The Waltham School Committee could select a plan to address elementary school overcrowding by next month.
Superintendent Drew Echelson said he plans to bring a set of proposals to the Waltham School Committee in the coming weeks, with the intention that the committee chooses a proposal to present to the public by Nov. 18.
Echelson said that in the lead up to taking the position of superintendent, he spoke with countless parents and community members about this issue.
“Every time I speak with a group of families I’m first asked one question and it’s always about elementary capacity,” he said. “I understand that many families are frustrated.”
Echelson and his team delivered three proposals to the school committee at a workshop on Sept. 28.
Proposal A involved changing the grade structures and would essentially split the district down the middle, creating eastern and western sections. Under this proposal, there would be three schools in each section: one for grades Pre-K-1, one for grades 2-3, and one for grades 4-5.
Proposal B involved re-districting that made slight changes to current school boundaries, and was proposed in tandem with proposal C, which was to build a new elementary school.
Some of the main objectives previously outlined by the school committee include addressing overcrowding at FitzGerald, Plympton and Stanley schools, addressing the growth in enrollment over the next five-10 years, and presenting a location for Pre-K and dual language programs.
None of the three aforementioned proposals, however, managed to gain any support from school committee members, as they all said they wanted more public input before making any decisions. The committee members said they expect the proposals to be modified.
“The research on grade structure needs to be explored around student achievement and transition issues before any decision on that proposal,” said School Committee Vice Chairperson John Graceffa. “Redistricting is a short term and long term solution but needs to be of a least disruptive nature due to its success tied to construction of a new school or additions to our existing schools.”
Graceffa added, “Construction seems to be inevitable for the near future, which will be tied to more redistricting which is why I feel we should move the least number of students now.”
Echelson said he would be working with parent-teacher organization presidents and staff members from each elementary school to create new modified proposals.
He said that group would be meeting elementary school principals to discuss the problems occurring on a day-to-day basis at the schools.
Echelson said the Nov. 18 deadline for determining a proposal to present at future community forums is important because reaching a decision any later would negatively impact the district’s ability to properly budget the chosen plan.
He hopes the first set of modified proposals will be ready for presentation to the school committee by the first meeting of November, which is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 4.


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According to a report in the South China Morning Post and Cointelegraph, China’s central bank is developing its own digital currency in response to Facebook’s Libra as the latter could purportedly pose a risk to the country’s financial system.
Wang Xin, director of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) research bureau, argued that “if [Libra] is widely used for cross-border payments in particular, would it be able to function like money and accordingly have a large influence on monetary policy, financial stability and the international monetary system?”
Wang also added that another reason for issuing its own digital currency is because there is no clarity about the US dollar’s role once Libra is being used. He said, “If the digital currency is closely associated with the U.S. dollar, it could create a scenario under which sovereign currencies would coexist with U.S. dollar-centric digital currencies. But there would be in essence one boss, that is the U.S. dollar and the United States. If so, it would bring a series of economic, financial and even international political consequences.”
Allegedly, the PBoC has received approval from China’s chief administrative authority, the State Council, to begin work with other market participants and institutions on a central bank digital currency.
Furthermore, academics from Peking University, Renmin University, Zhejiang University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have also launched a committed initiative on digital finance.
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Unveiled globally at the EICMA in 2016, the new MV Brutale 800 is brought through the Semi-Knocked Down (SKD) route and is partially assembled at Kinetic's Ahmednagar plant.
Kawasaki has updated the KX250F for MY18 and the new off-road motorcycle has been launched in India.
Rumours about the launch of the Benelli Tornado 302R have been doing the round for some time now. Benelli has gone ahead and confirmed the launch for July 25.
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MONTREAL, Quebec (CNN) -- Quebec separatists who wanted their Canadian province to become an independent country almost pulled it off, an indication to both separatists and federalists that a future split is still possible. "All Canadians should see this as a wake-up call," said New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna. And supporters of an independent Quebec vowed to continue their fight. (740K QuickTime movie) By daylight Tuesday, Montreal police reported calm after overnight clashes, looting and arson that followed announcement of the final vote tally -- 50.6 percent "no" and 49.4 percent "yes."
About 50 people were arrested and at least two police officers were injured, a Montreal police spokesman said. In the western Montreal suburb of Vaudreuil, the offices of opposition leader Daniel Johnson, who led the "no" campaign, went up in flames and a local official said arson was suspected.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who campaigned for Canadian unity, called an emergency meeting of his cabinet Tuesday and was expected to consider plans for constitutional reform. "I understand your deep desire for change," Chretien told Quebeckers Monday in a televised address from his office. "We must now seek innovative solutions." Quebec is populated mainly by French-speakers who have long complained their interests were sidelined by a central government dominated, like the rest of Canada, by English speakers. More than 60 percent of French-speaking Quebeckers said "yes" to independence but voters in English-speaking communities bordering the neighboring province of Ontario and in western Montreal voted "no." President Clinton phoned Chretien to express his support for Canadian unity, the White House said.
The French government, officially neutral before Monday's referendum, pledged Tuesday to strengthen ties with mostly French-speaking Quebec. "(France) plans quite naturally to confirm and develop the direct and preferential relations which link it to Quebec, an essential partner in the francophone world," a French Foreign Ministry statement said. Polls indicated most French voters favored independence for Quebec.
Voter turnout was 92 percent. Out of 4.67 million votes cast, the two sides were separated by about 50,000. The closeness of the vote gives the separatists a moral victory in Canada's only province with a French-speaking majority. And it increases the likelihood that deep divisions will plague the province and its relationship with the Canadian government in Ottawa.
In his televised address, Chretien told Canadians "the time has come for reconciliation," and urged both sides to come together in a spirit of cooperation.
The message was meant as much for federalists as for separatists. In 1980, federalists won a vote on Quebec's independence by a 60-to-40 split. Monday's vote was far closer, and most analysts believe Chretien will have to make major concessions to the Quebeckers to preserve the union.
Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau and separatist leader Lucien Bouchard praised the efforts of supporters of Quebec's sovereignty, and both pledged to continue.
"Let's keep the faith," Bouchard said. "Because the next time will be the right time. And the next time could come quicker than you think."
"We want our country and we will have it," Parizeau said.
The separatist side held the lead for an hour and a half after polls closed, but just after 9:30 p.m., the federalists slipped ahead for good. The contrast between the crowds at the two headquarters could not have been more stark: as each hundredth of a percentage point was added to the "no" side, the federalists erupted in shouts and cheers while the separatists grew more quiet and grim.
Quebeckers first elected a separatist government in 1976, and since that time the province's French-speaking majority has battled with the English-speaking majority of the rest of Canada over Quebec's position in the country. Early in the 1995 campaign, the federalist side appeared to be well on its way to a second victory. But as Monday's vote drew closer, polls showed the issue in a dead heat, with the separatists drawing ahead.
But a final and very visible push for a "no" vote by Chretien brought the vote down to the wire. In the end, record numbers of voters streamed to the polls to cast their vote on an issue -- separatism or unity -- that has been decided more often by war than by ballots in the world's history.
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Monthly aerial imagery (July 2018 through July 2019) were collected at four sites immediately adjacent to the shoreline along Illinois Beach State Park with a small-unoccupied aerial system. Areas of different coastal habitat types were digitized in the images and then used to quantify areal habitat change between each time step. These habitat changes were then linked to the probable physical drivers, such as beach and nearshore morphodynamics, fluctuating water levels, storm events, and human disturbance. These linkages between drivers and responses of habitat change were combined with a habitat-specific ecosystem service valuation to generate a vulnerability ranking for each site. Highly vulnerable sites have high value ecosystems that are threatened by erosion and should be the priority of coastal management.


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When a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut late last year, it sent a shudder and a flashback through the people of Stockton.
Det. Dave Konecny of the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department said that the woman was killed on Thursday night in the front yard of the home where the dog, named Russia, lived.
The people of Stockton will feel financial fallout for years after a federal judge ruled Monday to let the city become the most populous in the nation to enter bankruptcy.
Lawyers for the California city of Stockton said Monday it has cut its budget and services to the bone and has no choice about trying to become the most populous U.S. city to enter bankruptcy.
The principal of a Stockton high school stopped distribution of the school newspaper over concerns about a campus safety article which alleged revealed poor communication in lockdown drills and weapon on campus reports.
A Stockton murder suspect lived with his girlfriend’s rotting corpse for months, according to prosecutors.
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Pulling my truck into the parking lot along Tulpehocken Creek in Central Pennsylvania I found myself lacing up my boots alongside several early morning joggers. Gone was the half dozen or so fisherman you would expect to find through early fall. The leaves were all off the trees now, and the hatch activity could be expected to have gone along with them. We had been fortunate up until now to only have a few frosty mornings and maybe an inch of snow on a few blustery days so far.
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Traditional data warehouse environments are being overwhelmed by the soaring volumes and wide variety of data pouring in from cloud, mobile, social media, machine, sensor, and other sources. And the problem will only worsen as big data continues to grow. This call for new technologies such as Apache Hadoop to increase capacity and optimize performance.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is actively transforming nearly every industry. With low-cost sensors proliferating devices in constant use by consumers and companies, IoT is expected to change the way we live our lives and manage our businesses. As an unprecedented amount of data is collected and monitored through Internet connected devices, IoT delivers benefits such as seamless automation, optimized resource consumption, increased situational awareness, and the immediate control and response of complex systems.
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Two days after being discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), Traffic policeman Kelvin LaFleur, who was struck down while helping children across the Eccles, East Bank Demerara Public Road on Monday, succumbed.
LaFleur died at the GPH, where he had initially received treatment for the injuries he sustained in the accident.
LaFleur had told Stabroek News on Tuesday that he had broken a few bones in his legs and one of his arms although they were not placed in casts at the time. It was moments before LaFleur’s discharge, according to his uncle, that the injured parts were cast.
LaFleur’s uncle stated that his nephew was taken home and was in high spirits. He said he last spoke with him on Wednesday night, when he learned that police were to pick him up yesterday and take him to the scene of the accident for their investigation. He added that the family requested that he be taken to the GPH after visiting the scene so that he could be examined once more.
He said he called his nephew yesterday after four but was unable to reach him. As a result, he decided to visit his home and shortly after received a phone call from someone who told him to go to the GPH to see his nephew. It was at the hospital that he saw his sister, Claudette, LaFleur’s mother, sitting in a wheelchair, crying. “Oh God! He gone,” he recalled her saying.
LaFleur’s uncle stated that his nephew’s body was very swollen, while noting that it was not in that state on Wednesday.
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The latest horror in Mariupol, I should say. This past week has been full of them.
Remember, the spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry had the nerve to say this morning that Russian isn’t targeting civilians.
More footage of what Mariupol authorities say is the Children’s hospital No3 shortly after being hit by a Russian bomb pic.twitter.com/oe2jHXmZoo
— Bojan Pancevski (@bopanc) March 9, 2022
Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity. pic.twitter.com/FoaNdbKH5k
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Was that an errant bomb or a message to the Ukrainians that not even the most vulnerable will be spared if they force Russia to take the country by force instead of surrendering?
No Ukrainian city has suffered as much so far as Mariupol. Its location in southeastern Ukraine left it horribly exposed, as it’s bordered on the east by the Donbas where Russian forces have been fighting for years. Once Russian troops invaded the country from the south a few weeks ago and began advancing east, it was a matter of time before Mariupol found itself surrounded.
The city refused to surrender, however. And the Russian military may be too incompetent and underequipped to take Mariupol by force through urban combat. So instead they laid siege to it, cutting off entry and exit and bombing the residents to break their will.
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Russia continues holding hostage over 400.000 people in Mariupol, blocks humanitarian aid and evacuation. Indiscriminate shelling continues. Almost 3.000 newborn babies lack medicine and food. I urge the world to act! Force Russia to stop its barbaric war on civilians and babies!
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An AP story about the siege today begins dramatically: “Corpses lie in the streets of Mariupol. Hungry people break into stores in search of food and melt snow for water. Thousands huddle in basements, trembling at the sound of Russian shells pounding this strategic port city.” The detail about the dead lying out in the open isn’t exaggerated. Click the photos here to enlarge:
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The city lacks water, power, sewage, and phone service, per the AP. Residents are looting in their desperation to find something to eat. As for the dead:
People collect rainwater for drinking, prepare food on the fire on the street, and bury the dead neighbors in their own backyards. Those killed, who have no one to bury them, remain strewn on the streets of the city, until the workers take them and bury them in mass graves.
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The city’s mayor says children have begun to die of dehydration. “Something that we thought was impossible in the 21st century is happening today,” he told reporters.
There’s supposed to be a “humanitarian corridor” in place that would allow residents to flee Mariupol while creating space for humanitarian supplies to be trucked in to those staying behind. But Russia is pressed for time, needing victories before its money runs out and its army begins to break down. So the humanitarian corridor is reportedly being shelled to force residents to stay put and starve in hopes of crushing Ukraine’s resolve.
Orlov: "Putin is intent on having Ukraine without Ukrainians. It's pure genocide. The attack being waged by Russia isn't simply treacherous. It's a war crime. They are attacking us with aviation, shells, multiple rocket launchers."
— Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968) March 9, 2022
#Russian soldiers also fire on private cars trying to escape the siege, Orlov says. Not at them but alongside so they are forced to return to #Mariupol. "They are shooting and bombing the humanitarian corridor. That's the situation," he says, calling for an immediate no-fly zone
— Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968) March 9, 2022
It’s unclear what sort of mines are being used. A report 10 days ago in the Ukrainian press claimed that “petal” or “butterfly mines” had been dropped from the air around Kharkiv in the northeast. If those mines are also being used on the humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol it would be diabolical even by Russian standards:
Russian butterfly mines are dropped from aircraft, typically helicopters, dispersing as they flutter to the ground. And they're particularly interesting to children, because they resemble plastic toys. 6/7 pic.twitter.com/TdhMaQvzo2
— Dean Gloster (@deangloster) March 8, 2022
Strategically, I suspect Russia wants control of Mariupol not just to show how far it’s willing to go to win the test of wills but because it’s looking to establish a corridor along the border of southeastern Ukraine linking the Donbas to Crimea, the two parts of Ukraine that hosted Russian troops even before Putin invaded a few weeks ago. Presumably he wants to control the entire southeastern part of the country with an eye to demanding its annexation once peace negotiations begin in earnest.
If anything good can come from something as savage as a war crime being committed against a maternity hospital, it’s the possibility that international outrage over the incident will pressure Russia into letting Mariupol’s residents leave. But don’t bet on it: The shelling has been so intense that workers digging mass graves in the city’s cemetery have been forced to interrupt their task when the cemetery itself has come under fire. Ironically, the more heavy-handed Putin gets in trying to force a quick end to the war, the more likely he makes it that Ukrainians will fight on as an insurgency for years to punish the Russians for their cruelty. Exit quotation from Zelensky, speaking yesterday: “Fifty Ukrainian children killed in 13 days of war. And in an hour it was 52. Fifty-two children. I will never forgive that. And I know that you will never forgive the invaders.”
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Month: August 2015
Anathoth was Jeremiah’s hometown and the people in his hometown were threatening to kill him. He was a tree with fruit (Jeremiah 11:19). He was a real prophet and they wanted to kill him for the things he was saying, but the words he spoke were not his. They came from God. Even if they were successful in killing the messenger, they could never kill the message.
First, Jeremiah tells God how He’s always right, but then he complains to God about how HE does things. Why are sinners successful? Why do You let the wicked prosper? Why do they have it so easy? You are near in their mouths, but far from their hearts. Lord, you know my heart. You know I’m faithful to You, but yet You’re hard on me. You don’t let me get by with anything (Jeremiah 12:1-3, paraphrased). God waits until Jeremiah is finished speaking and asks, “If you have run with the footmen and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses?” You know what God was really saying to Jeremiah? Grow up, Jeremiah. That’s nothing compared to what’s about to happen. Those closest to you – your own family is about to turn on you. They will say nice things to you, but they are going to betray you (Jeremiah 12:6). If Jeremiah couldn’t handle this, how could he handle that?
God knows what lies ahead. Horses were coming and these horses (demons) were stronger and more powerful than the footmen. Jeremiah hadn’t seen nothing yet. He thought that this was a test, but little did he know he was just in training for the test. God was preparing him and making him ready for what was coming. In school, you can’t be promoted to the next grade or level until you pass the current level that you’re on. It’s the same way in life.
Every time Goliath came out, Saul’s army ran. All Goliath did was threaten them with words and intimidate them with his size (he was 9 feet and 9 inches). When David volunteered to kill Goliath, David’s brother who was in Saul’s army (and also a runner), got angry and told him to go back to the wilderness with his sheep. I don’t know if Eliab thought he was better than David because he fought on a battlefield while David was just a sheep keeper or because he was the eldest and David was youngest. Maybe he judged David based upon his size. Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature…for the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart (I Sam 16:7). Saul was king, but Eliab forgot God anointed David to be king. You see, David wasn’t like Jesus. Jesus was born King (Matthew 2:2). David had to learn how to become a king. Eliab tried to discourage David and make him feel bad, but that’s only because he didn’t understand what God was doing with his brother in the wilderness. If David had never defeated the lion and bear in the wilderness, he would have never defeated Goliath (I Samuel 17:34-37).
Do you really think that God would anoint you for something or give you something and there not be a test? You will never know how anointed you are until what’s outside of you challenges what’s inside of you, but don’t be afraid. What’s inside of you is greater. The anointing attracts attacks. Satan is not coming after just anybody. He comes after those who are a threat to him and his kingdom and he knows who are anointed to destroy his works. Unclean spirits recognized who Jesus was. You are the Son of God. Even the unclean spirit that was in the young girl knew who Paul and Silas were. These men are the servants of the most High God. But when the sons of Sceva attempted to cast out devils, the evil spirit asked, Who are you? How can Satan recognize God’s anointed? Because he was once anointed (Ezekiel 28:14). This is why he is angry. You have what he once had.
When Jezebel sought to take Elijah’s life, he ran and told God he had enough and he wanted to die. Don’t leave Him when He promised He would never leave you. If you give up when trouble comes or when you face adversity, that means your strength is small (Proverbs 24:10). The devil wants you to get discouraged. He wants you to quit. Build yourself in the word and through prayer. Become strong in His word. Stand on His word because His word will stand forever. God doesn’t want you to run from horses. He wants you to fight against them. And don’t be anxious about anything. When David was anointed king, he didn’t immediately go to the palace. He went right back to keeping sheep because it wasn’t his time yet. Let God use where you are to make you for where you are going.
There comes a time when you become weary in doing wrong (and that’s a good thing), but don’t be weary in doing what is right.
Jesus said, And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force (Matthew 11:12). In Psalm 18:48, David said that God delivered him from the violent man. A violent man is one who entices or deceives to get you to leave what is good to do what is evil (Proverbs 16:29). He wants to hurt you as well as use you to hurt others, but he is only successful in doing this when you yield your body to sin. The wicked one knows he can’t touch those who keeps themselves and do not sin (1 John 5:18). Job was described as a perfect and upright man who feared God and avoided evil and because of this, Satan couldn’t touch him. What a lot of Christians don’t understand is that when you yield your body to temptation, sin opens the door for the violent man to touch or attack you, your spouse, children, finances, etc. God has made a way to escape temptation (1 Cor 10:13). There is good set before you and there is evil set before you. God not only gives us choices, but He tells us what to choose. Choose life so that both you and your seed may live (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Cain was angry because his offering was not acceptable. He killed Abel, but was he really angry with Abel or was he angry with God? It was possible for Cain to be angry and sin not so God spoke to him before he chose to kill his brother. Sin lies at the door (Genesis 4:7). Sin desired to destroy Cain, but God wanted him to know that he could choose not to let it destroy him. If God calls us more than conquerors, then that means He has given us power to conquer whatever is trying to conquer us. When God is for you, how can you lose? Who can defeat you? What can defeat you?
But why am I always losing? Why do I always feel defeated? God told Joshua, “This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous and then you shall have good success.” A lot of Christians are reading, studying, and meditating on the scriptures, but the problem is we aren’t doing the scriptures. The word of God is the will of God. We fail when we choose to do our will rather than the will of the Father. Jesus said, “For I came down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him that sent me”. The best way to defeat the devil is to obey God. Do what the word tells you to do. Good success is not getting a new house or car or winning the lottery. Good success is when what the enemy attempted to do to you, your family or your church fails because you obeyed God, but you can’t defeat what you refuse to resist. When you submit to God, you are resisting the devil. When you obey God, God will cause those who come against you one way to flee before you seven ways. We always talk about what our praise will do, but we need to start telling people what their obedience will do (Deuteronomy 28:1-13). When you obey the world, your flesh and the devil, you lose, but when you obey God, you win.
If Lucifer (Satan) fought against God in heaven, what makes you think he won’t fight against you who are on earth? There are things the enemy took from us through sin, but God has given us power and authority to take it back. When Jesus stood at the cave where Lazarus was buried, he said three things: Come forth (John 11:43), Loose him (John 11:45) and Let him go (John 11:45). God gave Adam dominion over the principalities and powers in the sea, in the air and upon the earth (Gen 1:26). What Adam lost in the garden through disobedience, Christ restored to us through His obedience. He took it back and now you can successfully say:
I command _____ to come forth.
I command _____ to loose my family, my mind, my body, etc.
I loose myself from _____.
I command _____ to let my children go.
I don’t know your situation, but you fill in the blanks. You have been given power to tread over all the power of the enemy, but for demons to obey you, you must obey God. To do what Jesus did, you must live how Jesus lived. Jesus obeyed the Father. Now we must learn to obey our Heavenly Father. Stay in the word. Obey the word. Don’t move away from what you heard and what was preached to you. Don’t allow what it looks like or feels like to cause you to give up hope in the word. Rest and become settled in what God said belongs to you and take back what He gave you.
These were words God gave to me and I wanted to encourage you with those same words.
Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice over this, but I just want to remind you that the spirits are subject to you (Luke 10:20). They must obey you. It doesn’t matter how stubborn that mountain is in your life. Jesus told you to say to that mountain, “Be thou removed and be cast into the sea”. If you believe what you say and don’t doubt in your heart, you shall have what you say. My word is like fire. Fire just doesn’t consume, but it drives things out. There are some things in your life that doesn’t want to leave. It still refers to your body as its house, but your body is now the temple (house) of My Spirit so it must be forced out.
When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it (Psalm 37:34). The Israelites saw when Pharaoh’s army drowned in the sea. Your enemies will also drown in the sea, but before they drown, they will pay you back for every hurt, disappointment and pain they ever caused you. I know the thing I promised you seems impossible because no man has ever done it before, but I’ve done it before in scriptures and I will do it again. It is possible with Me.
Become like the woman with the alabaster box. Jesus knew what manner of woman she was. He knew her sins, but He didn’t turn her away and I won’t turn you away. Cry unto Me for your cries are able to reach Me. This woman washed Jesus’ feet with her tears. She touched Him. I know you thought the woman with the issue of blood was the only one who touched Jesus, but there were many others (Matthew 14:36). You’re like the woman with the issue of the blood. Maybe you haven’t spent all your money, but you’ve spent a lot of time – pretending, trying to fix it, trying to be happy and trying to make it work. You’ve been doing everything you know to do, but you’re doing it without Me.
Touch Me. I know your sorrows (Exodus 3:7). Touch Me with your tears. Touch Me with your worship. The woman with the issue of blood wasn’t supposed to have contact with anyone. She shouldn’t have been touching anyone. Because of the condition she was in, she only felt worthy to touch His garment, but I don’t care how filthy you are or how dirty you are. I want you to touch Me. If you touch Me, I shall make you whole.
I told Abraham and Sarah they were going to have a son. I told them this because I knew I could do it. Is there anything too hard for Me? I did what I said – at the set time (Genesis 21:1-2). When the time is right, you will receive what you are believing God for, but in the meantime, don’t seek Hagar. Sometimes when people have a difficult time borrowing money from the bank, they seek assistance from one of those nonbanking financial services (I won’t call any names). It seems like a good idea. It seems like a quick fix. If your credit score is poor, they won’t turn you away, but your interest rate will be very high. Not only are you expected to pay back the amount you borrowed and the interest, but sometimes fees are added. These people don’t know you so they don’t trust you, which means you must have collateral just in case you default on your loan. When you sign the agreement, you are giving them the right to take what God gave you. That’s Hagar. If you are in a bind, Hagar will keep you bound. She doesn’t set you free from anything and she’s not giving you anything for free. Sin has wages. She may give you a temporary fix, but she doesn’t fix your problems. She only creates more problems.
Trust Me. Listen to what I tell you and do what I tell you to do. It’s that simple. My plans for you are good. My plans won’t harm you. My plans won’t disappoint you. You’ve been disappointed, ashamed and embarrassed because you believed a lie, but I am the Truth and whoever believes in Me and trusts in Me will not be disappointed. When I do what I promised I would do in your life, you are going to say like Sarah, “God has made me to laugh so that all that hear will laugh with me” (Genesis 21:6).
Put your hope in the Lord and your hope will not put you to shame (Psalm 38:15; Romans 5:5).
Exodus 32:1 – And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him
The Israelites didn’t have permission to go up on the mount or touch the border of it, but God still wanted to speak to them. They chose Moses to speak to them rather than God in fear that they may die. Moses told them not to be afraid because God was just testing them (Exodus 20:19-20). You see, Moses told the people earlier what God expected of them and they responded, We will do (Exodus 19:8). God heard what came from their lips, but now He was testing to see what was in their hearts.
The only fear that God wants us to have is the spirit of the fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2). How can you be afraid of offending people, but never afraid of offending God? At one time or another, we didn’t respect Him. We didn’t acknowledge Him in all of our ways. We were doing what we wanted to do, but when you fear God, you will obey God.
But every time there is a delay, you start looking for something better when you’ve already been given the best. When things aren’t happening as quickly as you would like, you begin to act like the people of Israel. Where is God? He’s taking too long. Did God forget about me? A mother may forget her child, but God won’t forget His children (Isaiah 49:15). When something is delayed, it doesn’t mean that the thing you are expecting will not come. It just may be a little while longer before it arrives, but it shall come.
God is not taking too long. Normally, there is a delay because something or someone isn’t ready. Could it be that what God promised is ready for you, but you aren’t ready for it? God has done what He promised. The problem is that there is something that you refuse to do. You aren’t waiting on Him. He is waiting on you to acknowledge Him. He is waiting on you to accept change. He is waiting on you to humble yourself, pray, seek His face and turn from your wicked ways. He is waiting on you to forgive. He is waiting on you to say, Lord, I need You. Apart from you, I can do nothing.
If God is light and His word is a lamp unto my feet, why am I always messing up? Why is it that when God brings me out of something, I go right back into it? Because you refuse to go up and STAY on the mountain of God. You stick close to God for awhile, but when it seems like everything is going well and your prayers are answered, you back up on God. You think you don’t need Him like you did before. You think you can handle everything now. What you don’t realize is that the more you distance yourself from God, the more you become like one walking in the dark trying to find your way only to realize that you need HIM.
And the people stood afar off and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was (Exodus 20:21). When you refuse to draw near to God, you will draw back to the things of the world. You will go right back into the thing that God brought you out of. While Moses was up on the mountain, the Lord showed him in the spirit all the things that belonged to him and the people of Israel. The people, on the other hand, stayed at the bottom of the mountain looking at their current situation and complaining. Because they couldn’t see what Moses and God were doing, they asked Aaron to make them something that they could see.
Go up. Draw near to God. He wants to speak to YOU face to face as a man speaks to his friend. He has no longer called you servants, but He has called you friends. He wants to reveal Himself, His plan and His will to you. The reason why the enemy deceives you and you go astray is because you really don’t know (understand) what the scriptures say and you don’t know the power of God (Matthew 22:29). In other words, you really don’t know God the way you think you do. God said, Call unto Me and I will answer you and I will show you hidden things, secret things and things you know nothing about. Isn’t it beautiful that not only God knows the plans He has for you, but He wants you to know what He knows?
God didn’t just want to bring His people out of the land of Egypt to a good land, but He wanted to bring them to Himself. Salvation and deliverance is not about having things. It is about having HIM who has all things. When you are always seeking things, you will never be fulfilled or satisfied. God wants you to seek His kingdom and His righteousness first and then those things that you have up before Him will be added to you. If moth and rust can destroy it and thieves can steal it, you are seeking the wrong things. Let us seek God to find out what we can do FOR Him and not just what we can get FROM Him.
But it is good for me to draw near to God… (Psalm 73:28).
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward – Hebrews 10:35
Have you ever seen a drunk staggering? They walk unsteadily as if they are about to fall. They move from side to side. They begin to give way. They are unable to be steadfast and stand firm in one place.
Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God (Romans 4:20). Whatever you do, don’t throw your trust in God away. Don’t throw away the word and the promise God gave you. You trusted Him to save you, but now you’re going to have to trust Him to do everything else He said He would do. There was a time when you believed God. You were sure that God was going to do it, but because it seems like it will never happen, you want to give up. What you don’t understand is that the moment you give up, you are also giving up some things. What you are telling God is, I don’t want it anymore. You can give it to somebody else.
Be patient, do the will of God and you will receive the promise (Hebrews 10:36). Do what God told you to do and keep doing it. Keep obeying. Everything you receive from God is by faith. When you got saved, it was through faith. For by grace are you saved through faith (Ephesians 2:8). God wants you to live by faith because it is your faith that brings you much reward (Hebrews 10:35).
Some of you feel like you’re fainting, but God gives power to the faint. Don’t throw it all away. Don’t give up. Don’t go back. God is not pleased with anyone who turns back (Hebrews 10:38). Why would you want to give up when God is giving you another chance? Heaven doesn’t need you. The earth needs you. Everything Jesus gave us before He ascended into heaven was for us to use on earth, not in heaven. You have what the earth needs and the earth is waiting on you. For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God (Romans 8:19).
Abraham knew the condition of his body and he knew his age, but He chose to believe what God knew and what God said. Before the birth of the promise, Abraham praised God. He glorified God. He kept thanking God (Romans 4:20). There was no need for Abraham to worry about his body being dead when the word God gave Him was alive (Hebrews 4:12). When God made a promise to Abraham, He told him what HE would do because only He could do it.
The thing you need done in your life may be hard for you, but it’s not too hard for God. God is the only One who can save you. God is the only One who can deliver you. I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land (Exodus 3:8). Not only has God commanded the thing that has kept you bound to let you go, but He has commanded it to let go of everything that was stolen from you. When you go, you shall not go empty (Exodus 3:21). He shall deliver your mind and your soul out of deep waters (Psalm 18:16). So why are you worried? He didn’t say you would do it. He said that HE would do it.
God doesn’t want you to believe Him today and then not believe Him tomorrow. It’s hard to receive anything from the Lord in that condition. He doesn’t want you to stagger in unbelief. He wants you to walk by faith. Abraham was fully persuaded (sure, confident, certain and convinced) that God was able to perform what He promised. He never stopped believing. Abraham’s faith did not fail and Jesus has already prayed for you that your faith won’t fail.
The promises God gives are exceeding great and precious (2 Peter 1:4). It is not like trash to be thrown away. Hold on. It’s not too late for you. It’s not over and it’s not the end so keep enduring and keep pressing. What Abraham went through was making him to become the father of many nations (Romans 4:18). You’re in the process of being made to become something. Don’t resist God and don’t throw your confidence in His word away.

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This is Storm Water Solutions 2020 Top Project.
Location: Carson, California
Cost: $18.72 million
Size: 13.54 acre-foot system
Owner: City of Carson, California
Designer: Tetra Tech
Contractor: OHL USA
Manufacturers: StormTrap, Jensen, KSB, Pratt
A large underground system was installed at the Carriage Crest Park as part of a storm water management project in Carson, California. The aim of this $18.72 million project was to divert millions of gallons of storm water each year to help the city and unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. As a result, this would protect waterways, meet MS4 permit requirements and increase water supply to the local wastewater treatment plant.
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To account for the system’s magnitude, the installation occurred in phases, permitting travel over the basin throughout construction.


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2015 | SERIES 26 | Episode 05
TRANSCRIPT SERIES 26 EPISODE 05
COSTA GEORGIADIS: G'day and welcome to Gardening Australia. We've got a packed show for you today, so let's get straight into it.
SOPHIE THOMSON: I'll be finding out how horticultural therapy is fun for the people doing it and also, for one particular person teaching it as well.
ANGUS STEWART: And I'll be talking about a lot of the myths I hear around growing Australian plants. Many of them just aren't true, so I'm going to be busting some of the biggest myths wide open.
TINO CARNEVALE: And this week, if you're unsure how to prune your fruit tree, I'm going to show you how to produce a healthy tree that has a good yield.
BUILDING COMPOST BAYS
COSTA GEORGIADIS: But first up, you may remember the Gordons from Sydney's inner-west. Last year, they won a competition in Organic Gardener Magazine and the prize was to help them transform their bare backyard into the productive garden that they'd always dreamed about. So far, large raised vegie beds have been installed and the soil tested.
Well I'm back with horticulturalist Phil Dudman to give Stu and Alex a hand putting in a free-standing two-bay composting system in the back corner of their garden.
STUART GORDON: It's really going to help us with maintaining our soil fertility and keeping that going. We've got some really good soil to begin with, but we know we've got to keep working on that and we see the compost as one of the key sources of nutrients for the soil.
ALEX GORDON: And I mean for me it's about reducing waste as well - so all the kitchen scraps, all the garden waste....and then creating soil that we can do ourselves for free with the materials we've got here.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: I've made a little bit of a rough plan here and as you can see, we'll make a two bay system - the timber posts to support it, the corrugated iron sides and then the timber slats on the front.
PHIL DUDMAN: It's a great plan. We've got some great materials too.
STUART GORDON: Yep, we sure have. Got these great old Australian hardwood timbers that we were able to pull out of the old house when we lifted up the floor, but it would be a shame not to use them we think.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Good on you for saving those.
STUART GORDON: Yeah....and we've got some old palings from a fence and we've also got some corrugated iron offcuts.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Phil, I reckon we can finish off paving the pad here and if you guys want to start to cut the posts to length, we'll get this thing underway.
The main posts are about a metre high. But don't worry - you'll find all the measurements on the factsheet on our website.
Now I realise it seems a little strange to be putting a compost bay on top of paving.
PHIL DUDMAN: As you know Costa, we've done some soil testing and we have found that there is a little bit of contamination there, so it's a wise idea just to put a solid surface underneath the compost so none of that soil comes in contact with the compost. The worms will find their way in as normal - everything's going to be fine.
Are they all spaced all right there Costa?
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Yeah that's good. Are they square?
PHIL DUDMAN: Yeah they're nice and square.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Alright, then we can put this backing piece of corrugated iron on now.
PHIL DUDMAN: Like a pro!
COSTA GEORGIADIS: We're using a mix of self-tapping screws, long enough to go through the iron and the timber.
PHIL DUDMAN: Well team, that's the back panel done. Should we put it into position?
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Yeah, let's go.
The whole system is about two and a half metres long by a metre deep and high, so we'll end up with 2 bays large enough to hold the amount of material needed for hot compost.
Well, we're up to the last side here Phil and as you can see, the second hand materials, they've all got a bit of a bow and a bit of bounce and a bit of a rock'n'roll - a push and shove here.
PHIL DUDMAN: So Costa, for safety's sake, just to cover these sharp iron edges here, we're putting this little cap on top.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: That's simple enough. The centre panel divides the base so the Gordons can have 2 piles at different stages. That way, there'll always be something to use on the garden.
So this is pretty simple. We've just cut down a paling to create a track and then you can load your palings in here to become the door of the compost. When you want to turn it, you lift them out. When you're finished, you close it up.
Well it's been a good team effort, but what a result. Stick with us, cause coming up in the program, we'll show you what to put into the bays and how to get your hot composting system up and running.
PRUNING FOR FRUIT
TINO CARNEVALE: Many people become anxious when it comes time to pruning their fruit trees - like this apple here. They think that they'll ruin next years' crop or they'll kill the tree. The good news is, it's pretty hard to kill an apple tree with a pair of secateurs - unless you're intending to do so of course.
Now is a great time to prune. If you prune during the winter period when the plant is in full dormancy, you'll promote growth in spring, but if you prune now in the autumn, after fruiting, you'll promote flowers and therefore fruit in the springtime which is what I want.
Start off by going over your tree and removing any old fruit. If you leave that on over the winter period, it'll mummify and cause all manner of problem next season.
Now apple trees fruit on what are called 'spurs' - these swollen nodules - so leave them alone cause if you cut them off, you'll be cutting off your crop.
Now when it comes to pruning, I go for dead, diseased or damaged wood - just like that there. Now when it comes to actually taking a lot of the growth off, I want to go for a shape and this is an espaliered tree so I want to keep these main laterals along the side - or main branches - and I want to take off this young growth here. It's done its job over the season, it's photosynthesised and fed the tree, but now I can take it off.
Well now the tree has had a prune, it's time to give it a feed and autumn is a great time to put down some lime. I've got some dolomite lime here. It works in two ways. It sweetens the soil, which these trees love, but it also allows the plant to consolidate its energy before it goes into its winter dormancy.
So just to remember - if you want fruit, prune your trees now, but if you've got a young tree and you want to promote growth, wait until the winter.
Well, I'll see you next time.
HEALING WITH HORTICULTURE
SOPHIE THOMSON: It could happen to anyone - an injury resulting from an unforeseen event that changes your life - possibly forever - and when it happens, rehabilitation is a long, slow process. Hospitals are practical places and don't tend to look particularly inviting, but imagine if there was a beautiful garden just metres away.
There are a number of beautiful courtyard gardens here at the Royal Adelaide Hospital Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre and they're looked after by Dean Gaston.
DEAN GASTON: A garden in a place like this is so important for people on their rehab journey. It gives them a place of activity and contact.
The gardens were started about 4 years ago. We got some conceptual advice from the Horticultural Therapy Association which were really, really helpful. We wanted to create a space that people could be nurtured in - that you could feel the sensory plants.
SOPHIE THOMSON: So there's plants we can smell, we can see, we can taste - and we can feel and work on motor skills?
DEAN GASTON: Yeah.
SOPHIE THOMSON: So what are we looking at here Dean?
DEAN GASTON: Particularly the Tagetes (Passionfruit Daisy - Tagetes lemmonii) is one of my favourites Sophie. That passionfruit smell - it's just delightful. The Bronze Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) for the liquorice and the smell of home and health that people reminisce with, or even the Pineapple Sage (Salvia elegans) where you can crush the leaves - or maybe even just suck the nectar out of the flowers - it's really, really sweet.
SOPHIE THOMSON: Scientific studies have shown that garden surroundings reduce recovery times.
DEAN GASTON: If you're on the inside of a hospital looking at a hospital wall, it's no wonder that if you look outside into the garden and interact in it, you're going to feel 100 percent better.
We use fine motor skills and gross motor skills. We'll be planting some wheat into some pots.....cleaning the wheat ....using some of those fine motor skills. We can grade the tools or watering cans from simple, moderate to complex, depending on their weight and size which helps them build strength as well. And maybe at the end, you might point out, "Look at you now. You're actually carrying that large watering can as opposed to the small one."
People come in and you see that inner-spark light up in their face change. That emotional wellbeing that people have when they come to a garden....that's something to behold.
One of my star performers at the moment is Wayne from the Spinal Injury Unit. He's so gung-ho and such a self-directed person...you should see what he's doing!
SOPHIE THOMSON: I'd love to.
Wayne Frahn's life has been turned upside-down by a motorcycle accident. He has nearly finished his rehab for a permanent spinal injury.
So you're planting out some spring onions here Wayne?
WAYNE FRAHN: Yes I am Sophie.
SOPHIE THOMSON: Great bed you've got here. Good height.
WAYNE FRAHN: Yes, good height. Easily accessible. It's working really well.
SOPHIE THOMSON: And what has it meant to you to be able to do the gardening here while you're staying here?
WAYNE FRAHN: Heaps. You sort of doubt it for a little while cause of your injury and you think, 'I can't do the things I used to be able to do,' then like, Dean sort of pushed me a little bit at the start and then, yeah...it just clicked.
SOPHIE THOMSON: So Dean, what have you noticed about Wayne's progress over his time here?
DEAN GASTON: From the small horticultural therapy session building wicking beds, Wayne's progressed marvellously down here. He's slowly building up his strength in his arms......
WAYNE FRAHN: Yeah that's the thing....just finding out my reach, my balance. If it wasn't for this and this place, it would have been a lot harder. Now I'm so confident....get home and get straight back in it. Get your hands dirty.
SOPHIE THOMSON: Some patients' engagement is more sensory. Lassa is a quadriplegic from a horse riding accident and spends a lot of time in the garden with Dean.
LASSA HAWRYSZKIEWYCZ: It means everything to me, every day while I'm at this place...the sunshine, its colour, its smells - it's just wonderful to be here. I come every morning as soon as I can and every afternoon as soon as I can and sometimes just to sit here and sometimes to look at...closely at how beautiful the plants are.
SOPHIE THOMSON: And how can you interact with it?
LASSA HAWRYSZKIEWYCZ: I'm a bit naughty and I will drive over the edges of the pavement sometimes - with some of those that Dean's let grow over the edges...I love to drive over the Curry Plant (Helichrysum italicum subsp. serotinum).
I nudge into the Chocolate plant and there's a lovely, lovely Pineapple Sage that I bump into quite a bit!
DEAN GASTON: Oh Lassa is a beautiful soul. She not only looks at the garden, she looks into it and appreciates these different layers.
And this beautiful Fountain Grass. How does that feel when I stroke your cheek?
LASSA HAWRYSZKIEWYCZ: Oh, it's lovely.
DEAN GASTON: That's fantastic.
LASSA HAWRYSZKIEWYCZ: Really soft, yeah.
DEAN GASTON: After the end of the day, using horticultural therapy as a gardening session, I feel so humble that I go home and I share these experiences with my beautiful lady and I just feel privileged to be able to work in such an environment and help people.
LASSA HAWRYSZKIEWYCZ: Thank you very much.
DEAN GASTON: You're welcome Lassa.
SOPHIE THOMSON: I'll be back a little later with some inspiring plant ideas to stimulate the senses in your garden.
THE NATIVE TRUTH
ANGUS STEWART: I love seeing native plants in the garden. They bring a uniquely Australian flavour to the landscape as well as attracting abundant wildlife, but they often don't reach their full potential, so I want to bust 3 of the biggest myths around growing them so that you can get the absolute best out of them in your garden.
Myth number one - you shouldn't feed your native plants. Well if you want them to grow and flower really well, that's false. The issue though is that a lot of Australian plants - things like these grevilleas and banksias and wattles have evolved on soils that are very nutrient poor, so they're quite sensitive to certain nutrients like phosphorus, so if you use things like chook manure, it's a recipe for disaster, so the golden rule is to use a low phosphorus fertiliser that's specifically designed for Australian plants. If you use something like that across the whole range of species, you can't go wrong.
Myth number two - that native plants are drought tolerant and never need watering. Well that's completely false in my book as well. There are a couple of critical periods where you just can't let them dry out. In the nursery, they're being watered every day and if you just put them in without any water before their roots have had a chance to get established and become self-sufficient, you can lose them, so once they're established, they do tend to be quite drought tolerant, but there's a second situation - when they're coming into bloom like this Kangaroo Paw, they're also quite sensitive. You can see where this one has started to wilt and if that continues to dry out, you'll lose all your flowers. It won't kill the plants, but we want our plants to thrive rather than just survive.
Sometimes you're looking for plants with absolutely minimal water requirements, the clues are in the foliage, so this Casuarina comes from a very harsh environment and it's evolved these needle-like leaves. The greatly reduced surface area limits moisture loss.
Other leaves to look for are silvery ones that reflect the sunlight, furry foliages which protect it from moisture loss, or tough, leathery leaves like the eucalypts. On the other hand, plants with big, glossy leaves like these rainforest plants - Eumundi Quandong (Elaeocarpus eumundi) and the Davidson's Plum (Davidsonia jerseyana) have a much greater surface area which means more water loss, so if you want these to thrive, you need to put them in a nice moist spot in the garden to mimic the conditions in their natural environment.
Myth number three - that you shouldn't prune your native plants. Wrong, wrong, wrong! If you think about an exotic plant like a rose, if you leave that unpruned, it'll turn into a straggly, thorny mess with very few flowers.
Let's have a look at this Bottle Brush. It's been left to its own devices after it's flowered and you're left with this rather unsightly clump of old seed pods. What I'd suggest is to treat it as you would an exotic shrub - prune it straight after it's flowered. With this Bottle Brush, just cut straight beneath the spent flower stem as soon as it's finished flowering and you'll turn this single shoot into a clump of shoots which will give you a lot more flowers next time around.
So don't believe the myths. The truth is that most Australian natives can look spectacular with a minimal amount of effort. It's all about applying a bit of good gardening common sense at the right times and you'll be richly rewarded.
MAKING HOT COMPOST
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Creating a great structure to house your compost is one thing, but the next step is all about the ingredients, because the key to creating great hot compost is combining a large amount of material at once.
PHIL DUDMAN: Well you need a good blend of what we call green and brown ingredients, so your green stuff are things that break down really quickly. Lucerne straw's a good one. Now you've got fresh grass clippings, manure, vegie scraps - they break down quickly - a little bit of blood and bone - they're all going to break down quickly.
Then you've got your brown ingredients which are a bit drier and slower to break down, so you've got things like dried leaves, some dried straw. You could put in some woody material as well - those sorts of things. The important thing is getting the ratio right, so if you've got one part green to four part brown, you've got a really good blend.
Start off with some browns Costa. Now one thing about composting as we know, is that, you know, the microbes don't work if there's no water. They're living things like us.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Pile on the layers evenly, remembering that important one part green to four parts brown ratio. Also make sure you wet down the drier brown layers as you go.
PHIL DUDMAN: Vegie scraps.
So we're going to get all these up and we're going to layer them up till we've got a cubic metre of materials and that generates a lot of heat. We'll come back here in a few days and you'll feel a lot of warmth coming out of there.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: The other beauty of the hot composting system is that that heat will break down any pathogens and nasties and any weed seed that might be in there.
PHIL DUDMAN: That's one of the great benefits.
Now Costa, while you're sprinkling away there, I'm going to sprinkle a little bit of blood and bone.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: That smells rich.
PHIL DUDMAN: It's good gear mate. You love the smell of it! Well look, you know, it's a nitrogen source and all those microbes and things that help to break this down, they need a good feed of that and once the worms are on to it, they're going to come from everywhere. The word's going to get out!
COSTA AND PHIL: One, two.....
PHIL DUDMAN: This time...yep
COSTA GEORGIADIS: And three...
PHIL DUDMAN: In it goes.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Beautiful.
Over the next couple of weeks, the pile will shrink as the material breaks down, so Alex and Stu can fill it up and then every couple of weeks, they've got their own gym - to transfer it into this bay for a couple of weeks and then transfer it back. Within two months, they'll have beautiful, living compost to spread out over their garden beds. Pretty good.
BACK FROM THE BRINK
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Recently, Clarence visited Booderee - an Aboriginal owned National Park and Botanic Garden that's about three hours south of Sydney on the southern end of Jervis Bay. While he was there, he spoke to Stig Pederson about an interesting native plant that's being brought back from the brink of extinction.
CLARENCE SLOCKEE: This is Bomaderry Zieria (Zieria baeuerlenii). How many plants are we talking about out in the bush?
STIG PEDERSEN: On a recent survey, they found that it had gone from 1200 back seven years ago and we've now got less than 600, so it's really gone backwards over the last seven years.
CLARENCE SLOCKEE: What are some of the special features about this plant?
STIG PEDERSEN: It's got lovely white flowers at this time of year and if you have a look at the leaf, it's got like a clover leaf - like what we call trifoliate and it grows to about 80 centimetres on average however there's a few of them that are like pendulous....almost sort of like creeping on the ground.
It's in the Rutaceae family with the citrus, like the orange and the lemon.
CLARENCE SLOCKEE: Beautiful flowers. You'd think there'd be lots of these plants around in the bush.
STIG PEDERSEN: It's actually infertile. It's thousands of flowers, but it just doesn't go anywhere beyond that. Nobody's ever seen its set fruit or set seed. It's a very rare thing for a plant, but this one just doesn't reproduce the normal way. It has to do it by layering - its branches shoot when they touch the ground, or shoot from the rootstock.
CLARENCE SLOCKEE: Because species evolution is normally to ensure survival of the species isn't it?
STIG PEDERSEN: That's right and we don't exactly know why it's stopped, but the fact is has stopped and so it just sits there frozen in time.
CLARENCE SLOCKEE: And what's some of the work you're doing here to help this plant along?
STIG PEDERSEN: We're doing what we call 'ex-situ conservation,' so we try and protect and conserve the plant outside the site where it normally grows. It's an insurance policy - you know like if it fails out there...we hope it doesn't - but if it does, we could possibly be involved in replanting and revegetation out there if that's needed.
CLARENCE SLOCKEE: What an amazing little plant and it's great to see that its future is now a little more secure.
JOSH BYRNE: Growing plants from seed is a cheap and easy way to go, but they can be vulnerable whilst they are dormant - especially from things like raiding ants, so today, I'm going to protect them by making seed bombs and it's so easy to do. I'll just use 4 parts bentonite clay, 1 part fine, sifted compost....just like that....and a sprinkle of fertiliser and then blend it all together really evenly...and now it's time for the seeds.
This is a mix of Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum) seed. There we go. Now time for a little bit of water.
Now the trick here is you want it to be moist enough to stick together and form sort of 'plasticy' balls, but you don't want it too wet so it becomes a gluggy mess - and you also don't want the seeds to germinate straight away. You want that to happen later. Ok, so I'm just getting it to almost like playdoh type consistency.
Ok. Now I'm going to make these balls fairly small, so I've got lots to scatter around the garden. Look at that! There we go. Pop them on a tray to dry.
You can see I'm actually being quite gentle with these - I'm not compressing them too hard and that's important so when they do remoisten, they'll break apart and the seeds can germinate.
Right, there's two trays done. Now it might look like it, but they don't go in the oven. Where they do need to go is a cool, dry, airy space and tomorrow, we'll have some fun.
Well, there you have it - little balls of fertile goodness. Now I've made these using bentonite clay, but most types of clay will do. The important thing is not to make them too compact - so they can easily fall apart and the seeds germinate when they get wet - and this is why we call them seed bombs!
FILLING THE SENSES
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Earlier in the program, Sophie explored the Royal Adelaide Hospital's wonderful Rehabilitation Garden. Now she's back to inspire you to get listening, smelling, touching, tasting and watching in your own backyard.
SOPHIE THOMSON: This is a great example of a sensory garden and it's the perfect place to come to get inspiration on how to engage all 5 senses in our own gardens.
For example, for a sense of touch, use Stachys or Lamb's Ears (Stachys byzantina). It's soft and furry.
Our sense of hearing is stimulated by the sound of the wind whistling through the leaves, the birds singing and the sound of water movement through a water feature.
As far as our sense of smell goes, you can't go past all the wonderful mints. Now this one's one of favourite. It's Choc Mint (Chocolate Mint - Mentha x piperita 'Chocolate'). Like all mints, they can become a bit invasive in the garden, so they're best grown in a pot and put on a solid surface so they don't misbehave. Then, there's the wonderful red-flowered Pineapple Sage (Salvia elegans). When you crush its foliage, its refreshing and kids just love it.
There's the stunning silver foliaged Curry Plant (Helichrysum italicum subsp. serotinum) which smells just like its name suggests - and don't forget good old-fashioned Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis).
Our sense of taste is stimulated by the fruits and vegetables we eat and by tasting herbs such as Stevia (Sugar Leaf - Stevia rebaudiana) which is many times sweeter than sugar.
And finally, it's the sense of sight. Now obviously in a garden, it's a contrast of foliage forms and all the beautiful colours - like these stunning Salvias, but another thing to add is a sense of movement which is often created by breezes that blow through ornamental grasses. Varieties like Dianellas, Lomandras and this beautiful sterile Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum advena 'Rubrum'). Just gorgeous.
Gardens are so much more than just sight and smell. Indulge all of your senses and enjoy.
COSTA GEORGIADIS: Well there's time for just one more thing before we go. Alan from South Australia got quite a surprise when he cut into his tomato to find that the seeds had germinated inside.
Well Alan, this is unusual, but it's not uncommon. It happens when the fruit is over-ripe and the natural plant hormones that generally prevent the seeds from germinating, start to break down. Usually the hormones don't break down until the tomatoes are in the compost, but that's not the case this time. It's a process called 'vivipary' - or live birth. In this case, live baby tomatoes.
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That's all we've got time for this week. Here's a peek at what's coming up on our next show.
Jane will be talking garlic with one of the country's leading experts.
Jerry will be surrounded by beautiful Hippeastrums.
And I'll be in an inspirational rooftop garden that's helping so many of its dedicated volunteers.
Hope to see you then!


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