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The Labour Fund "Tamkeen" has extended the registration period of the 6th edition of Mashroo3i Youth Business Competition, for the year 2019 – 2020, due to the high the demand where the applications reached more than 150 application, until February 15th, 2020. This extension is granted to allow a larger segment of the Bahraini youth to join the comprehensive program that will enable them to transform their business ideas into successful entrepreneurial projects.
Mashroo3i Youth Business Competition targets in its 6th edition Bahrainis aged 18 to 35 in teams of 2 to 3 individuals who wish to have their entrepreneurial ideas polished and developed into successful businesses.
The Evaluation Committee of "Mashroo3i" has begun the process of reviewing the applications received in order to select qualified applicants for the upcoming stages of the program. The competition will conclude by honoring the best 3 projects during the final ceremony. Moreover, a number of awards will be distributed among the participants including the Feasibility Study of the Year Award, the Business Model Award, the Marketing, Sales & Promotion Award, Most Responsible Business of the Year Award, the Charismatic Entrepreneur of the Year, the Innovation Award, E-Business of the Year Award, Active use of Social Media Award and the People's Choice Award.
Speaking on the occasion, H.E Dr. Ebrahim Mohammed Janahi, Chief Executive of Tamkeen, said, "Mashroo3i Youth Business Competition attracts a large segment of ambitious young Bahrainis who intend to pursue entrepreneurial career paths; therefore, this extension aims to allow more individuals with innovative ideas to take part in the program and benefit from key training opportunities that will enable them to actualize their business ideas, and consequently contribute to the growth of the private sector in line with Bahrain's Economic Vision 2030."
Launched by Tamkeen to promote the culture of entrepreneurship among youth, Mashroo3i Youth Business Competition is a national platform designed to support and guide participants to learn about the fundamentals of creating successful feasibility studies, porotypes, and assist in converting them into successful business. Provided that, the national competition celebrates inspiring Bahraini entrepreneurs encouraging innovative and creative ideas.
For further information regarding Mashroo3i Youth Business Competition visit www.tamkeen.bh/mashroo3i and follow us on our social media channels @tamkeenbahrain.


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NAB 2019 Reflections: ChyronHego CEO Marco Lopez on the Importance of Sports-Venue, Esports Business
In-arena graphics increasingly enhance the fan experience
By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Director of Production
Friday, April 19, 2019 - 10:13 am
ChyronHego kicked off NAB 2019 with the announcement that the Dallas Cowboys were involved in a comprehensive upgrade of their ChyronHego-based venue-graphics systems at AT&T Stadium.
Included in the undertaking are Click Effects PRIME — ChyronHego's integrated graphics toolset for delivering live arena- and stadium-based A/V presentations to any canvas size with any number of outputs in any resolution — and the company's latest versions of LyricX, Paint, and Virtual 1st, ushering in a new era of 4K production on the LiveFX Endzone board at AT&T Stadium.
SVG sat down with ChyronHego CEO Marco Lopez to discuss this latest news, as well as the importance of the sports-venue industry and the role esports will play in ChyronHego's business plans.
ChyronHego's Marco Lopez: "What we try to do for the producers is to be the aggregator of all this data. We curate the data; then we quickly visualize that data for [in-venue] fan engagement."
Tell me about your big news heading into this year's NAB Show.
On the sports and venue side of things, the [work we've done with] the Dallas Cowboys is really telling about how these venues are adopting Click Effects PRIME as their primary orchestration tool. That allows them to put on an event that people want to go to. People still speak to family members and say, I'll just watch [a sports event] at home, and I prefer the experience at home. When you ask them why they prefer the experience at home, it's because they can get things like instant replay with Paint and telestration; they can get virtual placement. There are all these little things that they get when they watch on TV that they weren't getting at the stadium.
The Dallas Cowboys are turning that around by going 4K; they're now going to be using our Paint product and our virtual-placement product so that, when they run a replay on the large screens in the stadium, it will actually be telestrated. People in the stadium will be able to understand the DNA of the sport. [In a football game, viewers have become accustomed to seeing] the yellow line showing how many yards [the offense needs] to go for the first down. Those are some of the things that the Cowboys will put right in the stadium. That will remove the excuse of "I have a better experience at home." Now people will want to come and watch it at the stadium and get that full experience.
In that same market, we are driving our systems with native GPU outputs. That has helped a lot, because these screens have [a wide range of] resolutions and aspect ratios, and, by going natively, we can hit them with the specific resolution for that screen. As you know, you have ribbon boards, you have perimeter boards, you have large flat-screen TVs and other LED displays, and we can go natively [to each of them].
That's important because we can output four times more pixels than our leading competitor, so our channel density is four times better. When you're thinking that you have to drive hundreds and sometimes thousands of displays, the equipment in the equipment rack can get daunting. With four times better density, the equipment would be a quarter of what it would be otherwise. So we're really happy about that in terms of that market.
And then, for telestration, we released Paint version 7.5, which [gives our customers] some really easy-to-use tools. For instance, we use our AI visioning systems so that we can automatically track players without sensors or any other type of equipment or accessories. Now the telestration operator doesn't have to key-frame where the players are moving in trying to show the replay of a highlight.
We integrate with the leading replay systems, and we offer full 4K recording on our telestration system, [which] means you don't have to sacrifice an expensive replay port on your [replay server]. Just record into our system, do your telestration, and then you can either export to the server for the replay of the highlight or publish to the web.
And, the publishing to the web and social media is directly integrated into our system, so there are no additional steps; the telestration operator, once they're happy with the highlight, can publish to Facebook, Twitter, or any one of the social-media sites that they typically use.
An interesting stat that I learned was [that] more than 50% of the highlights and telestrations done by the operators inside the truck don't go to air because the game goes on or the producer has other things to move to. But now nothing stops them from saying, Publish it to social media. And the fans on their secondary devices can get all the telestrated highlights that they would have never seen on the linear broadcast. It's just another way of further engaging fans.
Sounds like the in-venue experience is becoming an increasingly important part of ChyronHego's business.
It is. Our purpose in life has always been to visualize live data, to engage and entertain. And live data in the form of statistical data on player and team performance are all coming into our systems. What we try to do for the producers is to be the aggregator of all this data. We curate the data; then we quickly visualize that data for fan engagement, and so it's definitely true for stadium and in venue. It's also true when you look at other areas or other verticals like news graphics. The news station we did in Philadelphia for NBC [is used] for NBC News, but they also use it as their NBC Sports studio, and it's amazing. We're so proud of that installation: the LED floor and the 23-ft. screen that they have for telling sports news. We really believe in integration of the live data. Visualizing it quickly and efficiently so the producers don't have to worry about it is what we do best.
One of the biggest trends we're seeing at NAB 2019 – and in the sports-venue space in general – is esports. Is that a focus for ChyronHego?
One aspect of esports is definitely the large arenas, venues, and stadiums that are housing events, and we're definitely there. That's a key focus of the products that we offer. The other aspect is, they are now doing fairly elaborate productions, and our graphics products (which have been around since 1966) are still the main graphics engine for live sports events. This is where our Lyric platform has typically shined: getting these just-in-time real-time graphics. So that platform is definitely suited very well for esports.
Are there any other trends that you're seeing in the sports and sports-venue space?
I think the one [is] virtualization. Not just to virtualize for virtualization's sake, but it's more about when we do one-time sporting events that happen in a city and then move to another city or that don't happen every week or [happen on] multiple days of the week — Formula 1, tennis, the Olympics — and finding ways [to] virtualize our platform so that they can get access to the resources and turn on and off the resources wherever they are in any part of the world. It's really attractive to these customers. We're happy to say that our Prime and Lyric platforms are virtualized so we can work with customers in this remote-production manner and allow them to go into these business models and make them more productive with their capital investments.
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Bhutan improves in Corruption Perception Index
Bhutan climbed a spot up to the 26th position among 180 countries in the global Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2017 that Transparency International (TI) released on February 21.
Bhutan had occupied the 27th spot consecutively in the previous two years.
The CPI measures the perception of corruption in a country's public sector on a scale ranging from zero to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. Bhutan scored 67 points.
According to TI, countries that score below 50 are perceived as highly corrupt.
Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Kinley Yangzom, said that the improvement in the ranking was a result of concerted efforts of all stakeholders including the top leadership, the government, general public, media and Bhutanese people in fighting corruption.
"ACC remains grateful and is further encouraged and motivated by Bhutan's improved rank and score," she said.
In the SAARC region, Bhutan occupies the top spot, followed by India at a distant 81st spot. India is followed by Sri Lanka (91), the Maldives (112), Pakistan (117), Nepal (122), Bangladesh (143) and Afghanistan (177).
Overall, the progress in the fight against corruption in the world has been negligible with almost 69 percent of the countries scoring below 50.
The average global score is 43 out of 100.
A press release from the ACC states that this is the 12th successive year that Bhutan has made considerable progress in the CPI.
"Bhutan's consistent progress in the CPI over the years, in particular for 2017, can be attributed to unstinted and unwavering political will in the fight against corruption," states the press release.
The ACC states that the TI's analysis of various data sources used for Bhutan revealed that the government and relevant stakeholders had undertaken significant initiatives on good governance towards promoting transparency and accountability.
They included ensuring quality of budgetary and financial management through the introduction of Government Performance Management System (GPMS).
The GPMS, the ACC states, increased civil society participation, and most importantly improved accountability mechanisms initiated across the agencies, among others.
In Asia and the Pacific region, Bhutan has been consecutively ranked sixth.
However, the ACC cautioned that Bhutan is not immune to corruption risks and that the rank and the score is not a solace as advanced countries are also equally vulnerable to new forms of corruption risk.
"Thus, it is important to sustain the current momentum of fighting corruption and remain united against the social menace – corruption towards realizing the goals of Gross National Happiness," the ACC stated.
This year, New Zealand and Denmark ranked the highest with scores of 89 and 88 respectively. Syria, South Sudan and Somalia ranked the lowest with scores of 14, 12 and 9 respectively.
According to the ACC, civil society organisations (CSOs) and media are essential in applying pressure and keeping governments honest and accountable. CSOs play a key role in denouncing violations of rights or speaking out against breaches of law, it added.
The ACC stated that a free and independent media, similarly, serves an important function in investigating and reporting incidences of corruption. "The voices of both civil society and journalists put a spotlight on bad actors and can help trigger action by law enforcement and the court system."
Source: Kuensel Online February 26, 2018
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Here we are again, at another turn of the great wheel which leads us into the light. This celebration goes by many names including Saturnalia in ancient Rome and Yuletide. The words winter solstice translate in Latin to sun stand still. The word Yule means wheel. The concept of rebirth is the main theme throughout different cultural celebrations, referring to the rebirth of the sun god. Winter Solstice Festivities date far back to the ancient civilizations, when human celebrations centered primarily on the planets and shifting seasons. Originally called "Sol Invictus" honoring the return of the sun. Festivals and celebrations include dancing, feasting, gathering, evergreens and illumination. Psychologically these festivities help keep our inner flame lit as we move through the darker part of the year. The light and warmth from celebratory fires and heartfelt gatheings facilitates the rekindling of our own internal flame during a time when "winter blues" may set in due to cold, damp weather and darkness.


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Q: How to set all checkboxes and its labels on left side one after another line? I am learning HTML and CSS. I am trying to design a webpage to practice HTML and CSS. I am trying to add multiple checkboxes with labels in new lines form left side. But I couldn't.
I want to design a page like the below image:

But the checkboxes is not going to left. Here is my design below.

HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Project 05</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">

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Thank you for taking the time to help us improve the platform

            Name
            <input type="text" required>
            Email
            <input type="email" required>
            Age (optional)
            <input type="number" required>
            Which option best describes your current role?
            <select name="" id="">
                <option disabled> Select an option</option>
                <option class="container" value="challenges">Challenges</option>
                <option class="container" value="projects">Projects</option>
                <option class="container" value="community">Community</option>
                <option class="container" value="opensource">Opensource</option>
            </select>
            What is your favorite feature of freeCodeCamp?
            <input type="checkbox"> One
            <input type="checkbox"> Two
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CSS
body {
    background: linear-gradient(rgba(68, 28, 179, 0.753), rgba(68, 28, 179, 0.753)), url(./survey-form-background.jpeg) no-repeat center center fixed, rgba(68, 28, 179, 0.753);;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;
}
.container {
    font-size: 1rem;
    font-weight: 400;
    line-height: 1.4;
    font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
}
.headings {
    color: white;
    text-align: center;
}
.form-container {
    background: rgba(27, 27, 50, 0.8);
    margin-left: 18rem;
    margin-right: 18rem;
    padding: 2em;
    text-align: left;
    border-radius: 5px;
}
label {
    color: white;
    display: flex;
    font-size: 1.125rem;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}
input {
    width: 100%;
    height: 1.5rem;
    padding: 0.375rem 0.01rem;
    background-color: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #ced4da;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
}
select {
    width: 100%;
    height: 2.4rem;
    padding: 0.375rem 0.01rem;
    background-color: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #ced4da;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
}
.checkboxes {
    text-align: left;
}

How can I do that? Please help me how can I do that design with CSS.

A: Just as @StefanBob mentioned, the checkboxes aren't aligned to the left side of the form because you have width: 100% declared on all of the <input> elements. I see you want to keep 100% width for the name/email/age fields, so you can just add width: auto to the checkbox <input>'s by using .checkboxes input { width: auto } in your stylesheet.
If you want it to mimic the look of the checkboxes included in your image, you can add an explicit width on the checkbox inputs like width: 4ch. Lastly, to make your form responsive, you can remove the 18rem left and right margins on .form-container and replace it with margin: 0 auto. This way the left/right margins are auto calculated by the viewport. To achieve the same width for the form you had with the left/right 18rem margins, just utilize max-width. Now your form is responsive and viewable for all viewport widths.
.form-container {
  background: rgba(27, 27, 50, 0.8);
  margin: 0 auto;
  max-width: 65ch; /* max width of form */
  padding: 2em;
  text-align: left;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

.checkboxes {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: flex-start;
}

.checkboxes input {
  /* width: auto; */
  width: 4ch; /* define an explicit width */
  margin-bottom: 0;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-right: .25rem; /* controls the space between checkbox and text */
}

body {
    background: linear-gradient(rgba(68, 28, 179, 0.753), rgba(68, 28, 179, 0.753)), url(./survey-form-background.jpeg) no-repeat center center fixed, rgba(68, 28, 179, 0.753);;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;
}
.container {
    font-size: 1rem;
    font-weight: 400;
    line-height: 1.4;
    font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
}
.headings {
    color: white;
    text-align: center;
}
.form-container {
    background: rgba(27, 27, 50, 0.8);
    margin: 0 auto;
    max-width: 65ch; /* max width of form */
    padding: 2em;
    text-align: left;
    border-radius: 5px;
}
label {
    color: white;
    display: flex;
    font-size: 1.125rem;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}
input {
    width: 100%;
    height: 1.5rem;
    padding: 0.375rem 0.01rem;
    background-color: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #ced4da;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
}
select {
    width: 100%;
    height: 2.4rem;
    padding: 0.375rem 0.01rem;
    background-color: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #ced4da;
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
}
.checkboxes {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: flex-start;
}

.checkboxes input {
  /*width: auto;*/
  width: 4ch; /* define an explicit width */
  margin-bottom: 0;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-right: .4rem; /* controls the space between checkbox and text */
}
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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A: Welcome learning html. There are indeed some issues in your code you could do better. I only refer to the last part you asked for.

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What is your favorite feature of freeCodeCamp?

<input type="checkbox"> One

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<input type="checkbox"> Three

//#### CSS - overwriting general stylings

input[type=checkbox] {
    width: auto;
    height: inherit;
    margin-bottom: 0;
}

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Our favorite NFTs from the creators we've featured
Passionfruit covers the creative economy for the creators themselves. It's you, friends! Think of us as your newsroom – here to help you navigate the business of independent creativity.
And in that spirit, we have partnered with Voice–An artist-driven, NFT marketplace that allows cross-media advertising to mint and sell their work in a simple and protected way. It's a platform designed to remove technical barriers that prevent ads from monetizing their work. On Voice, you don't need to have a PhD in crypto to participate.
Below you'll find a specially curated collection of NFTs from people you'll be familiar with from Passionfruit's coverage, all available for purchase. Half of the proceeds from your purchases will go to the creators themselves and the other half will go to Curious Publishing: a 501(c)3 nonprofit, 100% artist-owned and operated, that tells the stories of creations of all genres, with a focus on women, BIPOC artists and Queer.
If the concepts behind NFT are still not clear to you, check out the FAQ here.
Meet Asian-American non-binary transgender artists and activists changing the world through their art
Inspired by intersectionality, Meg designs art to inspire a world where people are free to live their truest lives.
Artist and activist Meg, known as @megemikoart on Instagram, began their creative journey while at the mall. Miko explains: "I usually walk through the mall, looking for clothes that fit me, and I have never walked into a clothing store and felt like I was seen or represented. "Whether it's in the outfits, the designs on the clothes, or even the mannequins."
Just like expressing, creating is also about feeling the whole world. For Meg, wearing their own designs was life-changing. "Creating and wearing the clothes I designed has made me feel very gender-excited because the designs and types of clothing feel like they represent me and a part of my identity that I have become known for. suppressed for so long," they explained. Now, Meg aims to spread a sense of freedom, representation, and love to QTBIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people through their art.
We spoke with Meg about their art, inspiration, and work to create a safe space for people to live life as they are.
megemikoart
I am a non-Asian transgender activist and artist. My art and advocacy work is focused on helping people in the QTBIPOC and LGBTQIA (community) communities feel seen, heard, represented, and loved.
Check out Meg's NFTs on Voice
Passion fruit: How has your life experience as a Trans-Asian American influenced your art?
Meg: I really wanted to be the agent and person I needed when I was younger. Combining my passions and sharing my experiences as a transgender Asian American non-American artist and activist is how I hope to create a safe space for people with families to live in. Families are not supportive or feel lonely as they explore their gender and sexuality. My art has been greatly influenced by the alternation of my identity, as I have finally allowed myself the freedom to express myself in the creative way that feels most like me.
P: A lot of your art is focused on empowering and uplifting the youth of QTBIOC and LGBTIA+. Who inspires you? What do you hope your fans will get from your work?
M: My grandmother is one of my closest friends, and she has always inspired me to pursue my dreams of pursuing the art and career that I am passionate about. After coming out of the Japanese-American internment camp during World War II, she had to give up her dreams of pursuing art and music to work and support her family. Her entire journey has always inspired me to follow my dreams and passions.
I hope that those in my community as well as QTBIPOC and LGBTQIA+ youth feel inspired by my journey to becoming the best version of myself. I want people to hear my story and feel comforted and safe in being who they really are in a world that tries so hard to tie us all into very specific cookie cutter shapes. body.
P: What's the most important thing you've learned that can be used by upcoming artists and creators?
M: One of the most important things I've learned during my full-time artistic pursuits is that we're all different as human beings. We all have our own feelings, emotions, and experiences that make us who we are today and influence the type of people we want to grow up with.
You never know when a bit of your story or experience might overlap or resonate with someone else's and that's one of the reasons why being an artist and creator is so special. separate. This journey connects you with so many different people and so many different communities. After I learned this, I felt more courageous to express myself freely – just given the chance I could make at least one person feel a little less alone in the world. .
P: Tell us something about one of the images you selected for NFT. What is the story behind it?
M: The "Passing Happiness Forward" design is one of my all-time favorites because it represents how far I've come and all the hope I have for my future. I've spent a lot of my life feeling very sad and ashamed for being me. After stepping out and allowing myself to explore my gender, I was able to feel all that happiness through and through and I have never smiled more in my life. I hope that people see this design and feel hope for their future.
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Violinist STACY WETZEL attended the Juilliard School and the San Francisco Conservatory. She studied at the Banff Centre and received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Washington and her Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. She was the first-place winner in the Washington International Competition and the Buffalo Young Artists competition, and she won the Swiss Radio Prize in the Tibor Varga Competition in Switzerland.
Wetzel has been a soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic. For two years she was concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Chamber Orchestra, and she has performed with ensembles including the Soviet Émigré Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Music West, and the Michigan Chamber Players. She was on the faculty of the University of Michigan and served on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
She joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1987. In the fall of 1995, she followed her husband (who joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1994) to Southern California and won the audition for a position in the second violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2001 she moved up to join the orchestra's first violin section. She made her concerto debut with the Philharmonic playing "Autumn" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, with subsequent performances at the Hollywood Bowl in August of 2003. She appeared on the LA Phil's Symphonies For Youth series and educational programs in January and February of 2014, performing and acting in "Vivaldi's Four Seasons". Wetzel is a frequent performer on the Green Umbrella series as well as the LA Phil's Chamber Music series.
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Vincent Marcus
American Instagram star
Birthplace: El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Sign: Libra
Vincent Marcus Rank
36th born on September 23
192nd born in 1988
6632nd most famous American
7th born in El Paso, Texas, U.S.
291st most famous instagram star
987th Libra
About Vincent Marcus
Vincent Marcus had his breakthrough in 2020 when he contested in the talent reality show called "America's Got Talent". Though he couldn't make it to the final, Marcus became one of the favorites of the show, which played a huge part in the astronomical rise of his fan base on social media, particularly Instagram. On the app, he also creates and shares videos of him singing on his self-titled page. He's also famous on other internet platforms like YouTube.
In 2013, Marcus gave birth to a daughter.
As a popular Instagrammer, he boasts of not less than 614,000 followers and has recorded over 95,000 subscribers on his self-named YouTube channel.
In 2014, his name was added to the top 50 Viners with the most followers.
He has collaborated with a number of social media celebrities like Manon Mathews and Brandon Calvillo.
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Vincent Marcus is a famous American Instagram star, who was born on September 23, 1988. As a person born on this date, Vincent Marcus is listed in our database as the 36th most popular celebrity for the day (September 23) and the 192nd most popular for the year (1988).
People born on September 23 fall under the Zodiac sign of Libra, the Scales. Vincent Marcus is the 987th most popular Libra.
Aside from information specific to Vincent Marcus' birthday, Vincent Marcus is the 6632nd most famous American and ranks 7th in famous people born in El Paso, Texas, U.S.
In general, Vincent Marcus ranks as the 10714th most popular famous person, and the 291st most popular instagram star of all time. "The Famous Birthdays" catalogs over 25,000 famous people, everyone, from actors to actresses to singers to tiktok stars, from serial killers to chefs to scientists to youtubers and more. If you're curious to see who was born on your birthday, you can use our database to find out who, what, where, when and why. You can search by birthday, birthplace, claim to fame or any other information by typing in the search box, or simply browse our site by selecting the month, the day, the horoscope, or any other clickable option.


Coca-Cola is highly involved in political lobbying, as stated on their website. Accordingly, political lobbying is a way that organisations can ensure that their views are heard or at least considered, where political contributions, trade associations and direct advocacy are all tactics employed by Coca-Cola to ensure this (Coca-Cola, 2017).
Earlier in 2017 American President Donald Trump revealed he had a penchant for Coke, with his office containing a special button to order Coca-Cola from (Oppenheim, 2017). This, alongside with the fact that the American president is consistently encouraging the success of American based brands, indicate that Coca-Cola carry the favour of their country-of-origin governing body.
The revenue of Coca Cola has topped Wall Street expectations as a result of more healthy drinks being on tap (Thomas, 2017). Revenue is reported at $9.702 billion as opposed to a forecast of $9.652 billion, with earnings per share adjusted to 59 cents in comparison to an estimate of 57 cents (Thomas, 2017). This is beneficial to the firm, given that analysts predict a global recession in the coming years is possible as a result of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and the uncertainty surrounding Trump's administration in the U.S. (de la Mere, 2017).
In 2017, Coca Cola announced a number of factory closures across the world in a bid to refine their supply chain, with the most recent being announced in the closure of Coca Cola's South Australian factory in 2019 (The Guardian, 2017).
Latest figures indicate that the United States is the most overweight country in the world, with a large percentage of the population being classed as obese, as a result of the easy access and heavy advertising of fast food (Bedard, 2017). In July 2017, Coca Cola announced that they would replace Coke Zero with a new sugar free drink in the U.S., as the organisation explores and promotes supposedly healthier and sugar-free versions of the original Coca-Cola, perhaps as an attempt to appear proactive in curbing the obesity epidemic (Ramakrishnan, 2017).
Coca Cola are presently considered a pioneer in adopting the latest technology, with the organisation employing a unique program called the 'Bridge' program, which is aimed at adopting newer technologies within the company faster than competitors (Forbes, 2017a).
In the UK, Coca Cola have called for a smarter producer responsibility scheme that boosts recycled materials in packaging, and has called upon the soft beverages sector to agree upon a common strategy and priorities for sustainable production (Latchem, 2017).
While Coca Cola sell more than 100 billion single use plastic bottles per year, the organisation plans to increase recycled plastic use in its bottles to just 50%, signifying a lack of ambition from the organisation to tackle one of the largest environmental challenges presented by the plastic pollution in oceans (Sauven, 2017).
With an increasing pressure lying upon food and beverage producers to regulate the ingredients of their products, and ensure that products are free of excessive levels of harmful chemicals, an increasing number of multinational enterprises have found themselves faced with legal disputes. Most recently, Coca Cola have found themselves on the end of a legal dispute in America, where two prominent pastors have filed a suit against both Coca Cola and the American Beverage Association with the claim that manufacturers of carbonated drinks knowingly deceive consumers about the health risks associated with beverages that are sugar-sweetened (Associated Press, 2017).
All political contributions made my Coca Cola and their associated Political Action Committee are done so in compliance with laws, regulations and corresponding legal requirements for reporting, with senior government relations leaders and senior legal counsel leaders reviewing and approving all political contributions (Coca-Cola, 2017).


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JOHN LENNON – " Live In New York City " 30th August 1972
Tags: Elephants Memory, John Lennon, Live In New York City, One to One
The concerts documented on "Live in New York City" were John Lennon's only rehearsed and full-length live performances in his solo career, and his first – and last – formal, full-fledged live concerts since the Beatles retired from the road in 1966. Lennon never mounted a tour during his post-Beatles career. The concerts also marked the last time he performed live with Ono, as also with Elephant's Memory.
Two concerts took place, in the afternoon and evening of 30 August 1972 . John Lennon Live In New York City was released simultaneously as an album and video in 1986, with different performances from the two shows on each.
The Concerts were held to raise money for children with mental challenges at friend Geraldo Rivera's request. Rivera introduces Lennon and Ono at the beginning of the album, and he is referenced in Lennon's impromptu revised lyrics in the opening song, "New York City."
The benefit concerts, billed as "One to One" , also featured other performers in addition to Lennon, including Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Melanie Safka and Sha-Na-Na, although their performances are not included on this album, nor on the simultaneous video release.
"Live in New York City" captures John Lennon's last full-length concert performance, coming right after the release of "Some Time in New York City", which was a commercial failure in the United States. Perhaps as a result, Lennon's stage talk, while humorous, is self-deprecating and slightly nervous in tone. Backing Lennon and Ono were Elephant's Memory, who had served as Lennon and Ono's backing band on Some Time in New York City. Although the material Lennon performed was largely drawn from his three most recent albums of the period (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Imagine and Some Time in New York City), he also included in the set list his Beatles hit "Come Together" and paid tribute to Elvis Presley with "Hound Dog" before leading the audience in a sing along of "Give Peace a Chance". "Come Together", originally in the key of D minor, was performed in E minor.
Set list: 1. Power To The People, 2. New York City, 3. It's So Hard, 4. Woman is The Nigger Of The World, 5. Sisters O Sisters, 6. Well Well Well, 7. Instant Karma!, 8. Mother, 9. Born In A Prison, 10.Come Together, 11.Imagine, 12.Cold Turkey, 13.Hound Dog, 14.Give Peace A Chance,
John Lennon: vocals, rhythm guitar and keyboard
Yoko Ono: keyboard and vocal
Wayne 'Tex' Gabriel: lead guitar
Adam Ippolito: keyboards
Jim Keltner: drums
Richard Frank Jr: drums
Gary Van Scyoc: bass guitar
Stan Bronstein: saxophone
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KEITH RICHARDS – Happy Birthday Born 18th December 1943


Tired of looking at celebrities and wondering how on earth they manage to have such a youthful appearance -- despite their heavy work schedules? Well, wonder no more because we've found five ways to make 2013 your year. With our tips you'll be saying hello to a healthier and more youthful you in no time!
Ever wonder how celebrities such as Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian have such flawless skin? Although everyone can't afford to get those pricey microdermabrasion treatments from spas, we have found the next best solution. On a daily basis, women wear makeup and eventually it leads to a lot of build-up on the face. This build-up can damage the skin by causing breakouts or dry skin. The Clarisonic helps to remove dirt, oil and left-over makeup from pores without using any harmful chemicals. In fact, unlike other cleansers the Clarisonic can be used twice a day and can help improve your skin texture within a matter of days.
One of the most popular resolutions made every year would be to be healthy and have a healthy diet. Although many prefer fruit smoothies, green smoothies are often more beneficial to the human body. There are numerous reasons to include them in your diet; not only are they very easy to make, but they are also highly nutritious. Green smoothies are full of vitamins, iron, protein, fiber and antioxidants. Also, by having a green smoothie bright and early in the morning, your body is given the nutrition that it needs -- and within a matter of time it will return to its overnight detoxification and slimming mode which takes place during the early morning.
Exercising for 60 minutes daily -- or even three to four times a week -- can benefit your life greatly. Whether it includes hitting the treadmill while watching your favorite TV show or going out for a jog with your dogs, exercising can help improve your mood, energy, weight and, overall, your life. For instance, physical activities help deliver oxygen and nutrients to your tissues and have your heart and lungs work much more efficiently.
It's easy to get caught up in your daily routine and forget to treat yourself once in a while. Instead, make it a goal in 2013 to pamper yourself at least once a month. Depending on how much time you're willing to spend, you can either head out to a spa retreat with the girls or even do something small, yet fun, by trying out a DIY nail art manicure.
Set aside all of that makeup, ladies, because it's time to go minimal! If you'd like to look youthful, a minimal approach to your makeup would be best. Reach for a tinted moisturizer, some mascara, a bit of blush and some lip gloss. One key trick to looking absolutely fabulous is having one main feature stand out. This can be having a red lip, bold eyebrows or even daring eye makeup.


I graduated from college in 2014, and I was so excited to move on to the next chapter of my life. I was ready to be done with all of the exams, the endless amounts of reading and writing, the college drama, the trashy parties, and the general sense that I was still stuck in an adolescent bubble. I couldn't wait to be out in the real world – working a first job, exploring a new city, and finally launching my own journey as a truly independent adult.
Fast forward three years, and the post-college life wasn't what I imagined it would be. I was working a job that didn't necessarily feel like a natural fit, dealing with the aftermath of a painful breakup, trying to survive in a city that was far too frenetic for me, and hopelessly running from date to date trying to keep myself busy and prevent the dreaded slowdown where I'd be forced to reflect on everything that had happened since graduation.
More than anything though, I was scared. I had no idea what would or even could come next. There had always been structure and set milestones in my life – middle school, high school, college, internships, and the coveted first job. All of a sudden, these milestones disappeared. I slammed up against the shock of adulthood – the loss of clear direction, the expectation of instant gratification, and the fear that everybody (but me) had their entire life figured out.
As I began the journey of writing of my book, Then We Grew Up, I slowly realized that this was OK. I had to embrace the unknown. This untethered period of my mid 20s was a rite of passage. So many others had already been through it and so many others were going through it with me – I found comfort in the fact that everyone I knew managed to make it through this transitional phase in one piece.
With an adjustment in perspective, I have actually come to appreciate this period – the limitless optionality, the independence and freedom, and the ability that we have to truly start writing our own narratives. Our 20s is a time where we can choose to become anything we want – we will undoubtedly experience exponential growth during this period (in many ways, more so than we have during any other period to date), and we can leverage this to try and evolve into the adult that we decide we want to be.
One of the most important things I've already learned about this untethered period is the following: we have to go all-in. No matter what we're doing, we should throw ourselves into it. Remove any hedges that we have and embrace the present. From firsthand experience, I've learned how easy it is to become removed – to look out to the next milestone, to wish you were somewhere else or doing something different. It's such a loss to live this way. Being present and engaged with exactly where we are may be extremely difficult to do (it took me a long time to start to figure it out), but it's transformative – you start to view everything with an incredibly different perspective.
At 26, I still try to revel in the fact that for the first time, I don't have any set milestones that I need to hit. I can choose my own destiny. I don't pretend to have this incredibly complex time figured out, but I've found peace in the limitless opportunities, and the fact that I'm growing every day into the adult that I want to become.


The Crown Hotel Harrogate prides itself on ensuring that your wedding day or civil partnership will be one that you remember forever, and offers unique opportunities for wedding photography. Harrogate wedding photographer Javan Liam knows the Crown Hotel very well, and knows how to get the most out of its unique situation and facilities.
Naturally you want it to be a truly perfect day for you, your partner and your guests and their help with the planning and preparation leaves you and your partner free to enjoy the day as you have always dreamed.
What better setting for the perfect day than this traditional yet contemporary hotel. The Crown Hotel is centrally located to the well-known Valley Gardens and overlooks Montpellier Gardens, providing the right ingredients for beautiful wedding photographs as well as a caring and professional team at hand to make sure everything goes smoothly.


Both Dhanraj Singh and Randhir Singh are two bitter and old time enemies. They faced a disastrous situation when there children, Raj and Rashmi falls deeply in love. They openly declares there hatred for one another and will do anything in there power even kill but they will not accept there children's choice. But Raj and Rashmi is dedicated to there love and is not willing to accept the fact that there dads are enemies.


From sunrise to sunset, a full day sail offers an unforgettable opportunity for you and your guests to explore intimacy with the ocean. Our detail-oriented charter directors work with every client to custom tailor their yachting experience to suit their specific needs, regardless of whether those be family, business, or leisure related. Each full day sail includes complimentary on-board beverages and can be customized with special add-on's like a personal massage therapist, sportfishing lessons, or even personal chef and butler service. Being at sea does not mean skimping on pampering! Actually, we encourage the opposite! Indeed, whether you currently own or are considering a yacht, you need an established relationship with a trusted professional; and that's where we come in.
Every yacht charter director employed with Hawaii Yachts firmly understands our regular coverage territory, as well as the time, energy, and resources required for a smooth execution. Our charter directors pride themselves on a keen attention to detail allowing us to continue our reputation as the finest in Hawaiian luxury yachting.


(Brockville, ON, October 19, 2009) EASTCAT (Eastern Ontario Centre for Advanced Technology - St. Lawrence College), the Leeds and Grenville Small Business Enterprise Centre, and the Lanark, North Leeds Enterprise Centre, in conjunction with community partners, Grenville Community Futures Development Corporation, Thousand Islands Community Futures Development Corporation and Valley Heartland Community Futures Corporation are presenting the 3rd Annual Lanark, Leeds & Grenville Business Plan Competition aimed at new businesses that have been operating less than six months.
The first prize of $5,000 has been donated by EASTCAT (Eastern Ontario Centre for Advanced Technology - St. Lawrence College) for the best business plan, with community partners, Grenville Community Futures Development Corporation, Thousand Islands Community Futures Development Corporation and Valley Heartland Community Futures Corporation each donating $1,000 for a second prize to be given in each of the three counties. The intent of the competition is to provide support to a brand new business and encourage economic growth. A residual benefit will be to promote the partners by increasing awareness of the resources that support small business in our community.
Hard copies of business plans being entered into the competition must be received by either Enterprise Centre in Brockville or Smiths Falls, no later than 4:00 p.m. November 27. The winning business plan will announced at the luncheon awards ceremony to be held at the Prescott Golf and Country Club on February 4, 2010.


Black Toscana (Cavalo Nero - pictured above), a long dark-green/blue leaf variety.
For most varieties harvest can start after around 7 - 8 weeks. If there are too many leaves for your household, take them to your local Harvest Swap, feed them to your chooks or add them to your compost heap or worm farm!
Crop rotation – despite what my non-gardening mates believe, is NOT the twisting of sunflowers to chase the sun (although, they do have a point… they are crops, and they are rotating!). Crop rotation is in fact a method of managing plantings, both on a small (vegie patch) and large (farm) scale to minimise the risk of pests and diseases, and maximise the yield and productivity of crops. Yup, it all sounds terribly technical, but I promise you it's not! Hey, if I can manage it, I reckon just about anyone can!
The definition of crop rotation I like the most is 'The successive planting of different crops on the same land to maximise soil fertility and help control pests and diseases.' Okay, it sounds very agricultural, but, in essence, this is the principle that we, as home gardeners, can apply to our vegie patches. And let me tell you, it works. The top notch vegies that we grow in our yummy yards, almost always, remove many and various nutrients from the soil during their growing periods. That said, a number of them replace nutrients as well (think beans, peas and other legumes). By varying what we pop in the patch, and what type of crop follows another, we can ensure that our vegies get what they need from the soil… and we get what we need from our vegies!
The other benefit of rotating our crops is that the process helps to interrupt the cycle of host specific pests and diseases. This means that harmful pests and diseases are unable to build up to damaging levels either in the soil or on the host plants themselves. Crop rotation has 'moved' their favourite host plants from the area, perhaps whilst the pests were 'resting' over winter, and essentially they are now unable to breed or, if they do breed, they no longer have a food source for their young to thrive. Hence the cycle is broken! Hurrah!! Crop rotation is a common practice in many large scale agricultural endeavours, such as in the rice paddies in Southern China. Over a two year cycle, a rice crop is generally followed by an "upland", non-related crop (such as sugar cane) to help break the cycle and infestation of rice borer. And it must work, cause these guys have been doing it for a long, long time! In fact, crop rotation is reportedly one of the oldest cultural practices that is still kicking around….early civilisations in Africa and Asia used it, as did the Romans.
Everyone and their gardening book has a different method for successful crop rotation. After much discussion in the SGA trenches, we have come up with a system we like a lot. It's simple, easy to manage, and it works!
Our system works on a four bed rotation, meaning there are four separate planting areas. Don't fret if your garden doesn't seem big enough to cope with all these beds. You can instead have just one bed and rotate the produce each season. It may mean you can't grow tomatoes every summer, but you'll have fun with a lot of other vegies in between! Vegies you can trade for tomatoes at your local vegie swap. If your garden is large enough, use what space you have available, and divide this up into four separate "zones". Or, if you are starting from scratch, consider a mandala circle style vegie garden. While they look amazing, they will also maximise space, and allow for the zoning of planting areas (which in turn makes crop rotation even easier!). You can even have a spot for the chooks!
Lets get down to the nuts and bolts of the whole thing… how to do it. Firstly, we need to know a little bit about plant families, because this is a key principle behind crop rotation. Essentially, each area should be planted with a different plant family each season (generally every six months), to help avoid any nasty pest and disease outbreaks. So, who's related to whom?
The principle is that one family member shouldn't be followed by another family member in consecutive seasons. For example, once the tomatoes, members of the Solanaceae family, have finished fruiting and been removed, this area should be planted up with a member of another family such as a peas from the Fabaceae family.
There is another reason for this type of planting sequence as well. We know that some plants are referred to as "heavy" feeders, while others are "light" feeders. By introducing a crop rotation system, we can estimate the potential levels of soil nutrients remaining in the plot and plant up accordingly. For example, the Brassiaceae family are mainly heavy feeders and will take a lot of nutrients from your soil. However the Alliaceae family are light feeders and will not do well in a rich soil. Therefore it makes sense to plants onions after cabbages! Sounds complicated? I promise, it's not! Just think logically and you can't go wrong!
Heavy Feeders include potatoes, tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, sweet corn, lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini, spinach, lettuce and Asian greens.
Light Feeders include onions, leeks, garlic, beetroot, carrots, parsnips and silverbeet.
Legumes include peas, snow peas, broad beans, runner beans, snake beans which fix nitrogen.
Green Manure Crops are crops grown, not to be harvested, but to be worked back into the soil. These are generally comprised of thickly sown annual grasses and/or legumes, that are tilled back into the soil before they flower or form seed heads. They add nutrients during their growing period and organic matter to soil in veggie patches, perfect for getting the next seasons edible crop off to a good start! Many nurseries stock pre-packaged green manure seeds.
Like a lot of things, crop rotation works really well in theory, but can prove a little daunting, especially if you're memory is anything like mine. The solution – a blackboard in the garden shed, or a gardening calendar, outlining what was planted in what patch during each season. This is a great visual reminder of what's happened in your yummy yard, and will help you keep track of the rotations happening in your patch.
3. Do plant a green manure crop at least once in every 4 seasons to replenish your soil.
Crop rotation may take a little bit of practice and patience to get right in your neck of the woods, but, once you've mastered it, it is as easy as 1,2,3,4!
As well as using recycled treasures, Tine tries to be sustainable in other ways. She is a participant in the local council's Garden's for Wildlife program and has fruit and nut trees, a veggie garden, water tanks, solar panels, indigenous and native plants and a pond.
January is here! Wondering what to do in the garden? What vegetables and herbs should you plant? It's the start of the New Year and whether it's time for a little rest and relaxation after a manic December, or you have a New Year's resolution to spend some quality time with your garden; it's time to get out in your patch! While we have been distracted with festive things, our patches have probably suffered a little and are in need of some serious loving right now. We have loads of tips that will encourage your garden to flourish in the sunshine of Summer.
While most babies are cute, cuddly and adorable, this is definitely not the case for the offspring of the Black Sawfly Caliroa cerasi. The larvae, known to us as Pear and Cherry Slugs, are possibly the ugliest of all pests, and the mess they make to some of our favourite fruit trees is pretty unattractive as well!
A beautiful deep, glossy black with a lighter coloured head, the Pear and Cherry slug grows to only 1cm in length and about 0.5cm wide. Mum is a Black Sawfly, a small, shiny, black wasp with a wingspan of 1 cm and a saw-like appendage with which she cuts leaves of the host plant to deposit her eggs.
The female sawfly deposits her eggs in a small slit in the leaves of her favourite trees in spring. After about 2 weeks, the slug-like larvae emerge, munching the leaves to a skeleton. Heavy infestations of slugs can cause serious defoliation, and result in incredibly unattractive and unproductive trees. They drop to the ground where they go through the pupal stage allowing another generation of flies to develop. Slugs will appear in early summer, and, after the next lot of pupae have spent winter in the soil, again the following spring.
Pears (incl. ornamentals), cherries (incl. ornamentals), plums, quinces, apples, hawthorns and crabapples.
Blast them off the leaves with a strong jet of water and then band the tree with a low environmental impact horticultural glue.
Make a deterrent spray by collecting and squashing slugs and placing in a bucket of boiling water. Once this has cooled, spray this on the leaves (including the undersides) of affected trees and scare those slugs away!
Some recommend dusting the leaves with wood ash, but since most of us don't have open fires to collect it from, try other powdery substances like chalk or flour. Talcum powder also works for some gardeners. Others have mixed fine builders' lime (about a large handful in a bucket of water). It won't dissolve so keep the sprayer agitated and remove any filters.
Since sawflies pupate in the soil, adding wood ash - or even powdered lime - to the soil can help too. These substances may also benefit the soil if it is acid, but don't add too much.
Get a couple of chooks to scratch around the base of host trees over winter – they can't resist the pupae napping in the soil!
Create a diverse garden. This encourages predators like other flies, lacewings and wasps and they will all attract insectivorous birds. Plenty of shrubs and herbs with many small flowers will be just the answer.
Few things can be quite as satisfying as growing your own vegetables, herbs and fruit. The quality and freshness of home grown produce combined with the peace of mind of knowing which fertilisers and chemicals have been applied has become an important issue to many people.
Thoughtful planning before you plant can save you months or even years of wasted effort!
You may wish to develop a purely functional layout using formal beds and planting rows, or alternatively formulate a more integrated planting design, which combines vegetables, herbs, fruit and ornamental plants. Many techniques or philosophies ranging from organic gardening to biodynamics, permaculture, and companion planting have become increasingly relevant and popular with today's home gardener.
Edible gardens don't have to be large, even a few pots on a balcony are enough to grow herbs and veggies. With many dwarf varieties available, even the smallest space can be used to grow tasty food including fruit.
It is important consider the type or style of garden you want before construction begins in earnest - and even draw it up on paper.
This is a traditional walled, fenced or courtyard garden. The fences or boundary hedges can provide protection from wind and north or west-facing masonry walls can assist plant growth by holding daytime heat and radiating it at night.
A more romantic, decorative vegetable garden which includes flowering plants - sometimes confused with the Kitchen Garden.
An organic garden which uses Permaculture principles for fertility and pest and disease control mimicking the way Nature does things. Such a garden has less emphasis on aesthetics.
A combination of some of the above. In reality, it is this style which is most common. Most of us don't start from a cleared block of relatively flat land, and even if we do, we may want to include shrubs, trees and decorative flowers. It is possible to apply permaculture principles to some or all of your garden, or to enclose just a portion of the garden with a wall, fence or hedge. It is also possible to intersperse vegetable beds with beds of roses, dahlias, asters and the like and to grow flowering shrubs along boundary fences.
If you like straight rows and regular squares or circles for your garden beds, a wholly permaculture garden is probably not for you. But you could still incorporate some aspects such as "use and value diversity".
If you are time-poor, just a few veggies and perhaps just a small number of fruit trees might be a good choice. An easy-to-care-for potager or structured kitchen garden can be achieved in either a small or large section of your land. See more at the end of this page.
Steeply sloping land, building cover as well as the size of your "block" will be important in deciding what to plant where. However, it is possible to grow some produce on a small balcony or even inside the house.
Most garden vegetables are planted on an annual basis (either for cool or warm season growth) however, many plants including rhubarb, guavas, artichokes, strawberries, cane berries and asparagus survive for many seasons and, along with fruit trees, should be considered as permanent plantings.
The suitability of the available space in terms of soil and microclimate - see more below.
There are many herbs that you might want for culinary use such as thyme, oregano, parsley, mint and rosemary. They have other important features too - their flowers are excellent for attracting bees and other beneficial insects which help in pollination or in controlling pests. Take care though with herbs which become invasive such as mints (including Vietnamese mint) and horseradish. They are best grown in pots.
You might want some of the dozens of other herbs which have beneficial uses. For example, lemon verbena and lemon balm are useful for making teas and additionally provide colour, fragrance and attract insects. Other plants such as the wormwoods and scented geraniums can be useful in repelling harmful insects. Most of these can contribute to permanent plantings. In a potager style they could be grown as hedges to frame and protect the vegetable area.
The soil forms the basis of a productive garden. It provides oxygen, water and nutrients to the plant roots, necessary for their growth. A productive soil should have good structure, be well drained, and be rich in compost and manure. If your soil is not like this you may need to postpone planting while you add compost, manure and/or grow some nitrogen-fixing crops such as mung beans, chick peas or lupins then cut them down and dig them in as green manure.
The addition of organic manures and compost is fundamental to the success of vegetables and fruit trees. Organic matter provides nutrients for plants as it is broken down by soil micro-organisms eventually forming part of the humus layer in the soil. This greatly improves soil structure leading to better drainage, oxygen availability, water retention and nutrient holding capacity.
A compost-rich soil is ideal for growing healthy vegetables. It will encourage a large worm population, supply ample nutrients, good soil structure and drainage. Composting is also excellent as it can recycle most kitchen leftovers as well as garden waste.
If your soil is hard clay or almost pure sand you could include raised beds by constructing edging and importing soil from elsewhere. Or no-dig beds or wicking beds could be useful alternatives.
It is important that fruit and vegetables receive sufficient sunlight for their growth requirements. Vegetables grow quickly and need sunlight for photosynthesis to produce the energy needed for this growth. Northern aspects are ideal for a produce garden with beds running roughly in a north - south direction. At least 4 to 5 hours direct exposure to sunlight a day is recommended for most fruit and vegetables. Some say 6 hours. But don't forget that there are some vegetables that don't mind shade.
Regular watering is also essential for successful fruit and vegetable crops. Water is a precious resource so think about installing a rainwater tank or a grey water system which re-uses laundry water.
Rainwater may be limited by the season (i.e. summer) but grey water is available every time the washing machine is used! Water flow can be regulated to the garden by using soaker hoses or installing irrigation systems.
Mulches play an important role in the produce garden. A layer of pea or lucerne straw mulch will retain soil moisture, protect plant roots from summer heat, return organic matter to the soil, keep fruits off the soil surface and reduce the incidence of weed competition. Sugar cane mulch can be used, but is not as useful in providing a little extra nitrogen.
Your garden will almost certainly have a boundary fence. It may also have walls of the house, shed or garage. Although they will produce shady areas, some will be really useful for supporting cane berries, passion fruit, chocos, grapes, pumpkins, kiwi fruit, cucumbers and tomatoes. Alternatively, your plan should consider how you will provide support for these edibles if you wish to grow them. For some, such as cucumbers, a movable or demountable support is useful since they are best when not be grown in the same place in subsequent years.
Remember too, that fruit trees can be espaliered on fences, but also on trellises which you could construct anywhere in the garden. Espaliered fruit trees are very productive and take up much less space in your garden.
Planting times will vary for different vegetables, herbs or fruits depending on their growing seasons. Generally speaking warm season vegetables are planted out in spring and cool season vegetables planted in autumn. Fruit trees, vines and shrubs, and some root crops are planted in winter. It is essential to plan ahead and ensure space is available throughout the year for different annual vegetables.
The presence of weeds in produce gardens is undesirable. Weeds compete for valuable resources and may attract or harbour pests and diseases. Proper mulching of the garden will significantly reduce the weed load. However, you need to be prepared to spend some time removing those that continue to grow - and, if they have not gone to seed, perhaps composting them.
Pests and diseases are a natural part of the plant kingdom and it is not possible or desirable to totally eliminate them. Gardeners should aim to achieve a balance of pests and predators, in which pest numbers do not jeopardise crops, but still provide a food source for the predators such as birds, spiders and predatory insects. Healthy soils and sensible planting and watering also help reduce the incidence of pest and disease.
Crop rotation helps to maintain a healthy soil profile and minimises the transfer of disease from one crop to another. There are many systems of rotating crops, some based on the families that vegetable belong to, others based more on nutrient requirements. It is a good idea to periodically leave some areas fallow (nothing planted) or plant a green manure crop that is dug into the soil. Click here for more information.
Fruit trees, shrubs and vines will need periodic pruning. Most fruit trees will require summer and winter pruning to produce a good crop of fruit each year. The structural pruning is carried out in winter to form the framework of the tree. In summer, water shoots and upright branches are either pruned back or trained down horizontally, to encourage fruiting over stem growth.
Harvest vegetables, herbs and fruit.
Check the health of the plants. Do not leave old fruit, vegetables and pruning material underneath the plants as these can harbour disease - compost this material, unless the plant has a disease.
Monitor weed growth - and pull a few out.
Do minor pruning to keep shrubs and trees in shape.
Enjoy the fresh air, sunshine, the hum of insects and the songs of birds!
SGA caught up recently with our patron, Josh Byrne, to hear how he became interested in sustainability, and what he's up to with the team at Josh Byrne & Associates.
Josh has been a sustainable gardener since getting involved in his family garden growing up in coastal Western Australia. Josh had his own veggie patch, and looked after his dad's extensive collection of herbs. He was committed to gardening without using herbicides and pesticides from the start, maybe inspired by his interest in the natural world and growing up on the amazing Esperance coast.
That commitment influenced Josh's selection of subjects at high school and later at Murdoch University – he was fascinated by the natural world, and developing his understanding of how the built environment could work best in it.
Josh ran a part time gardening round while he was a student. He continued developing his understanding of sustainable gardening, focusing on water conservation and coping with the sandy soils around Perth, with the aim of gardening better in a challenging environment.
While Josh was studying environmental science at Murdoch University, he lived in an old student rental house, where he and his mates developed a working, productive and attractive garden. Josh became attracted to permaculture principles and the importance of good design to achieving good outcomes. That, in turn, led to his involvement in a research group at Murdoch, working on environmental technologies for regional and remote areas.
Josh first appeared as a guest presenter on the ABC's Gardening Australia nearly 20 years ago in 2 segments about his student garden. That led to an invitation to be Gardening Australia's regular Western Australian presenter. At first he declined the invitation to pursue overseas travel, including working as a volunteer on a permaculture project in Africa, as well as spending time on a Kibutz in Israel learning about advancements in irrigation technology. He returned to Perth and eventually picked up the role where he demonstrates practical ways to create attractive, productive and water efficient gardens to a national audience. Josh is a regular contributor to the Gardening Australia Magazine and author of two best-selling books, The Green Gardener published by Penguin, and Small Space Organics published by Hardie Grant.
Josh saw an opportunity to be involved in creating productive and attractive gardens, and educating people about how they could get involved. He established Josh Byrne & Associates which aims to deliver projects for sustainable communities with an integrated approach to landscape architecture, environmental engineering and sustainability, community engagement and communications.
Josh has recently been awarded a PhD from Murdoch University and is a Research Fellow with Curtin University's Sustainability Policy Institute and the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Low Carbon Living, and an Adjunct Associate Professor with the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales. His research activities continue his early interest in urban design, particularly high-performance housing, water sensitive design and sustainable urban developments.
Josh consults to West Australian state agencies such as Water Corporation, LandCorp and the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority on matters relating to urban water management, environmental technology and design and has contributed to projects around Australia. Josh's interest is in doing urban design better. He's looking at improving urban sustainability and water conservation with innovative, affordable, sustainable design and developing shared spaces, parks, facades and streetscapes so that as cities become denser, we develop a high quality public realm. On the Density by Design website, Josh seeks out the leading minds and ground-breaking ideas on sustainable higher density residential projects around Australia, that are inspiring change through demonstration.
In addition to design and development, nuts and bolts gardening is still a key activity, as is community consultation and involvement. One of Josh's key interests is the responsible use of garden nutrients. In conjunction with the WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions River Guardians' program and Water Corporation's Waterwise program, he has developed and presents workshops providing Perth residents with the ideas and inspiration to create a successful garden while helping the Swan and Canning Rivers to stay healthy. The program included a personalised online assessment tool which aims to provide Perth residents with the knowledge and tools to create a successful garden without impacting the Swan Canning Riverpark.
The program is an example of how, as gardeners and community members, we all have opportunities to encourage councils and governments to incorporate great (and sustainable) shared spaces in urban areas, maybe to garden (sustainably!) a little or a lot, to reduce water use, recycle waste and use energy more efficiently. Environmental problems might seem so big that they are insurmountable, but we all have opportunities on our back or front door steps to contribute to the solution.
Josh is a recipient of the Australian Water Association's WA Water Professional of the Year Award, and Murdoch University's Distinguished Alumni Award for Science and Engineering. He is Patron of the Conservation Council of WA and Sustainable Gardening Australia, an Advocate for the national collaborative 202020 Vision urban greening initiative (a national campaign to increase urban green space in Australia by 20% by 2020) and an Ambassador for the Living Smart household sustainability program and Nature Play WA.
A common error gardeners make is to assume that appearance of coloured areas on leaves is caused by natural variegation, fungal infection or nutrient deficiency. In many cases, the variegated colour of leaves of some shrubs, indoor plants, lettuces, herbs is a natural mutation. Happily, this is not a destructive mutation, but one that results in less chlorophyll in some parts of the leaves, causing a paler and mottled effect. Sometimes, keen gardeners have selected these plants and bred from them. These variegated plants can be lower in vigour and shorter-lived than their 'normal' relatives but this hasn't affected their popularity as garden plants.
There is, however, variegation caused by some sort of plant problem. Although some garden pests, such as aphids can cause leaf yellowing, this colour change is not the only sign of an infestation. A more problematic cause of colour change is infection by disease-causing viruses or virus-like viroids and phytoplasmas, of which there are hundreds. Shown at the left is the leaf symptoms of cucumber mosaic virus (image courtesy of www.whitefly.org).
Fortunately, trees and Australian native plants have few virus disease problems and, interestingly, viruses in wild-growing plants don't seem to develop disease, although they have not been studied as well as cultivated plants. It is in cultivated plants, mainly food crops, that virus infection is of most concern. Because viruses and virioids are very simple "organisms" with DNA or RNA coated by a protein layer. They cannot survive for long or multiply outside of a host so they are 'obligate parasites' - they can only increase in number inside a living organism. Once inside the plant, the plant is harnessed into producing more virus. The plant cannot grow properly because its energy and nutrients are diverted away from normal activities like photosynthesis.
Shown here are the leaf and fruit symptoms of tomato spotted wilt virus (images courtesy of North Carolina Co-operative Extension).
Virus infection may result in a variety of symptoms - leaf colour variegation (which may be mottling, stripes or sport) is just one. Viruses may infect all parts of the plant but symptoms are generally most obvious on young foliage. Some result in ringspots, such as ringspot virus on Cymbidium orchids; bronzing, such as that caused by tomato spotted wilt virus; malformations, as caused by potato leafroll virus; and wilting, also caused by tomato spotted wilt virus.
It is common practice to use the common name of a virus, rather than its scientific name (unlike the use of botanic names of plants). Viruses are named based on the first plant on which it is studied, followed by the most obvious symptom of the disease on that plant, followed by the virus group to which it belongs. For example, apple mosaic virus is the common name of the apple mosaic ilarvirus, and tulip breaking virus is the common name of the tulip breaking potyvirus. Many viruses have a wide host range, not just the plant it is first studied on, and the symptoms can vary.
Plant viruses, like those infecting humans and other animals are spread by some sort of contact. More than 20% of virus diseases are spread via seed where the virus is mostly in the cells required for growth, but some are in the seed coat.
Some are spread by vectors such as aphids and thrips. Shown here is rose mosaic virus. This is likely to be spread by aphids (image courtesy of The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Division of Plant Industry). Some are carried by single celled organisms such as Polymyxa betae which transmits Beet necrotic yellow vein virus by infecting plant roots.
If plant leaves become damaged by cultivation or animals feeding, sap containing virus may be transmitted another plant. This has been observed with cucumber mosaic virus.
Although rare, nematodes and fungi are also implicated. Parasitic plants can spread viruses. Tobacco mosaic virus can even survive in dead infected tobacco leaves in cigarettes.
All virus diseases will be transferred from infected parent plants through new bulbs, corms, tubers, stolons, and cuttings.
As we know from human virus epidemics, animal viruses are almost impossible to control except by avoiding exposure, mounting our own immune system to fight off the infection or by vaccination. Plant don't have the same options - once a plant is infected it remains infected. Some viruses do not infect the growing tip of a plant (the meristem) and this is often used to advantage by growers. The unaffected tissue from the meristem of a plant can be tissue-cultured and can result in virus-free plants.
There are no chemical or biological controls.
Removing infected dying plants and destroying them so that vectors such as aphids do not spread the virus to healthy plants.
Keeping weeds away - they can host viruses, so keep the surrounds weed-free.
Paying attention to your own hygiene because some viruses can be spread by handling, so hand-washing between plants can be a necessity.
Growing disease-resistant varieties - many resistant varieties of crops of economic value have been developed.
Insect -proofing greenhouses. Professional growers often rely on insect- proof greenhouses to keep out possible virus-carrying vectors.
Quarantining plants for suspect locations.
There are many virus diseases not yet in Australia, so quarantine is an important method of preventative control. Please adhere to quarantine legislation - you never know what a plant or seed might be carrying.


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Visa support documents should be submitted to the information desk of the DAF at sector 1/2 of the airport, ground floor, in accordance with next shedule (working days from 10.30 to 13.30). On weekend and holidays the information desk of the DAF is closed. Visa support documents may be also sent by post (Division for the Admission of Foreigners of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minsk International Airport, 220054 Minsk). Contact phones: +375 17 279 20 58, +375 17 279 28 72.
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Jeffrey Wells versus Martin Scorsese, or, the feeding of the internet content maw considered as an act of self-abuse
As Jeffrey Wells, Academy Award winner Robert DeNiro! And, as The Wall, Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese!
I already made this point in a comment over at Wells' place, but I thought it bore repeating with a visual aid. The point of contention? Wells [bolds and underlinings in the original]:
"There can be no legitimate claim of Taxi Driver having been restored without the original natural color (or at least a simulation of same) put back in. The film was shot with more or less natural colors, was intended to be shown this way, and has in fact been shown that way for the last 35 years except for the final shoot-out scene. There's nothing noble or sacred about the look of that final sequence. The fact that it was sepia-toned to get a more acceptable MPAA rating is, I feel, a stain upon the film's legacy."
"I'm presuming that the brown-sepia scheme has been retained in the new restoration. For years Scorsese has said he's against showing the film as originally shot and processed. He's actually defended the brown-sepia tones as being part of the '70s and the climate when the film was released, etc. Taxi Driver's Wiki page says that 'in later interviews Scorsese commented that he was actually pleased by the color changeand he considered it an improvement over the originally filmed scene, which has been lost.'"
"I'm sorry, but the idea of a major director saying that he respects a form of censorship that was imposed upon one of his greatest films has always struck me as surreal, to put it mildly."
Will you join in his crusade?
Posted at 03:42 PM in Deplorable snark | Permalink
Last month I finally saw Taxi Driver on a big screen (nevermind that I hadn't seen the film in about 15 years). The sepia tone really works and while I'm not really adding anything to the conversation here, I wish more films did interesting changes like this that are so stark and hard to miss. May not do much for the end product, but it'd give Wells something to bitch about. :D
Posted by: Dan Revill | February 09, 2011 at 04:22 PM