weather disruptions

Also, plant-oriented people are nice.

Talk of climate is all well and good, the whole subject has been completely corrupted so even the Catholic pope goes over to the dark side.  It's all nonsense of the worst sort and so is the discussion. But weather is where it's at, that's where you live the discussion and it's fantastic.

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To be honest, I don't know what I'm doing. Read books, watched videos, but never grew caladiums. 

I bought 30 bulbs total, 10 each of  3 types. Boy, the pictures sure are pretty.
Planted them all about the place.  Filled all the blank spaces of dirt in container arrangements in large pots. 

Of the 30, only 6 have emerged as spikes to begin unfurling leaves so I can identify the type a bit early. All six in the same pot, of two types.
Restated, six plants out of thirty.  Two types worked. 1/5 success.
No sign of life for any of the rest.  

I'm at the critical point where I must go out and buy mature plants to compensate for these non-starters.  

It has been one thing after another this season but this caladium episode of having only 1/5 the bulbs work is a particularly strange setback. I thought quite a lot about my selection, now I must go out and settle for what is available when I look. 

What was I expecting? Some kind of assurance. Money back guarantee. Plant-related advice. Compensation. Commiseration. An understanding ear. Or perhaps, "hey, that's the way it goes."

Thank You for the email. 

I pulled your order and it looks like we shipped your order on Friday June 5th meaning you should have received them on or about June 9th.
You guys have had such crazy weather in Denver this year it's not funny.
Basically though the answer to your problem is the bulbs just haven't been in the ground or dirt long enough. If you planted them the day you received them than they've only been in the ground for about 14-15 days 

That is Nowhere near long enough for the bulbs to germinate. Without even asking which ones have come up I can safely say it's probably the Scarlet O'Hara. They are the fastest germinating caladiums we grow 

Growing caladiums is all dictated by ONE thing, the soil temperature. The short answer to your problem is to just give them some more time, They are going to come up!! They always do!!! 

We generally have about a 98% germination rate on our bulbs. On occasion a bulb may be bad but those are very rare.  

With temperatures climbing as quickly as they are you will be seeing life pretty soon!!! It's just going to take longer than a couple of weeks.  Here in FL it takes at least a couple of weeks before you'll start seeing them sprout and we are wayyy hotter than you guys. 

Hang in there, They are going to come up!!! 

If you have any questions, Please Do Not hesitate to give me a call.

Happy Gardening!!

They knew just what I needed. I didn't mention I gouged out all their eyes.  It's another of those live and learn things, but patience will not do.  If I were patient the whole season would go by with me still waiting to start something that should be well advanced. I was patient with the giant alliums and they never did come up. There I was expecting twenty very tall very large purple balls bandying about in the wind, but nothing. That's what patience gets you.

"slump in solar activity threatens 'little Ice Age'"

Climate experts warn the amount of light and warmth released by the sun is nosediving to levels "not seen for centuries".

They fear a repeat of the so-called 'Maunder Minimum' which triggered Arctic winter whiteouts and led to the River Thames freezing 300 years ago.

The Met Office-led study warns although the effect will be offset by recent global warming, Britain faces years of unusually cold winters.

"Should US military bases named after Confederates be renamed?"

Via Stars and Stripes

What do these US military bases have in common?

Fort Bragg, Fort Rucker, Fort Hood, Fort Lee, Fort Benning, Fort Gordon, Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Polk, Fort Pickett, Camp Beauregard (Operated by the Louisiana National Guard)

They are all named for Confederate generals. There’s been talk for years about whether this is appropriate, and now in wake of Charleston and the South Carolina Confederate flag, it’s coming up again.

Do you think these posts should be renamed to honor people who fought in the U.S. Army exclusively? Vote, and share your thoughts in the comments section below. 

"Japan finally lifts its 67-year-old ban on dancing"

"Japan has lifted a 67-year-old ban on dancing, to the delight of the nation's clubbers."

The ban forbids public dancing unless the venue has a license, and even licensed premises have to stop all dancing by midnight.

The Footloose-esque law was put into place after the Second World War, in an effort to crack down on dancehalls that were often a hotbed for prostitution.

The lifting of the ban was partly due to the upcoming 2020 Olympics, with the government taking the neccessary steps to make sure visitors have as much fun (and spend as much money) as they can during their stay.

Japan may finally be catching up with the rest of the world, but that other highly-developed democracy, Sweden, is still sticking to its own dancing ban.

"Anesthesiologist trashes sedated patient — and it ends up costing her"

"These audio clips are excerpts from conversations between a gastroenterologist, an anesthesiologist and a medical assistant during a colonoscopy. This was entered as evidence in a lawsuit filed by the patient for defamation and medical malpractice."

The jury awarded the man $100,000 for defamation — $50,000 each for the comments about the man having syphilis and tuberculosis — and $200,000 for medical malpractice, as well as the $200,000 in punitive damages. Though the remarks by Ingham and Shah perhaps did not leave the operating room in Reston, experts in libel and slander said defamation does not have to be widely published, merely said by one party to another and understood by the second party to be fact, when it is not.

“I’ve never heard of a case like this,” said Lee Berlik, a Reston lawyer who specializes in defamation law. He said comments between doctors typically would be privileged, but the Vienna man claimed his recording showed that there was at least one and as many as three other people in the room during the procedure and that they were discussing matters beyond the scope of the colonoscopy.

“Usually, all [legal] publication requires is publication to someone other than the plaintiff,” Berlik said. “If one of the doctors said to someone else in the room that this guy had syphilis and tuberculosis and that person believed it, that could be a claim. Then it’s up to the jury to decide: Were the statements literal assertions of fact? The jury apparently was just so offended at this unprofessional behavior that they’re going to give the plaintiff a win. That’s what happens in the real world.” 

One of the jurors, Farid Khairzada, said that “there was not much defense, because everything was on tape.” He said that the man’s attorneys asked for $1.75 million and that the $500,000 award was a compromise between one juror who thought the man deserved nothing and at least one who thought he deserved more.

“We finally came to a conclusion,” Khairzada said, “that we have to give him something, just to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.”

Today I learned...

"Thomas Jefferson cut and pasted from a King James Bible in order to make a condensed version that included the philosophy of Christ the man, with no supernatural events included."

Using a razor, Jefferson cut and pasted his arrangement of selected verses from the King James Version of the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in chronological order, putting together excerpts from one text to those of another in order to create a single narrative. Thus he begins with Luke 2 and Luke 3, then follows with Mark 1 and Matthew 3. He provides a record of which verses he selected and of the order in which he arranged them in his "Table of the Texts from the Evangelists employed in this Narrative and of the order of their arrangement".

Consistent with his naturalistic outlook and intent, most supernatural events are not included in Jefferson's heavily edited compilation. Paul K. Conkin states that "For the teachings of Jesus he concentrated on his milder admonitions (the Sermon on the Mount) and his most memorable parables. What resulted is a reasonably coherent, but at places oddly truncated, biography. If necessary to exclude the miraculous, Jefferson would cut the text even in mid-verse." Historian Edwin Scott Gaustad explains, "If a moral lesson was embedded in a miracle, the lesson survived in Jeffersonian scripture, but the miracle did not. Even when this took some rather careful cutting with scissors or razor, Jefferson managed to maintain Jesus' role as a great moral teacher, not as a shaman or faith healer."

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Just my two cents:

I've read most of the new testament and sometimes jokingly say that I am a secular christian. Most of what Jesus says is pretty standard morality and generally the world would be better if people lived that way, but he wasn't a supernatural being.

Obviously this isn't entirely true, but for the most part following the actual teachings of Christ, the man, aren't going to hurt anyone. I think this is what Jefferson was going for. Casting Jesus Christ as a philosopher like Plato whose teachings have been corrupted by their connection to the old testament and the ravings of fanatic followers.

"Hostage Review Will Make It Easier for Families to Pay Ransoms"

"The White House is about to change how Washington tries to save captured Americans"

The shift, which was first reported Monday by Foreign Policy, will be detailed Wednesday as part of the administration’s long-awaited review of U.S. hostage policy, according to two government officials and others familiar with the matter. The White House launched the probe last year after coming under fierce criticism for failing to do more to bring back missing American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid worker Peter Kassig, all three of whom were beheaded by the Islamic State. Three other Americans — journalist Luke Somers in Yemen, and aid workers Kayla Mueller in Syria and Warren Weinstein on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan — have since been killed while in militant custody.

In a statement Tuesday, Warren Weinstein’s widow called her family’s interaction with the government “inconsistent at best, and utterly disappointing” during more than three years of his captivity. Elaine Weinstein offered lukewarm praise for the creation of a fusion center but said the White House should have more oversight of the process.

“We hope to be the last family that fails to receive the level of coordinated government support that those who serve abroad deserve when trouble finds them,” Elaine Weinstein said.

When it publicly releases the results Wednesday, the administration will reiterate that the U.S. government itself will not negotiate with, or pay ransoms to, terrorist groups. The so-called “no concessions” policy has been in place for decades and is a key difference between how Washington and its European allies deal with captured citizens. Many key American allies, including Germany, Italy, and Spain, freely admit to paying money to militants to bring back their hostages. The United States, by contrast, believes that ransom payments would encourage kidnappers to grab more Americans.

This is crazy.

"US nuclear missile commander says Vladimir Putin's actions echo those of Nazi Germany in the 1930s"

Russia 'aggression'

Lieutenant General Stephen Wilson, commander of US Global Air Strike Command, said: “I don’t think we’ve ever seen so much power put in one person in Russia, and some of the things happening there are troubling and concerning for everybody.”...

“Some of the actions by Russia recently we haven’t seen since the 1930s, when whole countries were annexed and borders were changed by decree.”...

Lt Gen Wilson, also used the briefing to accuse Russia of risking lives when its military jets fly unannounced close to Western countries’ airspace, or near to corridors used by international commercial airliners.

“When we fly, we fly to a flight plan – we announce it, we ‘squawk’, our transponders are on, we are talking to air traffic control, we are following all international laws,” he said of USAF and other Nato missions. “That isn’t happening with Russia. You’ve got contested airspace with people flying all the time, you’re unannounced, you’re not on a flight plan, you’re not squawking. We would not do that. It puts people at risk.”

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The song is 50 years old and now represents a half dozen microaggressions against wymen and gurls, but, Welcome to Summer!

flags

Speaking of, when it comes to design I can think of no other flag that tops Japan for its flag and for its apparently inborn natural sense of graphic design that applies to everything else especially textiles. Their flag is the best flag imaginable in terms of graphic design. Top honors.

Then, when as emperor-worshipers they decide as a nation to go full-on hog-ass wild, blam. 

Sixteen rays. Is there anything more graphically perfect? 

Oh man, I'm going to pass out. 

Hang on.

I needed a trigger warning back there. 

That image makes me short circuit. It does. This nasty thing, perfect as it is, really does need to be banned. It has bad connotations. It stirs bad memories. When people see it they (we) get upset. I cannot rest until this flag is banned. I think I have to throw up. 

Please, I beg you, it's time to make this flag go away and don't even display it in museums, and don't teach this stuff in schools either. There's no point to it.

Best salad ever

No dressing. Just lime juice to protect apple and avocado. I discovered this by accident and laziness.

If your avocado and your mango are too hard then just forget the whole thing. 

"Entries in long-hidden notebook show Pete Rose bet on baseball as player"

"This does it. This closes the door"

For 26 years, Pete Rose has kept to one story: He never bet on baseball while he was a player. Yes, he admitted in 2004, after almost 15 years of denials, he had placed bets on baseball, but he insisted it was only as a manager.

But new documents obtained by Outside the Lines indicate Rose bet extensively on baseball -- and on the Cincinnati Reds -- as he racked up the last hits of a record-smashing career in 1986. The documents go beyond the evidence presented in the 1989 Dowd report that led to Rose's banishment and provide the first written record that Rose bet while he was still on the field.

"We knew that [Bertolini] recorded the bets, and that he bet himself, but we never had his records. We tried to get them. He refused to give them to us," Dowd said. "This is the final piece of the puzzle on a New York betting operation with organized crime. And, of course, [Rose] betting while he was a player."

The documents obtained by Outside the Lines, which reflect betting records from March through July 1986, show no evidence that Rose, who was a player-manager in 1986, bet against his team.

"Closes the door," meaning the door to re-admission to baseball and possible chances to the Hall of Fame.

Fox Guest: Obama's Use Of N-Word Makes Him 'The Rapper-In-Chief'

 

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