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This year I am really pleased to be working with the fashion designer Chiedza Dawn Ziyambe and her team (pictured above) on her 2017 Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase event due to run this summer in London.

At the beginning of March I worked with Dawn to create one of the publicity shots for this years show whose theme is “Zimbabwe 2030, a glimpse into the future”.  The brief was to create a composite image showing five styles of fashion over a period of time with a final, sixth image putting out the question what will fashion look like in 2030? To create the image we worked with the model Linda Ndiweni in different outfits with the plan being to Photoshop them together into a composite.

This turned out to be a great learning exercise for me, both in turns of how to make best use of a small shooting space (in, it has to be said, not the world’s greatest studio) as well as how to use Photoshop to come up with the desired final image.

Here’s the process I followed and the various techniques I used to get the final image.

The Shoot

We shot Linda in five different outfits and looks. Each set had 25+ images but here are the six images we agreed upon. The last one, in the white dress, has two because that will appear twice. Click an image to get a larger version with technical info on the shot.

Develop the Images in Lightroom

The first step was to get all the images into a Lightroom folder so I could begin doing some basic ‘developing’. I use my latest cataloguing scheme to organise the images.

Develop in Lightroom

Develop in Lightroom

Whilst in Lightroom I ensure all the images have a similar exposure and white balance and perform cropping and straightening etc as appropriate. Once satisfied with the images I export each as a PSD file to the ‘Processed’ folder ready for manipulation in Photoshop.

Create a Blank Canvas

Once in Photoshop, and before opening any of the individual image files, I need to create a blank canvas which I will compose each of the images in. This will become the background onto which each individual image will be placed. This is pretty straight forward in Photoshop, just select File/New… from the menu to create a new file of the correct dimensions (12″ x 5″ in this case).

Create a Background

Create a Background

Process and Select Each Image

The next step is to select each of the individual images, doing any further processing as required before placing them onto the blank canvas.

Image Selection

Image Selection

There are great number of selection tools in Photoshop, probably the most powerful is the ‘Quick Selection’ tool with the ‘Select and Mask…’ enhancement. For a description of how to use this tool see this YouTube video by Brooke Shaden as well as this description. The main challenge with cutting people out of an image will be with the hair. In the above example this was fairly straight forward however if you have images where the hair is long and flowing and not separated well from the background you are going to have a tough job ahead. It can be done but requires a good deal of patience and a lot of time.

The major challenge I had in terms of image selection was the one of Linda with the grey afro hair where the requirement was for it to be black! Sounds like a straight forward select and change of colour right, but to make it look even half way authentic requires a fair bit of work otherwise the hair just looks too artificial (even if it is a wig). The best tutorial I found for how to changie hair colour is this one which I followed and was eventually able to get something I was happy with.

Place Images onto the Blank Canvas

Having edited and selected the individual images the final step is to place them onto the blank canvas.

Image Selection

Image Selection

This just involves copying the selected image, switching to the file containing the white background and pasting, then moving, the cutout image to the right position using the ‘Move Tool’.

The final challenge was that the last image was to have a starburst effect covering the model showing that the future was still unknown (but bright). This was done by blending a suitable starburst image with one of the selections of Linda.

Blending Images

Blending Images

The Final Image

Finally, here is the composite image created from the individual ones above all edited in the ways discussed.
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spring has…almost…sprung!

I am a spring time person. I love the cold nights and the cool days, the soft rains and the raging thunderstorms, the smell of loam after a storm, the plants sending out new shoots of life I will enjoy into autumn. It’s hard to be cynical and sour when everything comes together, new.

Those who read this blog from time to time know that last year at this time I did a series of walks with my handsome ginger tabby, Louie. Louie and I had small adventures each time I followed him on his walks. They always were concerned with, from Louie’s perspective, “What’s new in my territory?!” Then, August 1, 2011, Louie died suddenly of lymphoma. I didn’t know until the very night he died that he was ill. To this day, I grieve that fact because I had medical insurance on Louie. He could have had a couple more years if we’d caught it in time. Yeah.

But it is spring time, time to put away the sorrows and travails of the previous years, and enjoy the resurgence of life.

This year I have Louie’s successors, the kitten brothers. Full of life and the dickens, Andy and Dougy aren’t Louie, but they are a new adventure for me. Louie I rescued from the pound when the veterinarian estimated him to be five. The kitten brothers come to me when they were a bit older than two months, last September.

The kitten brothers. Cynical Andy, just now starting to accept things as they are and enjoying them a little. He was the sicker of the two kittens, and had to put up with more than a life time of baths to wash the diarrhea out of his fur. Ugh! Goofy Dougy, always ready for a good time. He and Andy play well together, and I think Andy benefits from Andy’s goofiness, his “come on, Andy, let’s chase each other all over the apartment and hunt each other down” way of keeping Andy occupied with what’s necessary for kittens: A good time, all the time, thank you!

Spring. The kittens are eight months old, as of March 1st. They make me laugh. They make me look forward to getting out of bed in the morning. They behave badly but are good, little kittens by and large. Explorers of their realm, little predators learning how to do it by hunting each other -and me sometimes – they are spring spirits, young, reckless, adventuresome, rough around the edges, but holding the full promise of a renewal of the cat presence I liked about Louie in my life. They enter spring as kitten teenagers. That should be interesting!

I’m in a spring mood today. The remains of last year remind me of the cycle of life that ends in death for all living things, but there always is that little sprout poking up through the dead leaves, impossibly small now, but just waiting to spring forth as rhubarb, the first chives for a light oniony touch in an omelette, or maybe mint for some tea.

Spring. My season!

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    • I’m a hardcore disciplinarian, perhaps a legacy of coming through a family line raised in the Church of Scotland/Presbyterian/Calvinist tradition. Self-control in children is more important than making spoiled btrats!

      In your own instance, you know the joy of being a good girl and how humans view you (since you are a “dangerous” breed). You also have a loving family where you aren’t rewarded when you are naughty (well, seeking adventure and having a curious interest in the world beyond the fence – AND naughty) and take off into the swamp.

      America’s Congress (even the ones trying to be nice) has been naughty in a specific way for several years, and I think it time to send the worst-acting ones home to sit in corners to help them understand why they can’t be trusted with Congressional responsibilities any longer.

      Too many people have died and sacrificed for over a quarter of a millennium to bring this country to some degree of – if not perfection – stability, prosperity, respectfulness, and a place for justice for all. There are some who think they support this “revolution”, but, in fact, destroy progress to date through their zealotry and ignorance. These are the ones I want to send back to (in your terms) “obedience school”.

  1. Power and position seem to be difficult for some people to handle, eh!? I’m old enough to remember the Profumo Affair, but Wilber Mills, well…! Here’s a link to a whole passel of bad behavior in the US governmental ranks. “Our bad boys are worse than yours” Yeah, yeah! You know what braggarts American can be! Ha! Here’s the link, if I did it right:

  2. That’s odd, it worked both times when I tested it before posting, but on copying it from the post to test it again, it doesn’t work. Googling “Telegraph and you thought british mps were bad” works.

  3. I don’t know if you heard three years ago there was a huge stink over here about MP’s expenses. It was very revealing as to how greedy, devious and foolish some of these people are. The papers were full of it for several months, and I think many people including me thoroughly enjoyed their public humiliation. There were some really outrageous cases and which made it look like they spent more time cooking up their expenses than actually doing their actual job of being an MP.

    There will still be some information on the internet. Here’s one for an example:

    Measures were supposed to have been put in place to put all expenses claims through procedures designed to sift out false claims.

    None of this has stopped them though and I heard recently that the situation with inflated and false expenses claims – like claiming for renting or buying a flat or house so they can have a presence in their own constituency or in London and then renting it out sometimes to their own family or ’employing’ their own family – carries on.

    • Nice, eh?! Unfortunately, the system promotes quid pro quo arrangements. The Supreme Court did a lot to crap out the American government with its Citizens United decision, which opened up the floodgates on money contributions to parties, candidates, and elected officials seeking re-election. All the Congressman money can purchase.

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The children have spent time this week observing their bean seeds to see how many roots had grown. So far, most seeds have sprouted one root!     Everyone was engaged and excited about our new poetry unit. We have … Continued

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Willy Wonka needed more Oompa Loompas to work in his factory, making and testing new recipes for sweets. As part of the application process, Year Three had to plan, conduct and evaluate an investigation with sweets. Miss Lambert and Mrs … Continued

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How underwriters look at personal property and seller credits

One of the first things I do when I take a purchase transaction is check the real estate contract and go directly to the personal property section. I’m looking to see what personal property is listed. Here is what Fannie Mae says about personal property: “Personal property/principal
residence — A one-unit property that is the borrower’s principal residence may not include personal property or other items (such as appliances, furniture, or equipment) that might be considered as additional security.” Definitely open to interpretation. Some lenders will pick apart this section and require a value to be placed on the personal property. This can ultimately reduce the sales price and affect the purchaser’s loan amount. So, I’ll leave it up to you as to whether you include it in the sales contract.

Another item we run into is when the seller is giving a credit to the borrower at closing. Most of the time this occurs because of repair issues from the inspection. Below are the do’s and don’ts when this occurs from the mortgage standpoint:

1) The seller is only allowed to pay closing cost and pre-paid items. The seller can not credit money to the borrower at closing or it will reduce the sales price.

2) It’s best to do an addendum with just the following language, “seller is crediting x amount at closing towards purchaser’s closing cost and pre-paids.” Also, if the repairs are listed in the contract the underwriter will want them fixed prior to closing.

3) Any time you do an addendum please send it to the attorney as well as the lender. A lot of times the attorney will have the addendum and the lender will not know anything about it until they see the HUD. This could delay closing so please notify the lender and run it by them to make sure it will not be a problem.

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Business Card Fun

I just finished printing these cards for Laurie… We wanted the design to capture the whimsy found in her paintings and drawings so we included some of the hand-drawn elements from her work. I really love her paintings – she … Continue reading

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My amazing and inspiring friend Laurie (check her out!) asked me to be part of a group show at Studio 3. Woo! Luckily I got to hang my favorite painting right by the front door…

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Her Data Is Part of Her Story, But Her Story is not Just Her Data.

Her Story” is a great example how piecing together bits of information can create a picture of a person or an event. It is also an example of some of the limits of that picture.

Hack Her Data, Hack Her Story

Her Story” is difficult to describe or classify as a game. It’s a little like trying to find and organize the pieces of a detective novel. The game doesn’t give the player a lot of direction; part of the game is the discovery of the game itself. The game allows the player to search a police database to find short movie clips from several police interviews with a woman. No context is given for why the woman was interviewed or why the player is searching the database. However, by finding and watching the clips, the player gains clues that allow new searches. This cycle of searching and information is the core mechanic of the game.

Hacking to Learn

Hacking can mean a lot of things, but it is broadly about investigation (sometimes, it is an investigation that is against some laws). It can be done for a wide range of reasons and can take many different forms, many of them legal– or even a legitimate business. Regardless of the specific details, hacking always involves exploring the possibilities and limits of a system in order to learn or discover something. In “Her Story,” the hacking is learning what the in-game database can find that will help the player piece together a coherent string of events and characters.

The Limits of Hacking

Even after hacking together all of “Her Story,” something about the picture is incomplete. Why is the player watching these interviews? The game gives the player this answer after piecing together enough of “Her Story,” but hacking a person’s data doesn’t necessarily answer all of the questions about that person. For most criminal hackers, the pieces of data have enough of the story: credit card numbers, bank accounts, social security numbers, addresses, birth dates, etc. Sometimes we need more than a collection of data about a person, and those are often cases where believing data too blindly can cause problems, from legal decisions in courts or policies to judgments in our interpersonal relationships. As mountains of data pile up for each of us, the temptation to describe and explain people using that data also grows. This data has a lot of appeal because it can measure and evaluate some things very effectively. This effort to make life more efficient comes brings at least two potential drawbacks: First, the data can be misleading in myriad ways, and second, the data seems so powerfully scientific and sound that questioning it (or its interpretation) can become almost taboo.

Her Story

There will always be hackers trying to steal financial information and identities. But that threat is known and recognized, so experts fight against it and consumers take protective measures. The data we give to companies and employers and government is riddled with pitfalls, and blind faith in big data will amplify those problems. In “Her Story,” twists emerge as the player pieces the plot together. After enough of the story is pieced together, the game asks the player if “you understand why [the woman] did what she did.” I’m not sure any collection of data can ever really answer that.

Where Is The Fair Use? Where It Has Always Been.

Copyright law is not the most difficult area of law. Contracts, Torts, and Constitutional Law are massive categories that cover a lot of dense and complex content. However “easy” copyright might be, it is still an area of law with technicalities and layers of exceptions and conditions. Though copyright law doesn’t have the Rule Against Perpetuities or questions of Personal Jurisdiction, there are other complications: the triennial review process for 1201 research exceptions, or the federal preemption exemptions under the 1976 Copyright Act for pre-1972 recordings, for example.

Fair use is a sliver of copyright law that doesn’t seem complicated, but people can still get it wrong. In programming, brackets and semicolons matter if you want your program to run and not crash. In law, words and details matter if you want a favorable result. Being sloppy or lazy, generalizing broadly, or simplifying and condensing are all quick ways to lose in law. The fair use doctrine can feel easy for an educated adult to grasp, but there are important details in this tiny section of US law.

Fair Use Is Not Everywhere

Fair use is not a defense against the abuse of a copyright claim system. A huge part of the #WTFU discussion has been the complaint that takedown notices (or strikes) are issued by people who don’t have any claim to the copyright. This is a problem, but it is not a fair use problem. To use the fancy words: The copyright abuse of which most YouTube content contributors complain is a failure to meet the definitions in section 101, or to meet the cause of action available in section 501(b). Section 107 exceptions to copyright are not implicated. Therefore, there is no “fair use” claim.

Fair Use Is Not Pretending You Didn’t Do It

The true fair use part of #WTFU is that copyright holders issue strikes against critics who (arguably) deserve the protection of fair use. The unsatisfying answer is that this in accordance with the law. Section 107 of the United States Code is an exception to copyright infringement. Fair use is really a defense that says, “Yes, I am violating copyright, but I have an approved reason to do it.” Fair use admits copyright infringement. It does not replace copyright infringement. (The 9th Circuit in Lenz notwithstanding.)  In this case, the law is designed to defend accused infringers, not prevent the accusation.

Fair Use Is Not The Money Maker Yo’ Federal Statutes Gave Ya

Fair use is not meant to protect commercialized activity. Whether Nostalgia Critic is covered by fair use is an interesting question, because he’s “doing criticism,” but he’s also “doing entertainment” and monetizing (even if indirectly) the video. * Fair use is not a checklist that gets someone a total exemption from copyright infringement if any single box gets ticked. It is a balancing test, and all of the factors get considered. Balancing tests make for the least clear and predictable answers in law.

The Best Case For Fair Use On YouTube?

The strongest fair use argument is for “Let’s Play”-style content. Games are meant to be played. They are supposed to engage the decision-making faculties of the brain, in the same way that movies are meant to engage the sight and hearing of the audience. In an important way, filming someone playing a game is like hearing someone read a movie script. Not only is it transformative, but it changes the economic impact analysis. Uploading music or film to YouTube may well replace the original content, but I disagree that footage of someone else playing a game is a replacement for playing the game.** A court might not see things this way.

Situation Normal

The daily internet realities of copyright and trademark don’t match US law. The real problem is not that Google*** is failing to deliver on the legal promise of FAIR USE. The problem is that the law is more or less working as it’s written. There are questions to ask here, but I don’t think Google has those answers.

*There have always been book reviews written for profit, as well as parodies and commentaries of works. But not every case of journalism, parody, or fandom wins under a section 107 defense. And that’s why it’s a grey area- or at least more grey than people realize. It is clear that 17 USC 107 was never meant to support commercial entertainment enterprises, so it is a little off-kilter to hear people invoke it as essential to their livelihoods. However, it’s also clear that Title 17 of the USC was never meant to prohibit criticism or education.

**It is very important not to confuse “Let’s Play”-style content with eSports, because footage of someone else playing a game is a very good replacement for … that person playing that game.

***All of this ignores some relevant DMCA analysis and distinctions between US Federal Court and YouTube’s Content ID System.


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Historical Summary - Guardian-Liberator War

Records from this period are fragmentary thanks to viral, memetic, and hacking attacks by the two sides, but a basic summary will be helpful. In 2189, two AIs were created by two groups for two very different purposes. Guardian, the product of the utopian Future Foundation, was told to use memetic warfare to make humanity in general and humans in particular as safe and happy as it could. Liberator, the product of Libertarian think tank True Freedom, was told to influence humanity to be as free as possible.

The two of them encountered each other in 2190 while attempting to influence the passage of a bill providing for additional safety inspectors in meatpacking plants in Suriname. As soon as the two AIs deduced the other’s existence and purpose, they began attempting to sabotage one another, directing bribe money and influence to thwart the other’s agenda and attempting to spread themselves to every corner of human space. When it became clear that simple influence wasn’t going to dissuade the other, they began escalating their attacks. Subverting human organizations to use as fronts, hiring teams of freelance mercenaries to sabotage one another’s projects, hacking drones to divert into pre-prepared interception zones – or even just into each other’s fronts – no tactic or resource was sacred in their quest to destroy each other.

While there were suspicions at the highest levels long before, most historians agree that the War itself started in earnest on April 21, 2195, when Liberator took over the freshly completed USV Armstrong and promptly destroyed the in-construction PLASS Shenzhen. In the days that followed, the human governments of the system struggled to protect their people as entire fleets of drones, warships, and electronics of all kinds were suborned by forks of the two AIs and turned against each other.

It was when the first reports of nuclear weapon and kinetic-kill vehicle deployment were reaching Phobos that the Academy’s board decided to close itself off from the outside. All ports were sealed and hardened against electronic attack and, when the first memetic viruses started to come into being, the decision was made to cut off communication with the outside as well. 32 years passed without any form of contact from the outside world, until the growing lack of fresh water and a mysterious signal from Jupiter forced the Academy to consider contacting the outside world again.

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Phoenix’s Next Flight Launches Today!!!

Greetings PCA Members and Downtown Phoenix Supporters

My name is Miguel Martinez and I have been an intern at Phoenix Community Alliance since April of 2013.  In that time I have had the opportunity to meet several incredible people of all professions and I thought to myself, what an amazing opportunity to have a real and practical discussion about urbanism and its effect on the future of Phoenix.  I come from a background of engineering and finished my bachelors in Design Studies of the Built Environment.  From there I continued my education and studied collaboratively with Planners, Real Estate Developers and Architects.  I studied urban infrastructure and revitalization in Spain for 6 weeks and Argentina for 7 months eventually receiving two masters’ degrees in Architecture and Urban Design, which is the study of the physicality of the city as well as its economic driving forces.  My knowledge of all these areas has given me some insight on how the disciplines work together and just as I draw from my educational experiences in design, we must draw from each other’s expertise as we develop Phoenix.  So here’s where you come in, I am aware of the huge impact that PCA has on the downtown area and in order to further our collective understanding of urbanization and draw from all of our expertise I am beginning a blog titled Phoenix’s Next Flight to discuss current urban issues and examples as they relate to Phoenix’s Downtown.  The intent being to lead a discussion on urbanism across the industries and spread the knowledge we all have gained in our respective fields.  In my experience, often times creativity and progress best takes place when all of the decision makers are involved and informed.  I welcome your comments and critiques as they pertain to your specialty and hope that together we can chart Phoenix’s Next Flight

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Cortical (Cerebral) Visual Impairment And Its Impact On Children With Cerebral Palsy

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When working with a child with Cerebral Palsy (CP), therapists need to look at the whole child and not just their motor skills. Therapists use sensory input to get a desired motor response. Vision plays a major part in a child’s motivation to move and explore their environment.  Because there is damage to the brain in a child with CP there is a high probability that there is damage to the visual pathways leading to cortical visual impairment (CVI).  Many eye doctors and vision therapists tend to be concerned with the eye structure itself and ignore the cortical impairment. Often eye reports state that there is nothing wrong with the eyes but parents are still concerned that their child is not looking at toys and seeing objects. As therapists we use toys and objects to help a child move and to interact with their surroundings.  If the child is having a hard time understanding their environment then they tend to interact less with it.  It is important we know how to adapt the surroundings so the child feels safe, secure and wanting to move.

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is defined as brain damage during utero, delivery and the first two years of development. Many children with CP also have brain damage in the visual processing centers and visual pathways.   Cortical visual impairment  (CVI) is “a condition in which children have reduced visual acuity as a result of damage to posterior visual pathways.”[1] It is the most common cause of visual impairment in first world countries and is increasing in other countries.

The Brain and Vision

Sight as a sense is primarily associated with the eyes but vision is a complex system of the eyes and the brain. The visual stimuli are received by the eye and then are sent to the visual processing centers of the brain via the optic nerve pathway.  It is estimated that over 40 percent of the brain is devoted to visual function.[2]  The occipital lobes are primarily concerned with vision. The images are sent from the occipital lobes on to the temporal and parietal lobes to be integrated with other sensory input for identification. When there is damage to one or more of these areas then there damage to the visual pathways.  However, there is a period of plasticity of the brain to improve visual function with best results between birth and three years of age.

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Medical Conditions

The most common conditions associated with CVI are also associated with CP.  These are asphyxia, perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, intraventricular hemorrhage, periventricular leukomalacia, cerebral vascular accident, central nervous system infection, structural abnormalities and trauma.[3]

Click here for a helpful book on: Visual Impairment in Children Due to Damage to the Brain.

Cortical visual impairment is diagnosed by:

  1. A normal eye exam that cannot explain the lack of functional vision;
  2. A neurological medical diagnosis;
  3. Presence of unique visual and behavioral characteristics;[4]
  4. A child can have an ocular issue along with CVI thus making it difficult to determine if the behavior is due to ocular or cortical condition.

The unique visual and behavioral characteristics of CVI are:

  1. Distinct color preferences – strong color preference, especially red or yellow;
  2. Attraction to movement – need movement to obtain visual attention and sustain it; either the object or the child can be moving;
  3. Visual latency – the child is slow in looking at the object;
  4. Visual field preferences –uncommon field areas and maybe loss of visual fields;
  5. Difficulties with visual and environmental complexity – difficulty viewing in a complex environment with other sensory input, including noise;
  6. Light-gazing or non-purposeful gaze;
  7. Difficulties with distance viewing;
  8. Absent or atypical visual reflex responses – blink reflex to approaching object is delayed;
  9. Difficulties with visual novelty – tend to prefer looking at familiar objects;
  10. Absence of visually guided reach – unable to look and touch an object at same time.

Children with CVI have been described as seeing better some days better than others. This is not true. They see the same but the environment around them is different each day affecting their perception and functional vision.

Follow the link for a book recommendation on Behavioral Characteristics of Children with Permanent Cortical Visual Impairment.

The CVI Range

The CVI Range was developed by Christine Roman-Lantzy to assess the functional vision of a child with CVI with a specialized protocol. The assessment encompasses interviews with caregivers and teachers who know the child’s medical history and day to day schedule; observation of the child in their natural environment; and face-to-face evaluation. The Range looks at the child’s behavior in all of the behavioral characteristics and the degree each of the behavioral characteristics interferes with the child’s functional vision.  The score is then used to determine if the child is in one of three Phases of CVI:[4]

  • Phase I – Building Visual Behavior
  • Phase II – Integrating Vision with Function
  • Phase III – Resolution of CVI Characteristics

Once the Phase is determined it can be used with the CVI Resolution Chart to determine environmental considerations that should be implemented and needs of visual development.

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Phase I – A child tends to view a single color (preference for red or yellow), needs movement to localize the object, is delayed in viewing and tends to have a visual field preference. They attend to an object in a simple environment and do not regard the human face. Sounds and other sensory input hinder their visual attention. They might tend to stare out the window or at the lights or a fan. They might see an object across a room or if it is novel to them.  Also they do not look at the object while touching it.

Phase II – A child may now prefer two to three different colors but still need some movement to attend to the object with visual field preferences decreasing.  Latency can still be present and increases when the child is tired, stressed, or overstimulated. They start to look at faces and objects further away and no longer stare at the lights. They start to reach for familiar objects while looking at it.

Phase III – A child no longer has a strong color, object or visual field preference, latency and look and touch are resolved. Auditory stimuli can be tolerated in a musical toy or in the room. Visual novelty and complex environments are still concerns.

Watch this video on Cortical Visual Impairment and the Evaluation of Functional Vision:

Therapy Implications

Phase I – When working with a child with CP in Phase I they need to be in a simple environment with subdued lighting and decreased noise – this includes no to minimal talking while having them look for the object.  Present the child a toy that is one color and has some movement.  Introduce the toy in a variety of visual fields and give the child time to respond.  Remember that your clothing presents a complex visual field so wearing a black shirt and having them on a plain blanket or mat while working with a child in Phase I will decrease the complexity.  The therapist might use a red light up ball to get a child to track and roll to their side then to their tummy.

Phase II – Use the same color object in a variety of familiar places or start to use a couple of colors during therapy.  The child still might need movement and the object be shiny. They might still have a visual field preference and be slower in responding.  They might be able to tolerate people talking around them when they are not stressed or tired.  Visual complexity is still difficult so limit toys with noise, lots of color, and many toys around the child.  Have a child crawl towards a red ball and put it into a yellow container.

Phase III – A child in Phase III will now play with objects of different colors but might have difficulty with objects with a lot of detail.  Their preferred color can be used to help them focus their attention in a complex environment. For example, placing red tape around their bedroom door when trying to get them to navigate their wheelchair through the doorway. They might still need movement or shininess for distance.  Continue to give them time to respond or find the visual field they need.  They can tolerate more noise around them and need someone to describe then consistent features of objects.

Click here to learn more about building strategies around the CVI phases.

For more information on CVI interventions, please click here.

For more information, take a look at this classic literature on cortical visual impairment:

  • Jan, J. E., Groenveld, M., & Anderson, D. O. (1993). Photophobia and cortical visual impairment. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 35(6), 473-477.
  • Jan, J., Groenveld, M., Sykanda, A. M., & Hoyt, C. (1987). Behavioral characteristics of children with permanent cortical visual impairment. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 29(5), 571-576.

  1. Skoczenski,A.M , & Good, W.V. (2004). Vernier acuity is selectively affected in infants and children with cortical visual impairment. Dev Med Child Neurol. 46(8):526-32.
  2. Dutton, G. N., McKillop, E. C., & Saidkasimova S. (2006). Visual problems as a result of brain damage in children. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 90(8), 932-933.
  3. Huo, R., Burden, S. K., Hoyt, C. S., & Good, W. V. (1999). Chronic cortical visual impairment in children: Aetiology, prognosis, and associated neurological deficits. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 83, 670-755.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Roman-Lantzy, C. Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention (New York, AFB Press, 2007).


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How You Can Help End Veterans Homelessness in Guilford County

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PTAA is working with the Partners Ending Homelessness (PEH) to end homelessness for veterans in Guilford County before the end of 2015 and we need your help. One of the biggest obstacles they face is finding enough housing for the veterans and so we need your help in finding those available housing units, but please remember that this would not be a handout. Here’s what we wrote when we announced this initiative:

  • PEH is not looking for handouts. They are looking for property owners/managers who will work with them by being flexible with regards to credit histories and some aspects of criminal background checks.
  • The program will pay up to fair market rent. The organization is sponsoring the client resident so there is not a risk of default by the individual resident.
  • Caseworkers actively manage each resident. That means your onsite manager will NOT have to actively manage the resident’s situation and WILL have a resource in case any situation does arise.

If you have vacant units that you think would meet the program’s needs then there’s an easy way you can raise your hand to volunteer. Simply fill out this application form and send it to PEH and they will get the ball rolling. Sending in the form isn’t an absolute commitment, but it is a first step to getting the process started.

Right now we have about 75 homeless veterans in Guilford County so we need as many of you as possible to step forward and help out those people who served our country. Thank you in advance for your support.

Here’s a link to the application form:

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Disaster Survivors Advocacy Team (DSAT) offers a unique community-wide coordinated response to aiding people impacted by disasters. Part of Citizen Corps of Pierce County, DSAT is comprised of nonprofit, faith-based, private sector, and government agencies working together to best support citizen recovery efforts. Honoring each other’s strengths and capabilities, DSAT team members work together to effectively help residents get their feet back on dry ground.

No single agency or organization has the tools to provide all the support and guidance disaster survivors need. The goal of DSAT is to make join forces to make it easier for people to access support services and not fall through the cracks. DSAT members meet periodically throughout the year to strengthen their partnership and hone their skills. New partners are always welcome to join the team!

In 2010, the Citizen Corps Council of Pierce County (CCC-PC) received the 2010 National Citizen Corps Achievement Award in the Collaborative Preparedness Planning category as a result of the DSAT program. This award cited DSAT as an outstanding example of community partnership and collaboration.

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Champions Spring 2014 Recap: Round of 16, Day 1

In spite of the interesting goings on in OGN Masters as well as the seemingly endless barrage of games supplied by both the North American and European LCS, it has felt like an eternity since the conclusion of Champions Winter 2014. As Doa and MonteCristo put it, it’s as though as followers of the Korean scene have experienced a sort of Champions withdrawal. With the 2014 Spring fully kicked off with the first day of matches between the SK Telecom teams, as well as CJ Entus Frost and Midas FIO, it certainly feels great to not only be able to watch some high quality Korean League of Legends play, but to write about it as well. The groups have been set, and it seems like the road to the finals of Champions Spring 2014 will go through SKT T1 K once more, but don’t discount the capabilities of their sister team, T1 K, and a few other re-emerging upstarts like Samsung Galaxy Ozone and CJ Entus Frost.

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The Entertainer Qatar: Cucina at Marriott Marquis City Center Doha

August 4, 2015
Cucina at Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel

Have you ever walked in a restaurant and just by seeing the interior decor, the friendly faces of the staff and the warm welcome they give you – you immediately know that what you’re about to experience is going to be great? No? Then I suppose you haven’t dined at Cucina Italian Restaurant at Marriott Marquis City Center Doha yet.

My friend L and I decided to meet up for dinner and I suggested that we go to Cucina as it was the first restaurant which appealed to my food mood that day as I went through my The Entertainer Qatar App. I always just go through this phone application whenever I plan on going out – because seriously, why would you want to pay for the full price of anything if there is an option to pay half?

Cucina at Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel

I didn’t have any expectations of what Cucina would be like, I just hoped that I made a good choice and that my friend L won’t doubt my decision-making skills of choosing a restaurant after this dinner. As it turned out, I couldn’t have chosen a better restaurant that night.

We arrived at 7pm which was just in time for the reservation that I have made. We were met by a very friendly receptionist and immediately led us to our non-smoking table. As I walked into the restaurant, the interior decoration blew me away – brick walls, low mood lighting, wooden chairs, steel banisters to divide the restaurant into sections, candles flickering on each table – they did a pretty good job of recreating a typical Italian restaurant with a modern touch.

Cucina at Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel

The service was impeccable too, throughout the night – we were assisted by different staff which I consider to be a good sign as it shows the coordination of the restaurant. Whoever is available will assist you no matter where they were supposedly assigned for the night.

As I perused through their menu, my mouth began to water. They have an extensive selection of all your Italian dishes plus an option of an antipasto corner. The prices are very reasonable too, probably the best-priced Italian restaurant in the city. which is very unlikely in Doha as many food outlets here seem to charge you for the view that you have while you’re dining or for their interior decorator’s exorbitant fee or even their month’s rent.

Cucina at Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel

I ordered spaghetti bolognese while L ordered pizza margherita. While my dish was good, I was drawn more towards the pizza margherita which was just absolutely divine! The crispy thin crust, wood-fired oven cooked pizza leaves a decadent taste in your mouth which will make you forget the strict diet you’re trying to impose to yourself. I cannot begin to explain how hard it was for me to refuse another slice of that pizza, I deserve a life-size statue for the self-control I have exerted that night.

Cucina at Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel

Cucina at Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel

After this first visit, Cucina has easily become one of my go-to places if I am craving for Italian food and the best part of it all is – they have The Entertainer vouchers. Yay! I always say that more than the food and the venue itself, it’s the company that I’m with which makes any experience more enjoyable but for this night – the food, the restaurant and the good company I had made an equal great impression on me.

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QAR69 Bolognese Spaghetti
QAR25 English Breakfast Tea
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** The large pizza margherita priced at QAR58 is free of charge after using The Entertainer Qatar voucher. Total savings thru The Entertainer App as of date is QAR2305/-

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    That looks like a “date night” kind of restaurant. The exposed brick walls create a homey feeling that I really like when dining out.
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    • Reply Pinay Flying High August 6, 2015 at 18:50

      Yes it definitely is the “date night” kind of restaurant. It has a very romantic set-up, I was with my lady friend though when we went there so not so romantic. :p

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Basic Terms in ASP.NET MCV used for Saving Data on the Client

According to Vogel, the first law of client’s server figuring is: – “The client’s PC ought to be viewed as a free, boundless asset that ought to be abused uncivilly.” The conspicuous support is that, by utilizing the client’s assets, as opposed to your server’s assets, you enhance the adaptability of your application. What’s more, by decreasing treks and payloads between the client and the server, you likewise make a more responsive application for the client.

Ajax is a type of arrangement that shares information handling to the client. JSX+React which Vogel told about in his TypeScript segment even moves producing the page’s HTML to the client’s PC. The point of this segment, utilizing localStorage, permits you to exchange information stockpiling to the client’s PC.

Be that as it may, this article will demonstrate to pass information from your View to your client in a way that backings sharing that information on the client’s PC.

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The localStorage is a component of the HTML5 determination, so more established programs don’t survive with it.

The programs force an extreme point on the measure of information you’re permitted to store in localStorage – ( breaking point is set to zero in a few programs –  running in “private” mode)

To manage that you’ll have to ensure -
(1).    localStorage is accessible
(2).    you haven’t hit your ultimate point

This segment demonstrates the  generally accepted methods to test for both conditions and to guarantee you won’t surpass your ultimate point.

There is an additional variety of programs upon How –  ‘localStorage’ functions. Testing those distinctions haven’t been sufficiently noteworthy to make swear off utilizing localStorage.

One final note before getting to the code -

You have to perceive that localStorage isn’t fixing to a page – rather, it’s fixing to the page’s space (the front part of the page’s URL). This enhances both in taking decisions while utilizing localStorage: Use it just for the information that is regular to all applications in the same area (client inclinations jumps to psyche) or figure out how to keep every application’s nearby information separate from different applications from the same space.

One technique for keeping every application’s information separate from different applications in the same space -

Initially, How would you know you can utilize localStorage? The accompanying code both – verifies whether the program underpins localStorage and that there’s enough space accessible (there’s no immediate approach to check for the amount of space you have accessible). The code first verifies whether localStorage is assisted by endeavoring to recover a reference to localStorage. On the off chance that makes the code work then verifies whether there’s space accessible by endeavoring to store a thing in localStorage. In the event that the majority of that works then the code expels the testing factor from localStorage. On the off chance that one of those falls flat (either on the grounds that the program doesn’t assist localStorage or there’s no accessible space) the code will explode, tossing you into the special case where you can do whatever appears to be proper:

attempt { var storTest = window['localStorage'];

storTest.setItem(“”, “.”);

storTest.removeItem(“”); }

catch(e) { alert(“Please leave”); }

You can, obviously, utilize modernizer to verify whether the client’s program assist’s localStorage yet modernizer won’t let you know whether there isn’t any space accessible. Whereas, this code does both.

Taking in concern : Testing

localStorage has a reasonable capacity that evacuates the greater part of the sections in localStorage on the client’s PC.  Taking into consideration, with the unmistakable capacity’ you’re wiping out your application’s nearby information as well as all information kept away for any application from the same area.

In any case, keeping in mind the end goal to test your application being developed, you’ll likely locate the reasonable capacity accommodating in wiping out localStorage with the goal that you can test how your page acts when there’s no information present. The keen thing to do is put your call to clear on a utility page that you can call when you need to get out localStorage.

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Yard and Garden: July 20, 2018

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This is the Q&A for the Yard and Garden show for July 20, 2018. Yard and Garden Live is a call-in radio show I do on KUTT 99.5 FM from 10-11:30 am and it will run through August 3, 2018. It can also be found on kutt995.com for online listening. If you missed a show or just want to read through the questions, I have written them all in my blog and will continue to do so throughout the season.

Guest Host: John Porter, Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator for UNL Extension and Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture (NCTA)

1. The first caller of the day has holes in her yard that are 1-1.5 inches across. Is this ground squirrels? How can she control them?

A. This does sound like damage from ground squirrels. Ground squirrels can be controlled through trapping, baits, or toxicants. For more information on controlling ground squirrels, visit this guide from UNL Wildlife.

2. This caller has Virginia creeper that is having some issues. The first set of leaves have rust spots and holes on them and the new leaves are showing up but the buds are not opening. This plant is growing in part sun. What is wrong with it?

A. This could be a fungus on the leaves of the Virginia creeper that is leaving a shot-hole appearance behind when the dead areas of the fungus get dry and brittle and fall out of the leaf. If it is a fungus a copper fungicide or chlorothalonil to control it. There could also be some heat stress occurring causing the new leaves to not open up. There is also a possibility that herbicide drift has also occurred that has caused the leaves to not open up.

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Harlequin Bug photo from Alton N. Sparks, Jr., University of Georgia, Bugwood.org

3. A caller has horseradish with bugs on it that are beetle-like and are black with orange spots on them. What are these bugs and how can they be controlled?

A. These are most likely Harlequin bugs. They can be found on horseradish and they can do a great deal of damage. Harlequin bugs are a true bug, like a stink bug, They suck the juices out of the leaves of our plants leaving them wilted and discolored. They can be managed with the pesticide sevin.

4. A walk-in listener works with the football field in town. They have brown spots throughout the field and have found some caterpillars and a large amount of tiny, worm-like creatures. What are these? What is causing the brown spots? How can these problems be solved?

A. These caterpillars are sod webworm. They are a pest of turf. These caterpillars can cause brown spots in the lawn. Triazicide is labeled for sod webworms and would give pretty quick knockdown. The worm-like creatures found on the lawn could be nematodes or they could be fungus gnat larvae. Fungus gnat larvae rarely cause serious damage outside.

5. This caller is having difficulty with tomatoes ripening. What is the problem?

A. The hot weather is causing poor pollination. The pigments responsible for the red color in our tomatoes are not produced when the temperatures exceed 85 degrees. So, when we see long stretches of very hot weather, our tomatoes will not ripen. Be patient, they will ripen eventually when the very hot temperatures recede.

6. A caller is having problems with weeds in his asparagus. Will preen work now to control the weeds? Also, does he need to water his asparagus in the winter months because his asparagus isn’t growing very well.

A. Preen should be applied in the spring to control annual weeds, it will not do anything to control weeds that are already growing in your asparagus. At this point, hand pulling and applying a layer of mulch would be the best option for managing the weeds in the asparagus. When the asparagus is cut back this fall or before it begins to grow in the spring, glyphosate (Roundup) can be used to control the weeds. The glyphosate product can be used directly over the asparagus patch as long as no green from the asparagus is growing above the ground. Then, apply a layer of preen (make sure it is labeled for use in the asparagus) and add the layer of mulch.

7. The last caller of the day has bagworms in their windbreak. The bags are 1-1.5 inches in length. What should they do about these?

A. Pesticide sprays for bagworms are not going to be as effective now. It is better to control the bagworms from when they hatch until they are up to 1 inch in length. Spraying a chemical now would kill some, but the rate would not be nearly as effective as before. It might be better to just handpick the ones you can reach and watch for it next year to be able to spray sooner in the season when it is more effective.

Problems in our Gardens

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Growing my own produce in my backyard is one of my favorite things of summer! Vegetable gardens are great exercise, give you an excuse to eat healthier, and are very enjoyable but they can be a lot of work as well. There are always problems in our vegetable gardens, usually they are temporary or easily fixed.

Production Issues

The weather this year has not been favorable to our plants. We have been facing aborting flowers of our plants due to heat and low pollination. Now, even though our plants are producing, the tomatoes are not ripening up. The hot weather contributes to this as well. When temperatures are consistently as hot as they have been lately, tomatoes may develop but they don’t turn red. According to Purdue University, the pigments responsible for the red color in our tomatoes are not produced when the temperatures exceed 85 degrees. So, when we see long stretches of very hot weather, our tomatoes will not ripen. Be patient, they will ripen eventually when the very hot temperatures recede.

Blossom end rot is also starting to show up in our gardens. Blossom end rot is when the blossom end (the end not attached to the plant) begins to rot. This is due to uneven watering, which is seen quite often in the early part of the growing season where we see stretches of drought surrounded by 2-3 inch rains. Again, this should fade through the season as the plants grow through it. You can still eat the other end of the tomato and discard the rotted end or give your plants time, the next harvest should be better.

Cracks may also start to appear in our tomatoes due to the weather. With uneven watering comes cracks in our developing fruits. Our fruits can grow rapidly due to rapid intake of water which can build up pressure in developing tomatoes. Cracks typically appear on the top of the tomato, often in rings, and are not harmful to us if we eat them. Check for insects that may have gotten into the cracks of our fruits before eating.

Grass clippings are applied as mulch around zucchini and cucumbers

Using Mulch

Mulch is a great way to combat these issues. Many of our problems in our gardens stem from uneven watering or plants that got too hot and dry to deal with the stresses of the environment. Mulch can keep moisture around the plants and keep the roots cooler to help with these issues as well as reduce competition from weeds. Grass clippings make a great mulch. If the grass has been treated with any herbicides this season, look at the label to know if or when it can be used as a mulch. Grass clippings break down quickly so they should be reapplied often. Straw is also a great mulch for the garden and it wouldn’t need to be reapplied as often. These types of mulch can then be tilled into your garden at the end of the season or before next season to add nutrients back into your soil.

squash vine borer damagePests

Squash bugs and squash vine borer are seen in our gardens every year. Squash bugs cause yellow speckling on the leaves and feeding damage on the fruits. You may also see rusty colored eggs on the underside of the leaves that can be removed and destroyed. Squash Vine Borer causes rapid death and wilting of the plants. These pests feed on plants in the cucurbit family, which includes zucchini, squash, cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumbers, pumpkins, gourds, etc. Squash vine borer can be controlled by wrapping the stem of your plants with aluminum foil to stop the females from laying their eggs on your plants. Other controls include Carbaryl (Sevin), Permethrin (Eight), or bifenthrin (Bifen). This will need to be reapplied often through the growing season. It is best to switch between at least two of these products to avoid resistance from developing.  Always follow the label recommended rates and follow the pre-harvest interval listed on the label when harvesting fruits and vegetables after using chemicals.  Spray the undersides of the leaves and the base of the plant thoroughly.  All sprays should be done later in the evening to avoid damage to bees and other pollinators.

Yard and Garden: July 13, 2018

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This is the Q&A for the Yard and Garden show for July 13, 2018. Yard and Garden Live is a call-in radio show I do on KUTT 99.5 FM from 10-11:30 am and it will run through August 3, 2018. It can also be found on kutt995.com for online listening. If you missed a show or just want to read through the questions, I have written them all in my blog and will continue to do so throughout the season.

Guest Host: Bob Henrickson, Horticulture Program Coordinator for the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum

1. The first caller of the day has a bug zapper that was recently emptied. The zapper contained quite a few of these small, brown, bean seed-shaped insects. What would this insect be?

A. Based on this description, it could be June bugs. These smaller, copper colored beetles are common right now and they are attracted to lights at night. If you have a lot of June bugs, you may want to pay close attention to your lawn and any possible brown spots in it. The immature stage of June bugs are white grubs that feed on the roots of our turf.

2. A caller has a climbing rose that is 8-10 years old and it was recently cut down to about 15 inches tall, against the homeowners wishes. Will this plant survive?

A. This isn’t the ideal time to prune a rose, but it should be fine since prior to the pruning it was in very good condition. Make sure to keep the rose well-watered and keep a layer of mulch around it to keep it healthy during this time of heat as the rose will try to push new growth. Water it with 1 inch of water per week unless natural rainfall provides that. Keep the mulch 2-3 inches deep.

3. This caller has an elm tree that has a hole in the base of the tree that goes in about 1 foot deep. Will the tree be ok?

A. A picture was requested for this tree to determine the severity of the hole. This could be due to many different factors including a crown rot, root rot, or other type of root damage. The hole is not very large, but because it is a foot deep, there is a concern for the strength and stability of the tree. Keep an eye on the hole, if it gets larger or if the canopy starts to thin, it would be a concern that would need to be removed before it falls on something.

blossom end rot, tomato, David B. Langston, Univ of GA, Bugwood

Blossom End Rot on Tomatoes, Photo from David B. Langston, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org

4. A caller has a black spot on the bottom of his tomatoes. What is causing this and can it be cured?

A. This is blossom end rot, it is where the blossom end (or the end of the tomato farthest from the plant) rots. It is due to a calcium deficiency due to uneven watering. The calcium is in the soil, but uneven watering makes it unavailable to the plant. Mulch will help keep the soil at a uniform moisture level to help protect plants from this disorder. Blossom end rot is a short-term problem in our vegetable crops. It tends to only affect the plant for a the first couple of harvests of the year and then the plant grows out of it. You can cut the black end off of the fruit and eat the rest.

5. This caller has a tropical hibiscus that she has moved outdoors for the summer. This hibiscus was looking fine but now some of the leaves are turning yellow. She waters every other day and it is on a wood patio on the south side of her home. What is causing this yellow color?

A. This could be heat stress due to the fact that this plant is in a location on the south side that gets very hot. She also should test the soil with her finger prior to watering to be sure to not overwater. If the soil is dry, water. If the soil is still wet, wait longer before watering again. This could also be due to spidermites. You can test for spidermites by placing a sheet of white paper below a few of the leaves and tapping on the leaves. If a few pieces of pepper seem to be moving on the paper, that is spidermites. If it is spidermites, the plant can be sprayed with a strong spray of water to knock the mites off and kill them or you can use Eight (permethrin) on it.

6. A walk-in listener brought in a plant that he needs identified. It is growing like a shrub with orange and red berries and it is spreading rapidly. What is it?

A. This is a plant called Tatarian Honeysuckle, it is a weedy species. It is spread rapidly by birds. Cut it off now before it becomes more established. Treat the stumps with Roundup or Brush Killer.

Sandbur, Rebekah D. Wallace, Univ of GA, Bugwood

Sandbur, Photo from Rebekah D. Wallace, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org

7. Does 2,4-D work on sandburs?

A. No, sandburs are a summer annual grass like crabgrass. Using a pre-emergent herbicide in the spring for crabgrass will control sandburs as well. If you didn’t use a pre-emergent in the spring, Roundup would work on sandburs but 2,4-D will not be very effective.

8. This caller has chokeberries that are about 4-5 years old and starting to set on. How do you know know when they are mature for harvesting?

A. At this point of the year, there should be clusters of small green fruits setting on the shrubs. The berries will turn dark purple in color when they are mature. There is a large harvesting window for chokeberries and the birds don’t come to this plant until after clearing the berries off of more preferred plant species.

9. A caller has sunflowers that were planted from seed and they have been coming back. The plants are similar to other sunflower plants seen around town but the flowers are much smaller than neighbors’ flowers. Are there different types of sunflowers?

A. There are a lot of different varieties that would influence the size of the flowers. Sunflowers are annual plants, so if they are coming back each year, they are coming back from seed. Sunflowers may not be true to seed so the type of flower may have changed over time or from year to year.

puncturevine seeds, Steve Hurst, USDA NRCS PLANTS Database, Bugwood

Puncturevine seeds, Photo from Steve Hurst, USDA NRCS PLANTS Database, Bugwood.org

10. This caller wondered if the caller from question #7 may have been referring to puncturevine as they are commonly confused?

A. These plants do commonly get confused because they both produce a seedhead that sticks to your clothes or shoes. They are both annual plants as well. However, puncturevine is a broadleaf while the sandburs are grasses. A 2,4-D product will work to control puncturevine, but the pre-bloom stage is going to be most effective.

11. The final call of the day has bugs flying around their tomato plants and eating the tops of the fruits. What is that?

A. After seeing a photo of the damage to the fruits, it was determined that this is due to the tomato fruitworm. Tomato fruitworms can be controlled with sevin or eight. If there are insects flying around the plants as well, that is likely something different such as Japanese beetles. It is possible, and likely, that this caller has multiple insect issues. However, both of these pests will be controlled if he sprays for one, they are both affected by the same pesticides.

Yard and Garden: July 6, 2018

Y&G Blog Photo, 2018

This is the Q&A for the Yard and Garden show for July 6, 2018. Yard and Garden Live is a call-in radio show I do on KUTT 99.5 FM from 10-11:30 am and it will run through August 3, 2018. It can also be found on kutt995.com for online listening. If you missed a show or just want to read through the questions, I have written them all in my blog and will continue to do so throughout the season.

Guest Host: Dennis Ferraro, Wildlife Specialist from UNL

1. The first caller of the day wants to know if borers from ash trees can get into his walnut trees?

A. Some native borers can be a problem in both ash and walnut trees, such as the redheaded ash borer which is a common borer in many of our trees in Nebraska. When the Emerald Ash Borer gets to southeast Nebraska, it will not be able to. EAB is a pest in Ash trees only.

He also wanted to know how to move woodchucks and not kill them?

A. Live trapping will work for woodchucks. Use cucumbers or corn to bait them and wire the trap open for a few days before actually activating the trap because woodchucks are very cautious and will not be trapped the first time or 2 into the trap. The woodchuck can then be relocated to within 100 yards of the trapped location. State regulations prohibit relocation farther than 100 yards. It would also work to change their nesting location. This woodchuck is found under a building, so if you can chase it out during the day then pack the hole tightly with road gravel will prevent them from coming back. For more information, visit the UNL Wildlife website on Woodchucks.

2. A caller has heard that bull snakes will keep rattle snakes away. Is this true?

A. These 2 types of snakes do get along but bull snakes are more aggressive hunters and can out-compete rattle snakes. Because of this, rattle snakes usually relocate to find food.

3. This caller has tomatoes with bumps along the stem of the plant. What is wrong with the plant?

A. There is nothing wrong with tomatoes that develop bumps along the stem. These are aerial roots which are common.

4. A caller has a white powdery substance on her peony plants. What causes this and how can it be controlled?

A. This is most likely powdery mildew on the peony plants. It is a common disease we see this time of the year. There is no need to treat the plants for it right now. The best control for powdery mildew is to cut off the plant in the fall when it dies back and destroy the infested plant material so the disease cannot overwinter. It will not kill the plants.

5. This caller has tomato plants with leaves that are turning yellow and the plant is not producing tomatoes, any flowers produced fall off. What is wrong with his tomato plant?

A. This is likely due to environmental stress or possibly Septoria leaf spot. Make sure that the plants are watered 1 inch of water per week, they have mulch, and they are being watered from below. If desired, a fungicide can be applied. For more information view this NebGuide on Leaf and Fruit Diseases of Tomatoes. The poor pollination is common this year due to the heat. Give the plants some time and they should start to produce.

6. A caller has a sycamore tree that is shedding bark. What is wrong with the tree?

A. It is normal for sycamore trees to lose some bark. It is a tree that has a camouflage bark appearance due to the fact that it sheds some bark. Nothing to worry about or to do to fix it.

7. This caller is growing petunias in a hanging basket and the leaves are turning yellow. What is wrong with them?

A. This could be due to environmental stress. Make sure they are kept watered and placed in a location where they get full sun. It might also be from spidermites, look closely at the plant to see if there is any very fine webbing. If so, use a strong spray of water to knock the spidermites off and kill them.

8. A caller has bindweed in his garden and in his lawn. What can be done to control it?

A. In the garden, use the “glove of death” which is when you wear a chemical-resistant glove and then put a cloth glove over that. Then, dip a few fingers of the gloved hand into Glyphosate and rub those fingers along the stem and leaves of the bindweed to kill it. Basically, the idea is to keep it from flowering and producing more seed, hand pulling will help keep new seed from being deposited into the garden which can be viable for up to 60 years. In the fall, you can spray the lawn with a 2,4-D product.

9. How do you control purslane in the garden?

A. Purslane easily reproduces from cuttings so avoid hoeing or weed trimming through it while leaving pieces of the plant laying around on the ground throughout the garden. Purslane doesn’t like to be smothered, so a heavy mulch layer on the weed will help.

Gorgone Checkerspot Caterpillar

Gorgone Checkerspot Caterpillar

10. This caller has tiny, dark colored worms on her black-eyed Susan plant. She has used some Eight but she still has some. The leaves are also turning gray, how can she control the caterpillar?

A. This could be a checkerspot caterpillar. It is commonly found on sunflower, which is a closely related species of plant to this black-eyed Susan. This becomes a good pollinator butterfly. If she can relocate the caterpillars it would be best, or the Eight will just take some time to fully work on the caterpillars. The gray on the leaves is likely due to downy mildew or powdery mildew, not the caterpillars. Caterpillars will only chew holes out of the leaves, not leave any gray coloration to the leaves. Downy or powdery mildew are not very harmful to the plant and don’t need to be sprayed. In the fall, cut down the plant and discard the infected plant material so the disease is minimized for next year.

11. A caller has an ash tree that is about 15 years old and the outside leaves are now turning brown. What is wrong with it?

A. This could be due to leaf scorch due to the hot, dry conditions we have been facing lately. The tree should be fine, it will likely look rough the rest of the year. Make sure the tree has a mulch ring and that it is being watered for about an hour weekly with a sprinkler or slow trickle from the hose.

This caller also wondered about cougars in the area. He said he has seen a cougar with 4 cubs in the area. Will the cubs all stay here or will they move through to somewhere else?

A. Males can travel many miles and across the country. Females will stay around if there is food available and if a male doesn’t chase the female cubs away. The male cubs will likely move on when they get old enough to travel alone.

12. A caller has a tree that is pushing its roots up to be exposed out of the soil. What can be done about this?

A. Mulch will be the best option for these roots. The mulch will keep you from mowing over the roots which can damage the roots. Do NOT add soil on top of these exposed roots as that can limit oxygen for those roots and eventually kill the tree. You can make the area into a perennial garden under the tree, but do not raise the soil grade to do so and do not damage the roots to do so.

13. The final caller of the day wants to know why black crappie would be larger than white crappie?

A. This could be due to genes. The color gene may be linked to the size genes. So as the color is changed genetically, so is the size. It could also be that the predators in the area this caller was fishing in preferred eating the white crappie rather than the black crappie, causing only the smaller white crappie to be left with the larger black crappie. There are many factors that could lead to this difference in size between the 2 different colored crappie.

Attack of the Beetles

JB Damage

Damage from Japanese Beetles

This year, like always, we are facing insect issues in our lawns and gardens. It is important to remember that not all insects are bad, in fact the majority of all insects are beneficial in some way. However, when they are found in large populations or damage our plants, or both, we get concerned.

Soldier Beetles

Soldier Beetle

Soldier Beetle, Photo from Soni Cochran, Lancaster County Extension Assistant

Soldier beetles are common this year. These are the yellow beetles found in large quantities throughout the area this year. They are often confused with fireflies because they are both beetles without hardened elytra, like many other beetles, and they are similar in appearance. The soldier beetle we are seeing is golden in color with a black spot on each wing on the back. They are commonly found around Linden trees as well as many other flowers. There is no need to control soldier beetles because they are great pollinators and will not harm our plants or us.

Japanese Beetles

Japanese Beetle, 7-16 Acreage

Japanese beetle adult on the left side and grub on the right side, photos from Jim Kalisch, UNL Entomology

Japanese beetles have been more of a problem for southeast Nebraska over the past couple of years than they had been in the past. This is an invasive insect from Japan. Japanese beetles are problematic insects as both larvae and adults. The larvae are a type of white grub which feed on the roots of our grass, causing large brown dead spots in the turf that are easily lifted up like a rug from the floor.

Adult Japanese beetles are 7/16 inch-long, metallic green beetles. The elytra, or wing coverings, are copper. As adults, Japanese beetles feed on over 300 species of plants including trees, shrubs, fruits, vegetables, field crops, weeds, and other ornamental plant species. Some of their favorite food plants are roses, lindens, and grapes. Adult beetles feed on the foliage, flowers, and fruits of these plants. They feed on the upper surface of the leaves and cause a skeletonized pattern to the leaf where the veins of the leaf are often left behind but the rest of the leaf is chewed away. In some cases, they will consume the entire leaf. This can stress the plants, and in high populations of beetles can even kill the plant.

Grubs can be controlled with chlorantraniliprole or imidacloprid in June. Adults can be controlled with systemic insecticides such as imidacloprid or dinotefuron around Mother’s Day to give the products time to get throughout the trees and shrubs being treated. Currently, no systemic insecticides can be used on Lindens though, due to the damage to pollinators. Tempo and Bayer Advanced Lawn & Garden Multi-Insect Killer (cyfluthrin), Ortho Bug B Gone (bifenthrin), or Sevin (carbaryl) would be a few other options that can be used on Lindens and others. These options will only work for about 2 weeks so they may need to be reapplied.

Blister Beetles

blister beetles, K. Jarvi

Black and gray blister beetles, Photos by Keith Jarvi, Emeritus Extension Educator

Blister beetles were a real problem in our vegetable gardens last year, and they are back. Blister beetles are ½ inch long, powdery gray colored beetles with black antennae. They can feed on our tomato plants as well as some other vegetable crops. They can damage our plants, but they are also beneficial because they feed on grasshopper eggs. If you find them in your garden, you can treat with general insecticides such as sevin or eight. Be careful handling these beetles, some people develop blisters after handling them.

Yard and Garden: June 29, 2018

Y&G Blog Photo, 2018

This is the Q&A for the Yard and Garden show for June 29, 2018. Yard and Garden Live is a call-in radio show I do on KUTT 99.5 FM from 10-11:30 am and it will run through August 3, 2018. It can also be found on kutt995.com for online listening. If you missed a show or just want to read through the questions, I have written them all in my blog and will continue to do so throughout the season.

Guest Host: Roch Gaussoin, Extension Specialist from UNL

1. The first caller of the day has green worms on her tomato plants. How can she get rid of them?

A. This is a tomato hornworm, a common pest in vegetable gardens. Tomato hornworms can easily be controlled by picking them off and throwing them into a bucket of soapy water or sprayed with sevin or eight.

2. A walk-in listener has buffalograss that is turning a reddish/brown color and dying in patches throughout the lawn. What is wrong with the lawn?

A. This is a disease called bipolaris leaf spot disease. The lawn should grow out of it. Adding 1 pound of Nitrogen fertilizer per 1,000 square feet would help reduce the problems with this disease. Check the lawn for chinch bugs as well, if they are also found, treat for them with insecticides.

This listener also wondered if his lawn should be mowed?

A. With buffalograss, it depends on what you desire from your lawn to determine whether you mow or not. It will be beneficial to mow the lawn at least once per year. Mowing one time per month will help thicken up the lawn overall for a better, fuller look.

3. A caller has poison oak growing up a tree. The root is next to the trunk of the tree, can it be cut off and the stump treated with Tordon?

A. Do not use Tordon in this situation. Tordon is not labeled for use in a landscape setting and it would likely kill the tree as well due to the proximity to the roots of the weed. Tordon is a mobile chemical and it can get from one root easily to another. It would be best to get the weed identified first as well, poison oak is not common here in Nebraska. It is likely that it is woodbine or poison ivy. Woodbine is not harmful to the tree. If still desired to kill the vine, use the “glove of death” which is when you wear a chemical-resistant glove and then put a cloth glove over that. Then, dip a few fingers of the gloved hand into Brush killer or Glyphosate and rub those fingers along the stem and leaves of the undesired plant to kill it.

4. This caller drilled a grass prairie this spring. Now, the grass really isn’t growing, it is mainly weeds. Should he mow it now or how can he proceed to get the grasses growing and kill off the weeds?

A. It is common for new prairies to struggle for the first 1-2 years. Mowing will reduce the weed presence and will thicken the stand of grass that is present. Be patient, it just takes time to get these native grasses really growing.

5. A caller has wild asparagus that he would like to move. When is the best time to transplant it?

A. Spring would be the best time. However, it would be more beneficial and less work to just kill off the asparagus that is growing in the wrong location and planting new crowns in the new location. There are newer, better, hardier varieties available now. Transplanting does not speed up the time to harvest over new crowns. Either way, transplanting or planting new crowns, it is recommended to wait 3 years before heavy harvest of the asparagus to ensure the roots get growing well before harvest begins.

6. This caller planted poatoes, corn, tomatoes, and onions. The leaves are now curling on some of the plants. They added horse manure this spring for compost. Did the manure contain herbicides that are now causing the damage?

A. This could be herbicide drift from nearby fields. Herbicides could be a contaminant in fresh manure, not as likely through composted manure. Be careful when using manure for food safety measures. Fresh manure should never be applied right at planting time. If using fresh manure, it should be applied in the fall to ensure any harmful bacteria breaks down before plants produce fruit that could come in to contact with the bacteria in the soil. Composted manure can be applied in the spring at planting because the composting process would break down the bacteria.

7. A caller planted 35 blue spruce trees this spring. Do they need to fertilize them? Do they need to water them?

A. Fertilizer is not necessary. Typically in Nebraska soils, the main nutrients for tree growth are found and are accessible. Water the trees about 1 inch of water per week. If we are not receiving that through rain, it needs to be given through irrigation. A soaker hose or sprinkler or even a 5 gallon bucket with a small hole drilled in the bottom would work to irrigate these trees.

8. This caller has grasshoppers in their garden and plans to spray sevin for them. Is there a better time of day to spray for grasshoppers?

A. Grasshoppers can be sprayed at anytime of day. However, it is important to spray grasshoppers while they are still small, they are easier to kill when they are younger. Also, make sure to spray the roadsides and ditches where the grasshoppers tend to congregate as well as the areas where they are damaging your plants. For more information on grasshoppers, see this Guide to Grasshopper Control in Yards and Gardens

9. How do you manage ground squirrels in the lawn?

A. Trapping is most effective. For information on 13-lined ground squirrels and how to manage them, check out this NebGuide.

10. A caller has poppies that are growing wild in her gardens. What can be done to control them?

A. Spot spray or carefully paint herbicide on the leaves of the poppy plants or use the chemical-resistant glove, cloth glove method listed in question #3. Roundup would be ok for this time of year. 2,4-D can be used in the fall, but not now with fear of volatilization to your garden plants.

This caller also asked how to move volunteer cedars that are coming up throughout her lawn? She wants to add them to her deteriorating windbreak.

A. Cedars are fairly resilient and easy to transplant. Since they  are still small, just dig up the small trees and get as much of the root as possible and replant them in the desired location. It would be better to wait until the fall to do this because moving them now will be hard to keep them alive in the heat of the summer. Make sure to keep the plants watered well throughout their transition period. They don’t need much water but would need it more often if they are very small because they don’t have a large root system.

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11. Another walk-in listener has a fleshy weed that they found in their garden. What is the weed and how can it be controlled?

A. This is purslane. It is a common weed in our lawns and gardens. Purslane easily reproduces from cuttings so avoid hoeing or weed trimming through it while leaving pieces of the plant laying around on the ground throughout the garden. Purslane doesn’t like to be smothered, so a heavy mulch layer on the weed will help.

12. A caller passing through on the road wants to know how to control trees in pastures? They have been trying using 2,4-D with little success.

A. Cut off the trees and do a stump treatment with something stronger than 2,4-D such as a triclopyr product which is found in the brush killers. In a pasture, you could use tordon in this scenario to control the trees. Don’t use tordon if there are other desired broadleaf plants such as wildflowers or other trees nearby.

13. This caller has an Autumn Blaze Maple that is turning yellowish. He applied iron granules but they don’t seem to have much of an effect on the tree. What can be done?

A. Trunk injections of iron work better than granules. The trunk injections will also last for 4-6 years rather than just one year with the granules. Trunk injections of iron need to be done by a certified arborist.

14. A caller has potatoes that are growing on top but are not developing tubers. Not all varieties are affected the same. What is the problem?

A. The quick transition from cold to hot and the long-term heat this summer may have caused the plants to not produce the tubers as well. Some varieties may be better suited to deal with the heat which would explain the differences between varieties.

15. The last caller of the day wants to know if Linden would be a good replacement for Ash trees as the Emerald Ash Borer moves closer and when to transplant cherry trees?

A. Linden is a great replacement tree for ash. It would be a good idea to start the linden nearby now and remove the ash when it dies or when the linden begins to take off. Transplanting trees is best in the spring or fall. So for this year, wait until mid-September or later.


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RotPG – Dennis Simms 09/23/2016

Tonight’s show was mixed by DENNIS SIMMS

Track List: RotPG 09-23-2016

Num. Title Artist
01. God Inside Us – Trette
03. Aragvi (Mou. Reconstruction) – Jelly For The Babies & Mou.
04. Dolphins Pearl (Jakob Reiter Remix) – Pieper & Kappetijn
05. Noodle Safari (Original Mix) – Namatjira
06. Road To The Utopian (Ewan Rill Remix) – Antrim
07. Release (Original Mix) – MdM
08. Wind & Waves (Boy Next Door Remix) – Several Definitions
09. Cripsis (Night Mix) – Hernan Cattaneo & Soundexile feat. Tomomi Ukumori
10. Back To The Roots – Ewan Rill & Casper
11. Alien (Kobana Remix) – Poison Pro & Miusha
12. Lotos (Vocal Mix) – Ewan Rill feat. Avenax
13. Cobalt – Jonas Rathsman
14. Your Love (Original Mix) – Audio Noir feat. Lokka Vox
15. Freerunning L2 3db 2006 – POB & Taylor
16. Long Game – NLP
17. Pyramid – Slugware
18. Go (Loco Dice Mo’ Strings Remix) – Moby
19. Cubik (Monkey Mafia Remix) – 808 State
20. Yemaya – Gorge
21. Dove (I’ll Be Loving You) (John Creamer & Stephane K Vocal Mix) – Moony

About Riders of the Plastic Groove

With well over 20 years of DJ'ing experience, Dennis Simms has held residencies at famous clubs like Metropolis (Irvine, CA) C2K at The Venetian (Las Vegas, NV) and The Shark Club (Costa Mesa, CA). Dennis Simms has performed with world class talent such as Junior Vasquez, Taylor, Danny Tanaglia, Frankie Bones, Sandra Collins, Crystal Method, David Alvarado and DJ Pierre just to name a few. While at C2K, he has opened for Snoop Dogg, Digital Underground, Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh. Dennis was also a part of the So-Cal rave scene back in the 90’s while working with master of underground sound systems known as "Shredder" (aka Atlas Sound). Dennis Simms currently operates a long-standing radio show called "Riders of the Plastic Groove" (RotPG) that is dedicated in delivering the best in electronic music from all over the globe featuring world class DJ's oftentimes performing live sets on the weekly broadcast. The show airs every Friday night from 8pm - 10pm (PST) and broadcasts live and direct from the University of California (Irvine, CA) at KUCI 88.9fm and also streaming worldwide at You can also find KUCI streaming on iTunes under Public Radio / KUCI. RotPG, Orange County’s top rated electronic dance music show, features many styles of music such as breaks, house, electro, progressive, minimal, tech house, techno, trance and drum & bass. RotPG regularly hosts world class DJ's and producers such as Sasha, John Digweed, Paul Van Dyk, Taylor, Christopher Lawrence, Juan Atkins, Skylab 2000, Bassland, Electric Skychurch, Omar Santana, Scott Bradford (Lexicon Avenue), Tom Stephan, Fred De Neef, David Alvarado, Rachael Starr, Simply Jeff and Faust & Shortee just to name a few. To hear the finest in electronica from all spectrums of sound, tune in every Friday night to KUCI 88.9fm from 8pm to 10pm.

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