the land of PLL.
To keep with the optimism, here are just a few more reasons why Paige and Emily can withstand their upcoming relationship troubles:
They've Faced Tough Times Before
Remember that time they had that serious talk about going off to college? Yeah, the two hit quite the rocky patch, but they still reunited.
Even Paige's Betrayal Didn't Get in Their Way
Yep, Paige so tried to drown Emily. Whatever the case, Emily forgave her and now calls her sweetheart.
They've Managed to Survive "A" and His/Her Crazy Train
Seriously, anyone who can get through the madness "A" serves up can get through living on opposite coasts.
Those Who Swim Together, Stick Together
Like a lost dolphin in the big ocean finding its way back to its family (BTW, I'm making this up. I do not know if dolphins can find their way back to their loved ones, but I like to think so), Emily and Paige would obviously swim across oceans to reunite if they're meant to be.
So, will they? Won't they? Who freaking knows, but I have no doubt that in the end Paily will live happily ever after — or I really hope so, because Paige has been my favorite out of all of Emily's love interests.
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Review
Guy Richie is a director who I find to be quite hit and miss. I enjoyed Lock Stock, back when it first came out, I liked the two Sherlock films quite a bit, and really liked Man From U.N.C.L.E, but everything else has left me cold. That said, as anyone who's read my books will know, I'm a big fan of the Arthurian story, and I figured it was worth a go.
The first thing is that this doesn't really stick closely to any Arthurian story, which is fine. There's no Merlin, although he is mentioned, no knights, and no Mordred apart from a brief moment. Again, that's fine. If you're going to tell a story, you might as well make it your own and put your own stamp on it. But if you're going to this film to watch a re-telling of Arthur's story in a close way to the original, you'll be disappointed.
First of all the good stuff. It's fun, it's kinetic, there's always stuff happening, and it's entertaining. I had no problems at all with the silliness in this film, it's not meant to be a serious drama about one man's attempt to deal with a past he doesn't want. It's about Arthur hitting people. Lots of people, in fact. Sometimes with a sword, and sometimes with his fists, and if that's what you're looking for, then this film will probably fit the bill.
Some of the battle shots at the beginning are impressive, although that does lead into a negative of the simple fact that some of the green screen cgi stuff is bad. The film uses a lot of cgi toward the end of the film to show magic in use, and it just looks weird and badly done.
The actors do a decent enough job. Charlie Hunnam is pretty good as a street thug version of Arthur, and Djimon Hounsou played the sage, angry older male role model part well too. No one is going to be winning any oscars or anything, but they do the job.
It's a shame there isn't an oscar category for scenery chewing—which should really be the Rickman Award—because Jude Law would be a serious contender. He really should have grown a large moustache just so he could twirl it a few times. He was evil, but in that way where you're not entirely sure how anyone as stupid as him managed to get into a position of power. I never took Jude as a threat, neither mentally or physically. He was just sort of there, but power-crazed sorcerer is as good an idea as any other, I just wish he'd been given something a bit more interesting to play with.
Aidan Gillen extends his use of frankly baffling accents with one that seems to change halfway through sentences. It's a bit… off-putting. Other than that, he's pretty good.
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey is wonderful, and by far and away the best thing in the film. She plays The Mage. Yes, that's her actual name, subtle this film is not. But she does a lot with a part that mostly asks her to just look creepy and weird.
A big problem I have with the film is the use of women. Women in this film fall into three categories. They are murdered, abused, or kidnapped. I can't think of a single woman with actual dialog who doesn't fall into one of those categories. In fact, one woman is kept around for the entire bloody film just so she can die. And you know she's going to die from the second you see her. She has no personality, no reason to be, except that her death is useful, I don't even know the name of the character.
The action also needs a mention. Sometimes it's very good, and then they try to use slow-mo and blur effects and it looks like a really shit rave. Less CGI, more people actually doing stuff would be great. Also, no quick cuts of action scenes, they're shit and actually hurt the film more than the mockney.
Oh, the mockney. I hated it. It was funny at first, but then after the hundredth time, I wanted to slap Guy Richie and ask him why he hates everyone so much. It didn't help that not everyone did it, so it was really jarring when they did. But eventually, I just ended up ignoring it. It is a bit strange though.
Also David Beckham. Lovely guy, I'm sure, but don't let him act again. Please.
This is a ridiculous film. It's stupid, and over-the-top, and it's full of stupid people doing stupid things. And kung-fu for some reason (although I really like Tom Wu and want to see more of him if there's another film), and frankly if you think about any of it for too long it all starts to collapse.
Sat in that cinema, with all of it going on, I had a blast. Yes, it's stupid. Yes, there should have been more women doing more than just getting killed, punched or kidnapped, yes the slow mo action stuff didn't quite work, but despite all of that, I had fun.
If you can't switch off, or you hate stupid films, films where giant unbelievable creatures do unbelievable things, you might not like this film. If you just want to go to the cinema to see a spectacle and have a few laughs. Then this is probably for you. Just don't start pulling at the threads afterwards.
Posted on May 24, 2017, in Movies and tagged Movies. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
gamer609 | May 26, 2017 at 1:47 am
I have always been a guy ritchie fan from lock stop and two smoking barrels and snatch all the way to the sherlock holmes movies. I like his style it reminds me of a sort of british quentin tarintino where it's weird and goes to extremes and just that weird style. That said I agree some of his movies have been horrible like revolver and such. I am looking forward to this movie but I tend to believe that guy ritchie does his best with modern crime films and such like snatch,lock,stock,and two smoking barrrels,and rockn rolla.


A new DVD documentary has just been released by Good Fight Ministries entitled, "Left Behind or Led Astray? Examining the Origins of the Secret Pre—Tribulation Rapture." Good Fight Ministries is run by post—tribulationist Joe Schimmel, the senior pastor at Blessed Hope Chapel in Simi Valley, California. Schimmel's ministry is endorsed by evangelist Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron, star of the original "Left Behind" movies. The following write—up appears on the back cover: "Take a fascinating journey with us as we examine the shocking origins of the secret, pre—tribulation rapture doctrine... Featuring expert commentary from David M. Bennett, Dr. Mark Patterson, Jacob Prasch, Joel Richardson, and Dave MacPherson."
The truth of the matter is that the 4 1/2 hour film seriously distorts the historical evidence and is full of false accusations, unsubstantiated myths, and lies.


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Interleukin-27 exhibited anti-inflammatory activity during Plasmodium berghei infection in mice
Fazalul Rahiman, Siti Sarah and Basir, Rusliza and Talib, Herni and Tie, Tung Hing and Chuah, Yaw Kuang and Jabbarzare, Marzieh and Chong, Wing Chui and Mohd Yusof, Mohd Afiq Asyran and Nordin, Norshariza and Yam, Mun Fei and Abdullah, Wan Omar and Abdul Majid, Roslaini (2013) Interleukin-27 exhibited anti-inflammatory activity during Plasmodium berghei infection in mice. Tropical Biomedicine, 30 (4). pp. 663-680. ISSN 0127-5720
Interleukin-27 (IL-27) has a pleiotropic role either as a pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory cytokine in inflammatory related diseases. The role and involvement of IL-27 during malaria was investigated and the effects of modulating its release on the production of major inflammatory cytokines and the histopathological consequences in major affected organs during the infection were evaluated. Results showed that IL-27 concentration was significantly elevated throughout the infection but no positive correlation with the parasitaemia development observed. Augmentation of IL-27 significantly elevated the release of anti-inflammatory cytokine, IL-10 whereas antagonising and neutralising IL-27 produced the opposite. A significant elevation of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IFN-γ and IL-6) was also observed, both during augmentation and inhibition of IL-27. Thus, it is suggested that IL-27 exerts an anti-inflammatory activity in the Th1 type response by signalling the production of IL-10 during malaria. Histopathological examination showed sequestration of PRBC in the microvasculature of major organs in malarial mice. Other significant histopathological changes include hyperplasia and hypertrophy of the Kupffer cells in the liver, hyaline membrane formation in lung tissue, enlargement of the white and red pulp followed by the disappearance of germinal centre of the spleen, and tubular vacuolation of the kidney tissues. In conclusion, it is suggested that IL-27 may possibly acts as an anti-inflammatory cytokine during the infection. Modulation of its release produced a positive impact on inflammatory cytokine production during the infection, suggesting its potential in malaria immunotherapy, in which the host may benefit from its inhibition.
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Interleukin-27; Anti-inflammatory activity; Plasmodium berghei; Mice infection; Mice
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Astronomers Have Confirmed 4,001 Exoplanets And More To Come
Jocelyne LeBlanc March 18, 2019
As of this week (March 12, 2019), the total number of known expolanets has grown to a whopping 4,001 according to the Exoplanet Team which is led by the Observatoire de Paris. And the number should grow a lot higher from there.
On their website, called The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, the team posted the announcement which read, "Today is a celebration day as we are now over 4,000 planets validated in our database, and this number will grow very quickly thanks to intensive ongoing work!"
Many new exoplanets will probably be discovered very soon, as NASA's new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (or TESS) is analyzing around 85 percent of the sky which is approximately 350 times more than the Kepler Space Telescope viewed, although it did discover over 2,700 exoplanets.
The team discovered two new planets orbiting a distant star system called EPIC 203868608 which is located 499 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the Scorpius the Scorpion constellation, bringing the total to 4,001 exoplanets to date.
The discovery of exoplanets first began in the 1990s when two astronomers, named Alex Wolszczan and Dale Frail, found the first three known planets that were orbiting around pulsar PSR B1257+12, which was the remains of a once-massive star.
Not long after, in 1995, scientists discovered a planet near 51 Pegasi, which was very exciting as it was the first planet ever to be seen around a star in the about the same evolutionary stage as our own sun.
Through equipment both on the ground and in space, thousands more exoplanets have been discovered, some of which have a wide range of orbits including some planets in more than one system. In fact, some of those systems have two or three suns.
Abel Mendez, who is the director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, told EarthSky, "At least 49 of the known exoplanets are potentially habitable." In order to sustain life, the planets need to be at a safe distance orbiting its star – not too close, not too far – which would allow them to possibly hold water on the surface.
Some of the closest stars to our sun, which include Proxima Centauri (4.3 light-years away) and Barnard's Star (5.98 light-years away), have planets orbiting them and astronomers have suggested that there could be billions of exoplanets within our Milky Way Galaxy.
So if that's true, if billions of exoplanets are located in our galaxy, and we have already found 4,001 of them, that means there is a lot of work that still needs to be done in order to located as many of these planets as possible. And maybe some of those that haven't been discovered yet could possibly contain life. How exciting!
Tags astronomers Astronomy Earth exoplanets Kepler space telescope milky way galaxy nasa new planets planet discovery Proxima Centauri space stars sun TESS
Jocelyne LeBlanc works full time as a writer and is also an author with two books currently published. She has written articles for several online websites, and had an article published in a Canadian magazine on the most haunted locations in Atlantic Canada. She has a fascination with the paranormal and ghost stories, especially those that included haunted houses. In her spare time, she loves reading, watching movies, making crafts, and watching hockey.
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Producers Dairy to host job fair
published on November 7, 2016 - 7:16 PM
Producers Dairy is hosting its first job fair in years Wednesday in its quest to hire over two dozen employees.
September unemployment rates down in the Valley
published on October 21, 2016 - 9:37 PM
Fresno County's unemployment rate for September was 8.3 percent, down from 8.7 percent in August and unchanged from last
Hoff hired as new Reedley Chamber CEO
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Praise for Northamptonshire Police after helping grandma driving illegally on M1
She was driving a child home who was not wearing a seatbelt in a car with a worn out tyre
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The police's gesture was praised on social media (Image: Northants Police)
Police have been praised on social media after they helped a grandma get home having pulled her over for breaking seatbelt rules on the M1.
Two officers from the Northants Safer Roads Team were patrolling the motorway when they pulled over a car in which all four occupants not wearing seatbelts.
Among them was a child, who had recently been released from hospital.
According to police, the driver of the car said she had been driving for 40 years and had "vented at them" for stopping her. This is when they noticed the cord showing on the tyre.
A tyre's cord showing means that its integrity is severely compromised, and especially on the M1 could blow out and lead to a fatal collision.
A tyre's cord showing can be incredibly dangerous for drivers, especially at motorway speeds (Image: Northants Police)
Before leaving, the officers called for some assistance and helped to fix the tyre.
PC Dave Lee, who was first on the scene, said: "Despite the offences, we still had a young child who had just come out of hospital and wanted to get home.
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People on Twitter have since praised the good deed. "Fair play, nice way to show both sides of the job," said one user.
"Great team working," another said. "Hope you gave her a ticket?" a less charitable third said.
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The incident is brought to us by a YouTube channel called TheSupercarSuspects. Apparently the ride in question was purchased a few months ago by one of the channel's main presenters and was in need of some clutch mending. The car went to an undisclosed shop for the maintenance work, and as you can see, things didn't go according to plan.
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As for the condition of the S2000, the video shows lots of body damage obviously. There are also claims that the frame is damaged and the car is "totaled" though no official word on that is provided, either during the video or in any follow-up post. We'll not speculate on damage either, but we've certainly seen much worse.
The YouTube channel appears to cover lots of illegal street racing activity and other facepalm-worthy antics like running from the cops, so perhaps this was the S2000's way of trying to avoid a more gruesome demise. In any case, hopefully this gem of a sports car isn't relegated to the junkyard.


Recently, the Granada Native Garden staff was asked to explain how watering issues are managed at the GNG during the current drought situation. This is a good question, because there are several hundred plants at the Garden, and many of them were planted just this Fall, and if natives ever need water the most, it is when they are newly planted and need both time and water to become acclimatized to their new environment. And, to make it more fun, there is no water supply at the Garden! Mary Ann suggested that this explanation of the watering procedure would make a useful post in the GNG Newsletter. The following is an adaptation of the paper that was submitted.
Inasmuch as the original vision of the garden was to demonstrate California native plants that could survive without any summer water, it lacks a source of water for main- taining the plants. Water that was originally needed to start the Garden was brought by means of a fire hose stretched across the arroyo from nearby Granada High School. Therefore any water that is needed at present to maintain the plants, or to install new plantings, must be brought in from other sources, or carried up from the arroyo by the bucketful when water happens to be flowing in the arroyo. Now, 10 years later, many native buckwheats, California lilacs, currants, oaks and other natives still occupy a prominent place at the Garden, and receive no summer water. The Garden is alive with California poppies in March and April. Nevertheless, many specimens originally planted there no longer exist there. This is chiefly because they did not receive the kind of regular care that any landscape plant requires in order to thrive. Mainly, the care we refer to here is that of water management. Every living thing, no matter where it comes from, requires some degree of water management, because every living thing consists mainly of water, without which it cannot survive.
How Much Water Is Needed at the Granada Native Garden When water is at a premium, as during times of drought, it is important to know what kind of water regimen a plant needs in order to thrive, or at least to survive until better times. At the Granada Native Garden, we routinely research the specific water require- ments of each plant we plan to add to the Garden. This is especially true with specimens that are used to fill in empty spots, or to replace specimens that have not survived due to natural attrition or inadvertent neglect, or as a result of a recent fire that spread to the Garden. It is characteristic of native plants that they require a considerable amount of water in order to get them established, but in general they require little or no water to maintain them after that. At the time of this writing (November, 2014), we are maintaining over 100 individual plants that were installed within the past year or two. These plants need to be watered about once each week, or in some cases every two weeks. The water requirement for this effort amounts to about 75-100 gallons per week. Once they are established (the usual standard for this is two years in the ground and double the size), the water requirement will be reduced to biweekly, monthly, or not at all after the rainy season — depending on the needs of the plant and the amount of water that is believed to be available from the water table or from the atmosphere in the form of fog or natural humidity. Keep in mind, however, that the water table is continually dropping because water is drawn from it to support local homes and businesses, and the lack of abundant rain in the winter doesn't allow the water table to be replenished. I would like to point out that the number of individual plants we are maintaining is substantially greater than the number of plants likely to be found in a residential garden. Some plants require more water than others, depending on their initial size, specific requirements, or location in the Garden. And while 100 gallons per week seems like a lot of water, it is actually less than 5% of my family's weekly water usage during October-November, 2014 — which goes to show how much water a typical family uses in a week! I estimate that the cost of this water is about $5 per week.
How Water Is Supplied to Plants at the Granada Native Garden Because there is no source of water that can be tapped into at the Granada Native Garden, all water must be brought in from other sources, and administered to each plant by hand. Keep in mind that none of the established plants at the Garden need to be watered at all during the summer (although we feel that a few could profit appearance-wise by occasional summer water, such as once or twice a month). But because of the large number of new plants that have been added, we spend about 2-4 hours per week manually carrying water to each plant that requires it in order to get it established. Irrigation is facilitated by means of one-gallon and half-gallon buckets that have three or four small (1/8-inch) holes drilled near the bottom of the bucket. Once the apparent water requirement of each plant is estimated, a bucket of appropriate size, or sometimes two or more, is placed at or near the base of the plant. Water is then carried in 1-gallon con- tainers to each plant and poured into each bucket. The holes allow the water to be slowly released into the soil, rather than trickling along the surface and away from the plant where it would not reach the roots. We call them "trickle buckets" or "drip buckets", as they roughly simulate drip irrigation. In the case of recently planted specimens, some of the water is poured directly on the base of the plant in order to irrigate the center of the root ball; the rest is poured into the bucket. As a plant grows, the buckets should be moved farther from the plant base in order to encourage outward expansion of the root system. Often more than one bucket is placed at the base of a plant, as needed to distribute water more uniformly around the root ball. For some larger plants, 3 or 4 one-gallon buckets with holes drilled directly on the bottom are placed over the root zone to provide wider coverage. Once a bucket is filled, it can be left to drain while the worker moves on to other plants. Drainage usually takes 5-10 minutes. Once a week is generally enough to irrigate a specimen, as most native plants usually like to go dry between waterings, rather than be kept constantly wet. Daily watering is never necessary.
How Practices at the Granada Native Garden Can Be Adopted by Homeowners It should be obvious that the method of irrigation described above requires a good deal of involvement on the part of the gardener, as well as a knowledge, or a good estimate (i.e., an educated guess) about the needs of the plant. However, this task should be dramatically easier for a homeowner with a landscape of typical size, as opposed to a native garden one-third of an acre in size, planted entirely with natives. Furthermore, most of the inconvenience in carrying out this procedure consists of setting out the buckets and collecting them afterward. Often a homeowner can efficiently fill the buckets from a garden hose equipped with a hand-operated shutoff nozzle. One additional advantage of hand-watering over an automatic irrigation system is that it gives the gardener the opportunity to observe each plant individually once a week and see how it is doing. That way, signs of stress (usually not enough water, too much water, or water in the wrong place) can be noticed and addressed before the plant suffers irreversible damage.
On the other hand, it is likely that many home gardeners do not have the time or inclination to water their plants individually, as described above. Furthermore, for the same reason, they are unlikely to have a satisfactory knowledge of the water requirements of each plant (which can easily be had by researching the plants, but again that requires both time and the inclination). To address this issue, one suggestion is that those native plant advocates who have an above-average knowledge of native plants be willing to donate time, free of charge and within reason, to any home gardener who requests it. Free, because charging for such advice is a disincentive to ask for it. I personally would be pleased to have someone solicit my knowledge and experience, limited though it is, without charging them anything; but of course I don't depend on that for my living. A professional native gardener might simply offer, for example, one hour of free advice (and maybe encourage more business). Finally, if the drought persists, the water management at the Granada Native Garden might need to be revisited. The current plan is to decrease watering as the plants mature, but the lack of an underground water reservoir might make the work of sustaining the plants burdensome and unmanageable. Time will tell. Adapt or perish.
Nice summary of your approach! I hope you inspire others to go native!


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Q: C# Windows Form Coloring Random Button What should I write where I put the question mark below? Each time to change the color of a button.
I can keep the names from the list , but I can not button the background color.
buttonList[rndNumber].Name ??? Back.Color = Color.Red;

int satir, sutun, minute, tik;
List<Button> buttonList = new List<Button>();
Random rnd = new Random();

private void timerRandom_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    int rndNumber = rnd.Next(0, satir*sutun);

    // buttonList[rndNumber].Name ??? Back.Color = Color.Red;
    //  should change the color of the buttons I created below
}

int i = 0, j = 0;
private void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    panel.Controls.Clear();

    switch (comboBoxLevel.Text)
    {
        case "1.Seviye":
            satir = 5; sutun = 5; minute = 60000; tik = 5000;
            break;
        case "2.Seviye":
            satir = 7; sutun = 7; minute = 120000; tik = 5000;
            break;
        case "3.Seviye":
            satir = 9; sutun = 9; minute = 1800000; tik = 500;
            break;
        default:
            break;
    }

    for (i = 0; i < satir; i++)
    {
        for (j = 0; j < sutun; j++)
        {
            Button btn = new Button();
            btn.Name = "btn" + i + j;
            // btn.Text = "Button" + i + " , " + j;
            btn.Size = new Size(80, 60);
            btn.Location = new Point(i * 80, j * 60);
            btn.Click += buttonClick;
            panel.Controls.Add(btn);
            buttonList.Add(btn);
        }
    }
    timerRandom.Interval = tik;
    timerRandom.Start();
}

A: You'll want to set the BackColor property of the button, no need to care about the Name:
buttonList[rndNumber].BackColor = Color.Red;

A: To create the original background color:
 for (i = 0; i < satir; i++)
    {
        for (j = 0; j < sutun; j++)
        {
            Button btn = new Button();
            btn.Name = "btn" + i + j;
           // btn.Text = "Button" + i + " , " + j;
            btn.Size = new Size(80, 60);
            btn.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.AliceBlue;
            btn.Location = new Point(i * 80, j * 60);
            btn.Click += buttonClick;
            panel.Controls.Add(btn);
            buttonList.Add(btn);
        }
    }

To change the background color AFTER you've created the button, add the following to your buttonClick method:
private void buttonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Button b = (Button)sender;
        b.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.AliceBlue;
    }

To change the background color of a button you name, use:
private void changeColor(string buttonName,System.Drawing.Color newColor)
    {
        Button b = (Button)Controls.Find(buttonName, true)[0];
        b.BackColor = newColor;
    }