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Billy Budd
When a happy, industrious and strikingly handsome young man joins the HMS Indomitable, everyone is drawn to him. The new crewman's only imperfection is that he stammers when stressed, a fact that the hardened Master-at-Arms is all too happy to exploit.
Britten's maritime masterpiece about repressed passions and the weight of guilt is performed in Norway for the very first time with this new production by Norwegian National Opera. In her first show since becoming the company's Director of Opera, Annilese Miskimmon sets Billy Budd in the claustrophobic, hard masculine environment of a submarine. Mark Wigglesworth conducts the all-male cast, starring Jacques Imbralio in the title role.
Edward Fairfax Vere
Peter Hoare
Jacques Imbrailo
John Claggart
Mr. Redburn
Aleksander Nohr
Mr. Flint
Johannes Weisser
Lieutenant Ratcliffe
Jens-Erik Aasbø
Red Whiskers
Henrik Engelsviken
Martin Hatlo
Dansker
Kristinn Sigmundsson
A novice
Petter Moen
Marius Roth Christensen
Øystein Skre
Szymon Kubiak
Second Mate
Andreas Skei
Maintop
Thor Inge Falch
The Novice's Friend
Ludvig Lindstöm
Arthur Jones
Mikkel Skorpen
A Seaman
Robert Näse
Cabin Boy
Aksel Johannes Rykkvin
Norwegian National Opera Chorus, Norwegian Soloist's Choir
Norwegian National Opera Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth
Annilese Miskimmon
Annemarie Woods
Paule Constable
Edward Morgan Forster and Eric Crozier
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Billy in the Darbies
Act II: Imprisoned in his cell while awaits his execution, Billy Budd (Jacques Imbrailo) reflects on his fate. The text for this poignant monologue comes from Herman Melville's ballad 'Billy in the Darbies', which he wrote before working on his novella Billy Budd, Sailor.
This is our moment
The fog has lifted and an enemy frigate has been sighted. Now it's all hands on deck for the crew of the HMS Indomitable who, after weeks of waiting, are excited to finally see some action.
Behind the scenes of Billy Budd's staging
'Britten was a genius in deciding to make an opera based on this navel world,' says Annilese Miskimmon, who directs this new production of Billy Budd at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. Watch her and the creative cast and crew putting this maritime masterpiece together.
The scenery
Annilese Miskimmon sets her new production of Billy Budd on a submarine during the Vichy regime in 1940s France. In this video, watch scenery maker Sophie-Marie Wetenskiold, scenography and costumes designer Annemarie Woods, scenery metalworker Stephan Udbjørg and their team put it all together.
Edward Fairfax Vere looks back on his life at sea as the captain of HMS Indomitable. He is haunted by his memories.
The crew of the HMS Indomitable go about their work. A passing merchant ship has provided three new recruits, among them Billy Budd, an open-hearted, good-natured young man. Questioned by John Claggart, the master-at-arms, Billy reveals a stammer. When he shouts farewell to his former ship, The Rights o' Man, the officers mistakenly fear that he will encourage dissent on board. Claggart, who secretly despises the officers, is instructed to watch Billy closely. He orders his corporal Squeak to use every opportunity to provoke Billy.
A young novice has been brutally flogged. Dansker warns Billy to beware of Claggart. Alone with Captain Vere, the officers express their dislike of the French, whose ideas they hold responsible for recent naval mutinies. They warn that Billy is a potential troublemaker, but Vere disagrees with their assessment of the young man´s character. The ship enters enemy waters.
The crew sing sea shanties below decks. Billy discovers Squeak rummaging through his belongings as Claggart has ordered, and attacks him. Claggart intervenes and, to cover his own involvement, has Squeak arrested. Threatened by Claggart, the novice tries to trick Billy into leading a mutiny with the promise of French gold. The plan fails when Billy gets angry. Dansker repeats his warning to avoid Claggart, but Billy is certain he has nothing to fear from him.
Officers and crew are eager to engage the enemy. Claggart tells Vere there is a dangerous mutineer on board but he is interrupted when a French ship is sighted. Vere orders to give chase and the crew prepare for battle. A shot is fired but misses the target. The mist returns, putting an end to the pursuit.
Claggart reveals to Vere that it is Billy Budd who is planning mutiny. He produces as evidence the French gold he has given the novice to bribe Billy. Vere cannot believe Claggart and sends for Billy to confront his accuser.
Asked to defend himself, Billy gets so upset that his stammer chokes him. He strikes out at Claggart, killing him on the spot. Vere, shaken, summons his officers and a drumhead court is constituted. Billy admits the deed but cannot explain why Claggart should have wrongfully accused him. When the officers turn to Vere for an explanation, the captain refuses to respond. The court pronounces the death sentence.
Early the following morning, Billy contemplates his imminent death. Dansker appears with news that the ship is now indeed close to mutiny, the crew determined to prevent Billy's execution. Billy tells him to stop them, for he has accepted his fate. He asks God to bless Vere before his death sentence is enacted before the entire crew.
The old Vere remembers Billy's burial at sea and is haunted by the knowledge that he could have saved him.
5 things to know about Billy Budd
1° Britten's Billy
Benjamin Britten's great breakthrough as a composer came in 1945 with his opera Peter Grimes. He followed this up with two chamber operas, The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring, and a children's opera, The Little Sweep, before making his return to the full opera format with Billy Budd. The work received its premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1951, where it was conducted by Britten himself. Britten's life partner, the tenor Peter Pears, sung the role of Captain Vere.
2° Unfree men
Certain themes recur throughout Britten's works: conflicts between individuals and society; the horrors of war; destructive conventions; and repressed desire. Billy Budd confronts all these issues and looks at how they affect our concept of manliness, especially in relation to homosexuality. The opera was written at a time when homosexuality was still illegal under British law, and theatrical and operatic performances continued to be censored. What the opera says about these themes is therefore given in coded form. But this opera is also about being a human being in a world where one is ultimately alone, where we yearn to belong, to be loved, forgiven and accepted.
3° The most beautiful story
The text is based on a novel by the American literary giant Herman Melville, perhaps best known as the author of another maritime adventure, Moby Dick. One of his last works, Billy Budd, Sailor was discovered among Melville's papers when he died in 1891. Thomas Mann, another giant of literature, called the novella 'the most beautiful story in the world'. The Italian composer Giorgio Ghedini also created an operatic version of Billy Budd, Sailor, which premiered two years before Britten's. Several other adaptations of the novella have been made, the most critically acclaimed of which include Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman's stage play, which opened on Broadway in 1951, and Peter Ustinov's 1962 film, which starred the young Terence Stamp as Billy Budd and the director himself as Captain Vere.
4° Moored in Oslo
'The first time I walked into this amazing opera house and looked straight through the foyer and out on the sea, it struck me that it is in itself a ship,' says Annilese Miskimmon, who became Director of Opera for Den Norske Opera and Ballet in 2017. For her, Billy Budd is the opera that, more than any other, really brings the sea onto the stage and into the music. And when she realised that it had never before been performed in Norway, it was obvious for her that they had to do it. 'It is a great privilege,' says Annilese Miskimmon, 'both as Opera Director of this house and as director of this production to be able to introduce Billy Budd to Norway – especially with such a great conductor as Mark Wigglesworth and the fabulous opera orchestra we have here.'
5. Bunks, bombs and U-boats.
Annilese Miskimmon sets her new production of Billy Budd on a submarine during the Vichy regime in 1940s France. Here we meet a close and claustrophobic environment, controlled by sailors' discipline and the meaningless necessity of war. 'I wanted to build an entire submarine to get the real feeling of claustrophobia,' says set and costume designer Annemarie Woods. 'We just had to pick a section, unfortunately, but I think you get a picture that it extends beyond the sides.' The 14-metre long, 6.5-metre high aluminium structure is Norweign National Opera's big investment for the season. 'It will be a huge, huge, huge construction' says scenery metalworker Stephan Udbjørg. 'It will be one of the nicest, greatest and toughest things that have ever been on stage in the Opera House.'
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Q: Create list of x,y,z coordinates using loop in Python I would like to create 3-dimensional array including coordinates of the points in cartesian axis system.
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Many Thanks
Lukas

A: Set x, y, z as vectors
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y = y0 + np.arange(columns) * dy
z = z0 + np.arange(levels)  * dz

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X, Y, Z = np.meshgrid(x, y, z)

Now you can make your scalar field just using those variables
Data = X**2 + Y**2 + Z**2  # for example

Your Data will now be a (rows, columns, levels)-shaped array, with dimensional axes corresponding to x, y, z

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The officer reviewed his report for the second time after already reviewing his report once to answer the prosecutor's questions about the standardized field sobriety test. Over defense objection, the district court allowed the testimony as refreshed memory without a foundation having been laid that the officer's memory had been refreshed by reviewing the report. The ICA affirmed, concluding that no legal authority requires the laying of such a foundation. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that legal authority requires that before testimony is admitted pursuant to Haw. R. Evid. 612 after a witness reviews a writing while testifying for the purpose of refreshing memory, an evidentiary foundation must be laid establishing that the witness's memory has actually been refreshed. The ICA erred in holding otherwise, and the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.


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"It is what it is."
This is, perhaps, the worst phrase in American culture today. For me, a simple synonym for this phrase is: "Settle."
Settle for less, settle for sub-par work, settle for second place. In other words, just take what you can get. "You get what you get and you don't get upset," is another phrase that makes me cringe, especially because parents use it to pass this philosophy on to their children rather than teaching them that they don't always have to—and often, shouldn't—settle.
In some instances, perhaps, you are forced to settle. That's only when the fight is up, and all avenues are exhausted. I'd say at least 95 percent of the time there is another door open. You just cannot be afraid to walk through it, even if the lights are off and you aren't sure what's in the room.
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Where are California's most-volatile home…
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Where are California's most-volatile home prices?
Inland Empire is home to California's wildest home-price swings.
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By Jonathan Lansner | jlansner@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: January 16, 2023 at 7:24 a.m. | UPDATED: January 16, 2023 at 10:20 a.m.
"Survey says" looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.
Buzz: The Inland Empire is home to California's wildest home-price swings.
Source: My trusty spreadsheet tallied annual changes in home values in seven big California markets, as calculated by Federal Housing Finance Agency indexes dating to 1978. Rankings tracked four factors: the gap between best and worst years; the share of down years; a geeky measure of price-swing variations called "standard deviation;" and the 44-year average price gain. The final grade was an average ranking of these four yardsticks.
As California housing seems headed toward a price correction in 2023, it's time to see what history tells us where large gyrations in home values happen the most frequently in the state.
The housing market of Riverside and San Bernardino counties took the top spot because it was No. 1 in all four volatility yardsticks. The Inland Empire's housing market has an up-and-down history due the region's fast-growth and erratic economic history.
Next came the Sacramento metro area, followed by Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, then the San Jose and San Francisco metro areas.
Let's look inside the rankings to see how values within these markets have varied since 1978.
No. 1 Inland Empire: There's a 57 percentage-point gap between the biggest gain of 29% in 2004 and the largest loss of 28% in 2008. This market suffered down years 30% of the time, with a typical 10.6 percentage-point variation in year-to-year price swings. Local prices have gained an average 5.8% a year.
No. 2 Sacramento: The metro area's 45-point gap between its biggest gain of 25% in 1978 and the largest loss of 20% in 2008. Down years 25% of the time. A 9.8-point price-swing variation. Average gain of 6% a year.
No. 3 Los Angeles County: A 43-point gap between its biggest gain of 26% in 2005 and largest loss of 17% in 2008. Down years 30% of the time. A 9.5-point price-swing variation. Average gain of 6.3% a year.
No. 4 Orange County: A 44-point gap between biggest gain of 26% in 2004 and the largest loss of 18% in 2008. Down years 25% of the time. A 9.1-point price-swing variation. Average gain of 6.1% a year.
No. 5 San Diego County: A 42-point gap between biggest gain of 25% 2004) and the largest loss of 17% (2008). Down years 27% of the time. A 8.8-point price-swing variation. Average gain of 6.2% a year.
No. 6 San Jose: The metro area's 43-point gap between biggest gain of 30% (1989) and largest loss of 12% (2009). Down years 25% of the time. A 9-point price-swing variation. Average gain of 6.9% a year.
No. 7 San Francisco: The metro area's 32-point gap between biggest gain of 23% (2000) and largest loss of 9% (2008). Down years 27% of the time. A 8.8% price-swing variation. Average gain of 6.9% a year.
Let's remember, California's overall housing market has historically gone through wilder peaks and valleys than the rest of the U.S. This means most national home-price forecasts have little value to a California property watcher.
Look at the differences in these volatility measures for the California and U.S. FHFA indexes – with a stock average (Wilshire 500 index) tossed in for comparative purposes.
Best year: Up 24% (2005) for California homes, up 14% (1978) for U.S. homes and up 37% (1983) for stocks.
Worst year: Off 20% (2008) for California homes, off 6% (2009). for U.S. homes and off 22% (2009) for stocks.
Extremes gap: 43 percentage points between best and worst years for California homes, 20 for U.S. homes, and 59 for stocks.
Down years since 1978: 27% for California homes, 11% for U.S. homes, and 18% for stocks.
Price-swing variance: 9.1 percentage points for California homes, 4.3 for U.S. homes, and 13 for stocks.
Average gain since 1978: 6.2% for California homes, 4.7% for U.S. homes, and 10.1% for stocks.
Falling home prices in California are not just the result of events surrounding the 2008 global financial meltdown and housing collapse.
Between 1978 and 2006 – just before the real estate bubble crashed into the Great Recession – these seven big California housing markets combined had down years 22% of the time. That's roughly once every five years.
In the decade of recovery from the mid-2000s housing bust, the seven markets have had a total of five down years. So, even before you ponder overvalued homes, high mortgage rates and growing economic uncertainty, California housing seems overdue for a price correction.
And recent gains seem unsustainable, especially since mortgage rates soared in much of 2022.
Peek at the one-year home-price gains for the seven markets through September, the latest FHFA indexes available, and how that gain would rank among all other full-year results back to 1978.
Inland Empire's 18% increase would be its seventh-best since 1978. Orange County's 17% would be No. 5; San Diego 17% (No. 6); San Jose 15% (No. 8); Los Angeles County 15% (No. 9); San Francisco 12% (No. 17); Sacramento 10% (No. 16).
Jonathan Lansner is the business columnist for the Southern California News Group. He can be reached at jlansner@scng.com
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chocovic at the 2015 fòrum girona
The Fòrum Gastronòmic was set up in Girona from 15th to 17th November to showcase the most creative gastronomy projects during three days packed with activities. Once again this year, pastry making played a leading role in the event, thanks to the participation of prominent speakers and brands from the sector, turning the Aula Dulce into a centre for top-level pastry making creation over the three days. Chocovic had the pleasure of taking part as a collaborating brand.
Chocovic was delighted to have three outstanding chefs for the three workshops run by the company during the Fòrum Gastronòmic. Raúl Bernal opened the Chocovic courses on Sunday 15th with Sweettruck, a workshop in which he showed that confectionery also has its place in a foodtruck with two "takeaway" treats: a flattened brioche with apple, raisins, crumble and chocolate, and a pear, chocolate, cheese and peanut waffle.
Chocolates and Spices by Rafa Delgado was held on Monday 16th. The chef showed us how, by playing with spices and making them part of the world of chocolate, you can get both surprising and delightful results by using various techniques and carefully executed productions (tablets, foams, creamy sauces, etc.).
Sergi Vela was in charge of delivering the last Chocovic workshop with Chocolate and Citrus Fruits: A Winning Combination. During the workshop he showed how to combine the three basic chocolates - dark, milk and white - with citrus fruits like yuzu, lime, lemon and passion fruit. The warmth of chocolate in a pleasant confrontation with the floral notes of the citrus fruits.
During Fòrum Girona 15 we presented the image for the Premium Range, our most exquisite range. At Stand 401, we told visitors about our brand values and the quality of our products for the three days the Fair was running. Thanks to everyone who came to the stand to say hello or who attended our workshops! We'll be seeing you next year at Fòrum Gastronòmic Barcelona.


As a home shopper, there are three simple questions you should ask yourself when determining if you should retain a buyer's agent, sometimes called a buyer's broker.
1.What are the economics of a buyer's agent agreement?
In most markets the home seller covers real estate agent commissions from the sales price. The seller generally has agreed to pay a 5-6% commission if they have retained a real estate agent to market and sell their property. A buyer's agent simply splits the commission with the selling agent.
The issue may be a bit trickier if you retain a buyer's agent and end up buying a home from a seller who has not retained a seller's agent. This seller is counting every nickel of the sales price and may refuse to pay any agent commissions. In this case, you would either pay your agent's commission or other negotiated fee or the commission would become part of the home price negotiation.
These payment scenarios should be covered in a written agreement between you and your buyer's agent. Note the agreement should also have language that requires you to pay your agent's commission even if, during the time the agreement is in effect, you buy a house "on your own."
2.Are you house shopping locally or in unfamiliar territory?
If you're moving across town or to a nearby town, you may not need the market expertise, geographical knowledge and general hand holding a buyer's agent can provide. You may already have a couple neighborhoods in mind.
If you choose to shop on your own, you will have to contact the listing agent for each home you want to visit and schedule walk-throughs. This will take time, but if you don't plan to look at dozens of homes, you can probably handle this.
If, on the other hand, you are moving to an entirely new area, it's hard to imagine conducting a decent home search without the services of a buyer's agent.
3.Are you willing to handle transaction details yourself?
Once you've picked a home, you enter into price negotiations, submit a written offer, expect a counter offer, and so forth until you agree with the seller on a price. Some people enjoy doing this. For people who don't, it can be comforting to have a buyer's agent at your disposal to handle this dirty work. Next you need to schedule a home inspection. Most mortgage lenders require an inspection, and it's just a smart thing to do, even if you're paying cash. A buyer's agent would normally take care of this. Finally, you need to work with the seller on closing arrangements. While much of the paperwork responsibility here falls on the mortgage lender and, in many states, a closing attorney, the real estate agents often help coordinate the closing effort (they do want their commission) and can spot and correct problems when one of the players has dropped the ball.
It is a growing trend for home buyers to sign an agreement with a buyer's agent. The reasons are clear. First, the economics usually favor the buyer as the seller generally pays agent commissions. This is not the case 100% of the time, but it is the case most of the time in most market. Second, anyone moving to a new town would have a difficult time coordinating a home search without the help of a local real estate agent. A buyer's agent is likely the best way to see the most houses in the shortest amount of time. Third, even for local home shoppers, a buyer's agent would handle a number of transaction details many home buyers are either unable or unwilling to take care of.


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Could Lee Smith Have Been More Wrong?
February 23, 2011 Ali Gharib 2 Comments
Jim asks a good question: Who was more instrumental in the Arab uprisings, George W. Bush or his nemesis Al Jazeera? Andrew Sullivan had a funny take on "Bush's vindication": 80% right, 100% wrong.
But I want to look at Lee Smith, just because he gave me a good laugh yesterday.
For years, the Weekly Standard correspondent and Hudson Institute fellow has been saying that Arabs respect only strength. Well, someone forgot to tell this to the Arabs. If Hosni Mubarak had been reading Smith, he must be wondering why he feels so much like Rodney Dangerfield right now.
Let's look at some of Smith's writing. Here's a piece from just last month:
Western cyber-optimists argue that information technology like satellite television and the Internet will so inundate the Arabic-speaking Middle East with images and information that it will entirely reconfigure Arab societies. But this has it exactly wrong: Culture is more powerful than technology, and how a society uses any given technology is determined by its culture.
Now, who has it exactly wrong? Within a month of Smith's screed, peaceful protesters used Facebook to organize what became the massive Egyptian protests that overthrew the "strong horse." Once the Internet went down, they watched Al Jazeera and other satellite channels to figure out what was going on, who was saying what, and where to go next. The events of the past month represent an almost exact negative image of Smith's sociological caricature.
I use the words "strong horse" above because this is how Smith refers to leaders that can move the Arab heart — not Facebook groups anonymously led by shrimpy Google execs. It's even in the name of Smith's book, "The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations," which came out last year.
I haven't read the book, but I have read an approbative review by Daniel Pipes in the National Review that appeared early last year:
[Smith] presents Pan-Arab nationalism as an effort to transform the mini-horses of the national states into a single super-horse and Islamism as an effort to make Muslims powerful again. Israel serves as "a proxy strong horse" for both the United States and the Saudi-Egyptian bloc in the latter's Cold War rivalry with Iran's bloc. In a strong-horse environment, militias appeal more than do elections.
Could this possibly be more wrong? Is the Islamist "single super-horse" theory the reason that the Muslim Brotherhood promptly rejected a call of solidarity from Tehran? The absurdity of Pipes's last statement alone makes my head spin. Wait, wait. It gets better:
What Smith calls the strong-horse principle contains two banal elements: Seize power and then maintain it. This principle predominates because Arab public life has "no mechanism for peaceful transitions of authority or power sharing, and therefore [it] sees political con?ict as a ?ght to the death between strong horses." Violence, Smith observes is "central to the politics, society, and culture of the Arabic-speaking Middle East."
That's not all:
Smith's simple and near-universal principle provides a tool to comprehend the Arabs' cult of death, honor killings, terrorist attacks, despotism, warfare, and much else. He acknowledges that the strong-horse principle may strike Westerners as ineffably crude, but he correctly insists on its being a cold reality that outsiders must recognize, take into account, and respond to.
Now that Pipes and Smith have been proven wrong by events, will they go back and "recognize, take into account, and respond to" the undeniable new reality that doesn't fit into their worldview? Probably not, because they're ideologues, and that's what ideologues, by definition, do. Reality is subservient to what they want to think about the world.
Now, go back and read Daniel Pipes's review of Lee Smith's book– and you tell me who is obsessed with Israel and the "strong horse." Is it the Arabs who continue to flood the streets and demand freedom from their rulers? Or is it these neoconservatives?
Message Al Jazeera, Daniel Pipes, Hudson Institute, Jim Lobe, Lee Smith, Libya, strong horse
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Ali Gharib is a New York-based journalist on U.S. foreign policy with a focus on the Middle East and Central Asia. His work has appeared at Inter Press Service, where he was the Deputy Washington Bureau Chief; the Buffalo Beast; Huffington Post; Mondoweiss; Right Web; and Alternet. He holds a Master's degree in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. A proud Iranian-American and fluent Farsi speaker, Ali was born in California and raised in D.C.
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Now who's wrong: Smith or Lobe?
Who's wrong, Smith or Loeb? Clearly not Smith.
This reviewer is advertising his cluelessness if all he can conclude from the strong horse argument is that Egyptians should support Mubarak because he's "strong." I guess Smith better publish a dumbed-down version of the book for the simpletons in the blogosphere.
Who is this guy Gharib anyway? Alternet? Inter Press Service? Buffalo Beast? Those are nothing but hard-left propaganda blogs with a few conspiracy theories and the usual America-blaming rubbish thrown in. These aren't credentials. More like a list of mistakes made by another spoiled kid who never grew up.
But I'm grateful for the Pipes link in the article. Nice to see a review by a real expert. The clown who wrote this article should be thankful to even stand in his shadow. The endorsement by an expert of Pipes' status adds far more cedibility than is detracted by some shallow hippie.
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Jamie Serino, Sr., Director of Philanthropy at the Fuller Center and Jan Cairnes, CEO, The Hanley Foundation
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We were fortunate to have a 'double header' this week with two speakers.
The first talk was given by Jamie Serino, Sr., Director of Philanthropy at the Fuller Center. For more than 50 years, the Fuller Center's mission has been to embrace, educate, and empower hardworking, under-resourced families and children to reach their full potential. The club was invited to Adopt-a-Class and get involved with the children at the Fuller Center. Through specialized programs and partnering with the community Fuller families receive the resources they need to build stable and self-sufficient households, extending the impact of the center to the home.
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The second to speaker was Jan Cairnes, CEO of the Hanley Foundation. Hanley Foundation's mission is to eliminate addiction through prevention, advocacy, treatment, and recovery support. In addition, the foundation provides financial aid scholarships for individuals who could not otherwise afford addiction treatment.
Hanley Foundation is breaking the cycle of drug and alcohol addiction before it begins. Hanley Foundation is the number one provider of grant-funded alcohol and substance abuse prevention programs in the state of Florida, currently providing services to more than 30 Florida counties.
In addition to substance abuse prevention, Hanley Foundation has a Zero Suicide Initiative. Suicide rates have steadily increased for people ages 15-34 since 2015 and suicide is the second leading cause of death among people aged 15-24. Hanley Foundation's Zero Suicide Initiative has a variety of programs to reduce the number of suicides in Florida including a Question, Persuade and Refer (QPR) Gatekeeper Training. They are changing systems to ensure that fewer people die by suicide and training organizations on how to watch for the warning signs that an employee or client is in mental health crisis.
Hanley Foundation will host the 2nd Annual Brice Makris Brunch on Sunday, Dec. 11, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Boca West Country Club. Foundation Board Member John Makris and his wife Michelle will chair the event that honors their son, Brice, who tragically passed away at age 23 from a Fentanyl overdose two years ago. All funds raised will benefit Hanley Foundation's Brice Makris Endowment Fund for lifesaving treatment scholarships and addiction prevention programs.
"There are thousands of smart and talented individuals, just like Brice, right here in our community who are suffering from substance use disorders," said Jan Cairnes, CEO of Hanley Foundation. "Events like this are critical to help spread the message of hope and raise important funds that allow us to continue to expand our substance use prevention and recovery programs."
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Feeling anxious is no fun. Yet anxiety is something many children face. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that about 25% of all children ages 13 to 18 have or will experience anxiety. Many parents and schoolteachers would say this number is much higher and that it is becoming more prevalent in younger children as well.
There are many external factors that need to be addressed to help kids feel less anxious and more awesome. Fears about the state of our world, peer problems, and an often-toxic social media landscape bombard a child from all directions. These factors can lead not only to anxiety but depression and self-harm as well.
In addition to creating more positive external conditions in which children can thrive, there are also several effective yoga strategies that help a child learn to cope from the inside out.
The five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space is the framework I use to help children understand how to create balance in mind and body. This concept comes from ayurveda, the sister science to yoga, which recognizes that everything, from people to plants to planets, is made up of a unique combination of these elements. It is a simple concept to which children relate well. Earth is stable and solid. Air is light and mobile and hard to pin down. I ask children, "What is your mind like when you are feeling anxious?" It's like a kite without a string, subject to the shifts and drafts of the wind. It's like a boat without a rudder, being tossed on the waves and sent this way and that by the changing tides.
From this perspective, anxiety is too much air and space and not enough earth and water. Interestingly, many of the medications prescribed for anxiety in children include side effects that increase the imbalance of the air element such as dizziness, dry mouth, and nausea, as well as difficulties with memory and learning. The approach from a yoga perspective is to tie a string to the kite, establish a rudder and sturdy anchor for the boat. In other words, increase the earth element—the qualities of being stable and grounded.
Yoga is a lifestyle, with mental discipline at its foundation, and there are many lifestyle enhancements that can support a child in feeling less anxious and more awesome.
A flower won't bloom until it has deep roots in place. A rocket cannot soar into space without a sturdy launch pad. Children need both stability and room to move to feel awesome. A great way to create structure and stability is with a regular routine. Within that routine, allow lots of free time. Think of it in terms of the five elements. Earth is stability, the formal structure. Water is the flowing from one activity to the next. Fire is the action. Air is the imagination, ideas, and movement. Space is what's left. The spaciousness we may feel only on vacation can be woven into daily life for long-term health. Unstructured, unplugged free play is good medicine and supports a balanced mind and body.
The difference between routine and ritual is the attitude with which they are performed. Even young children can keep a written journal or daily drawings to help with perspective. Writing down feelings and even personifying them can develop the capacity to step back and be the observer. Mr. Moody or Anxious Annie can become a character in a child's life rather than an overwhelming mental state. This ability is a powerful life skill that allows a child to be aware of a difficult internal experience without being consumed by it. Other simple self-care rituals include engaging in enjoyable movement, whether that is a game of tag or walk with family after dinner, and good sleep habits.
Formal practices from the yoga tradition can be a powerful anchor in life too. Grounding mudras (hand gestures); regulated breathing; stabilizing postures such as triangle, downward facing dog, and plank; and deep, guided relaxation (yoga nidra) can all create stability in body and mind. These are tools children can learn in a matter of weeks and then use on their own for the rest of their lives. Kids learn to become an active participant in their own rescue.
Mental health issues like anxiety are still stigmatized in our culture. A child struggling with mental health issues may feel isolated and embarrassed, in addition to all the other difficult feelings. A yoga class tailored for children experiencing anxiety can be helpful. Here a child will learn valuable tools from the yoga tradition with a supportive group of kids who feel like they do. The class is gentle, and children develop a sense of empowerment as they challenge themselves at their own pace. Games, partner poses, and sharing with each other (i.e., "How do you feel after practice today?") add to the experience of being a part of something. In a yoga class kids learn new habits and practices that can be done in just five to ten minutes a day on their own anytime.
One of the most profound benefits of yoga for children who feel anxious is a shift in perspective. Life is about more than test scores and social media posts, although often it doesn't feel that way. The broader perspective children gain from training their minds can help them develop a sturdy launch pad to explore the farthest reaches of their potential.
The journey from anxious to awesome involves all aspects of a child: physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Yoga addresses all of these levels. This journey is not a quick fix, but a shift in the trajectory of one's life.
Mira Binzen has a degree in child psychology and is a certified yoga and iRest® Yoga Nidra teacher, yoga therapist, and co-founder of Global Family Yoga (globalfamilyyoga.com), a teacher-training program based in Chicago, focusing on children and families. She offers wellness consults for families by phone and Skype and will be offering a six–week "Anxious to Awesome™" course for students ages 8–12 from September 20–October 25 at Chicago BodyMind Wellness Studio. Mira's e-mail address is mira@globalfamilyyoga.com.


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The Sapphires US DVD Cover Relegates Black Female Stars to Background
Callie Beusman
The Sapphires is an award-winning Australian film about four Aboriginal women who struggled against — and overcame — rampant sexism and racism in the 1960s and 70s in order to form a soul quartet. It's now being released in the United States, which is great, but its shitty new DVD cover has incited ire and criticism.
For some reason (i.e., the same systemic forces of sexism and racism that provide the central conflict of the film), The Sapphires's American cover imagery has the actresses who portray the Sapphires blurred into a pale blue background, while Chris O'Dowd — who plays their white manager — is foregrounded in full color. Perhaps even more insultingly, O'Dowd's name is the only one to appear on the U.S. DVD cover.
In the Australian cover, the actresses playing the quartet — Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, and Miranda Tapsell — are featured prominently; Chris O'Dowd is smiling behind them. The difference between the two cover images is striking; in the American version, the women appear to be O'Dowd's backup singers. As MaryAnn Johanson put it on flickfilosopher.com:
The Sapphires is the story of four young Australian women who form a singing group and travel to Vietnam in the 1960s to entertain the American troops there. Their new manager, who is along for the ride, is indeed a white man. The women are Aborigines. They are black black black black blackety-black black. Not blue. Oh, and they're women. And this is their story. It's even a true story... So why are they shoved into the background, the color of their skin disguised by that blue monotone?
Last week O'Dowd expressed his distaste for the new DVD cover on Twitter, writing, "it's ridiculous, it's misleading, it's ill-judged, insensitive and everything the film wasn't." Yep, pretty much, since the film is about striving to overcome sexism and racism. The original Sapphires (Naomi Mayers, Beverly Briggs, Lois Peeler, and Laurel Robinson) have also joined in on the protest, calling on the NAACP to advocate for them. In a letter sent to the NAACP on the Sapphires' behalf, Sol Bellear, the chairman of the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service, wrote:
As I'm sure you can appreciate, the treatment of people of colour in Australia mirrored much of the trauma to which people in the United States were subjected. That trauma — and much of that treatment — remains alive and well in Australia today, as I know it does in the United States.
The US cover of the DVD completely misses this point, and in fact reinforces precisely the sort of bigotry that Naomi, Beverly, Lois and Laurel fought so hard against.
Ms. Mayers, who is now the chief executive of the Redfern AMS, adds that the cover is "disrespectful to the very talented young Aboriginal actors in the film, and it's disrespectful to us as a group." In particular, however, it's "disrespectful to women of colour everywhere who have stood up against this sort of thing all their lives."
A Change.org petition calling on Anchor Bay, the U.S. distributor, to change to the cover has already garnered over 10,000 signatures.
"The Original 'Sapphires' Join Protest Over Sexist, Racist DVD Cover" [Colorlines]
Images via Hopscotch Films and Anchor Bay.
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Just to clarify: these women are Aborigines; in Australia, we would not refer to them as 'black'. (Obviously, their skin colour is highly relevant to this discussion, but I just found it a bit odd, in that at least for me, the two terms imply different minority groups). Would love to be better educated on this if anyone could expand.
ETA: I'm referring to the title of the article, not the substance.


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PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION FOR GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS
Hsin-Chuan Kuo, Associate Professor, Institute of Systems Engineering & Naval Architecture, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2, Pei-Ning Road, Keelung, Taiwan 202, R.O.C.Follow
Jiang-Ren Chang, Professor, Institute of Systems Engineering & Naval Architecture, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2, Pei-Ning Road, Keelung, Taiwan 202, R.O.C.
Ching-Hsiang Liu, Graduate Student, Institute of Systems Engineering & Naval Architecture, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2, Pei-Ning Road, Keelung, Taiwan 202, R.O.C.
In this paper, the particle swarm optimization (PSO), originated as a simulation of a simplified social system with swarm intelligence and having exploring and exploiting characteristics of the particle swarm, is adopted to deal with the global optimization problems. To begin with, four non-linear two-dimensional functions are adopted as benchmark examples for determining the suitable ranges of parameters in the PSO. It is found that uses of the PSO can make the search quickly converge to the global optimum. Then, several benchmark functions below ten-dimensions are adopted especially for comparisons of search efficiency on the PSO and other algorithms. Results show that the proposed approach is not only superior to other algorithms but also has the higher success rate. Finally, the PSO is also applied to deal with the optimization problem of a grillage structure. Optimization solutions of the success rate and the used average generation show that the PSO also has the better performance for the optimal design of structures with constraints.
Kuo, Hsin-Chuan; Chang, Jiang-Ren; and Liu, Ching-Hsiang (2006) "PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION FOR GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS," Journal of Marine Science and Technology: Vol. 14: Iss. 3, Article 6.
DOI: 10.51400/2709-6998.2071
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Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked November 27, 1916 from Santa Cruz, California. Printed in Germany. Series 0758.
Divided back, unused postcard, circa 1911 – 1915. Publisher: Wesley Andrews, Baker, Oregon. Series or number 305.
Started in 1910 and completed in 1911, is the steel bridge seen in this postcard, spanning the Snake River at Blue Lakes. It replaced I. B. Perrine's ferry and was known as I. B. Perrine's Blue Lakes Bridge or Perrine's Bridge, and was a toll bridge until Perrine's building costs were recovered. It was closed to the public in 1921. Ira Burton Perrine was a renowned fruit rancher and is credited as having founded Twin Falls, Idaho.
Below, a clipping from The Oregon Daily Journal, October 1910, informs readers that the piers for the new bridge were completed, and the work on the structure would soon be undertaken by a Minneapolis company. According to the article, the bridge's length was going to measure 600 feet.
Watermelon in the desert and where was Blue Lakes?
Matthews, Mychel. "Hidden History: First Perrine Bridge." MVMagicValley.com. July 7, 2016. (Web accessed November 18, 2017).
I. B. Perrine. n.d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._B._Perrine (accessed November 18, 2017).
Gardner, Gilson. "Romance Of An Idaho Eden." The Evansville Press. (Evansville, IN). September 28, 1906. Friday, p. 4. (Newspapers.com).
"An Idaho Romance." The Minneapolis Journal. September 26, 1903. Saturday, p. 5. (Newspapers.com).
Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked July 9, 1915 from Oakland, California. Publisher: Ezra Meeker, Seattle, Washington. Number or series: A-14670.
Ezra Meeker (1830 – 1928) was a pioneer from Iowa, who traveled the Oregon Trail, and who worked later to memorialize it. He was also an author, served as Puyallup, Washington's first mayor and its first postmaster, was one time known as the "Hop King of the World" and was also the publisher of this postcard.
Straight and to the point, the comings and goings of Ella's friend, Muriel in July 1915. Love the order to "(write)". This is one of many in the Alice Ellison Collection.
Source: Ezra Meeker. n.d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Meeker (accessed November 12, 2017).
Real Photo Postcard, unused with writing. Circa 1914 – 1918. EKC stamp box.
Most likely we're looking at Charles Ed. Sickler in the photo (at least one presumes!) as it sounds like this writer of best wishes was giving this remembrance of himself, along with his mailing address, to his buddy, "the splendid Bunk Mate." A cool guy, Charles, you can read his perhaps dry sense of humor in the card. The RR1 would be Rural Route 1. But no confirmation was found for him in census, military or city directory records, and that is surprising.
Old photo, Biltmore Village, NC. Circa 1905 – 1910.
At first glance, one might think this photo was taken on a special occasion, because of the striking contrast between the line of three oxen-driven covered wagons and the row of Dutch Colonial Revival style homes and manicured lawns in the suburban-looking setting. But rather than some type of commemorative event, it may have just been a "working day" wagons-carrying-supplies scene in Biltmore Village, NC. Note the partial glimpse of horse and rider on our right. And with scrutiny one can make out the vague image in the middle vehicle of a driver wearing a hat.
The book, Around Biltmore Village, (see p. 38) by Bill Alexander provides a couple of photos of this same street, Brook St., circa 1906 and 1909. Those are Linden trees in the images (and we hope they're still there.) The rental houses in the village were referred to as "cottages" which seems unusual but then decidedly not…..when viewed in relation to the Biltmore Estate mansion built by George W. Vanderbilt, II. The village was a planned community for the estate workers, and was also designed to be an aesthetically pleasing entrance to the estate, modeled to have the feel of an English village. Biltmore Village was formerly known as Best but also referred to as Ashville Junction and Swannanoa Bridge. Today, Biltmore Village is a part of the city of Ashville, and is a popular shopping, dining, art, spa and historical destination. Below, another photo (Wikepidia Commons) from around the same time period.
Sources: Alexander, Bill. Around Biltmore Village. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2008. Web accessed November 11, 2017.
Biltmore Estate. n.d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Estate (accessed November 11, 2017).
File:Biltmore, NC-Lindon Trees (5167651749).jpg. Original Collection: Arthur Peck Collection, P99, Item Number: P099_C_278. (accessed November 11, 2017).


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Hua Xiong 華雄 was a minor officer under Dong Zhuo and participated in the Campaign against Dong Zhuo.
Historically not much is known about Hua Xiong. In contrast to his appearance in the novel, Hua Xiong was just a minor officer in history.
During the Campaign against Dong Zhuo, he was sent out to face Sun Jian at Yangren, together with Lü Bu and Hu Zhen and 5,000 troops under their command. Sun Jian completely defeated the three officers. Lü Bu and Hu Zhen retreated, Hua Xiong died. He was either beheaded by Sun Jian, or killed in battle with Sun Jian's troops. The latter seems most likely.
Hua Xiong was Chief Controller (dūdū 都督) at the time of his death.
Historical sources never label Hua Xiong as 'talented' or 'promising'.
Historically, Hua Xiong did not participate in the fictional Battle of Sishui Pass.
Historically, Hua Xiong was beheaded by Sun Jian, or killed in battle with Sun Jian's troops. He wasn't killed by Guan Yu.
Historically, Hua Xiong had only one battle, which was the one with Sun Jian.
HHS 72/62; the Biography of Dong Zhuo.
↑ SGZ 46, (Wu1) Sun Jian Biography; A death at the hands of an officer of importance was usually listed in historical texts. Hua Xiong is only mentioned as having died in battle with Sun Jian, not killed by Jian himself.


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Diagnosing Common Pansy Problems
By Brian E. Whipker, James L. Gibson, Dharmalingam S. Pitchay, Paul V. Nelson, James R. Baker, James E. Faust, Paul A. Thomas, Mike Benson, Todd J. Cavins and Jean L. Williams-Woodward
Many problems can occur during pansy production. The Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation supported a cooperative project involving North Carolina State University, Clemson University and the University of Georgia that examined the most common problems observed by growers. Following is a list of these problems, including descriptions of the symptoms, and techniques for the prevention of or remedy for each problem. For a more complete discussion of pansy production, a packet of pocket-sized diagnostic cards and a production manual also are available. Contact information is at the end of this article.
Foliar Diseases
Numerous fungi cause foliar diseases on pansies, but growers often have difficulty in making the correct diagnosis of the pathogen; the symptomatic spots often look very much alike. Fortunately, the control measures generally are the same.
Foliar diseases are favored by extended periods of leaf wetness. Watering late in the day so that plants go through the evening with wet leaves can increase disease. This is because most leaf-spotting fungi require a minimum of eight to 12 hours of constant leaf wetness to infect the plant. Infection cannot occur unless water is present on the leaf for the required amount of time.
Promptly remove infected leaves and severely infected plants to reduce disease spread. One infected leaf or plant, if left in the tray or greenhouse, can spread the disease to all of the other plants. Fungicides can reduce infection of new leaves, but they will not cure already infected leaves. Remember, the test for the effectiveness of a fungicide spray is not whether the existing leaf spots go away (because they never will), but whether new growth remains free of infection. Repeat applications will be necessary to control these diseases.
Cercospora Leaf Spot: This is the most common leaf spot disease on pansies in the South. Large, spreading purple spots start on the lower leaves; the spots have a feathered margin. As the disease progresses, tiny purple spots and flecks appear on the upper leaves. Over time, the leaf spots develop tan centers with purple borders. Spots are often irregular in size and shape. Lower leaves often turn yellow and fall off, reducing plant vigor and appearance.
Disease Cycle: Caused by Cercospora violae (a fungus specific to pansy), this disease favors warm temperatures and wet conditions, and is most often seen in the fall and late spring. The fungus infects the lower leaves first. Infected leaves fall off the plant and it is presumed that the fungus survives within the leaf debris. Numerous spores that usually are spread by splashing water to adjacent leaves or plants are produced within the spots.
Management: Remove severely infected plants to reduce disease spread. All plant debris should be discarded or destroyed at the end of the production cycle to reduce pathogen survival. Applying fungicides, including mancozeb, myclobutanil, chlorothalonil, fludioxonil, or thiophanate methyl + mancozeb, at seven to 14 day intervals can reduce disease development and spread.
Anthracnose: This is another very common leaf spot on pansies. The leaf spots are typically pale or grey with thick, black margins that sometimes appear to have a concentric ring pattern. The spots may range in size from 1/8 to 1/4 inch. Sunken, elongated brown to tan lesions often develop on the petioles, peduncles, or stems of infected plants. The lesions eventually girdle the stem, killing the plant. Anthracnose also may cause brown spotting on infected flowers.
Disease Cycle: Anthracnose is caused by the fungus Colletotrichum violae-tricoloris. Infection may be associated with stressed or injured tissue. The disease is most severe during periods of warm, wet conditions in the fall and late spring. The fungus produces abundant spores within the leaf spots or other affected plant parts that are spread to adjacent plants by water splashing. The fungus survives from year-to year in infected plant residue.
Management: Removing and destroying infected plants, as well as plant residue, at the end of the production season can reduce disease survival and spread. Applying fungicides such as mancozeb or thiophanate methyl + mancozeb at the first sign of disease can reduce disease spread. Avoid stressing plants and prolonged periods of plant wetness which can favor anthracnose infection.
Root Diseases
Pansies can be infected by the usual root-rot pathogens such as Pythium, Rhizoctonia, and Fusarium, but they also are susceptible to Thielaviopsis, the cause of "black root rot." Black root rot is the most serious root disease of pansies primarily because it is very difficult to control.
Root rot diseases typically occur in wet substrates due to over-watering, poor drainage, or containers standing in water. All root rot pathogens are soil-borne, meaning that they survive in substrates and debris. They usually develop in the production area due to poor sanitation practices such as re-using potting substrate and unclean containers, as well as from plant and soil debris on benches and floors.
Anything that moves or contains substrate (dirt and debris) has the potential to introduce or spread root rot pathogens, including dirt on shoes, the outer sides of potting mix bags, tools, hoses, and hands.
Foliage symptoms of root diseases are very similar. Plants often are chlorotic or purplish, wilted, stunted and weak. A root rot disease cannot be diagnosed by examining only the foliage. The best way to diagnose the root rot disease is to look at the roots.
Black Root Rot (Thielaviopsis): Pansies infected with black root rot produce above-ground symptoms typical of other root-rotting diseases. Infected plants may be stunted and/or wilted, but the most diagnosable symptom is leaf yellowing (chlorosis).
Roots infected with black root rot develop dark spots or bands that are easily seen against the normally white pansy roots. Early infection is most often seen at the tips of secondary feeder roots, but as the disease progresses, the entire root system becomes black and water-soaked. The black discoloration is due to fungal spores within the root. The spores can be seen with the aid of a 15-20x magnifying glass, hand lens, or microscope. All stages of pansies can be infected and killed. The disease can be especially destructive during late summer months when temperatures are high and when the substrate pH is higher than 6.0.
Disease Cycle: Black root rot, caused by the fungus Thielaviopsis basicola (also known as Chalara elegans), is a widespread and destructive root disease of pansy. Thielaviopsis survives in soil and plant debris. Healthy roots become infected when they come in contact with infected roots or fungus spores within infested substrate and/or debris. The fungus then grows and multiplies rapidly, producing spores within the infected plants. Spores also can spread from pot to pot by splashing water.
The disease can be introduced into greenhouses from infected plugs. Always examine plugs carefully for symptoms of infection such as uneven growth and poor foliage color before introducing them into production areas. If you suspect a problem with the plugs, immediately submit a sample plug tray to a diagnostic clinic. Spores of Thielaviopsis can survive on greenhouse benches and plug trays for up to two months (and within plant debris under benches for longer periods of time).
Management: Good sanitation, proper plant care, and fungicides can help reduce black root rot disease development. Use only new soilless, pathogen-free, potting mix. Never re-use potting mixes! Use new containers for each planting and keep all equipment and the planting area clean of old potting substrate and debris. Avoid water and heat stress, especially in late summer.
Do not over-fertilize plants. Apply the recommended rate of nitrogen for pansy production, but avoid fertilizers high in ammonium-nitrogen. Maintain a root substrate pH between 5.4 and 5.8. Always check your plants regularly for signs of disease and discard infected plants immediately. If needed, fungicides such as thiophanate methyl, triflumizole, or fludioxonil can reduce black root rot infection, but they will not "cure" already infected plants.
Pythium Root Rot: Infected roots appear tan to brown and water-soaked or slimy. The outer root cortex is easily stripped from the thread-like inner root (stele) with your fingers. Pythium typically attacks the root tips first and then progresses upward within the root system. Lower leaves of infected plants often yellow. Pythium also causes damping off.
Disease cycle: Pythium is very common and it cannot be eliminated from greenhouse production. Pythium survives in soil and on anything that contains soil, including hands, shoes, pots and equipment, as well as in contaminated water sources. Over-watering and excessive overhead misting during propagation will favor disease development by providing ideal conditions for Pythium spore germination and movement. The disease is easily spread pot to pot by splashing water or soil movement. High soluble salt concentration in the potting substrate also favors Pythium infection by stressing the root system.
Management: Fungicides typically used for control of Pythium such as etridiazole, fosetyl-Al, mefenoxam, and propamocarb can stunt young pansies, so apply fungicides with caution during the first week after transplant.
Pansyworms (variegated fritillary) are small, spiny caterpillars that are appropriately named because they feed on pansies and other plants in the violet family. It is the immature stage of one of a group of four-footed butterflies called fritillaries. The variegated fritillary is a brownish-orange, spotted and speckled, medium-sized butterfly that is sometimes noticed on pansies in mid to late summer and early fall.
Damage: Very small caterpillars rasp away at leaves, displaying much the same evidence as do slugs. Older caterpillars chew holes in leaves or consume leaves altogether. The caterpillars also leave unsightly dark droppings on the leaves. Often the droppings are more conspicuous than are the young caterpillars.
Life History: Pansyworms overwinter as caterpillars feeding on pansy, violet, alyssum, Johnny-jump-up and other plants in the violet family. In spring, the caterpillars molt into a chrysalis (pupa) and from that stage emerges a generation of adult butterflies. These butterflies are not particularly rare; they range throughout the U.S. except for the Pacific Northwest, so it is common to find pansyworms feeding on pansies throughout the Southeast.
Management: Pansyworms are not resistant to pesticides, so chemical control is not difficult; however, the worms are small enough to do damage before they are discovered. Variegated fritillaries are large enough to be easily excluded from greenhouses and shade houses with screening.
Boron (B) Deficiency symptoms are initially expressed on the new leaves and stems, with growth being distorted or clubby. With advanced conditions, death of the growing point can occur, thus resulting in axillary shoot growth. It is important to correct B deficiency when symptoms first appear because death of the meristematic tissue or distorted leaves can not be reversed. Excessive levels of K or Ca can have an antagonistic effect on B availability. B is less soluble in soilless substrates and when the pH is above 6.2.
Strategy for Boron: Irrigation water may contain adequate or even excessive levels of B. Test the irrigation water to determine available levels. Supplement with additional B in your fertilization program if B is <0.3 ppm. No additional B may be needed if B levels are between 0.3 to 1.5 ppm. Select fertilizers that do not contain B if irrigation water levels are >1.5 ppm.
Continual Fertilization: Most commercial fertilizers that provide micronutrients include B. Remember to add supplemental B applications if using calcium nitrate (Ca(NO3)2) + potassium nitrate (KNO3) and your irrigation water lacks B.
Corrective Fertilization: Corrective drench applications of Borax or Solubor at 6.25 ppm of B (see mixing rates below) can be applied to soilless substrates. (Visible improvements will be very slow.) It is important to correct B deficiency when symptoms first appear because death of the meristematic tissue or distorted leaves cannot be reversed. (Measure carefully, overdoses can be lethal to pansies.)
For a corrective application, add 0.75 oz. (21.3 g) of Borax (11 percent B) per 100 gallons of water, or 0.43 oz. (12.2 g) of Solubor (20 per cent B) per 100 gallons of water.
Nitrogen Deficiency: Plants deficient in nitrogen exhibit slow growth, stunting, lack of lateral shoot growth, or (with advanced conditions) lower leaves that initially turn greenish-purple to yellow (chlorosis). Leaf abscission occurs after prolonged deficiency conditions. N is a mobile element within the plant; therefore, deficiency symptoms will appear first on the lower, older leaves.
Excess levels of N will result in dark-green coloration, reduced plant growth, and delayed flowering. Excessive N can reduce uptake of potassium (K).
Strategy for Nitrogen (N): Pansies are susceptible to ammoniacal-nitrogen (NH4-N) toxicity. Symptoms appear as an interveinal V-shaped chlorosis with green veins, and downward cupping of the younger leaves. Ammoniacal-nitrogen toxicity can be avoided by supplying >75 percent of N in the nitrate (NO3-) form. (Categorize urea-nitrogen with ammonical-nitrogen when calculating the ratio.)
Options: Use a fertilizer that provides N at 125 ppm constant liquid fertilization or 175 to 200 ppm constant liquid fertilization with excessive leaching (outdoor production). Examples include calcium nitrate (Ca(NO3)2) with potassium nitrate (KNO3), 20-10-20, 15-5-25, Excel 15-5-15 Cal-Mag, 15-2-20, and others.
If using calcium nitrate (Ca(NO3)2) with potassium nitrate (KNO3), remember to supply P, Mg, and micro-nutrients to the plants.
If using 20-10-20 or 20-20-20, remember to supply Ca and Mg to the plants.
Corrective Fertilization: Applications include calcium nitrate (Ca(NO3)2), potassium nitrate (KNO3), or Excel 15-5-15 Cal-Mag at the rate of 300 to 400 ppm N. A single corrective N fertilization will return the lower leaves to the normal green color within one to two weeks. Do not overapply. It is important to correct N deficiency when symptoms first appear because lower leaf drop may occur under severe conditions.
Mottle Pansy Syndrome
During fall production in the mid 1980s, growers in warm regions began noticing Mottle Pansy Syndrome (MPS). Pansies that express this malady have variegated leaves that first are seen at the plug stage.
If night temperatures are cool and daytime highs are near 80° F, the plant loses the variegation and appears normal until heat stressed. However, under daytime heat and warm nights, the variegation resumes on new growth.
As this syndrome progresses, leaves become contorted, develop finger-like projections, or become feathery. This bizarre growth will continue until temperatures are lowered or fertility is increased. Note that increasing fertility or reducing temperature is not a cure. Once the consumer places the plant outdoors, mottled and contorted leaves will return with warmer weather.
Source of Problem: Although extensive tests have been performed for virus, mycoplasma-like organisms, bacteria, and nutritional deficiencies, MPS remains a mystery attributed to a genetic defect in pansies and violas. Unlike the occasional variegated leaf in plugs, this defect may cause significant crop loss. It has been expressed in several lines of pansies distributed by most major suppliers.
Corrective Action: Discard the plant. Plugs express the variegated leaves almost immediately, which enables a grower to hold a plug tray up into sunlight and to remove the affected seedlings. By scouting plug trays, growers can eliminate these plants before they become a problem. The cost of scouting is only a fraction of the potential production loss.
Avoidance Review: 1) Scout plug trays as they arrive. Remove all variegated-leafed plugs. Monitor new growth on transplanted plugs for signs of lanceolate, twisted, or elongated leaves. Maintain a cool production environment for pansy plugs. Scout the entire crop for signs of variegated leaves during warm temperature conditions.
2) Purchase quality seed and report significant amounts of variegation to the seed supplier. Do not try to grow affected plugs. Applications of boron, iron, and magnesium only mask the genetic problem under ideal conditions and may cause loss of business reputation and income once the plant is sold and re-expresses the symptoms.
The authors acknowledge and thank the Fred. C. Gloeckner Foundation for their financial support of this project.
Brian E. Whipker, Paul V. Nelson, James R. Baker and Mike Benson are faculty members at North Carolina State University; James L. Gibson, Todd J. Cavins and Dharmalingam S. Pitchay are graduate students at NCSU;0 James E. Faust is a faculty member at Clemson University; and Paul A. Thomas and Jean L. Williams-Woodward are faculty members at the University of Georgia-Athens.
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Millville, Millsboro Food Lion stores purchased by Weis
Four Food Lion supermarkets in Sussex County, including one in Millville and one in Millsboro, have been purchased by Pennsylvania-based Weis Markets.
The grocery chain has purchased 38 Food Lion stores in in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, according to an announcement by the company on Thursday, July 14. It is the largest acquisition in the company's history. Of the 38 stores being purchased, 21 are in Maryland; 13 are in Virginia.
"This transaction provides us the opportunity to expand into markets that are contiguous to our current trade area, particularly in Maryland, where we are adding 21 stores — essentially doubling our store count in a state where we have steadily grown in recent years," said Weis Markets Chairman, President and CEO Jonathan Weis. "We're also looking forward to expanding our operations into two adjacent states, with the addition of 13 stores in Virginia and four in Delaware."
Weis Markets expects to complete the conversion process for the majority of the stores in September and October. The company has expressed interest in hiring current Food Lion store employees for the purchased locations.
"We look forward to interviewing and hiring team members who share our commitment to offering an industry-leading combination of value, quality and customer service," Weis said.
Local Food Lion store management referred all questions about the purchase to corporate officials, who did not return phone calls to the Coastal Point by press time this week.
The acquisition comes on the heels of the merger of Food Lion's parent company, Ahold, with the Delhaize Group, which owns Giant Food, and speculation about whether stores would be closed in areas where they are in direct competition with one another. In the case of the Giant and Food Lion stores in Millville, the two are directly across the street from each other.
With the recent acquisition of the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia stores, Weis markets increases its total number of stores chainwide to 203. The Delaware Food Lion stores that have been acquired by Weis are located at 17232 N. Village Main Boulevard, Lewes; 24832 John J. Williams Highway, Millsboro; 36731 Old Mill Road, Millville; and 19287 Miller Road, Rehoboth Beach.
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