A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, after being pursued by officers through a Doncaster town in a dramatic high-speed chase that led on to the motorway. Police were called at around 10.30am yesterday morning to reports a vehicle was driving dangerously in the Sprotbrough area.
A number of police resources became engaged in the pursuit of the vehicle, a blue Land Rover, which lead onto the A1M southbound carriageway.
There were several minor collisions involving the Land Rover and other vehicles during the course of the pursuit, including two police cars.
A 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of driving over the prescribed limit, theft of a motor vehicle, failing to stop and dangerous driving.
Becca, Alyssa, and Lauren Barlow were best known to the world as BarlowGirl. For years, the three sisters from Elgin, Illinois lived together, worked together, worshiped together and made incredible music together with an during that time, they helped kick open the door for female-fronted Christian rock bands.
Signed by Fervent in 2003, their self-titled debut came out in 2004. After that, the band released three other albums was nominated for several Dove Awards and had the longest running #1 song in both 2004 and 2005.
They had a great rock sound that blended incredible harmonies with music that got you on your feet, but they're not the only ones that made that sound work. So if you liked BarlowGirl, check out...
Formed in 2000 in Texas, Flyleaf was led by Lacey Mosley (now Sturm) for 12 years before she left to spend more time with her family. Now with Kristen May on the mic, the band still rocks hard every time they take the stage.
Formed in 2007 in Decatur, Illinois, the voice of Ariel Bloomer leads these hard rockers. Having fought the "Christian band" label for years, Ariel has long said that they are followers of Jesus so they can impact those outside of the church as much as they feed those in the church.
In 1999, Superchick made their live debut before 5000 kids at an Audio Adrenaline show and then before thousands more at Lifefest. A year later they self-released an eight-song EP and started touring with Teen Mania's Acquire the Fire. Before long, Inpop Records signed the group and five albums later, they're still rockin' the crowds for Christ.
Sarah Anthony and her husband Mark formed the band in 2006 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Originally a worship band called Breaking the Silence, they changed their name and style once they were signed by Tooth & Nail Records.
At 17, Natalie Grant started out arranging music for her youth choir in Seattle, Washington. From there she moved into a position with the group Truth, singing with them for two years before heading to Nashville to pursue a solo career. Six albums later, Natalie is still making music for Christ and we're all reaping the benefits.
Rebecca St. James was born in Sydney, Australia in 1977. At the age of 16, this GRAMMY winner was introduced to the world through her self-titled debut. Since then she has released nine more albums, gone Gold twice, won three Doves and been named "the most influential woman in Christian music" by Crosswalk.com.
Krystal Meyers was only 16 when she was signed by Essential Records. Her debut album was a hit with four top ten singles ("The Way To Begin," "My Savior," "Anticonformity" and "Fire"), and she garnered a Dove nomination for Best New Artist.
ZOEgirl was a Christian band made up of Chrissy Conway-Katina, Alisa Childers and Kristin Swinford-Schweain that hit the scene in 2000 with four top-five radio hits. A Dove awards, three full-length albums and one EP later, the group broke up to pursue their individual goals.
Neptune is the planet of cosmic responsibilities, and what we might call karma. And it's the part of us that knows we are part of something timeless. Neptune is the dreamweaver, too, guiding to a higher vision.
Neptune is in Pisces from 2011 to 2026, for an atmosphere of fluid reality, dissolving and heightened imagination. It's also a transit for mass hysteria or hallucinations, and entrancement in a dream or nightmare. Pisces is the last sign of the Zodiac, one of spiritual yearning, and a sense of the otherworldly.
Astrologer Marguerite Manning has insights on how Neptune gives nudges about karma, such as unfinished business with other souls.
Where is your Neptune? You will need to find it on your birth chart. Marguerite Manning provides these gives notes on the transit of Neptune to the houses of your chart.
If you have Pisces in your first house, first impressions are going to have a deep and lasting effect on you when Neptune is transiting here. The karma is going to find its way back to you through your birth, your early childhood, your physical body, and the psyche. This is a great time for these people to get in touch with the psychic part of themselves. They can serve emotionally by getting away from their own feelings, and tapping into their psychic ability to help others.
Keeping in mind that Neptune is coming back as karma and it’s in the first house, there’s got to be a willingness to adapt to the idea of getting out of your own emotions and trying to be some kind of psychic vehicle for others at this particular time.
With Pisces in the second house, your karma is going to find its way back to you through money, material possessions, and all issues regarding self-worth. Keeping your financial affairs in order is going to be difficult for you right now because you’re being asked to address what is your value, what do you find worthwhile about yourself.
Your self-worth is going to be in some way, based on your faith and compassion, and your imagination and psychic ability are going to have to come into this to give you a clear idea of what your self-worth is and be able to address that.
If you have Pisces on the third house, your karma is going to find its way back to you through your early life, your siblings, and your early education. You might start seeing classmates and neighborhood friends popping up. It’s going to bring back things that created your learning network, possibly from a past lifetime, and things that shaped your ideas and your thoughts, that made you feel like you were connected, or made you feel like part of the community.
You might be prone to periods of mental confusion around this time, maybe even mental laziness, or you might feel like you need to secretly communicate when Neptune is in the third house. You’re being asked to address language, how you communicate with people, and how effective is that now. If you were verbally abused, verbally denied, or educationally deprived in your last lifetime, you’re going to have to deal with that now.
How smart are you? Don’t compare yourself to brothers and sisters when Neptune is in the third house. There will be issues at this particular time, but it’s not about that. It’s about your own immediate environment and defining your network. What does your intellectual neighborhood really look like?
With Neptune Pisces coming into your fourth house, your home life may start to get a little more spiritual and there can be karmic issues, especially with your mother. There’s the possibility of feeling like you’re abandoned or orphaned. In a past life, maybe you were, and these issues are coming back for you to address and deal with them. You also may experience the worry over or loss of a parent or losing a parent.
Your relationship with a parent is going to change for the best or the worst. The karma with this parent is going to be brought forward, and you’re going to have to deal with it. Everyone has issues with their parents, that’s why they brought them into their lives. But if you haven’t been addressing them up until now, you will be forced to do so, as well as address your own role as a parent.
If you have Pisces on the fifth house, your karma is going to find its way back to you through your romances, and your creative self-expression, your children, and anytime you try to create or be creative. At this particular time, you have to be very careful not to be deceived or disillusioned in your romantic involvements, especially with any kind of risk-taking.
You’re being asked at this time to trust in your creative talents and not expect other people to take them to the end for you. You’re going to be forced to deal with your creative issues, whether they’re your own children or your own creative talents, not relying on anyone else to validate that in your life.
If it's coming through the sixth house, it’s going to be all about health, routines, exercises, and the way you serve or others serve you on a daily basis. This is a good time to find the perfect doctor for you if your eyes are wide open, otherwise, you may find a doctor who is a fraud. You’ve got to be cautious in this area of life.
If you’re being diagnosed for any condition, definitely get two opinions. Look at every possible option. You’re being asked to deal with the fears you have about your health and about your physical competence in this lifetime. It comes back to your work as it relates to your physical techniques, your physical competence, and what you’re physically capable of doing. This is a good time to find the perfect solution to perhaps a mysterious ailment that has been affecting you.
If you have Pisces on the seventh house, your partners, clients, and spouses are in your life because they’re either blessed or cursed. This is always where your karma is going to come through—your one-on-one relationships. When Neptune is traveling through in this life, even more so.
In the past, you might have denied your partners' flaws and shortcomings and now you’re going to have to deal with these partners that perhaps you’ve either enabled, or you have not seen for who they were. You are pulling all these people into your life because they are the people that you didn’t clearly address and acknowledge, either in your last life or earlier in this one. These are the people that you looked at with rose-colored glasses and now you’re being asked to look at them in a realistic way and decide if you want them in your life.
With Pisces on the eighth house, your karma is going to find its way back through your collective worth. It’s always about trust and sharing, and it’ll always seem fated. If you have Pisces here, you are a skilled manipulator in the handling of life and death resources and things that didn’t belong to you, which is why your own legacies and financial affairs can be deceptive or creatively inspired and miraculous.
Your past is going to come back here, depending on what you were in the past, either in miraculous windfalls or people trying to take money away from you. You’re meeting your own karma should deal with it on that level. You're being asked to look at it realistically and fix it. Miracles happen when you overcome that.
If you have Pisces on the ninth house, your spiritual insights often provide miraculous solutions that feel like divine intervention most of the time. That’s because your karma has a tendency to find its way back to you through your faith and your principles. In the past, you inspired others to move beyond their intellectual and spiritual boundaries. You’ll experience either great disillusionment or great inspiration to travel to a foreign country, unfamiliar territory, or to go meet new people or to start your own radio show.
When Neptune is traveling through here, you’re destined to take another look at what your boundaries are in this lifetime based on what you helped other people make their boundaries. Did you push the envelope for them or did you limit them? This is the time for you to realistically ask what your boundaries are, and where you can push the outside of the envelope. The ninth house is all about growing.
If you have Pisces on the tenth house, there’ll always be creative inspiration, secrecy, or behind the scenes kind of work connected to your profession, as your karma comes back to you in this life through your job, your reputation, and your career. In your last lifetime, you were abandoned, orphaned, or neglected by your father or authority figures and for that reason, you’re now prone to deep issues of parental loss and disappointment in this one.
You might have great difficulty relating to authority figures and getting the proper recognition you deserve when Neptune is traveling through the tenth house. The flipside is this is also a great time to get someone behind the scenes to pay attention to you. If you’re working your hardest your good fortune can really manifest when Neptune is going through this house, especially if you’re doing anything with underprivileged or the less fortunate in your work.
Pisces on the eleventh house means that your karma in this lifetime is destined to find its way back through your talented friends, gifted associates, and visionary colleagues. Your companions in this life can feel like they’re very inspirational and even clairvoyant, or they can be deceptive and manipulative. These people are going to come to your attention. You might find your way into spiritual clubs or secret meetings during Neptune's travel through the eleventh. Neptune is trying to get you back in touch with those friends who were visionary.
You might be coming back to those that tried to deceive you or take your crystals and do something harmful with them. You’ve got to be very careful. Neptune influence in that house is always going to feel very serendipitous. It’s always going to feel nostalgic when these people come back. Your soul is going to wonder where they have been for the past 2,000 years. You just have to be very cautious about being happy that these people are coming back to you, because they’re going to be coming back to you for a reason, in every house. They were your karma and right now, you can change that. If they are positive and good karma is coming back, you can embrace it, and if it is negative, you can see them realistically and cut the ties.
With Pisces on the twelfth house your karma will find its way back to you through emotional service to others and helping the less fortunate, which was a calling in a past lifetime. Some kind of painful loss led you to not be able to handle the harsh realities of life all that well and caused you to use either faith or your imagination, or any kind of other unconscious realm as an escape.
You emotionally isolated yourself rather than getting out there and doing the work you were supposed to. Now, you unconsciously avoid your mission to rescue others by becoming the victim or drop out yourself. When Pisces is traveling through this house, you’re not going to be allowed to do that. You’re not going to be allowed to go to those secluded places near the water unless it’s a place where people need your help. Because of these people, these real victims of the world, you’re not a victim of the world. They are looking for you and they’re going to find you now, so you can really step up to the plate, and choose how you want to serve them. Or, you can end up being their doormat.
You have a higher calling in life. For these13 years, you’re going to feel like every downtrodden and emotionally-deprived person is finding you. This is only because you’re not out there doing the job you’re supposed to be. You’re supposed to be helping them, so find a suitable volunteer job.
Tooth brushing is both an important functional life skill and an appropriate skill for school intervention. Other functional life skills like showering may be appropriate in residential settings, but it's necessary to remember that only a small minority of students are in residential placements In that way, tooth brushing is a pivotal skill in a way that will lead to success in other task analysis based skill programs. Once a student understands how completing one step leads to the next, they will more quickly acquire new skills.
First, you need to start with a task analysis, which lays out the discrete steps that a child must complete in order to complete the entire task. These need to be operationalized or described in a clear way that any two observers would see the behavior and identify it in the same way. Below is a straightforward task analysis.
Once you have a task analysis that fits your students need, you have to choose how you will teach it. Students with a significantly disabling disability may need either forward or backward chaining, teaching one or two steps at a time, mastering each before moving on, or your student may be able to learn the "whole task," using visual prompts, or even a list, for students with strong language skills.
Forward Chaining: Forward chaining is recommended for a student who is capable of learning multiple steps quickly, over a short span of time. A student with good receptive language may respond quickly to modeling and some verbal prompting. You will want to be sure that the student exhibits mastery of the first two or three steps without prompting before moving on, but you will be able to expand the steps quickly.
Backward Chaining: Backward chaining is recommended for students who do not have strong language. By performing the early steps hand over hand while naming them, you will be giving your student repeated practice in the steps for tooth brushing while building receptive vocabulary, and as you get closer to the end, you will withdraw prompting for the last steps, while keeping the reinforcement for completion closest to successful completion of the task.
Complete Task: This is the most successful with children with high functional skills. They may even be able to complete the task with a written checklist.
In each of these strategies, a visual schedule would be helpful. Creating a picture schedule with the student completing each step (heavily edited, of course,) is a very effective way to support student success. The visual schedule can be reviewed before you brush teeth or can be placed on the counter. Try using laminated pictures with a hole punched in the corner, bound with a binder ring. You could also make a "flip book" using two rings at the top of the pictures, having the students lift and flip each page.
In order to determine whether your student is making progress, you'll want to be sure you are not "over prompting" which may easily lead to prompt dependence.
Some cosmetic products, such as lipstick, nail polish, and mascara, relies on the use of a three roll mill for highly homogeneous and finely dispersed structure. Many types of mills providing high shear force are generally adopted machine in cosmetic industry. Among these, the three roll mill is the preferred mill since its advantages of uniformly applied shear force on the whole ingredients and adjustable product capacity by different designed size.
The lipsticks are generally manufactured in four stages: (1) pigment milling, (2) combination of pigment phase into the base, (3) molding, and (4) flaming.
Milling is to break up pigment agglomeration rather than to reduce particle size. A good rule of thumb of the pigment/oil ratio is to use two parts of oil for one part of pigment. The resultant paste can be passed through three roll mill till the satisfactory particle size (usually 20 micron).
Combination of pigment phase into the base is a simple procedure. The wax and oil phase are usually melted in a steam-jacketed kettle equipped with a single propeller agitator. Following this, the milled pigment phase is added.
Molding is by use of vertical split molds. Most lipstick formulations mold well between 75 and 85 C. Pre-heating the mold be around 35 C avoids the formation of “cold marks” on the stick, and holding the mold at a light angle to the vertical is a technique often used to avoid air entrapment. Rapid cooling after the mass is poured into the mold of important since it leads to a smaller, more uniform crystalline, structure, which, in turn, leads to better stability and gloss. Once cooled, the molds can be spit open and the sticks subjected on to the trays or some other suitable storage container until they are ready for flaming.
Flaming is a procedure for passing the molded stick through the flame of a gas burner, or series or burners, to increase the surface gloss. The flames are adjusted to a level just hot enough to just melt the surface of the stick.
The process of nail polish involves high-shear mixing. Pigment dispersion is the most important step. The finer the pigment is ground, the higher the gloss achieved, and the more stable the finished product. The required pigment is blended with nitrocellulose in a mix of bentone solution and plasticizer. The resultant is then ground through a three-roll mill, dried and “chipped” (i.e. split up into solid fragments). The color chips are blended in the desired shades and dissolved in the nitrocellulose solution (lacquer) using a high-shear mixing blade (Cowles) under flame-proof conditions. The temperature must be carefully monitored to avoid a large increase. The other solvents and additives are added when a uniform color has been achieved. Following this, the bentone is added and the viscosity adjusted by addition of lacquer or thinners. Specially, viscosity modifying additives are also required. The viscosity of nail polish is sometimes adjusted by adding small quantities of phosphoric acid or organic acids to modify the gelling system.
Yet again…I’m late on the trend train. Like, the train is in the next station late. Per usual for me. I’m not very trendy anyway, and on the rare times when I do get on with one I’m super late and usually on it’s way out.
One trend that I admired and never jumped on till this year was the fiddle leaf one. Funny that a plant can become a trend, right? But these plants with the beautiful large leaves are still everywhere:
I’ve noticed they come in two different forms – the more squatty version like this one that has much larger leaves:
And others have much smaller leaves but are taller and branch out into more of a tree shape. That one above was an IKEA find a few weeks ago and he was not in the best shape. Most of the leaves have some kind of damage but he’s doing much better so far.
The IKEA one was a super great price of only $13. I’ve never seen them for that low anywhere else, especially for the size. I got this one for our master bedroom last winter for a lot more than $13. ;) It is taller though:
This was my first fiddle leaf and I immediately started killing it. Like, right away. It’s leaves were dropping like flies and it was NOT happy in it’s new home.
So I started doing some pretty ingenious things to keep it alive…like watering it and making sure it had enough light. ;) Seriously, I think the key to these plants is LOTS of light. I’ve read they don’t like direct sun but mine looooove it.
As soon as I got this guy into the sun every morning he started doing great. Not before half of the leaves fell off though. Whomp. And now I water them about once a week – not a soak, just a good watering. Water and sun…who would have thunk it.
I’m not a clean freak by any stretch of the imagination but the leaves on this guy were grossing me out:
You can see the new leaves are bright and shiny. The old ones were filthy. I swear to you the rest of my house does not look like those leaves – I’m not sure what I did in the room that made them so dirty. Maybe because that window is open so much? I don’t know – the newer leaves that are about eight months old barely had any dust on them.
For real, I stood there and couldn’t believe I was dusting my plant leaves. Do most people do that? I don’t even know. I guess I’ve never had plants with leaves big enough to actually accumulate anything before.
I recently heard about a little trick to shine up the leaves and make them look brand new again. It sounded a little wacky to me but it worked – I just took a teensy dab of mayonnaise and wiped the leaves down:
I did this very gently by the way – the older leaves are nice and thick but I didn’t want to do any damage.
I have to admit it worked really well – the older leaves now match the glossier (more glossy?) new leaves:
You can see from the older pic above that the tree lost a TON of leaves. But you should have seen it before I figured out how to bring it back. :) It has grown quite a bit since then – both out and up.
I LOVE these plants now – I’m completely hooked. If I can find more at IKEA I’d like to get one more. Their big beautiful leaves are lovely:
A few of you have asked about the cats with this plant. I waffled back and forth about getting one because I read conflicting reports over the years. But I’ve found the cats don’t touch these plants. Our palms they chomp on like food but they’ve never shown any interest in these at all. Also, when the fiddle leaf is healthy it doesn’t seem to shed leaves…this one hasn’t lost one leaf since I brought it back to life.
Have you jumped on the fig train? Are you a plant person in general or no? I LOVE them and love having plants scattered throughout the house – they give it life! I’ve blogged about plants that are safe to have around cats (and easy to grow!) here and here. I think the key to most plants is the light – pay attention to what their needs are in that area and you’ll be good. Most of our plants I water every two weeks or so and they do wonderfully.
I have had my ikea fig for about a year, i was worried for $13 it wouldnt last, but knock on wood it seems to be the only plant i can keep alive.. yours look amzing
I've long admired the fiddle leaf fig tree, but since I haven't inherited my farmer-father's green thumb, I tend to stay away from indoor plants and only buy cut flowers from Trader Joes. I might just have to give it a try with such a great price at Ikea.
Love mine as well! After a little trial and error I finally have healthy plants. I water and clean the leaves in the shower. The spray nozzle is great for removing dust.
I got one (a small one like your small one) at Home Depot for $9.98! They had big ones for $20 something. I was a little concerned about it and our cat too but just like yours he doesn't touch it. I do keep a watch on him but so far he just loves the palms. I think cats like plants with "grass like" leaves.
Yes, total plant person!! I have many in every room of my home - none of these kind though! Next IKEA trip for sure! And yes, just last night I dusted one of my kitchen plants, LOL. Happens often, especially with animals in the home, and everything gets a good scrub down when I repot in the spring :-).
Did you prune to make yours branch or did you buy it more like a tree? I have two Home Depot FLFs, and they're pretty small now, but I want to be prepared for when they get to a size where I'd want to get them to branch. Do I encourage branching early or wait until it's closer to the desired height? Thanks!
I bought that one more like a tree so I'm not sure! I would say start now and see what happens. Let me know how it goes!
I got one at Home Depot this summer. It loved living on our back porch all summer. I worried when I brought it in, but I kept in on the same side of the house near a window and it is thriving. And yes, I dust the leaves too. My brother actually had a client of his years ago that made him clean all of her indoor plants occasionally with a rag dampened with milk of all things. It apparently made the leaves shiny. LOL
I too have jumped on the Fiddle Leaf Fig bandwagon....I learned from my first plant at Ikea that it does not require much attention...I was over watering it...leaves falling off....So with a bit of neglect and sun...they are doing better! Love the walls in your room!
I grew up washing plant leaves, so know the process. We didn't use mayo, but milk, for some reason. Maybe it's because we lived on a small dairy farm. :) Who knows? Your plant looks great, cat butt and all.
Oh my gosh, I haven't heard "fiddle dee dee" in so long. My grandmother used to say it all the time as her "F" word. LOL. She was a very dear person to me and I have many fond memories of her and summers baking in the kitchen. Thank you so much for making me smile and bringing back memories this afternoon. Fiddle dee dee, I miss hearing her voice. :)
I love the look of these plants and I know one would look lovely in my home. I got one from IKEA and, like you, immediately started killing it. Sadly, I never figured out exactly how much water/light it wanted and it is no more. I might try again if I find a good deal.
My mother has had a fig tree, affectionately named “Sir Isaac Newton” (get it? fig? fig newton?) that has been around since I was a little kid- it’s gotta be at least 20 years old now. But she’s carted it around through 6 moves and good ol’ Sir Isaac keeps going strong. He’s huge now, but seriously, he’s like a member of the family. Don’t know what we’d do without him. ;-)
Plant whore here. Rooms look naked without 'em. And I totally wash mine. I do the big leafed ones like you did, and smaller leafed ones, I stick in the sink and use the sprayer. I have yet to become a fiddle owner, though. I'm generally a solid five years behind the times.
Love, love, love my figs!! Just another tip. First, tho, yes people do dust their plant leaves. The lady at the nursery told me that some of the dust on the leaves is probably chert from when they were hauled from Florida (I guess they are all grown there?). Anyway, the dust prevents the leaves from absorbing as much sunlight as possible which is so necessary, especially in winter. I have never heard of the mayo thing. There is a whole chat board with an expert on fiddles on Garden Web. If you have any questions, you can find anything you ever wanted to know about them on that site. Also, about anything house related (don't let the name fool you). I even found out how to paint my front door a high gloss black on that site. It's really a great source of information.
That is too funny. I am also so behind on trends in fashion, decor, pretty much everything. I just claim to "stick with the classics" rather than following the trends. Makes me feel better. :) But I have two figs, also from Ikea. One is dying, the otter is thriving. I'm going to put it in the brightest window I can find and see if that helps!.
I don't have a fiddle leaf fig but I have had ficus trees for years. A couple of times a year I set them outside during a steady rain. It cleans the leaves beautifully and also flushes out the minerals that build up in the soil. Of course it won't work if you don't have drainage holes in the bottom of your pot.
I'd live a fiddle leaf fig for my dining room but haven't been able to find just the right size. Oh, and I think you are super trendy in your decorating.
I've been dying for one of these, but I am worried my cats might eat it-- well, just one rascally cat in particular. Maybe if I can find one that cheap it'd be worth a try!! Also... one of my chores as a kid was to wipe down the spider plant leaves with a sponge every Saturday. My mom was a bit of a neat freak, but it's recommended to do that if you have people with allergies in your house :)
How would you like to live where everything has dust like that on it every blasted day? Have never lived in such a blasted dusty dirty place in my life. I could dust all day and it's still dusty, arrrggghhh.
Sure wish we have an IKEA close so I could get one of those fiddle leaf figs. Never heard of them until I read your blog. Gorgeous plants, love both versions. Will have to check Home Depot next spring see if they have any. I grow plants outside just fine but tend to forget plants in house. You've really got me interested and all your commenters really whet my interest for them. I've heard of washing leaves for long time but then I'm an old lady, (74). Enjoy your blog so much. You are one heck of a ball of energy with all you do. Happy weekend and season
I have found that fiddle leaf figs are very easy to propagate using cuttings. My mom has one that is over 30 years old, and every time we move or a friend would like a fig we start a new one from it. If you're interested, search for "fiddle leaf fig cuttings"! It sure makes the price right!
When I was in school for interior design, I had an instructor who said that she used Saturday mornings to "dust her plants." :-D Just letting you know -- you're not alone! Lol...
I am a plant technician which means I take care of plants for a living. Fiddle Leaf figs have to have SUPER bright light or they will drop their leaves. They also are usually really root bound and need to be watered a lot! If you can give them bright light an lots of water they are very easy to care for. We always dust all of our plants. It is not just for looks.... dust build up reduces the amount of light that gets through and will eventually affect the health of the plant. Plants need light for photosynthesis and this is even more important when they are inside and usually getting less light than they would outside. We also use a spray wax called Pokon, just for plants, to give them a nice shine. This is just for looks, but it does make the plant look healthier. You sound like you have figured out how to take care of your plants, just like the professionals do!
Bacon and Barrels Festival - Things to do in San Diego This Weekend - May 30-June 1, 2014 - Thrillist
The Bacon and Barrels Festival is kicking off Friday night with an all-bacon VIP dinner prepared by Top Chef alum Brooke Williamson, plus beer and bourbon pairings from "Dr." Bill Sysak from Stone Brewing starting at 5:30pm. The festival itself takes place Saturday from 1-5pm at the Embarcadero Marina Park South with craft brews, wines from Santa Barbara wineries, bourbon, tequila, and Scotch, plus bacon-based foods from local chefs and live music from The Stone Foxes and Black Crystal Wolf Kids. Thrillist readers can enter the code MAJORBACON to get $15 off tickets.
All Weekend: This Saturday and Sunday, the Santee Street Fair and Craft Beer Festival will get started at 10am with 300 food and vendor booths, two stages with live music, carnival rides, and 40 taps of regional brews. When you pre-order your craft beer wristband online you also get free pizza from Dang Brother Pizza.
All Weekend: The 35th Annual Fiesta del Sol is happening in Solana Beach Saturday and Sunday from 9am-9pm at Fletcher Cove. There will be live music from more than 18 bands -- thanks to the Belly Up -- gourmet food trucks, beer, wine, and art vendors.
Saturday, May 31st: Herringbone is turning two and is celebrating by throwing a Brews & Grooves party. They are teaming up with Acoustic Ales and will have a variety of specialty beers on tap, along with music from The Yes Team, Ryan Hiller, and David Shyde, starting at 1pm. There will also be a special menu featuring flat breads, a two-handed burger, beer battered fish and chips, and beer brat and pretzel with beer mustard.
Sunday, June 1st: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon gets started at 6:15am at 6th and Quince and finishes up at K St and 13th. You can run a full marathon, half marathon, and relay with more than 10 stages set up throughout the course with local San Diego bands performing to keep you motivated.
If you’re familiar with Windows 8, you may know that Microsoft made it very easy to uninstall Modern mobile apps. In Windows 10, this capability has been extended to universal apps, of course. But it’s also available—gasp—for legacy desktop applications as well.
Note: Windows 10 actually prevents you from uninstalling some core built-in apps. To learn how to uninstall those apps, plase refer to Windows 10 Tip: Remove the Built-in Apps.
This is a fairly major change to Windows: in Windows 8—and in previous versions of Windows—uninstalling a desktop application requires you to know about and find the Programs and Features control panel. But Windows 10 makes this a bit easier.
For all Modern and universal Windows apps—save the built-in apps like Mail, Calendar, Microsoft Edge, Groove and others, which cannot be uninstalled—all you need to do is find the app’s tile or icon in Start or All Apps, right-click it (or tap and hold) and then choose “Uninstall” from the pop-up menu that appears.
Desktop applications do require an extra step. So while a universal app uninstall will happen immediately after that one prompt, uninstalling a desktop application this way will cause the familiar (to power users) Programs and Features control panel to appear. Then, you can uninstall the application from there.
Additionally, Microsoft offers a Settings interface for uninstalling apps (Modern, universal) and desktop applications. You can find that in Settings (WINKEY + I), System, Apps and Features.
Microsoft’s Xbox Spring Sale is in full swing right now, but the best Xbox deal is at Amazon: You can get Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (digital code) for just $10. And that gives you access to all of the previous Gears games for Xbox 360 (which work, or will work, on Xbox One with backwards compatibility plus the ability to be among the first to check out the Gears of War 4 Multiplayer Beta next month. What’s not to love?
In an interview with VentureBeat, Xbox product manager Jason Ronald said that Microsoft hears complaints about UWP games and their inability to customize v-sync. And it will eventually fix this, somehow.
“Some of the early feedback we’ve gotten from the first wave of UWP-enabled games is that people don’t like that v-sync is locked to the refresh rate of the monitor or that there’s a lack of support for Gsync and Freesync [options that intelligently output rendered images onto a monitor at the same rate as that graphics card,” he said. “We’ve taken that feedback, and we’re actively working on fixes that we’re testing with some of our first-party studios. We’ll be shipping these later this year.”
With Microsoft getting into the mobile OS virtual keyboard game with its Swiftkey purchase, Hub Keyboard app, and Word Flow keyboard app, it is perhaps not surprising that Google is making its own iOS keyboard too. The Verge reports:
Google has been developing a third-party keyboard for iOS that would put the company’s search engine in a highly used part of the interface.
The keyboard, which incorporates a variety of search options, has been in development for months, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Google keyboard incorporates a number of features meant to distinguish it from the stock iOS keyboard. Like its Android counterpart, the Google keyboard for iOS employs gesture-based typing, so you can slide your finger from one letter to the next and let Google guess your intended word. Tap the Google logo and you can access traditional web search. It also appears to have distinct buttons for pictures and GIF searches, both presumably powered by Google image search. The keyboard is visually distinct from the standard Android keyboard, which incorporates voice search but no text or image-based searching.
Apple iPhone owners who updated their device to iOS 9.3 are being notified via text message of AT&T’s international Wi-Fi calling feature, a service that allows users to place calls to — and receive calls from — the U.S. without incurring airtime charges.
The U.S. wireless provider said its latest carrier software update extends months-old Wi-Fi calling capabilities beyond domestic borders. The feature is sure to be well received by jet-setters keen on avoiding high international roaming charges. AT&T notes calls to and from international numbers will be charged at rates commensurate to a customer’s smartphone package or international calling plan.
This week’s release of iOS 9.3 was accompanied by new versions of Xcode (7.3), Apple’s Mac-based developer environment, and Swift (2.2), its new (and open-sourced) C-like programming language. As the Swift blog notes, Swift 2.2 comes with a number of new features, one of the more interesting is Linux support.
Binaries for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 15.10 are now available for download. This should reach an audience of about 11.
Fellow Tibians, besides the new Webinterface and the action bars we have also redesigned our Store. Inspired by the Flash client, every item is now directly displayed.
Additionally, we are going to introduce two new blessings: Once implemented, you will be able to obtain the "Heart of the Mountain" and the "Blood of the Mountain" blessing. Besides the five regular ones, you are now able to further protect your character with these two blessings. Both can either be purchased in the Store or obtained directly in Tibia from two new NPCs. Already existing NPCs that are selling the regular blessings will provide you with further information about their new colleagues.
Being fully protected with all seven blessings reduces your loss of experience and skill points in case of a character's death by 56% now.
If your character dies, you will lose one charge of each blessing but will still be blessed until you used up all of your remaining charges.
There is a new button for blessings above the amulet slot, which will show you the current record of your blessings along with additional information concerning their shielding effects on your next death penalty.
Keep in mind that you can only buy the first charge of blessings from NPCs. Additional charges need to be purchased via the Store.
If your character dies while it is not fully protected by all seven blessings, you now have the chance to reduce your most recent death penalty retroactively via a death redemption. By purchasing the Death Redemption your character will be treated as if it was fully shielded by all blessings at the time of death, meaning you will regain a maximum of 56% of your lost EXP and skill points. To clarify the usage we have prepared a small example:
At the time of death, you were protected by five blessings, which reduced your penalty by 40% resulting in a total loss of 600,000 EXP.
You decide to purchase the Death Redemption, which treats your character as if it would have been blessed by seven blessings the moment you died.
Therefore, after the purchase, you will retroactively regain the missing 16%, which equals in 160,000 EXP. The same applies to your lost skill points.
Death Redemption is only available in the Store for a limited time frame of 24 hours after the character's death. In addition, it is only applicable to your most recent death.