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Show Business is Bad Business: 13 Failed Actors of the Marvel Universe
The siren song of Hollywood often spells doom for Marvel characters…
The Nightcrawler of AGE OF X-MAN: THE AMAZING NIGHTCRAWLER seems to have it all. A celebrity of massive appeal, the characteristics that made him an outcast in the main Marvel Universe have made him an icon in this world. However, like some many Marvel characters who have sought the limelight before him, Kurt Wagner seems to be on the precipice of discovering that the bright lights of stardom cast very long shadows.
In order to aid our fuzzy blue mutant friend, Marvel.com has assembled a list of cautious tales to encourage Nightcrawler to watch his back.
Becky Ryan started performance life as a child in beauty contests. From there, she recorded an album at just the right moment to catch the bubblegum pop. Two more albums and an acting career followed. However, by her teens, Ryan already showed signs of unraveling. The pressure of supporting her family, the schedule, and the constant sexualization of her despite her relatively young age took its toll until she could no longer ignore the mental health fallout. Despite being at the top of the celebrity heap, Ryan had to remove herself from the whole machine lest she be utterly destroyed by it.
This X-Statix hero had big dreams. Before she scored her first feature role, however, a fellow actor murdered her, triggering her latent mutant power. That pretty much ended Dead Girl’s attempts to become a famous actor.
Jason Roland had already started to make in-roads into an acting career. However, things were going slower than he wanted. So he reached out to Satannish and offered his soul to get famous in a hurry. Somehow the deal turned Roland so hideous that he refused to be an actor ever again. Instead, he became the Hangman.
To make matters worse, he also went on to convince members of the Night Shift to follow this lead and offer their souls up to Satannish despite knowing that these things rarely work out as planned.
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After a handful of setbacks trying to emulate his father, Alyosha Kravinoff, decided to try a new path. He and his girlfriend, an acting hopeful named Timber, traveled to Hollywood where he sought to become a director/producer and make Timber his muse.
Unfortunately, the men Al tried to use to get his way in to Hollywood prove unreliable and prone to violence. After they grew tried of Al’s attempts to become a Tinseltown big shot, they invaded his home and brutally assaulted both Al and Timber. While the couple did get their vengeance on their attackers, they left Hollywood immediately after, their dreams of showbiz left to die on the 405.
A huge star in Hollywood, Martin Preston had the kind of excellent genetics that let him consistently look 10 years younger than he really was. Not only did he get great roles, he did so for twice as long as many of his contemporaries. His preternatural good looks, however, made him subconsciously live as though he was immortal. That proved false when he, while driving intoxicated, ended up in a terrible, body-mangling wreck.
Preston managed to summon Mephisto in his time of need. The demon replaced the actor’s lost arm with a demon, then severed the other arm and did the same. Pandemonium tried to get back to acting after that but the giant pentagram on his chest and Mephisto’s repeated attempts to use Preston as a tool foiled those efforts. In the end, Pandemonium had to abandon all hope of being an actor again and just became a full-time Super Villain.
Megawatt started as a criminal, representing the rare case where an attempt to become an actor actually points to a life improved. Now, Megawatt, as his alter ego Dirk Leydon has achieved international film stardom.
The downside, however, seems to be that Leydon can neither return to Australia, his birth place, nor America, where the most renowned movies are made, because his criminal past combined with his international celebrity status means he would be easy pickings for arrest. Until the statute of limitations runs out, Megawatt must be a man without country, albeit with a career he loves.
Edward Ferbel believed strongly that any role could prove his breakthrough. When he received an offer to play Nomad—due largely to his passing resemblance to Steve Rogers—he could not turn it down. Unfortunately not only was Nomad not his breakthrough role, it proved to be Ferbel’s downfall.
Ferbel was actually hired to impersonate Rogers as part of a plan orchestrated by the Red Skull to kill the real hero. Before Ferbel could fully appreciate what he had been hired to do, Ameridroid shot and killed him, meaning that elusive breakthrough role would go forever unrealized.
After a time as Matt Murdock and Franklin Nelson’s administrative assistant, Page became frustrated with an emotionally unavailable Murdock and a job that had never been her dream. She finally decided to pursue her real dream: acting.
Sadly, she was met with failure after failure upon arriving in Hollywood. She soon developed a drug problem and fell into a particularly unregulated branch of the adult film industry. In a tough enough situation already, Page found herself selling out her former friend and lover just to try and survive a brutal withdrawal. While Page did eventually get sober and leave adult films for good, those decisions would bother her for the final years of her all-too-short life.
Before Spider-Man became a wall-crawling hero of the people, he tried taking a swing at show biz. First, of course, came the amateur wrestling. Soon after that, Spidey broke through on local public access and was well on his way to making a name for himself as a curiosity/comedy act.
We all know what happened next.
The webslinger chose the wrong petty criminal to ignore. Said criminal escaped and later that same night, he attempted to rob the home of Peter’s aunt and uncle. Uncle Ben refused to cower, the criminal panicked and shot Spider-Man’s surrogate father, and Spidey realized, through tragedy, that he could never treat his powers frivolously again.
Early in his career, the man who would be Splice achieved good critical notes and some decent roles. However, the next-level parts never really materialized and he saw his offers shrink. He finally booked a sitcom role only to get fired because the show’s 11-year-old star did not like the soon-to-be assassin. Humiliated, Splice quit and did the most logical thing: became a killer for hire.
If one has a streak of cynicism, one could point out that Splice ended up being more successful as an assassin than he ever had been as an actor and, as a result, made himself quite rich. Additionally, he eventually got hired to kill the child actor that got him fired. But one would have to be deeply cynical to try and argue that without being an actor, Splice never would have found his true calling.
After rough few years, Simon Williams headed out to the left coast and, with Hercules’s help, began to pursue a career in acting and stunt work. As his star began to rise, so did his confidence. Unfortunately, the historically insecure Williams went straight from confident to conceited with no time in between. This led to significant clashes with Iron Man and, eventually, a brutal fight with Abomination.
Even worse than that beating though? Williams never managed to hit the big time despite being basically invulnerable and incredibly handsome.
Will Nightcrawler make it big by following the stars in his eyes? You’ll have to read AGE OF X-MAN: THE AMAZING NIGHTCRAWLER to find out!
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My passion for international travel spawned summer 2013 when I studied abroad for the first time in Madrid, Spain. It was the most eye-opening experience of my life. A Maryland native, I grew up camping, hiking, biking and road-trippin’ up and down the East Coast with my crazy, adventurous parents. We never flew anywhere — we packed up the RV or threw a tent in the back of our Jeep and headed out. So when I left the States for the first time that summer, my definition of travel expanded substantially. In an new country, I immersed myself in trying new food, listening to regional music, hearing fascinating stories from locals, going out dancing and drinking with new friends, and, of course, taking pictures (I studied photojournalism and European art in Madrid). In that month, I fell deeply in love with travel.
Now back in the States, I am stir-crazy. I have an ever-growing bucket list, and I am eager to cross things off. But like every other college student (or now, recent grad), I barely have enough money to pay for groceries, books, gas and other daily necessities — I definitely cannot to travel in luxury. The purpose of this blog is to document and share my money-saving discoveries as I share travel stories and plan my prospective adventures. I welcome and any all suggestions for traveling as an adventurous and broke 20-something gal. I encourage you to comment on posts! Contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org!


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QUINGDAO INTERNATIONAL MACHINE TOOLS EXHIBITION
Quingdao International Machine Tools Exhibition (August 2 – 6) was a successful show for the Drake scanner. Exhibition guests expressed great interest in Drake. The visitors got a chance to create a 3D scan themselves. Drake was exhibited at the booth W2-105-106 of our official partner, CONTROLNICE SCI-TECH (TIANJIN) CO., LTD.

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The couple were broken into yesterday while they were at home, bags put over their heads and tied up while their home ransacked for two hours.
Reporter, Dion Lim, spent time today speaking with the man’s daughter who said her father even passed out briefly and his legs were numb.


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In the previous article, we looked at the return in foreign economies thus far in 2006. In this section we will look at the economic fundamentals of some of the key economies in 2007. In the next article, we will look at the prospects for stocks in some of these economies in 2007 and look at sectors that may do well.
The size of the world economy is 50 trillion dollars with the US contributing about 26% and the EU contributing about the same. IMF forecasts the EU zone economies to expand at the rate of about 2 - 2.5%, the US economy to expand at around 2%. The growth in Canadian economy would be around the same number and the world wide economic exapnsion to remain intact at close to 5%. The emerging economies are expected to do well - growing around 5% in 2007. Of the emerging ecomonies, Indian economy is expected to grow at around 9%/year and the Chinese economy is expected to continue posting double digit growth increases.
The emerging markets comprise of economies of South America, Mexico, South Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. Let us look at the growth prospects in these segments.
The Latin American economies are expected to grow about 5% this year, 4.2% in 2007 and about 4% in 2008. The fundamentals are good for the Latin economies with commodities prices buttressing the export engine of these countries. The large economies of Brazil and Argentina are expected to do well in the coming year. Mexico is also expected to do well with its economy growing at 3.8% in 2007 compared to this year.
According to IMF, the economies of western Europe are expected to grow around 2% in 2007 and the emerging economies of central and eastern europe are expected to grow more than 5% in 2007. Many of these economies are part of the emerging market funds.
The Asian economies are expected to do well in 2007. As noted earlier in the article, the dragon, tiger economies of China and India respectively are expected to do extremely well with growth rates of close to ten percent. The South Korean economy is expected to grow in the 4-5% range. The largest economy in the group, the Japanese economy is expected to post a modest 1-2% growth.
Given the continued projected growth, the main issue a US based investor has to look at is the strength of the US dollar versus the world currencies. Given the huge trade gap that exists between US and the rest of the world, there is a good chance the dollar will not appreciate significantly against the world currencies. On the other hand, strengthening economies of Europe and Japan may cause the local central banks to increase the interest rates to stem inflation. At the same time, if the US economy slows down, the federal reserve may have to reduce the short term rates. In this scenario, the US dollar becomes a less attractive financial instrument for the central banks and hedge funds. However, the currency rates are very difficult to predict correctly and the fundamentals may take a long time to unwind. The main reason for this is that millions of peoples jobs and livelihoods are dependent on stable currency rates and a significant decline in the dollar can cause world wide recession.


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78 x 120" / crocheted video tapeI am often struck by the beauty in the sinister. The photos of the Corona virus were intimidating but I could also not help but notice the beautiful color and form of this monster. Crocheting is always time consuming and because of its non-slippery nature video tape takes even longer. The scale of this large piece speaks to the extra time, space and anxious industriousness that this pandemic inflicted on our lives. The title "Viral" has obvious pandemic origins but it also refers to the term "Viral Video" often a positive thing. Almost 100 hours worth of video tapes and several wire hangers were used.
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Originally native to tropical and subtropical climates, Guava trees are hardy, aggressive perennials. Because it is inexpensive and full of nutrients, it is also known as the poor man’s apple. A Guava tree has a slender trunk with smooth bark that ranges from green to reddish brown. It may have branched trunks and drooping branches at the base.
It has oval or elliptical leaves that are smooth on the upper surface and hairy on the lower surface. Guava produces solitary white flowers and berry fruits. It has an oval shape and a green-to-yellow color. Its flesh can be white, yellow, pink, or red and contains numerous yellowish seeds. The Guava tree grows up to 10 meters (33 feet) in height and lives for about 40 years.
How to control pests and diseases in Guava
Pests in Guava
The crop can be grown easily in all types of soil. However, Guava is affected by many pests. Hardy the Guava may be, but they have their share of Guava pest problems, most of which can be dealt with using natural pest control methods for Guava trees. Therefore, it’s essential to identify insects that attack Guava trees and fruit to incorporate Guava pest control.
Castor capsule borer
The adult is a medium-sized brownish-yellow colored moth with some dark spots on the wings. It lays eggs on the top leaf axils of young pseudostem. The larva bore into the tender parts of the panicle, flower buds, and immature capsules only. The later stage larva bore into the stem. The full-grown larva measures 15 to 25 mm long and pupates within the larval tunnel inside the pseudostems. The life cycle is completed within 25 to 40 days.
- Stem dries up as larva bores into it and then damages capsules.
- Caterpillars bore into young fruits, but they may also bore buds and tender shoots.
- It feeds on pulp and seeds found in internal contents
- Fruits infected with the disease dry up and fall off before ripening
- Fruits affected by larvae are generally deformed at the point of entry.
- It is possible to see larval feces exuding from the borer hole. Fruits of this type weaken, rot, and dropdown.
- Collect and destroy the damaged plant parts.
- Use a light trap 1/ha to monitor the activity of adults.
- Release common predators of castor capsule borer such as ladybird beetle, reduviid bug, spider, red ant, robber fly, black drongo, common mynah, big-eyed bug, earwig, ground beetle, pentatomid bug and praying mantis, etc.
- Spraying the infested crop with endosulfan 35 EC 2.0 L or carbaryl 50 WP 2 kg or methyl parathion 50 EC 2.0 L at 1000-1200 liters of water per hectare proved effective in controlling the pest.
- Spray malathion 50 EC at 3 L or endosulfan 3 L or dimethoate 30 EC 3 L in 1500 – 2000 L water per ha, two rounds, one at flower formation and next at fruit set.
Adults are white with pairs of tiny black dots on the thorax, numerous small black spots and streaks on the fore wings, and few black spots on the posterior edges of hind wings. They lay eggs under loose bark or in cracks and crevices from April to June. It takes 8-11 days for eggs to hatch. The eggs are oval in shape and reddish in color. Caterpillars are pinkish-white with brown spots and are about 40mm long. The life cycle lasts 4-5 months in south India and more than a year in north India.
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- The infestation of the pest may be identified by the presence of irregular tunnels and patches covered with a silken web consisting of excreta and chewed-up wood particles on the shoots, branches, stem, and main trunk.
- Holes on the trunk, Wood dust, and fecal matter hanging in the form of a web around the affected portion.
- Severe damage can result in the death of the attacked stem. The blackish larva can be observed underneath the fresh webbing.
- Branches and shoots may also have shelter holes at their joints.
- Young shoots die away, giving the plant a sickly appearance
- Remove and destroy dead and severely affected branches of the tree
- Remove alternate host, silk cotton, and other hosts
- Scraping the loose bark to prevent oviposition by adult beetles.
- Hook out the grub from the borehole
- Sprays of 0.05% endosulfan, 0.05% trichlorfon, or 0.05% dichlorvos will kill the larvae at the nibbling stage from July onwards, and a fumigant soaked in cotton wool and sealed into the holes will control the larvae at the tunneling stage.
- Swab Coal tar + Kerosene @ 1:2 or Carbaryl 50 WP 20 g / lit of water on the basal portion of the trunk up to 3 feet height
- Padding with monocrotophos 36 WSC 10 ml in 2.5 cm /tree soaked in absorbent cotton.
- Apply the copper oxychloride paste on the tree’s trunk if severe infestations occur. After applying monocrotophos 36 WSC 10 to 20 ml/ hole
- Apply carbofuran 3G 5 g per hole and plug with mud.
Both nymphs and adult female insects suck the sap from tender leaves, shoots, inflorescence, and fruits. The severe infestation leads to wilting and affects fruit setting. In addition, mealybugs secrete honeydew which causes sooty mold. The infected leaves and inflorescence become shiny black, and sticky because of several fungi growing on this honeydew. Mealybugs are always associated with ants. The ants feed on honeydew and, in return, help mealybug spread to different parts of the plant.
- The tiny small bugs usually suck sap from twigs, leaves, and flowers.
- Infested fruits will have uneven shapes and poor quality and are susceptible to secondary infections by pathogens.
- Release Australian lady bird beetle Cryptoleamus montrouzieri at 2500 to 3750 per hectare
- Conserve coccinellid Scymnus craccivora and lepidopteran predator Spalgis epius
- Spray with fish oil, rosin soap, neem oil, or basic soap spray to control Mealybugs. Then, add two tablespoons of liquid dish detergent or baby shampoo to 1 gallon of water.
- Also, soil application of the fungus spores, Beauveria bassiana, helps reduce the mealybug population.
- Debark the vines and swab with methyl parathion at 1 ml per liter to minimize the population
- Spray dichlorvos 1.0 L or chlorpyriphos 1.25 L or ibuprofen 25 SC 1.0-1.5 L or methomyl 40 SP 1.25 kg with 500 L water per hectare.
- Avoid spraying methyl parathion, carbaryl, methyldemeton, quinalphos, diazinon, malathion, etc., as they are toxic to predators.
There are a lot of problems in Guava cultivation, among which the Guava spiraling white fly has become a serious problem to Guava cultivation. Recently, it has been a common and major pest in Guava farming. Severe infestation of this pest may result in defoliation of the whole plant causing serious yield reduction of the fruit crop. Indirectly, the white fly causes a reduction of yield by transmitting viral pathogens and, through the secretion of wax and honeydew, reduces the photosynthetic areas of the plant.
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- Adults and nymphs congregate heavily on the lower surface of the leaf, suck the sap and cause premature leaf drop, chlorosis, yellow speckling, crinkling, and curling.
- Honeydew secretion also leads to the development of sooty mold fungus.
- The copious white, waxy, flocculent material secreted by all the stages of the pest is readily spread by wind.
- Remove and destroy damaged leaves along with life stages.
- Remove and destroy weed plants like Abutilon, Acalypha, Euphorbia, etc., in the nearby vicinity, as these plants are alternate hosts.
- Use yellow sticky traps at 15/ha to attract and kill the adults
- Release Chrysoperla Carnea predators at 10000 per hectare to destroy all life stages
- Encourage the activity of predators such as Encarsia and Coccinellids, Chilocorus nigrita, etc.
- Spray Fish oil rosin soap (FORS) 25g/L or NSKE 5% or neem oil 0.03% 1ml/l or phosalone 35 EC 3 L or triazophos 40 EC 3 L or acephate 75 SP 1.5 kg in 1500 -2000 L per ha., two to three times based on the incidence.
- Avoid using synthetic pyrethroids and extending crop growth.
- Conserve spiraling whitefly parasitoids, Encarsia haitiensis and E. guadeloupae.
Guavas are sometimes inhabited by aphids, which leave behind sticky residues or honeydew. Ants are attracted to this honeydew. Aphids and scale insects are protected from predators by ants, who move them around, increasing their numbers. Pruning branches that touch buildings or other plants that act as a bridge to the tree can help prevent ants from nesting there.
- The symptoms include curling, stunting, or yellowing leaves. In addition, aphids love to hide on the undersides of leaves.
- It might indicate aphid infestation if a sticky substance appears on the leaves or stems. Additionally, honeydew can attract other insects, such as ants.
- Honeydew can develop a fungal growth called sooty mold, which causes branches and leaves to appear black.
- Aphids feeding on flowers or fruit can cause them to deform.
- Wrap sticky tape around the tree’s trunk. Around the base of the tree, bait traps can also be placed.
- Spray cold water on the leaves to dislodge these pesky pests.
- Dust the plants with flour as it constipates the pests and prevents rapid reproduction.
- Use insecticidal soap or horticultural oil to spray the plant.
- BotaniGard 22WP should be applied to the affected crop area to control ongoing aphid issues.
- Chlorpyrifos, Monocrotophos 36% SL, Dimetholate, Imidacloprid 17.8% SL, and Beta-cyfluthrin 10.5% also effectively control aphids in Guava.
Diseases in Guava cultivation
Many pathogens, mainly fungi, affect the Guava crop. About 91 pathogens are reported on fruits, 42 on foliage, 18 on twigs, and 18 on roots. These cause various diseases, viz. pre and post-harvest rots of fruits, canker, wilt, die-back, defoliation, twig drying, leaf spot, leaf blight, anthracnose, red rust, sooty mold, rust, seedling blight and damping off, etc. Some important diseases of Guava and different measures for their effective management are discussed below, regarding past and present developments.
Guava wilt is a dramatic and devastating disease of plants that usually becomes noticeable with the onset of the rainy season. The plant may develop light yellow leaves and sag noticeably, prematurely shed fruits, or defoliate entirely. Unfortunately, plants have no cure for wilt infections, but good nutrition, including heavy nitrogen feedings after fruiting and protecting roots from damage, can help stave off the disease.
- In the monsoon season, light yellow foliage appears with loss of turgidity and epinasty.
- In a later stage, plants show unthriftiness, resulting in premature shedding and defoliation.
- The twigs of some trees become bare and fail to produce new leaves or flowers, eventually drying up. In addition, there are no fruits on any affected branches because they are underdeveloped, hard, and stony. Eventually, the whole plant dies from defoliation.
- The roots also rot at the basal region, and the bark is easily detachable from the cortex. The light brown discoloration is also noticed in vascular tissues.
Chemical control and management
- Different workers have used many chemicals like Chaubatia paste, Water soluble 8-Quinolphos sulfate, Benlate or Bavistin, Metasystox and Zinc sulfate, Thiopanate methyl, Captafol, and Thiobendazoles.
- Besides fungicides, some soil amendments, chemicals/cakes/fertilizers were also effective against wilt. Oil cakes like neem cake, mahua cake, and Kusum cake supplemented with urea at 10 kg and 1kg, respectively, also manage the disease.
- The infection can be minimized by soil drenching with Brasicol and spraying Bavistin (0.1%) around the roots and leaves for 15 days.
- The disease could be controlled by proper sanitation in the orchard.
- Wilted trees should be uprooted and burnt, and a trench should be dug around the tree trunk.
The disease is Prevalent in the wet-rainy season (from July to September). The fruits hanging near the ground or with dense foliage lacking proper ventilation are mostly affected. The disease also appears during storage. Cool, wet environmental conditions with high moisture in the soil favor disease development.
- The symptom starts at the calyx disc of the fruit during the rainy season.
- The affected area is covered with whitish cotton-like growth, which develops quickly as the fruit matures. The pathogen can cover almost the entire surface within 3-4 days during humid weather.
- Fruits covered with dense foliage near the soil level are most severely affected by high relative humidity. Furthermore, fallen fruits are badly damaged.
- Light brown to dark brown becomes the color of the fruit’s skin below the whitish cottony growth
Chemical and control management
- Copper oxychloride inhibits the conidial germination of the pathogen. However, it is reported to be toxic for the Guava fruit.
- Dithane Z-78 (2 grams. per liter) or Ridomil or Aliette (2 grams), or Copper oxychloride (3 grams.) is found effective in controlling the foliar infection.
- Soil drenching with Copper oxychloride (3 grams.) or Ridomil or Aliette (2 grams.)
- Plant spacing and canopy of the plant should be managed to avoid unnecessarily dense plant canopy
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Stem canker and dry fruit rot
The fungus causes the disease, and the primary source of inoculum is dormant mycelium. A quick attack of the fungus causes fruit damage. The infection can be spread secondarily by wind-borne conidia, water splash, proximity to infected plants, injury, and transportation of infected leaves. The fungus can grow in humid environments between 20 and 25°C with a dense canopy and insufficient airflow.
- Pathogen attack main branches and stems, which causes the cracking of lesions
- Affected branches wilt as the stem tissues are killed. In addition, fungal perithecia, small brown to black structures, may develop on the infected stem.
- On fruit, disease symptoms appear as light brown spots, generally at the stalk or calyx end.
- Within four days, the fruit becomes dark brown to black and mummified.
- Twin-bearing, infected fruits show and die back.
Chemical control and management:
- The disease can be controlled in severe infection by removing and destroying the infected stem.
- Copper sulfate and two parts each of lime and linseed oil or Chaubatia paste (copper carbonate – 800 g, red lead – 800 and linseed oil – 1 liter.
- Spraying the trees with copper oxychloride (0.2 percent)
- The spread of disease in the early stage of infection is controlled by 3 to 4 sprays of 1 percent Bordeaux mixture or lime sulfur at 15 days interval
- Using foam net while bagging fruits will prevent injury to the fruit and hence canker
Algal leaf and fruit spot
A variety of parasitic algae may infect your Guava if you notice rusty or brown spots during humid weather. The Algal leaf spot is relatively harmless to the plant and the fruit, but severe infections can reduce vigor, decreasing the plant’s ability to produce fruit. Therefore, it is best to reduce the humidity around your plant, including pruning it, as much as possible.
- Several minute, shallow brown velvety lesions appear on leaves, especially near the midvein, and as the disease progresses, the lesions grow to 2-3 mm in diameter.
- On leaves, the spots may vary from specks to big patches, which may be crowded or scattered.
- The lesions are nearly black on immature fruits. Lesions on older blemishes become sunken and cracked as they enlarge. Due to the enlargement of fruits, lesions are usually smaller than leaf spots. Their color ranges from dark green to brown or black
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Chemical control and management
- Algal leaf spots can be reduced by maintaining tree vigor with artistic techniques such as proper fertilization and irrigation, adequate pruning to enhance air circulation within the canopy and sunlight penetration, managing weeds, and wider tree spacing.
- Managing insect, mite, and other foliar diseases increases tree vigor and lessen susceptibility to this disease.
- Spray Copper oxychloride 0.25%.
Using agrochemicals to control pests and diseases has become a pragmatic approach to pest and disease management. However, overuse and indiscriminate application of insecticides and fungicides in Guava have resulted in tolerance to insecticides and fungicides, pest resurgence, accumulation of harmful residues, and toxicity to non-target organisms.
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Former cricketer Steve Waugh Pic : Nic Walker
- From The Weekend Australian Magazine
The office of the Steve Waugh Foundation is up the stairs and down the back of a block of shops on the outskirts of Cronulla’s CBD in Sydney’s south. The office, like the bloke, is devoid of frou-frou. It exists to get the job done and each year it distributes more than a million dollars to help kids with rare diseases. And then in walks Steve Waugh with his famous pout and his thousand-yard stare – the man who led one of the most dominant teams in the long history of Test cricket. Remember those gratifying years when humiliation of the Poms was an annual ritual, like raking up and burning leaves each autumn? “We’re not here to win friends, mate,” he once said, summing up the attitude of the team under his reign.
Steve Waugh was a towering figure in world cricket for almost two decades and then he largely disappeared from the game when he retired in 2004. He never joined the conga-line-of-captains – Richie Benaud, Bill Lawry, the Chappell brothers, Alan Border, Mark Taylor, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke – who segued into the commentary box. He was never tempted to coach or select. “I guess I just wanted to create some new memories in my life,” Waugh says of his decision to forge his own path away from cricket, “rather than just reliving the past.”
He hasn’t been idle. At one point he starts flicking through a book on the table that highlights the work of his foundation. These are some of those new memories he’s been creating: hard-fought battles, glorious innings, utterly heartbreaking and devastating defeats, and, of course, some rubbish decisions from the umpire. “That’s Renee,” he says, pointing to a small person with an oxygen tube in her nose. “We catch up every few weeks. She has geleophysic dysplasia, a rare form of dwarfism. She’s our ambassador and has been with us since the start… This guy here is Liam. He’s an amazing kid. He was never supposed to speak and last year he interviewed me in front of his whole school, in front of 900 kids! This little one here is Alyssa – my wife and I cuddled up with Alyssa the night before she passed away…”
Desert cricket in India. Picture: Steve Waugh
Waugh’s life may have taken a very different route; he may have ended up in the cotton wool of the commentary box if not for an early morning rickshaw ride through the streets of Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1996. He once revealed in an interview that the person he’d most like to meet was Mother Teresa. News Corp cricket writer Robert Craddock tucked this information away and when the team and its entourage arrived in Calcutta for the 1996 World Cup game, Craddock made some calls. “We entered a room that reminded me of an old school classroom, with wooden shutters running horizontally,” Waugh wrote in his biography Out of My Comfort Zone. “The floor space was almost totally taken up by tightly bunched sisters, all clad in pure white cloth with dashes of blue.” And then the tiny Mother Teresa appeared – he almost tripped over her – and they were introduced for a few moments of chit-chat. “Her face was wrinkled and weathered, yet soft and welcoming and she radiated a tremendous inner strength and sense of compassion.” Mother Teresa handed Steve Waugh her business card: “The fruit of silence is prayer,” it said. “The fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service.”
Waugh is not a religious man but in that brief time in Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying he was inspired by this woman who had devoted her life to others. “From that moment on I thought if I ever get the opportunity I should do something to emulate her work,” he says. Two years later, when he next played in Calcutta, a note was slipped under the door of his hotel room asking him to visit a school on the outskirts of the city, a home for children whose parents suffered from leprosy. The fruit of love for Steve Waugh would become service. India would spark his awakening.
The ‘Big Tree’ ground off the Yamuna Expressway near Vrindavan, Utta Pradesh. Picture: Steve Waugh from the book Spirit of Cricket: India
“Steve was always different from the other cricketers,” says Trent Parke. “He was interested in everything outside of cricket. He wanted to learn about the culture and the people. He had a passion for photography. He was interested in the world.” Parke had been a gifted junior cricketer, a spin bowler selected by the Australian Cricket Academy with ambitions to play for his country. His main rival, however, was a budding Shane Warne and so he ditched cricket to pursue his other obsession, photography.
In 1996, Parke was a young and intense photographer on tour with the Australian cricket team. On days off from cricket Steve Waugh would often tag along behind Parke as the pair meandered through the streets of India with their cameras, absorbing and documenting the mayhem. “He had a curiosity,” says Parke. “He’d be constantly saying, ‘Why are you doing this’ and ‘What makes that a better picture than this?’” Parke, who was with Waugh the day he met Mother Teresa, would go on to become one of our most celebrated photographers, the first Australian invited into the prestigious Magnum photo agency. And Waugh, well, he’d score 10,000 Test runs.
Last year, Parke got a phone call out of the blue from the former captain. Waugh had an idea. He wanted to go back and photograph cricket in India in all its guises for a book, The Spirit of Cricket – India. And he wanted Parke to accompany him, to be his photo coach. It’s a bit like doing a sketch tour of Europe and having Ben Quilty peering over your shoulder, offering tips. “I had no interest whatsoever,” says Parke. “None… but then Steve can be very persuasive.” And so, in January this year, Parke found himself on one of the weirdest assignments of his life.
Local cricket and water vendor at Azad Maidan, Mumbai. Picture: Steve Waugh
Waugh first went to India in 1986 under the captaincy of Alan Border. He played in the famous tied Test in Madras, where the late Dean Jones defied the stifling heat and a dodgy stomach to grind out an epic double century. Since then Waugh’s been back “probably 60 times for sport, business and philanthropy”. He realised pretty quickly that his working-class upbringing in Sydney had been incredibly privileged. The team arrived in Bombay (Mumbai) and ever since that first bus ride from the airport to the hotel – with the smells, the beggars tapping at the windows, the buffalo in the streets, “the massive bombardment of the senses” – he’s been captivated by India.
The feeling is mutual. Steve Waugh is a revered figure on the subcontinent. “There is no Australian who is better known in India and better respected and loved in India,” says Darshak Mehta, an influential Indian-Australian businessman who is chair of the Chappell Foundation. “In India there is this fascination with this man – he was captain of Australia, a great batsman – who was willing to mingle in the streets. He was not afraid to meet the sufferers of leprosy… he is deeply in love with the country and that is reciprocated.”
Waugh tells me that for years he’s wanted to go back and do a proper photographic tour. “I wanted to capture through the lens what cricket means in India,” he says, “because it is a religion over there. I wanted to capture not just the players but the people around the game and how Indians are so fanatical about the game.” And he wanted to produce a beautiful book with stunning photographs, so he took along Trent Parke. “I wanted to surprise people with the quality of my photographs.”
Bat and ball factory, Meerut. Picture: Steve Waugh
He approached the project with the same determination he would a Test series – this was no lads-on-the-piss tour. It was intense. Early this year the pair travelled to nine cities in 17 days, taking photographs from first light until dark, in the slums, on the beaches. They had an audience with Sachin Tendulkar. They documented women cricketers, disabled cricketers and the monks of the Himalayas, tearing in like Thommo on an uneven pitch. “We were getting four or five hours’ sleep and then we’d be up on a flight or a bus to the next place,” Parke says. Waugh, he adds, was always remarkably calm, possessing a wry sense of humour. There were times when they’d be swamped by hundreds of fans. “I was struck by how incredibly cool he is in those situations.” Another time they were being driven at breakneck speed through Indian traffic on a freeway. “I remember holding onto the Jesus handle being terrified,” says Parke. “Steve was sitting in the front seat calmly chatting away to the driver and making jokes.” Whenever he’d swerve between lanes to overtake, Waugh would say: “Look out, he’s off for another quick single.”
All the while, Waugh was picking Parke’s brain. “Photography is about emotion and anticipation,” the photographer explained to the cricket legend. “It is about putting yourself in a place before a photo happens.” Like setting a field, forecasting where a batsman will sky a ball. “It was actually quite amazing watching him,” Parke says of his pupil. “I’d been banging on about light the entire time and how you can turn something ordinary into something magical just by the way you use light… it is actually something that is very difficult to teach.” About 10 days into the trip Waugh said to him: “I get it. Light, I get it. I finally understand what you are talking about.” And when Parke saw the frames he’d taken he said, “You’ve got it, mate. You’re on track.”
Mudassir Ahmed repairs a cricket bat. Picture: Steve Waugh
“It was a learning tour for me,” says Waugh. “I’d watch Trent, watch how he would set up a scene and then just be patient, waiting for something to come into the photo.” He bombarded him with questions. Did he have the right settings? Was he in the right spot? How’s this composition? Parke says the most important trait Waugh had, apart from enthusiasm and good timing, was a feeling for his subjects. “He really does have genuine empathy,” he says. He’d take his photos and then, inevitably, there’d be selfies with fans, signatures and a game of cricket. “He always made sure he gave something back… he was really genuine in this aspect.”
The result is a coffee table book with a couple of hundred photos in it – probably too many, but there are some wonderful images. “I think that is the interesting thing about Steve,” says Parke. “That he didn’t go into commentary or coaching, that he’s still out exploring the world and he has a burning desire to be the best at other things, like photography, and that he has a hunger to produce a great body of work.”
In Kolkata, they visited a school called Udayan. On the wall of a girls’ dormitory at the school is a stone plaque that reads “The Foundation Stone of Nivedita Bhavan (Udayan Girls Wing) was laid by Steve Waugh, Australian Cricket Captain and Patron, Udayan, on July 21st 1998.” The bland inscription underplays the immense difference this has made to the lives of hundreds of girls.
And it all came about by chance. Or fate. Or destiny. Early in 1998, the Australian team had been annihilated by India at Calcutta’s Eden Gardens, beaten by an innings, which meant the five-day test was reduced to four. Waugh had a spare day in the city. The note had been slipped under his door inviting him to visit a school on the outskirts of the city. It was a note like many others he’d received in India, asking for help. He could have ignored it. He could have relaxed by the pool nursing a beer, along with his team mates. He decided to get out and explore.
Cricket training at Chembur Childrens’ Home, Mankhurd. Picture: Steve Waugh
The kids at the school came from a nearby lepers’ colony and were the children of people suffering from leprosy. Most of their parents were beggars – the only work available to them. The kids lived on campus and Waugh saw they were getting a good education and were well nourished. “The children were playful, mild-mannered and appreciative of their environment,” he says. But he noticed it was only for boys. He asked if he could visit the community where their families lived. It was on the drive there that he asked why there were no girls at the school. He was told the boys would be the breadwinners and so it was more important they be educated. Many of the girls, he was told, would be sold into prostitution at a young age.
And then he arrived at the colony. “We turned sharp left into a black hole of depression, a place that looked like the marrow of life had been sucked out of it… this was the most basic means of living I had ever seen, with minimal hygiene and no real hope of escape.” He met a young woman – a mother of three – distorted by leprosy. He asked her what she looked forward to in life. “Nothing,” she said. Waugh walked around the squalid camp looking into the eyes of the young girls, knowing the dreadful future that awaited them. His own daughter was 18 months old. “That was a lightbulb moment,” he says. “I couldn’t just pretend I didn’t hear what I’d heard. I had to do something for the girls.”
The money he raised built a dormitory that houses 100 girls. In the two decades since, many hundreds of girls have been given an education that has allowed many of them to study teaching or nursing and to lift themselves out of the degrading poverty that was their destiny. “I made a commitment to raise money for them, to not forget about them,” he says. “And to visit when I could.” Twenty-two years later, he’s still sending cash to India. He visits every chance he gets.
In the space of two years Waugh went from being captain of Australia to full-time carer for his wife and, effectively, a single parent
Throughout his years playing cricket Steve Waugh always kept a diary to remind himself of what it was like to fulfil his childhood dream of playing for Australia. And then in 2006, just two years after he retired, he sat down in a hospital ward and again began jotting notes, this time recording the bleakest period of his life. “It was my way of coping,” he tells me, “and so that she would have a memory of it.” His childhood sweetheart, Lynette, the mother of their three children – then aged 10, six and four – lay unconscious in the hospital bed having suffered a massive stroke that caused a bleed on her brain the size of a peach. She was 40. For a couple of days her life hung by a thread. “The pain of watching is crippling at times,” he wrote in his diary, “but I know she can feel me beside her and I must feed her strength not pity.”
Lynette tells me that in the weeks after her stroke she had no real comprehension of what had happened but knew things were serious when she looked into the bathroom and saw her husband sobbing at the sink. She hadn’t seen him cry in the 20 years they’d been together, “apart from when the babies were born”. Her full recovery would take seven years. She had to learn how to talk, how to read, how to use a telephone, how to cook… her entire life was thrown upside down. She’d always been an independent woman who’d run the house and raised the kids while Steve was away for eight months of the year playing cricket. And then she was entirely reliant on him to look after her and the children. Now, whenever she’s asked what her husband has been doing since he retired from cricket, “My first response is ‘looking after me’.” There were some bleak days, she says, but there was never any doubt that her husband would be there for her. “He’s 100 per cent dependable.”
Steve Waugh having a coaching session with child prodigy Shyan Jamal. Picture: Trent Parke/MAGNUM PHOTOS
In the space of two years Waugh went from being captain of Australia to full-time carer for his wife and, effectively, a single parent. “I’d always been in control of things,” he says. “I was good at cricket and good at sport, not that it all came easy, but it was natural. Then all of a sudden I’ve got this life-confronting situation with my wife and three young kids to look after and it was all totally out of my control.” Everyone, he says, was looking at him to take charge, to be the captain, and that’s exactly what he did. “You’ve just got to do what you’ve got to do to make things right,” he says. “There’s no point whingeing and complaining about it.” Was there ever a time, I ask, when you thought I don’t know if I can do this? “No,” he replies in that brusque manner of his. “Never. Someone had to stand up because everyone was struggling with what had happened and I had to put on a brave face and be in control.”
And so, apart from looking after Lynette, Rosie, Austin and Lilli, what else has Steve Waugh been doing since he hung up his tattered baggy green? Well, he’s done a lot of writing – he’s penned 14 books (some were tour diaries, published before he retired), all written in longhand in notebooks before being transcribed and edited. His biography sold 230,000 copies, while his last book, The Meaning of Luck, which was self-published, sold 98,000 copies. All up he’s sold more than a million books. “I made more money out of publishing than I did out of cricket,” he says. He’s represented companies with corporate interests in India, he’s on the speaking circuit and he’s involved in “a lot of entrepreneurial stuff in business”.
Dobhi Ghat, outdoor laundry. Picture: Steve Waugh
“I see cricket as almost like a previous life,” he says. “It was 15 years ago. I’d done that – and I wanted to move on to different challenges.” One of those new challenges was setting up the Steve Waugh Foundation in Australia with the aim of helping children with extremely rare diseases. It came into being after he and Lynette did some charity work at Westmead Children’s Hospital and they came across kids with conditions they’d never heard of. They realised many of them were slipping through the cracks of the health system and, because their diseases were so rare, there were no support groups or associations to turn to. “It’s a bit like the leprosy kids in India,” he says. “The kids we support are the orphans of the health system. Without hope and without support.” The charity occupies about “20 hours a week” of his time, more for his wife.
Why, I ask. What drives you to spend half your working life helping others? “I dunno,” he says. “I guess it’s just in the DNA… I guess someone had to step up to the plate.” There must be more to it than that, I insist. It is tough at times, he admits, because many of the kids with rare diseases will die young as most of the diseases are incurable. “But I love seeing these kids who’ve been doing it tough break out and achieve their full potential and do things they never thought they were capable of… some kids walk, some kids talk… our aim is to allow them to be as good as they can possibly be. You are changing kids’ lives and giving them hope and for me there’s a huge sense of satisfaction. It’s pretty powerful.” Sport, he says, gave him lifelong memories; charity gives him life-changing moments.
Lynette says their aim was for the foundation to become like a big family. “We wanted to remain in contact with every family and take a holistic approach,” she says. They’ll continue the work for as long as they can. “I don’t know if Steve told you but last year I had a second stroke,” she says. She was recently in hospital again after she “just collapsed” and they are still trying to work out why. “So, I’m a one-year-at-a-time person.”
Steve says they keep going because they’ve made a commitment to people like Karen Titterton and her son Liam, who has a rare disease that affects his motor skills and his speech. Liam is now 17 and the foundation has supported him ever since he was a preschooler. “When he was three,” says Karen, “intellectually he was fine, but he couldn’t get the message out.” He needed a communication device that would allow him to speak, but it cost $16,000, and the government wouldn’t fund it. “They said communication wasn’t important.” A social worker pointed them towards Waugh’s foundation. “We put the paperwork in and they approved it in 48 hours.” Since then the foundation has helped them out with around $100,000 worth of equipment including standup wheelchairs and communication devices. “Basically, they’ve allowed my son to walk and talk,” Karen says. It’s given him independence.
“Steve and Liam hit it off 12 or 13 years ago, when he first came over to have a look at his communication device,” says Karen. He and Lynette stayed at the house for three hours and Steve and Liam played a bingo-like game called Zingo. Liam kept beating Steve. “I said to Lynette, ‘Is Steve letting him win?’” Lynette said her husband never lets anyone win, not even his own kids. Liam made a sign on his forehead in the shape of an L. “I thought, shit, my son is calling Steve Waugh a loser.”
Steve, she says, has been kind and generous to her son. “Liam’s got Steve’s phone number and he texts him all the time about things that are happening in his life. He always responds, even when he is out of the country. They have a lovely relationship.” He is, she says, “just so genuine, he really cares about Liam and all the other kids that he helps.” And so she gets “really pissed off” when Waugh’s former team mate, Shane Warne, comes out in the media and describes Waugh as selfish. “I get really, really angry. We see what he is like and how generous he is.”
Bat and ball factory, Meerut. Picture: Steve Waugh
Every few years, Shane Warne will have a digathis former captain. The animosity dates back to 1999 when the champion spinner, returning from shoulder surgery and in poor form, was dropped by Waugh for the last Test match in the West Indies. Warne never forgave him. His criticisms are backed by another former captain, Ian Chappell, who has labelled Waugh the “most selfish Australian cricketer” he has ever seen. Warne and Chappell argue that Waugh played to increase his average rather than playing for the good of the team. They say he failed to protect his tail-end batsmen, and that he was prone to run out his partners to save himself. This may seem trivial but as Waugh says in his biography, for a cricketer to be labelled selfish “is tantamount to being accused of treason”.
Earlier this year the Cricinfo website posted the curious statistic that Waugh had been involved in a record 104 run-outs – 27 times in Tests and 77 in one-day internationals. Of those 104 instances he was run out 31 times while his partner was dismissed 73 times. Warne, delighted with this ammunition, tweeted: “Steve was easily the most selfish cricketer that I ever played with.” Cricket writer Geoff Lemon analysed these dismissals and found that Waugh was involved in a lot of run-outs because he’d played a lot of innings. Lemon found that many of the run-outs had come in the “death overs” of one-day matches and that Waugh was at fault “in well under half” of them. He also concluded that “trusting his lower-order colleagues got Waugh and the team better results more often”. Waugh had some mighty partnerships with tailenders – 147 with Merv Hughes at Headingley, 130 with Geoff Lawson at Lords, 88 with Stuart MacGill at the MCG, 133 with Jason Gillespie at Eden Gardens and even some great innings with Warne. “I don’t get it,” Waugh says to me. “Warnie and I were great mates when we were playing… I think it says more about him than it does about me.”
Waugh’s hero Mother Teresa had her critics too, including the writer Christopher Hitchens, who claimed the nun was more interested in spreading her fundamentalist Catholic beliefs than she was in helping the poor. But as Hitchens’ friend, author Alexander Cockburn, noted: “Between the two of them, my sympathies were with Mother Teresa. If you were sitting in rags in a gutter in Calcutta, who would be more likely to give you a bowl of soup?”
The Spirit of Cricket – India is available at stevewaugh.com.au. An exhibition of his photographs will be held at Playbox, 21 Oxford St, Paddington, Sydney, Oct 31-Jan 11.
FEATURE WRITER, THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE
Greg Bearup is a feature writer at The Weekend Australian Magazine and was previously The Australian’s South Asia Correspondent. He has been a journalist for more than thirty years having worked at The Armidale… Read more


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| Fenix What?? by fenix [Reviews - 3] |
*** The author has been reminded via the e-mail address on file that this story is listed as incomplete and has not been updated since 2006 ***
A rather shocking surprise awaits Harry, Ron and Hermione as they discover that a new student is apparently joining them at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry.
PG-13 - Post-OotP
- Tragedy - Warnings: Dark Fiction, Death, Violence - Words: 1057
Completed: No - Chapters: 1 - Published: 2006.06.26 - Updated: 2006.06.26 - Hits: 2343
| Fernando de Noronha by CaptainYellow [Reviews - 12] |
** Honourable Mention in the November 2019 Dumbledore's Silver Trinket for Best Comedy **
***Winner of Most Romantic and Best Overall in the Christmas Challenge (2019-3)***Girls are annoying chatterboxes who always cry and nudge up to you like Devil's Snares, and Ginny Weasley is no different... or so he thought. H/G AU. No Voldemort. James and Lily are alive.
| Festively Besieged by Torak [Reviews - 14] |
** Winner of Best Adventure in the The Marauders Map Challenge **
(WORD COUNT 9,999 words precisely.) Five years after Voldemort's defeat, a hostage situation threatens the anniversary celebrations - and the only ones who can save the day are Harry, Ginny, and a large black dog.
A/N edited 2009-01-02, no other changes made.
PG-13 - The Marauders Map Challenge (2008-6)
- Action/Adventure, Comedy, General, Humor, Romance - Warnings: Death, Disturbing Imagery, Extreme Language, Intimate Sexual Situations, Mild Language, Mild Sexual Situations, Sexual Situations, Violence - Words: 10315
Completed: Yes - Chapters: 1 - Published: 2008.12.31 - Updated: 2008.12.31 - Hits: 5247
| Fighting by GinnyMarie [Reviews - 23] |
For his entire life, Harry fought. He fought things, in any shape, from the time he was a year and three months old, the night his parents had been killed. He fought the Dursleys during his ten-year incarceration with them; he began fighting Voldemort the minute he entered the Wizarding world; he fought countless dark creatures, ranging from Dragons to Trolls; he fought Death Eaters hell bent on harming him and his friends; and he fought depression after the deaths of Cedric, Sirius, and Remus. Does Harry have the strength to go on fighting, or will he fail what might be the most important fight yet?
R - Post-OotP
, Alternate Universe
- Angst, Fluff, General, Humor, Tragedy - Warnings: Dark Fiction, Violence - Words: 10771
Completed: Yes - Chapters: 5 - Published: 2007.06.03 - Updated: 2007.06.26 - Hits: 13173
| Fighting Fate by Fey Falyyn [Reviews - 59] |
Sequel to Fighting Harry. Fourteen years have passed since Harry Potter defeated Voldemort, and his life is perfect in almost every way. He went on to marry the witch of his dream, become the youngest-ever Head of International Auror affairs, and even have a son who loves flying as much as he does. There's just one problem. And her name is Meridy.
PG - Alternate Universe
- Comedy - Warnings: None - Words: 53072
Completed: Yes - Chapters: 13 - Published: 2007.06.01 - Updated: 2010.08.03 - Hits: 30741
| Fighting Harry by Fey Falyyn [Reviews - 110] |
When Harry decides the time is ripe to search for the remaining Horcruxes, Ginny demands to accompany him. Harry refuses, and leaves with Ron and Hermione the day after his seventeenth birthday. But Ginny's not the sort of girl to wait at home. She'll do anything to prove that she can survive without Harry...even join Voldemort. When Harry's turned away, what will save her from the Dark? And what will Harry do, when he realizes his mistake?
PG - Post-OotP
- Drama - Warnings: None - Words: 67568
Completed: Yes - Chapters: 15 - Published: 2006.06.19 - Updated: 2007.05.28 - Hits: 43712
‘! Go To Top ‘!

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An open invitation: “Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that President Barack Obama must visit the Texas southern border to see the immigration crisis for himself. ‘If he doesn’t come to the border, I think it’s a real reflection of his lack of concern of what’s really going on there,’ Perry said on FOX News’ ‘FOX and Friends,’ noting that Obama is planning to be in Texas next week for fundraisers.” Smart political move by the governor.
You’d think this would open up the field to new up-and-coming Democrats, but so far the old guard isn’t going away gracefully. “By all accounts the Democrats face significant challenges in the midterm elections. It can’t help them that the party’s two most prominent figures—President Obama and Hillary Clinton —have become tone deaf. . . . After Hillary Clinton left the State Department in February 2013, Gallup tested her public standing that April, finding that 64% of Americans had a favorable impression and 31% unfavorable. By June 8 of this year, Mrs. Clinton’s favorables in the Gallup poll had dropped to 54% while her unfavorables had risen to 43%, which were her numbers at the end of the brutal 2008 Democratic primaries. And this was before her book tour.”
Obama opened himself up to just such criticism. “He can do some small temporary measures, but think about this: Bush tried to do it when he had all Republican control. Then they tried to do it when there was Democratic control of the House and Senate and a Republican president. Then we had all Democratic control for two years. It didn’t get done.” He certainly is all bark and no bite these days.
The voters no longer seem open to the “blame Bush” routine. “The public largely blames President Obama for the flood of children who have poured over the border in recent weeks, creating a growing humanitarian crisis, according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll released Monday. The late June survey found that the public largely blames Obama policies for the crisis in Iraq and believes the lost IRS emails are an administration effort to cover up wrongdoing at the agency.” By a 56 to 41 percent margin, Americans think our premature exit from Iraq caused the current crisis there.
Obama gave the jihadists an opening, which they surely will seize.”[W]hen America withdraws all its troops by 2016, as President Obama is planning to do, it will not take long for the Taliban to regroup and retake territory it had lost to the Americans. Then al Qaeda will be free to return to Afghanistan and reestablish the safe haven it lost in that country after the 9/11 attacks. Moreover, without bases in Afghanistan, America will be unable to carry out drone strikes in Pakistan, giving al Qaeda freer movement within the trial regions of Pakistan.” Read the whole thing.
As Obama’s presidency sinks, Democrats open fire on one another. “Alaska Sen. Mark Begich says fellow Senate Democrat Claire McCaskill is investigating contracting practices in his home state because she ‘refuses to try and understand the history and culture’ of Alaska. . . . Begich, who is up for reelection this fall in a conservative state, called his Democratic colleague’s actions ‘troubling’ and mocked her legislative specialty of investigating waste and fraud, an unusual personal attack between senators of an opposite party and even rarer for fellow Democrats.” Yikes.
You’d think someone would be worried about opening up our secrets to another leaker. “The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $190 million contract to the company accused of methodically defrauding the government while carrying out background checks on millions of people, including former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The department’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services hired US Investigations Services LLC to help operate the nation’s immigration system.”


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Read Any Good Books Lately?These are two books I haven’t read “lately” but rather, within the last six months or so. They have some similarities in that both books deal with themes of families redefined and both writers use a distinctly comic tone to tell their sometimes tragic stories.
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster is a funny, often touching account of Nathan Glass, a retired insurance salesman, divorced from his wife and estranged from his daughter, who moves to Brooklyn “to die.” While there decides to pen “The Book of Human Folly,” which contains every colossally stupid blunder he has ever committed in his life. But in his new environs he meets an unlikely cast of characters who become his new family: a long-lost, underachieving nephew, a flamboyant used-book salesman, an HIV positive Jamaican drag queen, a hard-boiled Italian widow and a silent little girl who shows up on his doorstep unannounced.
Perhaps as penance for his own “human folly” he helps each one of these characters with their own struggles and quests. The plot twists, turns and intertwines, leading from Brooklyn to Vermont to “Carolina, Carolina.” Auster explores the concept of sanctuary in literature with allusions to Thoreau, Whitman and Hawthorne but with a distinctly urban tone reminiscent of Damon Runyon. Told in the first person, Nathan’s delicious New York accent practically leaps off the page. I read this book about six months ago, but the characters continue to haunt.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by Dave Eggers and begins with an account of the author’s parents dying of cancer within six months of each other. They leave behind four children ranging in age from 10 years to early 20s. The author himself is a college student at the time. Left with only each other, the siblings begin to redefine their family, assuming parental roles to their younger brother, selling off all the family possessions and moving west to Berkley, CA.
I began loving this book with its tongue-in-cheek tone, self-deprecating humor and false bravado. But Eggers would have been well served by a good editor. He falls into the trap of the self-indulgent memoirist with a too-long, two person scene in the middle of the book in which he recounts in maudlin detail everything we just read. This scene is set as a casting interview for MTV’s The Real World. Following this, the book trails off into seemingly unrelated anecdotes of the struggling young writer’s attempt to create a fledgling magazine and his coming of age as an adult. This overwritten work seems to diminish the potentially“heartbreaking” story the author is trying to tell. Nevertheless, it was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
So how about you? Read any good books lately?


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Improving Food Access
Project GROWS’ mission is to improve the health of children and youth in the central Shenandoah Valley through garden-based education and access to healthy food. Project GROWS operates and manages multiple farmers markets in the SAW Region as part of our food access programming. Our Farmers Markets seek to improve food security, individual and family health, and the overall local food economy by connecting local producers to the community and the community to nourishing foods. Our farmers markets prioritize:
Access to Quality Healthy Foods
Local and Sustainable Agriculture
Healthy Food Incentive Programs
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, is a USDA program that provides assistance to low-income families and individuals. Project GROWS accepts and DOUBLES SNAP benefits at the North Augusta Farmer’s Market, Waynesboro Farmer’s Market, and Youth-Run Farm Stand. Learn more info see the SNAP Resource Guide. Find other markets near you that accept SNAP.
SNAP Fund Matching
The Project GROWS SNAP Matching Program provides families the opportunity to use their SNAP benefits and stretch their budgets while shopping for fresh local produce at farmer’s markets. With funding provided by Virginia Fresh Match, Project GROWS can now match SNAP dollars spent at the Waynesboro and North Augusta Farmer’s Markets.
Farmer’s Market Nutrition Programs
The WIC and Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) provides vouchers to qualifying low-income seniors and families participating in the WIC program. Vouchers may be used exclusively for the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables at approved farmer’s markets. For questions about using FMNP vouchers at our markets, see the FMNP Resource Guide.
Buy One, Give One: Fresh Food Donation Program
At our markets you have the opportunity to purchase food items from vendors that will be donated to local shelters and food pantries in the community. Stop by our market booth after shopping to drop off your items to donate!

domain: sociology


MANILA -- Metro Manila residents should not fear going to shopping malls, the capital's police chief said Thursday, as he dismissed as a "hoax," text messages that warned of an alleged bomb plot in the wake of deadly blasts in Mindanao.
While there is "no real threat" in the capital, the public should be vigilant and refrain from stoking fear by circulating the text warnings, which were recycled from two years ago, said Director Guillermo Eleazar, chief of the National Capital Region Police Office.
"We should live our normal lives. 'Wag tayo paapekto sa nangyayari sa atin. Bagkus, tayo ay maghanda, magtulong-tulong. 'Wag matakot mag-mall, 'wag matakot," Eleazar told ABS-CBN's Umagang Kay Ganda.
(We should live our normal lives. Let's not get affected by what's happening. Instead, we should prepare and work together. Don't fear going to the malls.)
"Ang ating kapulisan ay nandiyan but just the same, magtulong-tulong tayo. Be calm but very vigilant," he said.
(Our policemen are here, but just the same, we should work together. Be calm but very vigilant.)
Twin blasts claimed by Islamic State jihadists struck a Catholic church on Jolo Island last Sunday, killing 21 people and wounding 100 others. On Wednesday, a grenade exploded inside a mosque in Zamboanga City killing 2 people.
Eleazar said the NCRPO was on the highest alert. Security in vital installations and intelligence gathering were heightened, he said.
"Ayaw natin magkaroon ng spillover... Magbabantay tayo. Metro Manila ito, kailangan mas handa tayo," he said.
(We don't want a spillover. This is Metro Manila, we have to be more prepared.)


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Starting with information for over 1M restaurants (and counting) globally, Zomato is making dining smoother and more enjoyable with services like online ordering and table reservations. Their vast community of food lovers shares their reviews and photos, so consumers have all that they need to make informed dining decisions. With dedicated engagement and management tools, Zomato enables restaurants to spend more time focusing on food itself, which translates directly to better dining experiences for their customers. From Vancouver to Auckland, Zomato is used by millions every day to decide where to eat in over 10,000 cities across 24 countries.
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Give hungry consumers the information they seek about your restaurant, from address to phone number and beyond.
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Once again the equities markets took a nosedive yesterday, as renewed fears gripped investors that the Banking Crisis is far from over. What does this mean to those of you looking for help to sort out the seemingly complicated scenario that is unfolding?
The short answer is: Don't panic. We already have enough of that going on. If you have not done so already you need to focus on getting together a personal plan of action, or executing on the one you have.
The long answer will continue to make itself apparent over the next few critical months. You may be called upon to make tremendous sacrifices. You may need to change your approach to money, and quite possibly your lifestyle. You may need to change your set of advisors if you do not get the straight answers you need - trust is the most important commodity now and it is in short supply.
Until next post, continue to achieve, believe, receive. SDG- JBHIV

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Destination: Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Timeframe: 18th-20th July 2009
Duration: 72 hours (approx.)
1) Invade (peacefully) as much ground as possible.
2) Fully utilise all resources available.
Status: Mission Accomplished
Now, the reason why I consider this a “Mission” is because I have always wanted to go to Sabah. Yes, despite the fact that I grew up quite near to it and spent the most of my life on the same island, I’ve never been there! But now, I HAVE! 😀
And if going to KK wasn’t good news already, this whole “Mission” was practically FREE!!! (with the exception of shopping money of course) – COOL huh?!
Yup, I mentioned this trip earlier and yeah…we’re back and we had lotsa fun and adventures…so, keep on reading and enjoy the pictures! 😉
~To be continued~
Next: Day 1 (25 minutes later)

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We have heard from many organizations that they have complex needs when it comes to calculating special pay. For instance, you may need to consider multiple payroll entities when calculating minimum wage or overtime.
The dev team has been hard at work creating a simple solution for these complicated calculations. We are proud to announce that the "Payroll Groups" feature is now available for all accounts!
What are Payroll Groups?
To understand payroll groups, let's briefly review payroll entities.
A "Payroll Entity" is a way to represent a specific organization that is paying employees. Many accounts have multiple legal entities that pay employees. For instance, you might have an entity that pays for work at one ranch but a different entity that pays for work at the ranch across the street. Our pay calculations have traditionally used only data from a single payroll entity at a time when calculating an employee's pay.
This works for simple organizations, but what if you need to calculate minimum wage or overtime for an employee using payouts from both payroll entities? Payroll Groups are the answer!
From the "Payroll" tab in the admin section of the Admin Site, you can now create groups of payroll entities and specify which calculations they affect. For example, you can create a group with "Payroll Entity A" and "Payroll Entity B" and specify that both entities should be considered together for overtime calculations. After this group is configured, payouts related to both entities will be considered whenever FieldClock calculates overtime or double-time for payouts at either entity. In our above scenario (with different entities paying for work at different ranches), an employee who works at both ranches can now have their overtime calculated based on all of their work instead of it being siloed by each payroll entity.
For more information, please check out Payroll Groups in our knowledge base or contact Support.

domain: economics


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ISACA Advanced Persistent Threat Survey Shows Some Eye-opening Findings
Advanced persistent threats (APTs) have been in the headlines over the past couple of years for affecting some high profile enterprise networks. Many thought these attacks were limited to government networks. However, in January 2010, the source code and intellectual property of Google and at least 20 other companies in the high-tech industry and defense industrial base were targeted and compromised during “Operation Aurora.” In November 2009, “Operation Night Dragon” included a series of coordinated and targeted attacks against the global oil and gas companies. These attacks made it very clear that APTs are not just government threats. Furthermore, in 2011 Stuxnet became a teachable moment for many trying to explain the need for better cyber-defenses, and as an inspiration for security researchers searching for new types of systems that could be hacked, according to Symantec’s’ Malicious Code Trends.
In an effort to gain insight into security professionals’ understanding of APTs and what enterprises are doing to detect and prevent them, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), conducted its “Advanced Persistent Threat Awareness Study” in late 2012. The study included over 1,500 information security managers in different industries and organizations throughout the world.
APTs differ significantly from traditional garden variety threats, yet they leverage many of the same attack vectors of their malware cousins. To clarify what is meant by an advanced persistent threat, the ISACA study uses the definition provided by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which states that an APT is:
An adversary that possesses sophisticated levels of expertise and significant resources which allow it to create opportunities to achieve its objectives by using multiple attack vectors (e.g., cyber, physical, and deception). These objectives typically include establishing and extending footholds within the information technology infrastructure of the targeted organizations for purposes of exfiltrating information, undermining or impeding critical aspects of a mission, program, or organization; or positioning itself to carry out these objectives in the future. The advanced persistent threat: (i) pursues its objectives repeatedly over an extended period of time; (ii) adapts to defenders’ efforts to resist it; and (iii) is determined to maintain the level of interaction needed to execute its objectives.
In short, APTs are often aimed at the theft of intellectual property (espionage) as opposed to achieving immediate financial gain and are prolonged, stealthy attacks. These attacks are generally difficult to detect and may go on for many months before they’re discovered, often by a party outside the enterprise.
More than 25% of the survey respondents cite the loss of enterprise intellectual property as the biggest risk of an APT, followed closely by loss of customer or employee personally identifiable information (PII). About 90% of respondents believe that the use of social networking sites increases the likelihood of a successful APT. More importantly, approximately 22% of those surveyed said their organizations were victims of an ATP attack.
Additionally, about 60% of those surveyed believe it will only be a matter of time before their organization is targeted. And some 94% think APTs represent a credible threat to national security and economic stability.
According to the survey, “respondents are leveraging a variety of preventive and detective technical controls as well as education, training and policy to help reduce the likelihood of a successful breach.”
Despite this these efforts and recognition of an APT potential impact to their organizations, most enterprises are employing ineffective technologies to protect themselves against APTs, the report states. Specifically, nearly 95% of the surveyed are attempting to mitigate these threats with anti-virus and anti-malware solutions. This observation should raise many eyebrows because anti-virus and anti-malware solutions are largely ineffective against APT attacks. APTs often rely on vulnerabilities that have not yet been discovered by the AV/AM vendors—the dreaded zero-day attack.
93% of the respondents attempt to stop APTs at the network perimeter with technologies such as firewall. The report highlights this as “concerning,” given that APTs are known to have evaded such controls. Furthermore, the report shows a lower adoption of critical controls for mobile devices, remote access technologies (RATs), and logging/event correlation as part of a layered approach to APT mitigation.
87% of the survey participants believe bring your own device (BYOD), combined with rooting or jailbreaking the device, makes a successful APT attack more likely; but mobile security controls, which can be quite effective, are used much less frequently used to protect the organizations from these potential APT threat vectors.
There are two other areas that organizations haven’t taken into consideration when it comes to APTs: the cloud and outsourcing. When it comes to third party vendor agreements, about 82% of respondents have not updated their agreements with third parties for protection against APTs. The report sums up this oversight very well, saying “the lack of consideration being given to third parties is troubling. Enterprises must be sure that the data they outsource are protected—even if the provider itself experiences an APT attack.”
The survey report concludes that companies may need to consider additional controls such as network segregation and an increased focus on email security and user education. Many advanced attacks enter companies through unsolicited emails containing malicious links, and especially through spear phishing attempts.
In addition, while many of technological controls being employed by enterprises “are proficient for defending against traditional attacks, they are probably not as suited for preventing (or detecting) APTs. This is true for a number of reasons: APTs exploit zero-day threats, which are often unknown vulnerabilities, and many APTs enter the enterprise through well-designed spear phishing attacks.”
As can be seen by the survey report, many organizations don’t understand how advanced persistent threats differ from garden variety cyber attacks. It’s important for companies and their security professionals to understand the differences if they are going to successfully defend against APTs.
The ISACA study is available as a free download at www.isaca.org/cybersecurity.


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I'm good boy Trevor, and I am needing a good home. I get along well with other dogs, and I love people. I am pretty much house trained also. I love to go fun places and see new things. I am well socialized and always enjoy a new adventure. I also like to just curl up on the couch, eat popcorn and watch TV.
The nice ladies at Ahimsa Rescue where I am staying tell me that I am quite a handsome one and start singing "hunk-a-hunk of burning love" and something about Elvis Presley....whatever that means. Anyway, I always try to be a good dog, and I promise I would try extra hard if you would give me a chance.
If you need a good dog like me please come see me soon.
approx. DOB: January 2016
IMPORTANT: If you are interested in adopting a pet from Ahimsa Rescue, an on-line adoption form is required. Ahimsa's pets live at private homes in foster care. Once an application is received an approved a convenient time is set to meet and adopt the pet. Please complete the on line adoption application at: www.ahimsarescuefoundation.org to begin the adoption process.
Ahimsa Rescue Foundation is an all volunteer, foster-based rescue in Muldrow, OK. Our pets will be fully vaccinated, spayed or neutered, and microchipped before the adoption becomes final. Adult dogs are heart worm negative and on preventative. To start the process please visit our website and fill out the adoption application at www.ahimsarescuefoundation.org
Act quickly to adopt Trevor. Pets at this Rescue Group may be held for only a short time.
Your message has been sent to Ahimsa Rescue Foundation.
You'll receive a copy, too, at to help you keep track of which pets you've inquired about, and which shelters and rescues you've emailed.
NOTE: Some shelters have physical locations you can visit; some of these shelters may only have pets for a limited time, so please do not wait for a reply—just go visit the shelter! Other organizations are rescue groups run by busy volunteers who may take a while to reply. You can find information about the shelter or rescue group caring for this pet, and their adoption procedures, on the pet's details page on Adopt-a-Pet.com.

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Since the inception of the concept of industry and the need to improve one’s economy, man has dealt with the problem of management of cargo. And a simple invention from prehistoric times has been dealing with the problem till now and it has been the trolley. Now to an outsider a trolley is just a flat platform on wheels with a handle making pushing convenient. But like any other industrial machine a trolley has its classifications and various uses. Now anyone would have noticed a trolley at the supermarket. A Platform trolleys New Zealand is similar except, larger and sturdier. For a much needed visualization, imagine the large industrial trolleys in Melbourne shipyards or the small trolleys carrying luggage at the airport.
Where and how are Platform Trolleys used?
Platform trolleys as mentioned above is the simplest form of transporting goods making it the first choice for manual laborers and porters. The use of platform trolleys is seen while transporting luggage in the Sydney railway station, factories and construction sites. An industrial platform trolley is capable of lifting up to 1500kgs. Platform trolleys NZ come in portable models made of strong polymers for light-duty use. They are also available in stainless steel models which help one transport heavy goods of various sizes and shapes. This reduces efforts and risks. There are also electric trolleys which eliminate the need for using manual labor. They have advanced brake system to help with the momentum of heavy items.
How do we choose which platform trolley to buy?
Industrial platform trolleys are produced in bulk in most Australian major cities like Melbourne and Sydney and provide every customer with a wide range to choose from. A small plastic trolley can cost around 140$ while a large metal heavy-duty trolley can cost approximately 700$. But one must not judge the equipment based solely on price, instead one must calmly think about their needs and chose one, comparing every feature of every model displayed. For example, a platform trolley made from galvanized steel is a perfect model used by construction workers transporting cement, bricks and iron rods to reinforce concrete. But again such a large model is inconvenient if used indoors for doesn’t provide us with enough space for maneuvering. Now consider a trolley covered from all four sides. It gives enough depth and stability needed to transport small and fragile items. This is exactly like a trolley at a supermarket. So it becomes quite evident that platform trolleys are necessary.