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I still haven't found the article I wanted, but I did find this: "Transplant cacti in their original directional orientation. This is very important! The south and southwest sides of these plants become toughened and resistant to sunburn. The more tender north or east sides are likely to sunburn and scar and may rot if exposed to the intense hot sun. Before transplanting, mark the north side with chalk, ribbon, etc., and replant with that side again to the north. To aid in protecting against sunburning, the newly transplanted plants may be covered with a piece of shade cloth. The shade cloth should be left on until signs of new growth and establishment occur." http://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/az1225.pdf Since this was in N. Hemisphere, I'd reverse and mark South side DownUnder.

There was a really good post on Facebook about this some months ago.. I've looked and looked and can't find it yet. Basically, it said that you should be very careful to keep the same orientation. They may have been talking about when moving a plant or putting one in the ground. Essentially, it could take years to recover and also damage the side which may have been in shade/less sun and is now in more sun. (Like going out in the strong sun when you have been indoors all Winter.) It was suggested that you mark orientation on pots so that when you transplant you can do it correctly. Leafy houseplants are a different thing. People rotate them 1/4 turn at a time to keep them looking good on all sides.

So glad you took the time... nice show and tell...

Thanks for posting this. It's really nice to hear Bear's voice again.

I can only imagine what Bear's discussions were like at EGA... sorry I missed the whole event. Maybe next year... For others not there... this would be something like the way he answers a question... Jan 19 was his birthday and a discussion started on Facebook about the Wall of Sound he was involved in creating.... He doesn't do Facebook so I asked him for a comment to post... Ha ha... more than anyone wanted to know. Especially since everyone commenting had very fond memories of the WOS and some of the posters had paid big money to buy parts of it when it was sold off. Bear wrote: ================ The first thing I will note is that, in spite of being very well built and incorporating a lot of innovations, the WOS simply was not very good. Today I can set up a very compact system which makes the 'mighty' wall sound like a boombox by comparison. One problem it suffered from, which I only found the solution to after the end of the wall era, was the differential mic. What is required to make this type of microphone suitable for live music use is an additional summing circuit in addition to the one which produces the feed to the PA. With only one summer, the musician must work the main mic very closely to keep his voice up in the sum. There is literally no way to prevent the lower frequencies in the voice from leaking into the ambient mic and partially cancelling the voice- the result is a thin sound, lacking in 'body'. By setting up a second summing circuit a voltage can be derived when the main mic is in use. This voltage is then applied to a standard noise-gate circuit (VCA), which can be set for attack and release, and inserted into the ambient mic's signal path before it is summed for the PA (after the split to the control summer, of course). Once the singer begins to sing, he has only the top or main mic active, with appropriate time delays, slopes etc. The ambient mic is cut out of the signal path. This mic setup if housed correctly should not only be easy t use but would sound far better than any vocal mic available today, since it is a very linear omnidirectional mic. I doubt I will ever get it built: no demand, no money and no time.... Other problems had to do with sheer width (sound travels very slowly) and the quite considerable problems inherent in line arrays. For pure clean sound all active speakers must be in a single cluster, including foldback and subs. Usually this works best when flown in the center. If the system is all Meyer Sound Labs gear, the mics all high quality- and as few mics as possible are used onstage, then the system will be feedback-free with NO EQ of any kind up to about 50% above the loudest level it is likely to be used. That means no board eq, no mains or foldback (monitors) eq of any kind. The system must be very flat acoustically, and of course no 'pink noising'- this common technique simply does not work, anyway. A clever device called an Advanced Feedback Suppressor 224 made by DBX or a similar unit by Lexicon and a few others will provide protection for those unforeseen 'oops' events, but if everything is properly set up, it lies dormant. Such a rig sounds pure and perfect in ALL environments including those awful echo-y basketball stadium- it is as if you were in the Philharmonic Auditorium! Trust me, this is real- I do it now, it is not a fantasy. The secret lies betwen the ears of every member of the audience- an amazing inbuilt ability to process and 'clean up' sound. This is something everyone has experienced at noisy parties, where you can hear and understand perfectly someone speaking much lower in level than the cacophony around you. This can be shown easily by a hand held recorder during the conversation. If all the wanted sound comes from a single source, all other sounds can be 'cancelled' The system can even be stereo or multi-channel and will then have more 'body and space'. Yes, the brain even appears to incorporate the sounds from speakers pointing AWAY from the listener. I have no clue how all this works, nor does that matter much to me. I am a practical person and I treat most things like 'black boxes'- you have an input and an output, which are consistent, what happens inside the box is immaterial so long as it is perfectly consistent each and every time it is applied. This attitude may have something to do with the kinds of stuff I can do which seem to escape most of my contemporaries, must of whom spend a lot of time 'figuring out how', or trying to. The WOS, like the Model T and the vacuum tube are quaint, interesting artifacts but are not really worthy of obsessing over. One last thing- the unvented heavily damped speaker cabinets we designed for the stacked arrays in the WOS are not good for any other use- they sound like shit if used in a stereo, and can choke the sound of a guitar. All the original speakers were well and truly worn out by the time the wall was decommissioned. Anyone that thinks they 'sound good' ('cause they look cool?) can't tell good from bad, trust me. -- Cheers. Bear ============================== Anything like his talks at EGA?

I read an interesting article a few months ago where it was theorized that in a couple of hundred years the famous Saguaro cactus will be no more except where cultivated... reason being that those desert regions originally had trees and lots of shrubby plants growing amongst the cacti.. then us clever humans started cutting the trees for building wood, firewood and such... Now the seeds have no safe place to sprout as they once did... no protection... Made sense to me...

Hi reptyle, I'm new to this forum so I don't know where you are... but in Australia... I got one packet of five different kinds of basil in the same pack last year from an IGA store. Holy basil was one of the five kinds. They were some brand I wasn't familiar with... had lots of weird things Yates wouldn't carry. This year I noticed Mitre 10 was also carrying that brand.. The seeds were all fertile... I was giving away plants all season. Just checked ebay... two sellers have holy basil... If you don't come up with any, I'll check next time I go to town... if you are in Oz..

Thanks for your reply devance.... I'm sure you are right... I'll just enjoy it the way it is... I was feeling like I had not respected this beautiful item enough... but maybe remembering the music from that show which still brings a smile to my face will add to its history... When I pass it on to my daughter, she will hear the story and so on..............

Ahhhhh, a true "Be Here Now" culture.... Love it... Thanks for sharing.

A thriving school in Michigan for those who want to grow medical mj.... Sounds pretty civilized to me. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/educatio...SeMI/MjFxBjdpRQ

Suggestions for a dim wit... I have an Ed Louchard lock blade knife from the late 70's... Like a dimwit, I had it in my bag at a rock and roll show and left the bag on the floor backstage... Later noticed someone had spilled a soft drink on my bag, but didn't bother to look at everything in it... much later discovered the soda had pitted the blade which was made from a Volvo spring... the knife is gorgeous... ebony with titanium inside... sigh... any suggestions for repairing the blade? I don't think Ed makes knives any more... he's building boats now...

Don't forget to stick your nose in while looking at them.... divine scent! And the flower should still be open til 8 or so in the morning...

Birds DO love chilies... My chooks think they are great. To protect my seedlings I can't fit in my garden house, I use old bird cages with the tray removed... You might have to tie it to your tray for crows.... They are smart and strong...Things don't have to be ugly to be functional and some bird cages have great looking detail.... I also use upside down dish drainers.. but they aren't as tall and some birds peck through... Yes.. bird cages from the tip... either free or very inexpensive... and look good.. What kind of chilies?

Earlier I posted this link in the YouTube video section... think it fits better here.. Doc Ellis pitches a no hitter while high on acid... great animation with his voice in the background... http://www.headcount.org/blog/?p=3252 I'll find my way around soon enough... smirk...

This is a very cool animation on top of the voice of baseball pitcher, Dock Ellis who pitched a no hitter while very high... http://www.headcount.org/blog/?p=3252 I kinda looked around here and didn't see it posted yet... sorry if I missed it.. Oh and.... my first post. Grins.......