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Protect Your Vegetables From Garden Pests

If you have a garden it goes without saying that you will always have an assortment of garden insects. The trick is to know if the bug you found is friend or foe.

To keep your garden healthy and free from the bugs that eat your vegetables and plants for lunch, learn to identify the bad bugs early, and let the good bugs go ahead and do their work unhindered, as they help by feeding on your plants predators and also help in pollination.

When insect pests attack your garden plants, what you need to do is to identify the insect. This will help you to control it, be prepared, and know what plants are favored by which insects, and what time of the year they are active.

Look for clues on your plants to identify vegetable garden pests. Chewed leaves or flowers, black or gray spots on the leaves and other signs point to various pests. Each garden pest leaves telltale clues. Did the pest eat flowers off the plant high up on the stem? Did a nocturnal visitor chew holes through the leaves, or only the edges of the leaf? Do you see shiny silvery streaks or snail shells around the garden? A close look at the damage will reveal clues about the offending garden pest.

Aphids attack the leaves and stems of many vegetables and plants. Plants that are under attack by a large number of aphids may show signs such as reduced growth, wilted leaves, drying branches, stunted needles, and curled foliage. Look for clusters of the little bugs; they can also pass on viruses to your plants which causes them to die. They multiply quickly so you need to be alert; the tiny, pear-shaped pests often appear in the spring and feast on your plants' tender new leaves. Aphids come in many colors including green, black, brown, red, and pink. Aphids can quite easily be dislodged from your plant with a steady stream of water from your hosepipe or you can rub them off your plants, wearing gloves.

Ladybirds are a natural predator of aphids, as are lacewings, praying mantis and spiders, so encourage these to your garden. As a last resort, spray carefully with an insecticide such as insecticidal soap to eliminate aphids.

Slugs and snails love to chew on leaves, particularly plants growing in moist, shady locations. If you don't seethem during the day you can often spot the trail of slime that they have left behind and there will be large holes in the leaves. You can trap slugs and snails by sinking containers of beer into your garden near damaged plants. Or sprinkle diatomaceous earth around affected plants.

The tomato hornworm eats tomato plant leaves and can strip a plant bare within hours. One natural remedy for repelling hornworms is to plant marigolds in close proximity to the tomatoes. Grasshoppers chew the leaves of vegetables and plants and can decimate a garden overnight. Birds eat grasshoppers, so attracting birds keeps them in check.

Caterpillars have huge appetites and have been known to consume entire plants almost overnight. Try to identify caterpillars before killing them. They may be an important species of butterfly or moth and not a pest at all. You can pluck caterpillar pests by hand; they can often be found on the undersides of leaves. If physical removal isn't practical, a bacterial spray with Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) will control caterpillars.

The Colorado potato beetle plagues potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes and peppers. Adult beetles are oval and about half the size of your thumbnail. They have red heads and black and yellow stripes down their back. Females lay clusters of bright orange oval eggs on the underside of leaves. Hand picking is the gardener's best defense against Colorado potato beetles. Knock any beetles and larvae you find into a can of soapy water to dispose of them. For major outbreaks, spray Bt San Diego while larvae are small. As a deterrent, spread thick organic mulch over the garden to make it hard for emerging beetles to reach plants in the spring.

Japanese beetles are the scourge of many gardens. Identify them by their green and golden brown bodies and holes chewed in the middle of leaves. They attack roses, hollyhocks, morning glories, and many other flowers and vegetables.

Cucumber beetles eat holes in the leaves and roots of cucumbers, corn and other members of the squash family. They have oval bodies with yellow and black stripes or spots. To control, rotate crops each year. Applying a heavy layer of mulch around plants may help curb attacks. Attract predators such as ladybugs and parasitic wasps. If necessary, apply neem oil, a botanical pesticide, to the soil to kill larvae.

Cutworms are moth larvae that live in the soil and come out at night to feast on new seedlings. Plants are often cut off completely at or just below the soil surface. Create a barrier around new plants with a plastic bottle, cut the top off and place the collar around the plant and push into the soil to prevent the cutworm from attacking the stem. Birds such as blue jays, sparrows, blackbirds and wrens feed on cutworms. Attract birds by placing bird feeders close to infested areas. You can also purchase parasitic nematodes to eat cutworms in the soil.

Prevention is better than cure every time; you should try companion planting which is favored by many experienced gardeners to deter most vegetable garden pests.

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Bodybuilding Nutrition - How Does A Super Combo Diet Sound?

Let us ferry first to the Tropics for basic build up and bodybuilding nutrition. You are sitting in the middle of 45,000 acres of jungle woodland, littered with teeming plant life, perhaps a multitude of shimmering pot-herbs, vile ivy-like creeping albizzas, exotic magic mushrooms waiting to be evacuated and robust pomegranates, Umeboshi plums twinkling with decadent aroma. How to discover and arrange permutations of this bounty for healthy muscle gain, a life-time of freaky big muscles plus most importantly, a top of the feeling balance of the mind? How is this the business of the conscious grocery picker in Manitoba?

In the following sections, we will be having a 3 step-by-step discussion of how to catch the wind in your diet, put on fine and calming nerves during your workouts, produce terrific anti-bodies and maintain a healthy balance of body P.H.

The first step would be to set apart the functional qualities in say your vegan diet from its mere nutritional value. This is to isolate in your diet functions which server more than a mere supply of the basic ingredients of what you need to efficiently drive your metabolism. To include functional foods in your diet would mean to include foods that target specific functions in the body.

A functional food may also be one from which components have been removed, such as harmful saturated fatty acids. For instance, beneficial organic compounds produced almost exclusively by members of the Leguminosae (bean) family can now be extracted from Soya and added to products designed to help reduce osteoporosis (a bone disease) and as well promote cardiovascular health.

Same for some commercially produced extracts of garlic bulb which specifically promotes the build up of healthy fats and promotes circulation of blood to the muscles and the brain. Also, some specialty teas such as roobios (Aspalathus Linearis) and honeybush (Cyclopia Intermedia), two tea species widely grown in South Africa are rich in antioxidant flavonoids-substances which boost immunity to allergies, viruses and cancer.

Put in a more straightforward manner, in a single meal of periwinkles ( a miniature kind of clam) gathered from the littoral waters of the Atlantic coasts of West Africa, one could crave its meaty juice for their rich protein content while adoring the chitin enriching flakes made from the shell. Chitin specifically enhances muscular agility and superb nervous co-ordination so that you can fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee and prance with the awesome lithe agility of a Manx cat. Well, the meaty juice of the periwinkle, all good for the packs but the chitin richness of the shell, good for those exclusive Harta Yoga stunts.

The second step would be to access the psycho-pharmacological value of your diet, which also serves different purposes other than the functional value of your diet. Staying in a strong capable body also involves cultivating stable and balanced mental and emotional environments.

The Ayurverdic nutritionist tradition of the Indian civilization holds that food beyond supplying you with the calories, vitamins and proteins, should enhance your bouyant humors states of well being. Your buoyant humors would reflect in your sense of timing during a workout, how effortlessly you are able to satisfy the mental demands of physical exercises, a state of relaxation as you relate with your partner(s) and the exuberance of the emotional colors or vibrations you exude during these moments.

In the Ayurverdic nutritionist tradition of Indian Civilization, vegetarian diets like that of the Soma plant supply you with the "Tapas": motivating immeasurable bouts of energy that allow you to accomplish your tasks while at the same time giving you etheogenous radiance.

The third and final step we will be discussing as so to do with incorporating some degree of body PH measurement into your diet. The basic head on this has to do with shifting your body's PH towards the Alkaline. The PH scale is from 0 to 14, with numbers ranging from 0 to 7 acidic (low in oxygen) and numbers above 7 and through to 14 alkaline. Acidic bodies are sickness magnets.

While there are no strict rules as to combining acidic foods and alkaline foods, it is advisable that a great percentage of the food one consumes should come from the alkalines. I will run a cute list of some acidic and alkaline foods though it is by no means exhaustive.

Alkalizing Vegetables: Alfalfa, barley grass, beets, beet greens, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, chard greens, chlorella, collard greens, egg plant.

Acidic Vegetables: Corn, lentils, olives, winter squash.

Alkalizing Fruits: Apple, apricot, avocado, banana, blackberries, cantaloupe, dried dates.

Acidic Fruits: Cranberries, currant, blueberries, canned or glazed fruit

Alkalizing Proteins: Almonds, chestnuts, millet, tempeh (fermented), Tofu (fermented).

Acidic Proteins:Bacon, beef, carp, clams, cod, fish, haddock, lamb, lobster.

Bodybuilding nutrition such as getting a correct proportion of alkaline foods that suits your body's needs is important to maintaining a healthy bodybuilding lifestyle. So remember, arrange your diet for a super combo mix of functionality, psycho-pharmacological values and a healthy PH balance.

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Dan Lipsky Shares Easy Green Tips for Dorms or Small Spaces

Shared By Dan Lipsky

It seems that almost everyone is trying to do something to help the environment these days. Whether you are taking online classes to reduce the number of papers generated and to eliminate commute time or are trying to find ways to live greener, there is something you can do-even while living in a dorm. Take a look at the following tips to learn what you can do to green your dorm life.

Decorating and Furnishing

Your dorm room is a reflection of your personality, so how it looks is important to many people. Learn how you can decorate and furnish your dorm room so that it looks great and is good for the environment.

1. Live plants. Unless it is against your dorm rules, invest in a few live plants for your dorm room. Not only will it add a personal touch, but plants are a great way to improve indoor air quality.
2. Go used. While the shiny new stuff at the big box stores looks enticing, it is so much better to go retro and get used stuff instead. Visit a thrift shop or check out craigslist to see what is available.
3. Buy locally. Don't mess with shipping or otherwise transporting a ton of stuff from your parents' house to your dorm. Instead, buy locally to save on the transportation to and from each dorm move.
4. Get it free. Check out listings such as Freecycle or Freesharing that provide free classifieds full of stuff people don't want anymore.
5. Recycled furniture. Get creative with your furniture and use recycled parts to make awesome, unique furniture. One idea is to place an old door across two file cabinets for an instant desk.
6. Photos. Decorate your walls with personal photos. Either tack them up on their own or create easy and fun frames out of anything from tin cans to leather belts.
7. Bulletin board. Make a bulletin board out of old wine corks for a one-of-a-kind board that costs almost nothing and keeps corks out of the landfill.
8. Organic bedding. Find sheets, blankets, and pillows that are organic when purchasing bedding for your dorm room.
9. Convert a halogen torchiere lamp. A simple conversion can turn a hot halogen lamp into a cool, green compact florescent one that looks great too.
10. Love your small space. Dorm life means you have limited space. Use this situation to practice reducing waste and curbing consumerism. You'll find your space is not only cleaner, but you are living greener.

Conservation

These tips offer great ways to conserve energy and water in your dorm.

11. Hang dry clothes. Not all your clothes need to be dried in a dryer. In fact, some clothes actually do better when not dried that way. Buy a sturdy drying rack and use it for drying t-shirts, cotton and linen clothes, and lingerie.
12. Cold water. Wash laundry in cold water to save on the energy needed to heat water. Unless you have stubborn stains or odors, cold water will get your clothes clean. Cold water also preserves the life of your clothes so they last longer.
13. Full load of laundry. Throwing a blouse or a pair of pants alone into the wash is a waste of water, energy, and detergent. Make sure you are running a full load of laundry each time you use the washing machine.
14. No air conditioning. If you can, try to get by without air conditioning. If this isn't possible, turn down the A/C while you're away instead of turning it all the way off. It will take less energy to get it back up to a comfortable temperature.
15. Energy-efficient refrigerator. Refrigerators run constantly and require lots of energy to stay cool. Be sure the refrigerator you purchase for your dorm room is energy efficient.
16. Showers. Save both water and energy when you take shorter showers.
17. Report leaks. Immediately report any leaks such as dripping toilet, sink or shower to maintenance. A leak can waste incredible amounts of water in a short time.
18. Water off. Don't keep the water running while brushing your teeth or shaving. Instead, turn off the water until you need it again.
19. Power strips. Connect all your electronic devices to power strips, then turn everything off with the flip of a switch when you are not in your room.
20. Sleep computers. Use less energy to power your computer by putting your computer in sleep mode after 15 minutes and turning it off at night.
21. Light bulbs. Whenever possible, switch the light bulbs in your room to energy-saving compact fluorescent bulbs.
22. Natural light. If you get natural light from your windows, make sure your overhead lights are turned off whenever possible.

Personal Care Products

While making your own toothpaste and hair conditioner might not appeal to everyone, these tips are great ways to save the environment by eliminating packaging, transportation, and harmful chemicals.

23. No dryer sheets. If you want your laundry to smell fresh without the chemicals of the dryer sheets, put a few drops of an essential oil on a wash cloth and throw it in with your clothes.
24. Cleaning products. Clean your dorm with simple and all natural products such as baking soda, vinegar, tea tree oil, or lemon juice.
25. Dusting. Use an old piece of clothing or old towel to dust. Instead of one-time-use dusting clothes full of chemicals, these reusable rags can easily be thrown in the laundry with your clothes. If you miss your furniture polish in a can, try a natural version using olive oil instead.
26. Toothpaste. Skip the tube of toothpaste that uses manufacturing, packaging, and transportation to your store and use homemade toothpaste with baking soda and water.
27. Body scrub. Make a simple, yet luxurious, body scrub with just a bit of oil, sugar or salt, and a few drops of essential oil for scent.
28. Shampoo. No matter what hair type you have, there is a recipe for eco-friendly shampoo you can easily make right in your dorm room.
29. Hair conditioner. Another way to save on packaging and manufacturing is to make your own hair conditioner with simple ingredients such as eggs, avocado, honey, or yogurt.
30. Facials. For the ultimate in pampering, make your own facial scrubs that are also earth-friendly.
31. Mouth wash. Make your own eco-friendly mouthwash using herbs, mineral water, and essential oils.

Purchasing, Preparing, Disposing of Food

From buying organic food to spearheading a community garden for the whole dorm, these tips will have your dorm eating green in no time.

32. Crock pot. For simple cooking in your dorm room that uses very little electricity, try a crock pot.
33. Organic. You can be even greener by purchasing organic foods to cook in your crock pot.
34. Buy in bulk. Bulk products usually have less packaging material and cost less. Even better, split up the bulk products with other students and share costs.
35. Drink tap water. Bottled water not only requires manufacturing of the plastic bottle, but shipping that sometimes takes those bottles from half way around the world.
36. Water bottle. Use a reusable water bottle for that tap water you will be drinking instead of paper or styrofoam.
37. Purchase locally. Purchase from local grocery stores. If the local stores don't have a location within walking distance, ask them to consider a campus-accessible store.
38. Skip the packaging. Some stores already have stopped packaging their produce. Try foregoing the produce bag and take a reusable produce bag for those times when you really need one.
39. Whole foods. Whole foods are those not processed that come straight from the source. These foods require less manufacturing and don't have lots of added chemicals.
40. Eat locally. When you choose locally grown food, you are cutting out tons of transportation and handling that may harm the environment.
41. Community garden. Put your leadership skills to work and organize a community garden at your dorm. The food grown in the garden can be supplied to the dining hall.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Follow these tips to reduce, reuse, and recycle around your dorm.

42. Compost. Create a compost for food scraps for the dining hall and the dorm. The compost generated from this project can be used in a community garden or donated to a local charity.
43. Community board. Set up a community board for your dorm that facilitates swapping items so that used furniture, clothes, and gadgets don't end up in the landfill.
44. Recycling bin. If your dorm doesn't have a recycling program, set up one complete with bins throughout the dorm and a way to get the recycling picked up or delivered to a recycling center.
45. Batteries. Old batteries that go to landfills leak dangerous chemicals into the soil, so set up a collection bin in the dorm and take them to a recycling center instead.
46. Cartridges. Used ink jet cartridges are also harmful for landfills. Put a recycling bin next to the battery bin so you can collect cartridges to be refilled and reused.
47. Rain water. If your dorm doesn't have a rain water collection system, work with the school to start one. They are simple to install and provide free water for your community garden or any other landscape usage.
48. Recycled paper. When purchasing paper for your schoolwork, make sure it is recycled. Also, when you are finished with the paper, put it in the recycling bin.
49. Bags. Take reusable bags with you to the store. If you forget and end up with plastic or paper bags, reuse them in creative ways.
50. Rechargeable batteries. Whenever possible, select rechargeable batteries in your electronic devices. This reduces the number of batteries that need to be recycled or might make their way to the landfill.

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Was this healthy? is it a lot of food? too much?

breakfast: small amount of bran flakes with rasions and apple pieces and i cut up a bannana in it, with semi skimmed milk (cant have dry cereal)
150ml orange juice freshly squeezed (wakes me up)

Sounds okay to me but we don't know portion size. If you are recovering maybe you don't wanna count calories but you should maybe add it up every once in a while to make sure you are not vastly undereating. There is like no chance you are over-eating.

Sounds almost perfect. Remember to make sure you are getting complete protein, no non-meat can do it on it's own so... Not telling you to eat meat, but to eat 2 types of protein.

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ACCA exam tips - Approach to attempt Paper T7 (CAT)

I think this was my only exam paper, during my path to obtain an accountancy qualification, which I am very proud of. I have never enjoyed an exam so much in my entire life! As a matter of fact, I even bought myself a new jacket before going for it – perhaps I was well prepared or just overly confident. But that confidence was all because of my teacher, I love him for his help, and through him I started to learn the tactics of tackling ACCA papers (that I will share with you in my later articles I hope). I was fortunate to grasp these methods, before my ACCA qualification was complete, thus relieving me of much pain and struggle, which most students are prone to along their professional course.

I was not a place winner of this paper, nor do I claim that I am the only source of knowledge and guidance for this exam (I'm prone to make mistakes myself) but with a score above 90, with just two months of studying and with 5 papers, it's a great deal for me, at least. I hope my own lessons can help you now.

Paper T7 mainly focuses on a student's ability to analyze. The majority of students at this stage fail to understand the terms used in exams. There are many terms, but as far as this paper is concerned, the following should be useful:

• The difference between describe and discuss is often confusing. ACCA students asked "to describe" must give an account of something (in words), a narration; on the other hand "to discuss" is to examine in detail, to debate, to sift (that is to separate in to different parts) and to ‘make known'.

• Students asked to define must fix the meaning of a term, to determine with precision and to describe accurately, whilst illustrate asks students to make clear to the reader or to demonstrate, possibly through the use of examples.

• To state is to set down fully, to assert and express the details of an argument or topic.

• Questions often ask students to be brief. Here, ACCA students are being asked to provide a concise account, to express the answers concisely and succinctly.

• To analyze means a separation into elements or component parts, to take apart and discover the general principles underlying a phenomena. To identify is to ascertain, diagnose or to pinpoint an issue.

• Explain is a common term that appears in ACCA examinations. Here, students are required to make plain (that is to make something easily understood) or interpret the meaning of a particular idea.

In addition to an understanding of the terms used in ACCA exams, please do not forget to attempt suitable ACCA past papers, or ACCA practice materials (http://www.TonySurridge.co.uk is an accountancy publisher who provides low cost, yet extensive ACCA practice papers and ACCA revision aids for various subjects… and are bringing out even more – register with them for updates!). You have to write down the answers during your practice and the best suggestion is to arrange an experienced person to recheck the structure of your language. If you do not have anyone, then please read the suggested answer, as should be provided in your ACCA study text.

Paper T7 is more about theoretical discussion than just simply producing calculations. And believe me, if you have a firm grip on discussion area, ACCA is relatively easy for you. So, the only solution is to write, write and write. When you start this exercise, it might appear hectic for you. You will be prone to make mistakes and at times (or may I say most of times), you will be short of words, or even worst, have no idea how to start an answer at all. But practice makes perfect and you learn from your mistakes. By accumulating mistakes in your practice period, let's hope you will be less likely to repeat them in your ACCA exams!

Good luck!

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What can i add to this introduction paragraph to make it better?

On no previous account have I ever encountered a book that captivated me like that of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. I read all of it but a chapter or so at one sitting. It was a remarkable experience. On the surface, it was a story about a hazardous substance born out of science that destroyed the world. On a deeper level, Vonnegut reproached mankind for its brutal imprudence as well as technology for its sinister effects on society. Before even reading the novel, I had similar ideas that resided within my philosophy. However, after reading Cat’s Cradle, the magnitude to which I believed those thoughts was greatly amplified.
i need real advice. this is for an honors course.
yes I can do it myself, but I am open to advice from others. its called PEER EDITING and is highly recommended especially in honors classes
this is a reader response paper. i am instructed to use "I"

Presumably this is for a paper you are writing, so my advice is directed accordingly.

Your first sentence, indeed your first word, needs to hook the reader. A teacher is basically required to read whatever you are writing, but that is no reason to punish them. "On no previous account" is awkward and boring (it sounds like you originally wrote something simple, like "never before have I..." but then you tried to cram in extra words and sounds all fancified).

You also need to provide a direction of the paper (a thesis statement). The first sentence is a good place for a thesis statement but anywhere in the first paragraph is good too. Does your paragraph have a thesis statement? The closest I can find is "even before reading the novel, I had..." but that doesn't seem like that would fit to any writing prompt I've ever seen (I could be wrong). Make your thesis statement clear and powerful (powerful is accomplished by taking a firm stance; x IS y).

Alternately, your "on the surface" and "on a deeper level" sentences might be attempts at thesis statements. However, those are descriptions not a thesis. A thesis statement is specifically what you will show or argue in the paper; if it is an analytical essay, a simple "but..." is a very powerful tool. For example: "On the surface blah blah blah, but on a deeper level yakkity shmakkity." It sets up a tension, a contrast between two things, that will play out in the rest of the essay. The word "but" can change two separate descriptions into the beginnings of a passable thesis statement.

Do not be vague (vague is boring, vague is death). "I read all of it but a chapter or so..." yawn. If anything, that sentence tells me that the book had a craptacular ending (you were so enthralled to read it but you got bored before the end? Apparently the ending wasn't a page turner). At the end of the day, all you really said is that you read "some" of it. If you want to improve the sentence, I'd recommend something along the lines of "I read most of it in one sitting but I was prevented from finishing it then and there by intense stomach cramps that required I be rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery; even then the medics had to pry it from my hands!" Either that or remove it entirely.

Unless your teacher talks about personal philosophies, I'd recommend cutting that. It's a bit pretentious. (But some teachers are pretentious, so if the phrase has currency in the classroom, then you're good keeping it).

Do not use overly short and simple sentences (except when necessary). "It was a remarkable book." That was a remarkably boring sentence -- good if you're in 3rd or 4th grade but it is an affront to writing otherwise. Tell the reader how it was remarkable (and note, short sentences are still useful when you need to make a point). "Because" is your friend here. Example:

"It was yap-yap-yap because on the surface blah blah blah, but on a deeper level yakkity shmakkity."

When you're done considering all that and make the appropriate changes, go back again and see if you can shorten it and condense it. Get rid of frivolity and leave only the raw power of the sentences.

EDIT: Note, at this point, this really isn't "peer editing" but "mentoring." And you really mean "peer-review" in the first place, as editing would just be things like checking spelling, sentence construction, grammar, etc, and not discussing basic composition concepts (and errors).

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