Is firefox 3.6.x compatible with win xp 64?
I have win xp 64. When I use firefox 3.0.5 it is ok. When I do update to new version for example 3.6.x I am not able to browse after few second. There is too many open session info in my router log. When I use 3.0.5 again is everything ok. I tested it a lot of times. Is 3.6.x compatible with win xp 64? After instaling 3.6.x firefox there is everytime after few seconds in router's log: too many opened sessions. And I am not able to browse.
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on another computer I have new version of firefox and there is no problem. Isn't it problem with Win XP 64 bit?
Firefox 3.6.* is compatible with Win XP 64.
You may have an add-on that is incompatible with Firefox 3.6 and is causing the problem. The first thing you need to do is reset your useragent string, it has been modified by the Megaupload add-on and is causing your version of Firefox to identify itself as Firefox 126.96.36.199. To do that see Websites say that Firefox is outdated or incompatible even though it's the latest version.
When you next try to upgrade Firefox, it may now automatically identify any incompatible add-ons for you and disable them since it will realise that you are using Firefox 3.6.8 and not believe you have 188.8.131.52. If it does not, try the procedure in the Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems article.
You have a corrupted user agent (Firefox 3.5.5):
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; sk; rv:184.108.40.206) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/220.127.116.11;MEGAUPLOAD 1.0
You have or had an extension installed (MegaUpload toolbar) that has changed the user agent from Firefox/3.6.x to Firefox/3.0.x.
You can see the Firefox version at the top and the user agent at bottom of the "Help > About" window (Mac: Firefox > About Mozilla Firefox).
You can check the general.useragent prefs on the about:config page.
You can open the about:config page via the location bar, just like you open a website.
If general.useragent prefs are bold (user set) then you can right-click that pref and choose Reset.
I change it (useragent) but I have still same problem. Now it is not bold, my version is 3.6.8 version of browser and version of superagent settings but the problem remain the same
after 1 minute of browsing I can't... log in router: too many open sessions
I trie to switch off all add-ons, but situation remain the same. My opinion is that firefox 3.6.x not support win xp 64-bit. it is stupid...
If one version works and the next version doesn't work then a possible cause is security software that blocks the new version.
Remove all rules for Firefox from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox.
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems
See Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins"
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile (be careful not to copy corrupted files)


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Canada is stupid to snub international graduate and university students
By Katrina Plamondon of the University of British Columbia, Melisa Valverde of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Susan J. Elliott of the University of Waterloo Toronto, July 19 (The Conversation) In January 2017, Donald Trump, then President of the United States, banned entry into the United States of persons from predominantly Muslim countries.
In response, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hailed Canada as an open and welcoming nation.
But some criticized Trudeau’s #WelcomeToCanada tweet, calling it a signal of virtue and saying it offered false hope and perpetuated a misrepresentation of Canadian immigration practices.
Despite Trudeau’s welcoming words and the general public’s perception of Canada as a friendly and welcoming place, many who attempt to come to our country find themselves faced with decidedly unwelcoming realities.
Canadian universities welcome thousands of visiting students each year. According to a report by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, many of them come from low- and middle-income countries to bring diversity, talent and knowledge to communities across the country, while helping to create an economic boon.
The report highlights the immense impact of significant delays at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Between 2016 and 2020, more than half a million people were denied a study permit in Canada.
Many of these exceptional individuals were already qualified and accepted into leading programs and often sponsored through Canadian research grants and fellowships. These brilliant minds probably chose to pursue their studies elsewhere or not at all. Denials of IRCC study permits and visas are a tragedy for them and a great loss for Canada.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, processing times for international student permit applications have more than doubled. Instead of the standard 60 days, students in some regions are experiencing delays of over 200 days.
These delays occur even for people who are already living and studying in Canada, who are simply applying for standard, authorized and encouraged postdoctoral work.
Students from low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan are experiencing exceptionally long delays, revealing patterns of systemic discrimination and racism.
A staggering 69% of African students, especially from French-speaking countries, were rejected compared to the average rejection rate of 41% for students from non-African countries. Rejection rates were even higher for Ethiopian (88%), Ghanaian (82%) and Rwandan (81%) students.
Students purposely recruited into Canadian universities – often through strategies that align with government immigration strategies – suddenly find themselves faced with illogical visa denials and delays.
This puts them at a very disadvantageous position, generating and exacerbating inequalities. People living in underserved parts of the world with fewer processing centers must travel long distances to provide Canadian authorities with the required biometrics and often incur excessive costs to duplicate documents deemed “expired” before their applications are processed. treated.
Members of the Canadian Global Health Association’s Academic Advisory Council, representing 25 member universities across Canada, find that ongoing inequalities and discrimination affect their ability to partner, support and engage with scholars across Canada. whole world.
In a recent discussion on the impacts of visa delays and denials on students and postdoctoral fellows, our members described an opaque and unpredictable system, with visa denials highly discriminatory for students from low-income countries and intermediate. This is in stark contrast to those seeking to enter Canada from high-income countries like the United States or Australia.
IRCC’s inconsistency makes it impossible to predict or advise applicants, creates strain on systems through wasted time and duplication of effort, and has serious implications for the research programs of Canada’s top researchers. inside and outside universities.
For graduate students and scholarship recipients already studying in Canada, the delays create fear and anxiety and restrict freedom to travel due to the risk of being denied readmission.
Long wait times for responses from IRCC threatens their income and access to basic benefits like health and childcare as, without a valid visa or study permit, universities cannot process their scholarships. education or employment payments.
The toll on Canada’s research ecosystem cannot be underestimated, not to mention the crippling impact on those left in precarious limbo and changing their lives while waiting for their fate to be determined by unpredictable bureaucratic decision-making and undisclosed, understood only by those inside the system.
Canada must do better.
Although the IRCC has put in place employee training and other initiatives to address racism and prejudice within its ranks, evidence suggests there is still much work to be done.
Given Canada’s history of racism and discrimination in its immigration policies, establishing fair policies and practices requires higher levels of transparency and accountability than currently exist.
As co-chairs of the Academic Advisory Council of the Canadian Global Health Association, we fully support the 35 recommendations submitted by the Standing Committee on Citizens and Immigration in its May 2022 report.
We echo the urgency of the report and add our voice to demand: The elimination of overt anti-African racism in current processes; Transparency on decisions and grounds for refusal; The creation of an immediate mechanism to grant students and postdoctoral fellows already in Canada a grace period while the backlog at IRCC is resolved.
International students are not only ideal candidates to settle in Canada, they are also essential to Canada’s prosperity.
Canada faces over a million job vacancies and a shrinking population. The Standing Committee’s report makes it clear that successful integration and retention of international students is essential to addressing labor shortages, including in rural and remote areas, combating Canada’s declining population, and reaching federal government objectives for the Francophone population.
As Canada prepares to host the International AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal — bringing together more than 20,000 scholars, activists and students from around the world — our global reputation becomes one of bureaucracy and closed doors. We can and must do better. (The Conversation) RUP
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In the chaos that followed the 9/11 attacks, the tiny town of Gander, Newfoundland, found itself playing host to almost 7,000 strangers stranded after 38 international flights were diverted to its airport. The generosity extended to those frightened passengers comes to life anew on stage in the heartwarming musical Come From Away.
The title of this acclaimed original show, which begins performances on February 18, 2017, at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, refers to visitors who “come from away” to Newfoundland, the easternmost point in North America. Once prominent as a refueling stop on transatlantic flights, Gander’s airport had seen its traffic dwindle by 2001, but the 9,000 townspeople leaped into action when American airspace closed that September 11. Soon, every home, gymnasium, and public space was packed with air mattresses and sleeping bags as locals took care of people desperate to get home, forming relationships that continue more than 15 years later.
“It’s an inspirational story about how one small town responded to a huge event,” says David Hein, coauthor of Come From Away’s music, lyrics, and book with his wife, Irene Sankoff. As Canadians, the couple had heard about Gander’s post-9/11 role and traveled there on the 10th anniversary of the attacks to conduct interviews for a possible oral history–style theater piece. But it quickly became clear that the area’s Celtic musical heritage would need to play a central role.
“Newfoundland is this rock in the Atlantic Ocean, with some of the worst winters in the world,” says Hein. “For hundreds of years, people there have survived by gathering in their kitchens and in pubs to sing, dance, tell stories, and play instruments. It’s a wonderful culture in which music creates community.” Having grown up listening to Newfoundland bands, Hein was excited to transform the experiences of the people he and Sankoff met into songs fueled by hand drums (bodhrans), fiddles, pipes, accordions, “and something called an ugly stick, which is basically a mop screwed into a boot with bottle caps on the side. It’s a traditional sound you’ve never heard on Broadway.”
Over the course of 100 minutes, the show’s ensemble of 12 actors juggles five to 10 roles apiece, with split-second switches between the Ganderites (and their distinctive accent) and “come from aways” of multiple nationalities. “I was amazed by the generosity of the women of Gander and how much they took on,” says Sankoff, citing Bonnie Harris, manager of the local SPCA, who systematically searched every plane’s cargo hold for animals and then provided round-the-clock care. Beulah Cooper housed five people in her small home and accompanied American mom Hannah O’Rourke to church every day to pray for O’Rourke’s son, a New York City firefighter. “There were thousands of Beulahs,” Sankoff says, “and we came back wanting to tell their stories.”
One of the musical’s most striking characters is Beverley Bass, American Airlines’ first female pilot, who sings of her lifelong obsession with flying in “Me and the Sky” — and her bittersweet realization that “the one thing I loved more than anything was used as a bomb.” A happier tale is that of an English oil executive who met, fell in love with, and later married a divorced woman from Texas. Says Hein, “Every story we heard was distinctive, and it was a gift to be able to write from the grounded place of people’s own words and memories.”
Christopher Ashley, Come From Away’s two-time Tony-nominated director, envisioned the show as a “tapestry of storytelling” tracing the bonds that developed in Gander. “The actions of that week kind of blow your mind,” he says. “These folks stopped their lives to house and feed and entertain and emotionally care for thousands of traumatized people coming off planes. This was not casual generosity; this was profound kindness.”
Come From Away arrives on Broadway in a postelection period of national soul-searching. “We’re living in a time of so much anger,” notes Ashley, “and it feels right to tell a story about community and caring.” In four record-breaking pre-Broadway mountings of the show, the reaction of theatregoers never varied. “From the first performance in La Jolla [California], it was clear that the audience had a strong emotional connection to the material,” Ashley says. “They were scrolling through their own memories and feelings while watching our story of the events in Newfoundland.”
“We’ve seen the show a million times, and it’s still this incredible theatrical magic trick,” Hein says of the dynamic staging and performances. “People ask us why we are telling a 9/11 story now, and we tell them that it’s really a 9/12 story, about how this town responded to a larger event. Audiences are eager for stories about people being nice to each other. The show resonates with every age group; people who have seen it want to share it with their parents or their children.”
Of course, no audience mattered more to the cast and creative team of Come From Away than the people of Gander, who were treated to two emotion-packed benefit performances in late October. Five thousand spectators packed the local hockey rink and gave the show a raucous standing ovation, laughing at jokes about Screech (a strong local rum) and the tradition of kissing a cod in order to become an honorary Newfoundlander. “The waves of appreciation and joy we felt from those audiences was unlike anything I’ve experienced,” says Ashley, a 20-year theater veteran.
Looking back at the response of Ganderites, Sankoff says, “the people there insist that anyone would have done what they did. But that’s what’s extraordinary about it: the fact that they think it’s ordinary.” Their experience in Gander continues to inspire the Come From Away creators, all the way down to Hein and Sankoff’s 3-year-old daughter, Molly, who refers to the cast as “my people.” Says Hein, “It’s a perfect story to share with our daughter on the importance of being compassionate.”
Agrees Ashley, “Everyone involved with this show poured their heart and soul into it. It really matters to us to honor the experiences of the real people who inspired it, and to tell a story that brings hope into the world.”

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Steven Adler is starring on VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
The Season Premiere of Season 2 is tonight (10/23) at 10PM ET on VH1.
In the video below, Steven talks about his friendship with guitarist Slash and his distaste for drummer Matt Sorum.
Many people have complained that this show is just another way to exploit these unfortunate addicts while fueling them with enough money to score some more drugs as soon as the cameras are turned off.
This may be true, but I believe Dr. Drew is sincere in his wish to help these struggling drug abusers.
Drew and his staff manage to keep this show from becoming another Rock of Love freak show, and elevate it to a higher level - a program which may just inspire and help many of it's viewers (I'm one) if not the patients themselves.
We all saw Adler's courtroom drama unfold after his very public relapse following his "graduation" from Pinsky's rehab, so we know how this one ends, for now.
Good Luck Steven.
Honestly, half of me really cares about you and wants to see you clean up, and the other half is just looking forward to some mind-numbing TV tonight.
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Due to low inflation, the basic tax cap for local fiscal years beginning Jan. 1, 2016, will be 0.73 percent, lowest since the cap's 2011 enactment. [Read_more]
Councilor Khalid Bey's hiring preference proposal reflects an understandable desperation to jump-start employment growth in a city with 33.2 percent poverty rate.
It's also a really bad idea. [Read_more]
Even some notable liberal economists who generally favor a higher federal minimum wage are not in favor of going up as far as $15, as the Manhattan Institute's Alex Armlovich pointed out in this Daily News op-ed over the weekend.
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It is said that La Llorona weeps for her children, whom she drowned as revenge against her husband. She walks an ethereal plane, searching for their lost souls so that they may enter the afterlife. That tale is a fabrication, one that was heteronormatized and used to dissuade women from abandoning their supposed commitment to a “womanly,” maternal lifestyle. This is the real legend of La Llorona.
During life, he was Alejandro…most of the time. You see, Alejandro was a gay man living in la Colonia Tabacalera, widely known throughout the land as a haven for queer people. Despite this, it still wasn’t entirely safe to be queer, and Alejandro felt that he shouldn’t express his more feminine side in public… as Alejandro. He created a drag persona instead.
At first, she was just María. Her appearance mirrored those glamorous wives Alejandro had seen walking around the streets, but one day, she accidentally smudged her mascara as she was getting ready for a gig. She liked how the smudged line ran down her face from her eye, but people in the underground scene snidely remarked that it looked like María was crying black tears. Instead of heeding their snarky words, Alejandro embraced the tears as representing La Llorona’s sorrow for all the queer people she had seen humiliated and arrested – or worse. María was reborn as La Llorona – “the weeping woman.” With her symbolic black tears, long flowing gowns, and unparalleled status as a chismosa, La Llorona quickly become an icon for the local queer community. She even added a marigold to her hair to further honor all of the queer people who had passed to the Land of the Dead. Everyone loved La Llorona.
One day, Alejandro went to a grand ball in la colonia. There was to be dancing, drinking, and of course, a drag performance featuring La Llorona. Much to everyone’s surprise, forty-two people showed up to the gala, the most the underground scene had ever witnessed. Many of them were even dressed in drag, inspired by La Llorona. Even the mayor’s son was there. There were drinks aplenty, and Alejandro had heard some especially gag-worthy chisme that morning. This would be a night to remember.
And remember it they did. Hours into the party, the house was raided by the police. Only one of the forty-two escaped arrest. The forty-one were all made to clean the streets in front of the gathered onlookers with their feminine attire serving as rags, and Alejandro was exiled to the ongoing war in the Yucatán.
Alejandro died in that jungle, and what’s worse – his spirit was bound to this Earth. This confused Alejandro, as he had assumed he would accompany the sun on its journey across the sky in his role as a fallen warrior, albeit a forced one. His spirit even took on the mournful appearance of La Llorona. Alejandro was constantly stalked by a shimmering bat with emerald eyes, who did nothing but whisper in a deep growl, “Remember the forty-one…”
Alejandro hated that bat. Surely it was sent to torture him and mock the way he had lived as a gay man. Maybe he was unworthy of the sun, but what other explanation could there be, that not even the arduous trials of the underworld were suitable for his soul? He was being punished for being gay, and for dressing as a woman, by remaining in the jungle and being mocked for eternity with the memory of that disastrous gala.
For years, Alejandro sat on the steps of the old temples among the vines, imploring Mictlantecutli, the king of the underworld, to grant him entrance to somewhere, anywhere but the world that had mocked and destroyed him. Alejandro never got a response, just that accursed bat, screeching its cruel message through the trees.
One day, as he was sitting on the temple steps, a teenage boy appeared from the vines. The boy looked like hell, and was wiping tears from his eyes. This was the first time Alejandro had seen a living person since his death, and to his shock and surprise, the boy approached him. Alejandro wasn’t even aware that he was visible – he had assumed spirits were imperceptible.
“Why do you shed these tears?” Alejandro asked, somewhat gruffly. The boy managed to choke out words through the tears.
“My family found out that I’m gay. My father beat me and kicked me out and told me to never come back. I have nothing left, so I’ve come to throw myself at the mercy of the gods. I don’t know what else to do, but when I recognized you here, Llorona, I found it a sign of fate. I can’t go back there, my father’s the mayor…”
“Remember the forty-one…” whispered the bat in Alejandro’s ear.
My father’s the mayor. This was the forty-second person, the boy that had escaped arrest at the gala. Alejandro’s heart broke. He saw so much of himself in this boy, and suddenly it all made sense. The spirit of La Llorona was not bound here as divine punishment, but because she could make an impact. Alejandro could use the memory of the gala as motivation to empower other young queer people like himself, so that they wouldn’t have to suffer like he did.
“I can help you,” Alejandro interrupted the boy. Alejandro told the story of La Llorona, the symbolism of her tears and marigold, and what had happened to her. “You seem old enough to live on your own, perhaps you should move to the colonia where I once lived. It’s not perfect, but it’s much more accepting of people like us than your father is. And fuck what he thinks! If they can’t accept you, you can find your own chosen family in la colonia, and they’ll never judge you for being who you are. I’ll guide you there myself.”
So the boy emerged from the jungle and went to live in la Colonia Tabacalera, accompanied the whole way by his newfound spirit guide. Once there, La Llorona continued to travel around and give guidance to queer people, who spread word of her kindness within the community.
La Llorona still visits queer people in their times of struggle to offer a voice of support and compassion. She dries their tears, and it’s said that people are still comforted by her own ubiquitous weeping appearance. She tells everyone she visits of her mascara and marigold, just as she did that day so long ago on the temple steps. She may even share the latest chisme from la colonia, which remains a refuge for those she helps. Even her bat accompanies her on some visits, still whispering its message: “Remember…”
So remember the legend of La Llorona – the real one. The one discarded by those who would erase us from their history. The one defined not by misogyny, but love. The one where the tears of La Llorona represent not eternal punishment for breaking the norm, but an honoring of the queer people that dared to embrace themselves. Remember the original La Llorona, and remember our past. If we don’t, who will?
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text: The ocular findings and visual prognosis were reviewed in 24 patients with the Treacher-Collins syndrome who were evaluated in the craniofacial clinic in the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia between 1980 and 1991. All patients had some abnormality. Vision loss was present in 37% of patients. Amblyopia was present in 33%, significant refractive errors were present in 58%, and anisometropia was documented in 17%. Strabismus was present in 37% and significant lid and adnexal abnormalities were seen in 96%. The prognosis for normal vision in at least one eye is good but vision loss secondary to amblyopia is more resistant to treatment owing to other medical problems and social concerns.

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Have you wondered how people keep their lawns green and thick throughout the year? I have the answer for you. Here are the best fertilizers for Bermuda grass.
Bermuda grass is one of the most attractive turf varieties, but only if you take good care of it.
After regular watering, adequate fertilizer is the next most important thing in Bermuda grass care.
Proper fertilization is necessary if you want lush, green, and thick Bermuda grass on your lawn.
But do not feed the Bermuda grass with just any fertilizer. We have prepared this buying guide to help you choose the right fertilizer from the list of best fertilizers for Bermuda grass.
The first step is to test the lawn soil and know the nutrient content or deficiencies. This will help you choose the appropriate fertilizer for Bermuda grass on your lawn.
Bermuda grass thrives in soil pH between 6-6.5.
Spring is the most important season for fertilizing grass varieties like Bermuda, but more details will be shared later in this guide.
For now, remember that not all fertilizers are the same; therefore, it is important to learn what is best for Bermuda grass.
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Best Fertilizers for Bermuda Grass
The best fertilizers for Bermuda grass are complete fertilizers using NPK ratios of 3-1-2 or 15-5-10 once there is little chance of frost. Do not use fertilizers containing Nitrogen (N) between January-April because of the frost risk. An exception is locations close to the sea when no frost is forecasted.
The best fertilizers for Bermuda Grass are:
Best Overall Bermuda Grass Fertilizer – Liquid Lawn Food by Simple Lawn Solutions
Best Granular Bermuda Grass Fertilizer – Water Soluble Lawn Food by Miracle-Gro
Best Organic Bermuda Grass Fertilizer – Lawn Restore Fertilizer by Safer Brand
Best Bermuda Grass Fertilizers
This liquid fertilizer is a complete lawn food for any grass and is developed with 25 years of experience in the turf industry.
It has high nitrogen content, and the overall NPK ratio is 16-4-8. This advanced formula perfectly blends macronutrients, fish, and seaweed.
This fertilizer classifies as a quick-release nitrogen fertilizer. The nitrogen will enhance the green color; phosphorus will strengthen the root system, whereas the potassium will boost the hardiness of the turf.
This liquid food can be used for Bermuda grass lawns in both spring and summer. The 32-ounce container can treat up to 3200 sq ft of grass.
This fertilizer acts as plant food for your Bermuda grass, repairs the lawn, and treats nutrient deficiencies.
You will notice a change in the color and growth of the Bermuda grass as the drought and disease resistance improves.
It has a sprayer attached to the container for instant and easy application. It supports both below and above-ground growth of Bermuda grass as it promotes vigorous root growth.
But to ensure the fertilizer is absorbed properly, water your lawn adequately. Avoid applying it to dry lawn unless you are expecting rain.
I prefer liquid fertilizer for Bermuda grass on my lawn because it travels better through the soil and sticks to grass, benefiting both foliar and soil application.
This fertilizer started showing results on my lawn within one week, so it is a fast-acting formula for grass growth.
If you have bare spots on your lawn, this liquid fertilizer will soon fill these spots with beautiful green Bermuda grass.
For application, attach the hose sprayer to the pump and spray the concentrated solution directly on the grass.
Monthly application in spring and summer will strengthen the grass to withstand heat and lack of water on hot summer days.
- It contains high-quality liquid nutrients for nourishment
- It can also be used for other types of grass
- Promotes root growth
- Contains feed grade liquid ingredients and organic kelp
- Suitable for commercial application
- Comes with a hose sprayer
- Has no harmful chemicals that might burn the lawn grass
- Some buyers have complained about the dispenser
- Overfertilization can burn the Bermuda grass
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Miracle-Gro produces among the best fertilizers for plants and vegetables, but did you know that they have designed fertilizers for grass and lawns as well?
This granular fertilizer is a fast way to have a thick green lawn because of its high nitrogen content and water solubility.
With NPK of 30-0-6, it is designed for all types of lawn grass, including Bermuda grass.
You can choose the fertilization technique because this lawn food can be applied via the soil or foliage.
The granules take 2 weeks or less to dissolve in the soil and start acting.
If you have a small area to cover, I highly recommend foliar application since it’s environment-friendly.
But diluting and applying the fertilizer to soil also gives the same results if the fertilizer is distributed evenly.
What differentiates this lawn food is the high nitrogen content that ensures deep green Bermuda grass.
With regular application, you will soon have a soft and lush green carpet of Bermuda grass.
Although it is a fast-acting fertilizer for Bermuda grass, you can also use it for other types of turfgrasses. If you use it in a hot climate, water the grass well after application.
Since it’s a gentle fertilizer, you can apply it before or after planting grass seeds.
The 5 Lb. package can easily feed 7200 sq ft. The application should be repeated every 4 to 6 weeks for fast results.
I would suggest applying it with the Miracle-Gro Garden Feeder, but you can also use a simple watering can.
- Can be used at any time in the growing season and at any stage of growth
- Contains chelated iron
- Will not burn the grass or lawn if used as directed
- Gives instant results within 2 weeks or less
- Not effective on dead grass
- Does not come with the sprayer
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Organic fertilizers are designed to treat and repair both the plants or, in this case, grass and soil for long-term benefits. They fuel the microbial activity in the soil.
You can take care of the microorganisms living in the soil with this fertilizer, and these organisms will eventually do everything required for lush green Bermuda grass.
This fertilizer is designed to revitalize your Bermuda grass lawn within 3-5 days, right!
It repairs your thin, boring lawn turf by strengthening the root system and new seeding. It is suitable for all types of cool and warm-season grasses.
It’s worth mentioning that this is an organic product with real plant ingredients and no manure odor.
The organic content in this lawn fertilizer improves the microbial activity in the lawn soil.
The manufacturer updated the formula, and the new version has organic ingredients like Soybean Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Blood Meal, Feather Meal, Molasses, etc.
It prepares your lawn to fight stress conditions such as heat, cold, and drought. A single 25 lb. package will feed 6250 sq ft of lawn area. This fertilizer can easily provide year-round coverage for your lawn in all four seasons.
The mild NPK ratio of 9-0-2 ensures that it never burns your Bermuda grass, but at the same time, it can help the grass grow thick and green. It is safe to use in the winter during long growth cycles of grass.
The organic formula will break down the soil structure for better fertilizer penetration, and the nutrients are released over time.
The Bermuda grass will have deeper roots that, in return, help in better water and nutrient absorption.
The manufacturer offers a 30-day warranty and a 1-year return policy for this product.
- Enhances the soil vitality
- Has no phosphate
- Easy and long-lasting application
- Organic with no unpleasant odor
- Will not burn the lawn (if used as directed)
- Suitable for newly planted grass
- Safe to use for grass, pets, and children
- Has no harmful chemicals that might shock the grass
- Eliminates the risk of harmful runoff, so it is environment-friendly
- Not OMRI listed
This plant-based formula can be used for lawns and gardens in any region. You should repeat the application every eight weeks for strong roots, green grass, and turf growth.
The NPK ratio of 10-0-2 and other plant-based nutrients like dried grains and soya beans will never burn the Bermuda grass if used properly.
This product has zero phosphates to comply with environmental regulations. It is safe to use around pets and kids, so your lawn is safe to play immediately after application. The 20 lb. package will feed 5000 sq ft of Bermuda grass lawn.
Before applying this fertilizer, ensure heavy rainfall is not expected and the temperature is above 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7.2 degrees Celsius).
The application is easy, spread the fertilizer evenly throughout your lawn and water it to activate the fertilizer. I have noticed that with consistent feeding, the Bermuda grass will grow healthy and require less watering.
- Has no harmful chemicals or biosolids
- Does not smell like manure
- A granular formula that can be easily applied by sprinkling it directly on the Bermuda grass
- Can be used for new grass or overseeding
- Not organic
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You can treat 5000 sq ft of Bermuda grass for just US $ 35.56. This fertilizer is a two-in-one option: it feeds the grass and controls weeds.
The new formula for this fertilizer is more effective against dandelion and clover control. It will suppress all the weeds you see and even the ones hidden under the grass.
I would highly recommend this fertilizer for Bermuda grass if you have weed issues on your lawn.
It prepares the Bermuda grass for the next season by strengthening the roots. It will also enhance the nutrient and water absorption ability of the grass.
The NPK ratio for this fertilizer is 28-0-6. It is important to apply this fertilizer to wet Bermuda grass so that weed killers can adhere to the weeds.
If you want to aerate or overseed your lawn after fertilizing, wait for at least one month after application.
- The weed grip technology makes it two times more powerful against weeds.
- Can kill more than 50 types of broadleaf weeds
- You will need additional treatment for certain types of weeds
- Some gardeners have complained that it burned the grass
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This fertilizer is a proven choice for lawn and grass for over 90 years. It is essentially a slow-release organic lawn fertilizer that is rich in iron and heat-dried microbes.
This non-leaching and salt-free product has long-lasting effects, but for Bermuda grass, it helps give the beautiful green color. The 36 lb package will cover a 2500 sq ft area.
The NPK ratio for this nitrogen-rich fertilizer is 6-4-0. In my opinion, this is a perfect granular fertilizer for slow–release feeding of lawns and gardens.
The 4% iron is the secret ingredient of this organic formula as it promotes the deep green color of Bermuda grass.
I would not recommend using it in the early stages of growth or on young grass because it lacks nutrients for root development, so you might end up with a weak root system.
This fertilizer has a strong odor, but according to the manufacturer, it will faint after watering. But the smell has an added benefit; it acts as a repellent and protects your lawn from deer, rabbits, and bugs.
Ideally, you should fertilize your lawn 4 times during the year. If you plan to fertilize your lawn only once, then fall is the best time.
This non-burning fertilizer has been used for decades, and it is designed to avoid stressing the plants.
Last year I applied this organic fertilizer to dying grass in my lawn, and soon it started greening.
I love using this fertilizer in my lawn because it will never burn Bermuda grass or any other type of grass even after overfeeding. But as a safe practice, always avoid over-fertilizing.
- Organic formula safe for use around pets and children
- Comes with protective gloves
- Acts as repellent
- Promotes the healthy growth of other flowers, shrubs, and trees in your garden or lawn
- The slow-release formula reduces mowing and water consumption in the lawn
- Can be used as winterizer
- A single application will last for up to 10 weeks
- Can be applied to a dormant Bermuda grass lawn
- Only for well-established Bermuda grass
- Cannot be used in areas with droughts
- Has an intense smell
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Slow-release fertilizers are a good choice for lawn grass such as Bermuda grass because they will continue feeding throughout the season.
Generally, liquid fertilizers offer quick results, but granular slow-release fertilizers ensure long-lasting results.
Make sure you sweep the excess granules from the driveway or porch.
How to fertilize Bermuda Grass
According to Texas A&M University you can start fertilizing Bermuda grass once it is green.
Avoid fertilizing when there is still frost, especially fertilizing with Nitrogen (N) heavy fertilizers is not a good idea.
It is advised to test your soil before starting to fertilize your lawn.
Only then will you know the NPK value of your current soil.
This will help you to determine what needs to be added in addition and what levels of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) are already present.
It is advised to add 1 pound of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet every 4-6 weeks and then 1 1/2 pounds of slow-release nitrogen fertilizer every 8-10 weeks.
To calculate the amount needed for your lawn, which equals 1 pound per 1,000 square feet, you can use a simple formula.
First divide the first number in the NPK ratio through 100.
If you use an 18-6-12 fertilizer, divide the first number 18 by 100.
100 / 18 = 5,6
Once you know this, you need to know your lawn’s square feet.
Let’s assume it is 3,000 square feet.
In this case, you would calculate (5,000 / 3,000) x 5,6 = 9.33 pounds of fertilizer are needed for a 3,000 square feet lawn of Bermuda grass.
Credits for the formula go to A&M University.
Why Should You Fertilize Bermuda Grass?
The thickness of the Turf
I like growing Bermuda grass because it grows quickly and covers my lawn with thick turf. But unfed Bermuda grass will not achieve the desired turf thickness.
A good Bermuda grass fertilizer has both nitrogen and phosphorus. Nitrogen helps the grass develop green leaf blades that increase the turf thickness, and phosphorus is needed for strong roots.
The thick turf is beautiful to look at chokes the weeds in your lawn and helps the grass tolerate foot traffic.
With the right fertilizer, you will have beautiful, deep green Bermuda grass. Lack of nutrients or poor feeding will result in a brown lawn with damaged Bermuda grass.
A good quality fertilizer will feed the Bermuda grass and benefit the soil. Organic fertilizers enhance biological activity in the soil as the microorganisms feed on the fertilizer. Fertilizers improve the overall health of your lawn.
Recovering from Disease or Damage
If the Bermuda grass in your lawn has become thin due to disease, damage, or stress, a good fertilizer treatment can help it recover.
Empty spots are filled faster in well-fed lawns.
Easy Lawn Care
The right nutrients will strengthen the Bermuda grass, and you will spend less time caring for your lawn grass. Fertilization improves the absorption ability of the grass, so less water is required, and the grass better absorbs the rainwater.
Nutrients Required for Bermuda Grass
Nitrogen is the most beneficial nutrient for Bermuda grass as it helps the grass develop a green color.
But I recommend amending your garden soil with amendments to enrich the soil and help the fertilizer work better.
Read the NPK ratio to ensure it has essential nutrients for root development since a healthy root system leads to healthy Bermuda grass.
You should start fertilizing Bermuda grass in early spring and continue throughout summer. A general rule for fertilization of Bermuda grass is to add fertilizer only when it’s actively growing.
Why Should You Avoid Feeding Dormant Bermuda Grass?
Fertilizing a dormant Bermuda grass lawn with a quick-release fertilizer will feed the weeds, and they will eventually take over the grass. The most prominent one is crabgrass which spreads very fast and can easily damage Bermuda grass.
Therefore it is best to fertilize Bermuda grass with slow-release granular fertilizers.
Applying fertilizers at the wrong time or too early can burn the Bermuda grass. You will end up wasting most of the fertilizer because, in dormancy, the grass cannot absorb the nutrients.
Fertilizing in winter will break the dormancy and force the Bermuda grass to grow. But it will soon be damaged by the freezing temperatures, and you will end up with no grass in the coming spring.
Fertilization Schedule for Bermuda Grass
Caring for Bermuda grass begins once the seeds are sown. In most cases, you do not need fertilizer for seeds, but if your soil lacks the necessary nutrients, you can opt for starter fertilizer.
This will ensure faster and stronger root and leaf development. Make sure you choose a starter fertilizer that is high in nitrogen but also has a good amount of phosphorus.
If your soil is rich, you can continue the regular feeding schedule that starts in spring when the weather starts getting warm.
Mid-spring: Only begin fertilization when the soil temperature is 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15.5 degrees Celsius) or higher. Another hint to start fertilizing is when the Bermuda grass turns green (at least 50%) after the frost.
Mid-summer: After the first application in spring, reapply fertilizer after 2 or 3 months in summer (late June or early July).
Early fall: Reapply fertilizer in August or September. You can use a complete fertilizer or shift to a high potassium fertilizer that has little or no phosphorus in it.
You can also apply a winter fertilizer to help the Bermuda grass grow beautifully in the coming spring season. Avoid feeding drought-stressed grass.
Lawn winterizes are fertilizers used in late fall to help the Bermuda grass store more nutrients to survive the winter. They also encourage thick and green grass after the dormancy is over.
Winterizer should be applied in fall when the grass stops growing, but it’s still green and active in the root zone. Most researchers suggest that the best lawn winterize is rich in nitrogen.
Every 1000 sq ft of Bermuda grass requires 4 or 5 lbs of fertilizer. You can use this number to adjust the quantity of fertilizer for your lawn size.
For concentration or dilutions, follow the instructions on the labels but remember over-fertilizing with a high dose at once does more damage than fertilizing too often.
As a precautionary measure, reduce the application rate to avoid leaching or fertilizer burns.
Overfertilization should be avoided at any cost because it can burn the roots, and the grass will turn brown and dry.
Conclusion Regarding Best Fertilizers for Bermuda Grass
Just like other houseplants, grass also needs some attention and care from you.
The right fertilizer is the secret behind the thick green lawn.
Say no to patchy yellow Bermuda grass by buying the right fertilizer from the list of fertilizers in this guide.
You can choose the best fertilizer for Bermuda grass depending on your budget and convenience to help your lawn stand out.
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Norway hunter admits to shooting elk in zoo
The hunter in Norway who shot two elk in a zoo a fortnight ago has admitted to police that he killed the animals, but claims he was unaware he was shooting through a fence.
In a formal police interview on Monday, the man admitted to shooting an elk inside an enclosure, a crime which carries a maximum penalty of one year’s imprisonment.
“The hunter acknowledges that he is guilty of violating of the Wildlife Act in that he shot an elk standing inside the enclosure,” Katrine Grimnes, police superintendent with the police in Målselv, told NRK.
“He also acknowledges that he may have caused the bullet wounds suffered by the calf, which later had to be euthanized. But he said that he had not at any time seen the calf.”
Grimnes said that the forensic veterinary report backed up this claim, with the bullet appearing to have passed through the body of the bull elk and then on into the calf.
She said that a police visit to the site of the accident backed up the hunter’s claim that the fence was not easy to see.
“We’ve even been on site and we also see that it can be hard to spot the fence, which is partially hidden by vegetation,” Grimnes said.
Heinz Strathmann, the chief executive of Polar Park, told The Local that while he accepted the shooting had been an accident, he struggled to see the hunter as completely blameless.
"What I know is that the fence is a metal fence and it’s four metres high. If you couldn’t see it, there must have been a lot of trees, and if there are a lot of trees you shouldn’t shoot," he said. "I’m a hunter myself and I don’t shoot if there are a lot of trees."
He said that the adult elk, which was born in the park, had been one and a half years old, while the calf was born in the spring.
"We were at first very surprised, and we are sad about it, of course," he said. "The animals we have, we know them closely and we have a relationship with them. If you lose two of your close animals you are more than sad."
But he said the zoo was not concerned about whether the hunter was punished.
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While U.S. bailout funds will help pay $18 billion in holiday bonuses for Wall Street executives, the U.S. has broken its promise to fund a global health program that saves millions of lives.
That was the scathing assessment of Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special adviser to the U.N. Secretary General, speaking on a conference call this morning.
The economic crisis has resulted in a $5 billion funding gap for the Global Fund because countries, led by the U.S., are falling short on their pledges, Sachs and others said.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria is the main source of finance for programs to prevent and treat the three diseases. The fund gathers money from donor countries and provides a quarter of all international financing for AIDS, two-thirds for tuberculosis and three quarters for malaria.
"I would suggest the U.S. reclaim those bonuses, which are absolutely unjustified and completely unconscionable, and put the money in the Global Fund immediately," Sachs said.
The $5 billion shortfall is less than one-half of one percent of what G8 countries have approved to bail out failing banks in the last three months, he added. The Merrill Lynch bonuses alone would be enough to close the gap in U.S. contributions, Sachs said.
The Fund projects it will need $8 billion to continue its work in 2009 and 2010, yet current pledges total only $3 billion. The U.S. and other donor countries pledged to support all valid Global Fund programs by committing about 0.7 of 1% of GNP in aid.
Despite a 2002 pledge made by the Bush Administration to honor that commitment, "the United States is not only not on track; it's fallen back to become the donor with the smallest donation as a share of income of all the rich countries," said Sachs. "We're at 0.16 of 1% of our income for development assistance. It's the lowest level of all 22 donor countries."
As a result, the Fund is delaying programs and cutting costs, and using this week's World Economic Forum to call attention to the issue.
The world shouldn't squander progress on major diseases for short term gains, said Peter Chernin, president of News Corp. and chairman of Malaria No More.
Goals include guaranteeing global access to antiretroviral drugs for HIV by 2010 and reducing malaria deaths to near zero by 2012.
Malaria control is an example of a good return on investment, Chernin said.
Programs are showing real results such as a 66 percent drop in malaria-related deaths in Rwanda in one year following increased use of bednets to prevent bites and treatment with effective medicine.
"In today's uncertain marketplace," Chernin said, the Global Fund "delivers proven results in both economic and humanitarian terms." Malaria alone costs Africa $12 billion a year in lost productivity, he noted.
Chernin said he's working to boost donations to the fund from the private sector.
Chevron was the first private company to step up, with a $30 million donation, said Rajat Gupta, a McKinsey senior partner who chairs the Global Fund. The (Product) Red project has raised about $150 million.
Tomorrow, Chernin will join with Exxon Mobil and Standard Charter Bank to launch a campaign to raise $100 million from private companies, primarily for malaria programs funded through the Global Fund. The campaign will also ask companies to provide technical and business assistance, such as logistics for bed net delivery and marketing efforts to increase the use of bed nets.
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The following passage was incorrectly attributed to Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS, due to an error in the call transcript. The comment was made by Jeffrey Sachs.
"Despite a 2002 pledge made by the Bush Administration to honor that commitment, the United States is not only not on track; it's fallen back to become the donor with the smallest donation as a share of income of all the rich countries. We're at 0.16 of 1% of our income for development assistance. It's the lowest level of all 22 donor countries."


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Aragon Properties Ltd. is establishing a new mid-rise development complex in Port Moody, British Columbia, featuring prime residential and retail space. Keller’s ability to provide custom solutions won the contract for earth retention and excavation support.
This was Keller’s first cutter soil mixing (CSM) project in Canada. The main challenge was installing the panels in tight corners, close to an adjacent building, and ensuring verticality to avoid intrusion into the planned excavation pit.
We performed earth retention and excavation support on the 38m tall by 79m wide property.
The CSM shoring wall was designed as a temporary earth retention structure anchored to support the maximum excavation depth of almost 11m and embedded in a silt layer to restrict seepage of groundwater into the excavation pit. Construction included the supply and installation of almost ninety 650mm thick CSM panels to a depth of up to nearly 16m. We then completed the installation of 124 H-piles within the CSM panels.
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MacBook Pro GPU Issues Reported to Be Caused by 3rd-Party Software
Recently, after spending a small fortune on the 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pro, users experienced terrible screen distortion on their notebooks. The claims put forward was that the GPU was going haywire, but it looks like there is another issue involved that has been brought to light.
Sources Close to the Matter State That Sloppy Code in 3rd-Party Software Is to Blame for the GPU Issues
While initial reports were unable to isolate the problem and stated that the problems users were experiencing were thanks to the hardware present inside the MacBook Pro models, other sources have informed AppleInsider that thanks to the use of sloppy code in 3rd-party applications ranging from Adobe Premiere Pro, these incidents have started to take place. While that could be one of the reasons, a small number of users have also reported that when they were using Apple’s own Photos app, the same exact same problem persisted.
A MacRumors forum member Jan Becker decided to purchase a new 15-inch MacBook Pro configured with an optional AMD Radeon Pro 460 GPU. He witnessed that the system ultimately crashed while transcoding video in Adobe Premiere Pro. Becker consequently took the machine into an Apple store for replacement. The incident did not go unnoticed by Apple because the forum member was contacted by the company's headquarters and a team of engineers asked him to help replicate the glitch over the phone. They also requested the notebook for access so that they could further investigate the matter.
Users who have purchased the most spec’d out version of the new MacBook Pro, which features a Radeon Pro 460 have been affected with these issues. These machines are top-notch when it comes to video editing, but they are also susceptible to the GPU glitches when running different intensive programs. Identical reports of graphical issues have also been reported with products running AMD’s Radeon Pro 450 and AMD Radeon Pro 455.
Users who own a 13-inch MacBook Pro have also experienced this problem and unlike the 15-inch notebook variants, the 13-inch only ships out with Intel’s iGPU, which suggests that the problem might not be associated with hardware, but with software. We will naturally wait for more updates to follow, but if the same issue is happening across all machines with different graphic chips, then it is possible that a software bug is afflicting the new MacBook Pro models.
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Since there is a 50% off Beatport coupon ending today I decided to write a quick column about how I sift through all the music that’s out there. The problem on Beatport is too much music to sort through – read on for tips
(1) You can shop wherever you want but I shop at Beatport because it’s all there, more than I could even deal with, but I will provide some help below
(2) The most important thing for me has been saving my favorite artists into My Beatport and really paying attention to that curation, remembering to add new artists to my favorites as they come up. I don’t do too much with the labels beyond a few super favorites because having labels in the mix typically creates too much variety and adds too much unwanted music to my stream.
(3) Having made the investment to carefully select artists for my stream keeps me from having to go through an impossible amount of content, but just barely. Don’t forget to delete artists and labels if they are releasing a lot and the content overall is almost always skippable.
(4) It’s still daunting keeping up with all of it, and that’s in large part because the same track is typically released across different labels and genres for wider exposure. The downside being, a big waste of time for the listener because you keep hearing the same tracks come up in your feed, tracks you’ve already listened to and made a decision on.
So the next tip I have is to do your listening at crates.co. Crates will import your Beatport cart, determine what’s already been released and eliminate that, giving you only truly new releases. It’s not 100% accurate but it works wonders.
Note – this is not recommended for someone starting out, or checking back in after a long break, because you will miss content you might need
But, if you can keep up with music on a regular basis, Crates is super helpful in making sure you only get the freshest content from your artists. I find it possible for me to keep up with my streamlined stream, if very focused, in about an hour a week.
(5) When you finish at Crates it will redirect you to Beatport to purchase. Don’t forget that 50% off coupon! SAVE50 still good through 11PST tonight
If you love this column give it some love. Comments always welcome. Archives on my web site: http://www.benannandmusic.com/moderndjmusings/


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Ghost Tour Meeting Location: Outside of the El Capitan Theatre at 6838 Hollywood Blvd
Tour Duration: 1hr. across 1 mile
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Ghost tours are held nightly, rain or shine!
Despite Los Angeles’ reputation for sunny beaches and warm weather, don’t be surprised if you feel a chill taking our tour down and around the city’s famed Hollywood Boulevard. Since the 1920s, the Boulevard has been at the center of the film industry, the home to the Oscars and several world-renowned, and haunted theaters.
Take a walk with down Hollywood Boulevard and the surrounding streets to see historical locations like the TCL Chinese Theatre, the Hollywood Roosevelt, and The Magic Castle. Learn about several unexplained and downright creepy encounters that have taken place here over these last one hundred years.
Find out where Marilyn Monroe still makes an appearance or two, or how a grisly murder led to the haunting of the world’s most famous theater courtyard. Not everyone who comes to Los Angeles dreaming of fame and riches makes it, and that disappointment has led to many compelling ghost stories that will thrill and frighten you.
Your trip through Hollywood history will help you understand the true cost of fame and fortune, while also making the hair stand up on the back of your neck. And who knows, maybe you’ll see someone famous, even if they are no longer with us.
As the second-largest city in the United States, plenty of people have made their way through to the City of Angels and failed to see their dreams come true. In a town that glorifies make-believe, separating reality from the glitzy façade can be extremely difficult. Our tour offers you an uncompromising look at what makes Los Angeles such a haunted location.
Loss and disappointment are common themes in these stories; it’s easy to understand how Los Angeles has become such a hotbed for paranormal activity. Even as big corporate investors are revitalizing the area, remnants of a seedy past, full of failures peek through the cracks, whether through a grand bank building, or an abandoned studio theater, one of the largest ever built in the United States.
Sure, you can read about the ghosts of Hollywood, but experiencing the tragedy and failure that underlies the city of angel’s smiling exterior, in person, and at night will make you feel like you are a part of the city’s strange and ghostly history.
Reserve your tour today and experience the side of Los Angeles that Hollywood does not want you to know about!
The movies are where the magic is made, and the magicians who create the movies all admire real-life magicians. The LA Ghosts tour passes by one of the most revered places for many magicians to visit. It’s a strictly members-only institution where an invitation is as hard to find as a rabbit in a hat.
Originally the exotic-looking château style home of industrialist Rollin B. Lane, the 1909 structure is now The Magic Castle. An exclusive club for magicians and illusionists to show their routines to the most discerning crowd in the world – other magicians.
With so much magic around, it’s a shame they have been unable to protect themselves from being haunted. A ghostly presence backstage has verbally intimidated several performers, causing one heading on to the stage in the late 80s to tear apart the green room looking for the source of the cruel taunts he heard before his show.
The ghost of Rollin B. Lane also still roams the halls, he might know something about another mysterious presence in the basement. The basement is also home to the specter of a young girl. The Magic Castle will share more of its tricks with you on the LA Ghosts Tour.
LA Ghosts Tour takes you through 8 or 12 different sites around the Hollywood Boulevard area, each one ratcheting up the tension. Meet your experienced tour guide outside of the El Capitan Theatre, 6838 Hollywood Blvd, at least 15 minutes before your tour’s scheduled departure time. The standard tour takes about an hour and walks you through several landmark locations in the area. If you select the extended tour, you will get another 40 minutes of chilling stories and historical locations!
The LA Ghosts walking tour is a great way to see the amazing sites of Hollywood Boulevard while also getting your fill of the ghostly atmosphere of the city’s most haunted locations. This tour is perfect for first-time visitors to Los Angeles and seasoned locals alike!
Our Los Angeles Ghost Tour is a family-friendly attraction, and it is suitable for everyone, so bring your kids, friends, or a date! We’ll make sure that you have an informative, memorable, and slightly terrifying night. Keep in mind that tours fill up quickly, so reserve your spot early through our website.
Soak up some fascinating history on your tour as well as hearing about the deplorable side of the City of Angels. In a town where everyone’s got a story, sticking to the facts takes dedication and perseverance. Our tour is painstakingly researched and based on facts from the history books and recorded first person accounts of hauntings and ghostly sightings.
Los Angeles, like so much of southern California, was initially settled by Spanish Mexico, later absorbed into the United States after the Mexican War. The small city of Los Angeles struggled initially and focused on selling the sunshine of California as a health tonic to the pale, sickly workers of the East Coast (or so they were depicted). The movie industry came later, and really got going with the arrival of Cecil B. DeMille. Weak Unions and plentiful labor with cheap space for studios made it a small rival for the established studios in the North East US.
The 40s and 50s with the Hollywood Red Scare, and the Golden age of the studio system established Hollywood’s reputation and opened the floodgates of people seeking fame and fortune, but the ghosts were already here.
The Hollywood sign even has its own hauntings and spooky stories. In 1930 the sign was still in its original form, reading ‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ it promoted a new housing development. Aspiring actress Peg Entwistle tasted fame, following the time-honored tradition of an ‘and’ career Actress ‘and’ stage bit player, she also went to parties with Hollywood’s royalty hoping to be noticed. The strategy worked, she appeared in one film, Thirteen Women (1932), but then she hit a dead end. Drinking, drugs, and depression ensued, and after one heavy night of drinking, she scaled all 50 feet of the first ‘H’ and plunged to her death.
Since then several sightings by hikers and even motorists have kept the story of Peg Entwistle alive and her spirit haunting the H in Hollywood.
LA has the movies, but it’s still a city like any other, and even LA felt the effects of the Great Depression. The beautiful Hollywood First National building opened as a mixed-use building as high as was possible at the time, with ‘ultra-modern fixtures’ it was, for a while, a desirable location.
Then disaster struck, the Great Depression affected the owners. The building ran into trouble and became run down with the economic difficulties affecting many of the tenants, this led to one tense showdown where a tenant on the upper floors kidnapped his secretary and threatened her with a gun. The police attempted a daring raid, but it backfired and the gunman was tackled just after he had killed the secretary, and in the struggle he tried to shoot himself, maiming his face.
To this day a mutilated ghost patrols the building, which is perhaps why it remains empty and haunted.
Our tour is full of detailed insights into the lives, loves, and losses of the characters who helped build Hollywood and its storied legend.
Hollywood is a family-friendly area today, our tour of LA’s Ghosts continues in this vein. We welcome people of all ages on the tour and offer entertainment and history for everyone. Our stories are scary, but we aim just short of terrifying, leaving most of the gore and guts to the imagination.
Some of the stories we tell are of benevolent hauntings, some might even be downright cute! Ghosts come in as many guises are there are living spirits to create them.
For example, the ghost that hoovers up the popcorn littered rows of The Egyptian Theatre has never been seen, but rumor has it the creature snuffles a lot like a pig, and if you drop your glasses and come face to face with it, you’ll only hear it, and see the seats move as it scurries away, startled. But bear in mind this has been going on for years…
Everyone knows the one in a million Hollywood stories that end in fame and fortune, with a career on the silver screen being adored by millions. But Hollywood has a different side. A darker side. Some stories don’t have a happy ever after, these are the Hollywood that most people experience, and we proudly present their stories for your entertainment, shock and awe!
Let us tell you about the misdeeds, mishaps, and miscreants that haunt Tinsel Town today and are, in our opinion better stories than most of what you will see at the movies today.
Take for instance the intrepid reporter convinced that the infamous Hollywood Wax Museum® was not haunted despite all the tales and first-hand accounts to the contrary.
He decided to sleep inside the museum one night, with the agreement of the staff. The next morning the staff opened the doors, the journalist was in one piece, but pale and visibly shaken by what he saw. But what did he see?
Well, join the tour and we will tell you everything he saw that night. You won’t find it in any newspaper though, he said he could not explain what he saw, and would not write about it until he could explain it.
The ghost stories on LA Ghosts features the stars of every era of the silver screen. But you won’t see any celebrity houses on our tour. You’ll see the theatres that have seen the grandest openings, the glitziest premiers, and more collective Oscars than Katherine Hepburn (with a lifetime total of four, still the most ever!). What you will see is the struggle, the desire, and the passion that has made this town a mecca for the spirits that just can’t let go and haunt the places they remain attached to.
Hollywood has a special feel, we will reveal a new layer to the story for you, for your family, for your date, even for your next staycation. Everyone on an LA Ghosts tour will learn something new about the ghosts of LA.

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I have been eagerly awaiting this movie, and for the most part, I wasn’t disappointed. Nicolas Cage was his usual quirky self as Johnny Blaze, AKA Ghost Rider. The rest of the principal cast included Idris Elba (Heimdall in Thor), Ciran Hinds (Aberforth Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II), Johnny Whitworth, Violante Placido, and Fergus Riordan. While the acting was good, beyond Cage (who is always brilliant) there were really no standout performances.
My one real complaint about this movie is the way Ghost Rider’s appearance has been altered. This is not uncommon in movies. (They completely changed the Dementors in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix from how they looked in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and not for the better I might add.) Where in the first movie he had a white skull surrounded by flames, his skull is now black, and while I understand that they may have been going for a burned look, it came off more like a black hole on fire. I loved the spiked leather jacket from the first movie, in this one his jacket looks almost like it’s melting. Again I get where they were going, but it just doesn’t look as good as the first movie.
To be honest, for the first half of the movie, I wasn’t really happy with it. At the end of the first movie, Johnny tells Mephistopheles that he is going to own the curse and use it to fight him. As this movie starts, he’s hiding out in a dark room in Eastern Europe having become completely unable to control the Ghost Rider, even to the point where he is afraid he’ll consume the souls of generally good people who may have done some bad things in their past.
Johnny is enlisted by Moreau (Alba) to help him rescue the devil’s son and get him to some monks who will keep him safe before the devil can take over his body and become all powerful on earth. In exchange, Moreau tells him that he can have his curse removed.
They rescue the boy with lots of awesome fight scenes and go to the monks. Moreau helps lift the curse, but before he does, he explains the true origin of the Ghost Rider. The way they explain it seems to be simplified from the comic book history. In the comics, Zarathos was a Spirit of Vengeance who gained too much power and went insane (as I understand it). In the movie they say that Zarathos was an angel who was trick into becoming a demon. To me, that is essentially true, but simplified in a way that takes far less explanation. Maybe I missed something or don’t completely understand the original comic (I’ve never read Ghost Rider) story, but that’s what I walked away from.
Johnny is freed of Zarathos and then we learn the monks plan to kill the boy to prevent the devil from becoming human. Before they can, the monks are killed by Decay (whose is essentially Blackout, but I don’t think they ever say his name in the movie). Johnny (without any powers), Moreau, and the boy’s mother go off to rescue him.
The Devil’s son gives Johnny back his powers after Moreau is killed, and another great fight and car chase ensues. The boy is killed, but Johnny tries to bring out the angel who Zarathos was, and does. He brings the boy back to life, and the final scene has a now blue flamed and presumably Johnny controlled Ghost Rider riding along the highway.
I really liked it, but I hope there will be one more. I would very much like a movie where Johnny is in control and using his powers for good, which is what I was expecting out of this one. Since Cage has only ever done two sequels, this one and National Treasure: Book of Secrets, I don’t know how likely another one is, but I’m hoping.
One more note. Mephistopheles was played in the first movie by Peter Fonda. In this movie, he is going by the alias Roarke and being played by Ciran Hinds. My only problem with the name change is that they don’t make it obvious enough early in the movie. While I understand that the devil has aliases, it would have been nice if that were made clear early on, for example, someone could have called him Mephistopheles and he reminds them to call him by his alias. Simple enough, but they never did it.
Over all, I really did enjoy it, and hope there will be a third Ghost Rider movie.
Update: After a little research and talking to a couple of my friends, it seems that the Ghost Rider origin discussed in this movie is actually a combinaton of several different Ghost Rider origins from the comic books. Not hugely important, but accurate.
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Although you were disappointed, I’m glad that you still liked Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. I too have never read any of the comic books, but one of my co-workers at DISH, who is also a self-proclaimed comic nerd, recommended that I check out Ghost Rider’s origin to help me understand the films better. I found Ghost Rider’s origin on DISHonline.com by simply searching “Superhero origins.” There were a ton of video clips of several comic book characters’ origins, and they’re all helpful in understanding how sometimes movies sway from the original comic books. I’m looking forward to checking out Ghost Rider in 3D this weekend since I now have a better understanding of Johnny Blaze.


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Organic matter has been found on Mars in soil samples taken from 3 billion-year-old mudstone in the Gale crater by the Curiosity rover, NASA announced Thursday. The rover has also detected methane in the Martian atmosphere.
The search for life outside Earth focuses on the building blocks of life as we know it, which includes organic compounds and molecules -- although these can exist without life. Organic matter can be one of several things: a record detailing ancient life, a food source for life or something that exists in the place of life.
No matter its purpose, these work as "chemical clues" for researchers about Mars.
Methane is considered the simplest organic molecule. It's present in other places in our solar system that could host life, like Saturn and Jupiter's moons Enceladus, Europa and Titan. And if life does exist elsewhere, it may be very different or even form differently from how we understand life on Earth.
The new findings are also detailed in two studies published Thursday in the journal Science. Together, the researchers believe these findings to be "breakthroughs in astrobiology."
"We have greatly expanded our search for organic compounds, which is fundamental in the search for life," said Paul Mahaffy, study author and director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
The two studies build on and advance smaller detections of atmospheric methane and ancient organic compounds on Mars. Those detections either caused debate or lacked the context for understanding, the researchers said.
But Curiosity's data are providing a clearer and more conclusive picture of the conditions and processes on Mars -- and what it may have been like on the Red Planet billions of years ago, when conditions were more suitable for life.
"With these new findings, Mars is telling us to stay the course and keep searching for evidence of life," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. "I'm confident that our ongoing and planned missions will unlock even more breathtaking discoveries on the Red Planet."
Finding clues beneath the surface
We've been exploring the surface of Mars in hopes of understanding the Red Planet since NASA's Viking mission in the 1970s. The Viking Project was the first US mission to safely land spacecraft on the Martian surface, as well as send back images.
And although hopes were high that the two landers and their instruments would detect signs of life or organic compounds in samples taken from the surface, that didn't happen.
Decades later, Viking helped inspire the instruments on today's Martian rovers. And Curiosity dug a little deeper beneath the surface, which is blasted with radiation, to see what stories the soil had to tell.
Curiosity sampled sites by drilling five centimeters below the surface in the Gale crater, which is where the rover landed in 2012. The 96-mile crater, named for Australian astronomer Walter F. Gale, was most likely formed by meteor impact between 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago. It likely held a lake, and now includes a mountain.
The rover was able to heat the samples to between 932 and 1508 degrees Fahrenheit and study the organic molecules released through gas analysis. The organic molecules and volatiles, comparable to samples of sedimentary rock rich in organics on Earth, included thiopene, methylthiophenes methanethiol and dimethylsulfide.
They don't exactly roll off the tongue, but researchers believe that these are fragments of larger molecules that were present on Mars billions of years ago. And the high amount of sulfur in the samples is most likely how they've lasted so long, the researchers said. Drilling beneath the surface, rather than sampling what was on top like Viking did, also helped.
Potential contaminants were analyzed and accounted for, so the results are the most conclusive yet.
"The Martian surface is exposed to radiation from space," said Jen Eigenbrode, a study author and research scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Both radiation and harsh chemicals break down organic matter. Finding ancient organic molecules in the top 5 centimeters of rock that was deposited when Mars may have been habitable bodes well for us to learn the story of organic molecules on Mars with future missions that will drill deeper."
Methane in the air
Over five years, Curiosity has used its Tunable Laser Spectrometer to measure methane in the atmosphere at the Gale crater. Before, researchers couldn't understand why the little bit of methane detected in the Martian atmosphere varied. With five years of data from a single location, they now have answers.
There is a seasonal variation to the methane that repeats, which means the methane is being released from the Martian surface or from reservoirs beneath the surface. The methane could even be trapped in water-based crystals beneath the surface.
Methane is a strong greenhouse gas, and it could have supported a climate that sustained lakes on Mars. That could even be happening beneath the surface now, the researchers said. The release of methane is an active process on Mars, which could suggest new things about what's unfolding on the Red Planet.
Detecting this organic molecule in the atmosphere, combined with the finding of organic compounds in the soil, has strong implications about potential life on Mars in its past.
The Gale Crater was probably habitable 3.5 billion years ago, based on what Curiosity has shown us. Then, the conditions would have been comparable to Earth. This is also when life was evolving on our own planet.
Knowing that these molecules and compounds were present, then, gives new strength to the idea that life originated or existed on Mars and that more work by the Martian rovers can uncover the past.
NASA's InSight Lander, launched on May 5, will land on Mars on November 26. Its two-year mission will explore Mars to see if it's "geologically alive," or active below the surface. For example, scientists want to know if it has "Mars quakes." And the Mars 2020 rover, which is expected to launch July 2020, may be able to assist with one day retrieving soil samples from Mars.
"Are there signs of life on Mars?" asked Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters. "We don't know, but these results tell us we are on the right track."


Remington updated their line of the Model 870. They added new variant with side folding stock. This tactical shotgun is very compact thanks to the folding stock. This makes Remington 870 easier to transport and store by reducing its overall length by approximately 11″ when folded.
There are all kinds of shotguns you can choose from when it comes to self defense or hunting. The only thing shotguns have in common is they do a lot more damage to your target than traditional handguns. Most people these days use shotguns more for hunting rather than self defense, but there are still some old school gun enthusiasts who use shotguns for both. You might think that it doesn’t matter which shotgun you use for self defense, but there are some differences between certain shotgun types that could affect your decision.
There was one shooter with new Remington 870 Tactical on today’s shotgun training of our shooting club. As you know, new Remington 870 Tactical has long magazine tube which makes feeding more reliable. The only question I have to Remington’s designers is why magazine tube isn’t flush with the barrel.
You will need to use +1 magazine extension to have your barrel flush with magazine tube.
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KWhite, one of the members of the Remington 870 forum has asked question about Remington 870 Tactical:
“I just bought my first 870 (I came over from the also excellent Winnie 1300) and ended up getting the basic Tactical. I ordered a Rem slug barrel online – 20″ smoothbore -and I just dropped it in.
An issue: the barrel is fully seated but does not ‘lock’ in, i.e. I can manually disengage the barrel from the receiver quite easily. This seems… problematic.
The 18.5 tactical barrel I just took off of it has a belted groove near the receiver end that seats in the receiver that the slug barrel lacks, as well as a shallower slot opposite the receiver’s opening. Is this what is causing the slide-out?”
“What it looks like is that the barrel ring on the tactical barrel is what holds the barrel on by its tight proximity to the mag cap (extended mag). Since the slug barrel’s ring is farther down the barrel, and therefore not in contact with the mag cap, then there’s naught to hold the barrel into the receiver.”
Later, he has found solution to this problem:
“I just learned this about the 870 Tactical: “Due to the location of the barrel ring on this model you can not change to other Remington Barrels as this is the only one made for this weapon.”
Here is beautiful Remington 870 shotgun which I saw on a shooting range recently. It has a lot of different tactical upgrades and accessories for Remington 870 shotgun.