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“It was a hole I didn’t see,” said Geltosky, 59, a retired art teacher who lives with her husband in Malvern, Pa., some 20 miles west of Philadelphia. “I was getting compost when I went down. I twisted my knee badly enough to have rehab.”

Wooster, who is unemployed, declined to be interviewed for this article. Bertie — the name the dog answers to at treat time — is black and silver with tuxedo markings on his fur. This double-layered coat, which would make lustrous skiwear for Cruella De Vil, helps to explain his excavation habit.

In the dog days of summer, Geltosky said: “He likes to lay and be cool. Once it warms up, he’ll dig another one.”

Bertie works fast. A hole takes 10 minutes flat. Often, he’s chasing ground bees. Or he might be following his life’s great passion, vole hunting. “We’ve had to put flagstone right next to our patio,” she said. “My husband’s joke is that someday we’re going to have to pave the whole yard.”

This would be a particular sacrifice for Geltosky, who is a digger herself, and has ringed her house with perennial beds filled with 5-foot-tall Tatarian aster and phlox.

Recently, she has been compelled to plant something with absolutely no ornamental value: a 4-foot-high wire fence. “We had it shorter, and that didn’t work,” she said. Bertie “really wanted to be on the other side where all the plants were.”

Bertie is not alone in his appetite for destruction. If gardening is a battle — against drought, bug, weed, blight — the dog is a kind of bumbling fifth column, a saboteur who likes to roll on the grass and have his tummy rubbed.

Ask gardeners to describe their dogs, and you will not often hear the profile of a loyal lieutenant. You will hear instead about uprooted flowers, shrubs and vegetables. And a trail of urine burns — on turf and tree — that would put Sherman’s march to shame. The dog plunders low-hanging fruit and leaves pathogenic poop behind. And then, not infrequently, manages to poison itself by wolfing down something toxic.

Dogs and gardens. Gardens and dogs. For compassionate owners everywhere, the two are great and often incompatible loves — like travel and children, or cliff-diving and single-malt Scotch.

Wild dogs “don’t have that much interaction with plants,” said James Serpell, a professor of animal welfare at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. For reasons that are not fully understood, he said, they will occasionally nibble grass, a habit that really ought to cross over as a fad diet on the website Goop.

“Dogs look at things in the garden, and they have two questions: Can I chew it or can I pee on it?” said Ian Dunbar, an animal behaviorist and veterinarian in Berkeley, Calif. “That really is the depth of their philosophy. And they’re happy with that.”

Linda Kocher, 48, is something less than happy with the damage her two dogs, Carl and Bud, have inflicted on her garden in Olivette, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. Both dogs came from the Humane Society, and their breeding is indeterminate. Carl seems to be part greyhound, and he’s a bolter.

“Bud is a dachshund-Yorkie mix,” Kocher said. “We call him a dorkie.”

It is Bud that has taken up the steady task of murdering the boxwoods. Kocher planted a few of the evergreen shrubs last year, with the notion that their foliage would brighten the yard in winter.

Yet, under a steady stream of Bud’s attention (to use a polite term), the leaves have browned and wilted.

“They’re doing what dogs like to do,” Kocher said. “You can’t get angry with them. You just have to kind of work around them.”

The nitrogen in dog urine would seem to be a helpful fertilizer. In fact, the concentration of ammonium is often toxic to plants. “If you get one of these trees that every dog has to pee on, they can actually burn the bark,” said Nina Bassuk, program leader of the Urban Horticulture Institute at Cornell University.

Exactly how many dogs does it take to kill a tree? “That’s something that hasn’t been studied,” Bassuk said. “And I’m not going to do it.”

When Anne Heller moved to a house in Santa Barbara, Calif., three years ago, she discovered a small orchard in the yard. The rolling landscape around her family’s 1926 Spanish colonial was home to 12 avocado trees, three orange trees, a persimmon, a loquat, a plum, a peach and an apricot.

Her favorite tree might be a “yellow lime” that throws off fruit like beads at a Mardi Gras parade. “I call it the Giving Tree,” said Heller, 52, who uses the harvest for margaritas.

Unbeknown to Heller, her 12-year-old chocolate Lab, Moose, had his own favorite tree. One clue was the large, stony pits that started turning up in the dog’s feces. Another clue: He could be found standing upright, on his hind legs, plucking fruit off the lower branches.

Moose was addicted to loquats, a small, super-sweet Chinese import that is a distant cousin to an apple.

Heller indulges this bit of thievery, as Moose is nearly deaf these days. Or pretending to be nearly deaf. “I guess I’m a pushover,” she said. “I was stricter with my children.”

Given the size of her property — almost three acres — Heller is often less than dutiful about picking up dog poop. Moose generally wanders to the corner of a distant field. But Pebbles, Heller’s adopted Australian shepherd, “likes to poop right in the garden,” she said. “In my mind, it’s just fertilizer.”

Fertilizer that might contain the Toxocara canis parasite, according to Sharon Patton, a veterinary parasitologist and a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. (“Worms, bugs, blood and guts are my specialty,” Patton said.) Toxocara nematodes, or roundworms, live in the intestines of dogs, particularly puppies. And the eggs pass via dog feces.

These eggs can remain in the soil for years. Or, occasionally, the eggs hatch into larvae inside a human host who has mistakenly ingested them, say, from the strawberry patch.

Toxocara larvae are restless houseguests. They like to migrate into human tissue, where they can cause aches and fevers. Another holiday destination: the retina.

“In people, we refer to it as ocular larval migrans,” Patton said. In rare cases, it can lead to blindness.

Last fall, Pebbles came down with giardiasis, a disease caused by giardia, a one-celled parasite that infects the gastrointestinal tract. Heller suspects her dog picked it up by drinking from a stream during one of their long walks through the Santa Ynez Mountains, north of town.

Then, in January, Heller herself contracted the disease, which is marked by nausea, fatigue and digestive grief. “It took a month to kind of feel better,” she said.

The kinds of giardia that infect dogs are often different from the ones that plague humans, Patton said. “But occasionally we do think there is some crossover,” she said.

For the record, Patton does not recommend leaving dog feces anywhere in the garden.

Oscar Wild is a good boy. He does his business where he’s told: the side yard of an old stone carriage house in Ridgefield, Conn., by the border of Westchester County. In the daytime, he likes to lounge outside on the thick-cushioned patio chairs. At night, he sleeps in the bed of Julie Cencebaugh, a 44-year-old painter, who once owned a gallery in New York.

Oscar keeps close track of developments in Cencebaugh’s garden. The plantings are formal and English close to the house. Native varieties spill out toward a 350-acre state park that borders the two-and-a-half-acre property.

“You can’t slip a new plant in without him realizing,” Cencebaugh said. “He’ll sniff the flowers, but he doesn’t do any damage.”

Oscar’s restraint is a boon not just to Cencebaugh’s garden, but also to his own well-being. The ASPCA maintains an alphabetical compendium of 393 plants that can be harmful when ingested by dogs. It includes apples (the seeds and leaves contain cyanide), baby’s breath (gyposinen), chamomile (bisabolol, chamazulene, anthemic acid, tannic acid) and deadly nightshade (which shouldn’t be a surprise). If something green is growing in the yard, it’s probably on the list.

Given all these ready hazards, it seems flukish that Oscar got into trouble by eating cocoa mulch. With company coming, Cencebaugh had spread four bags of the fragrant shells on her garden paths.

The smell appealed to Oscar. What did not agree were the stimulants — caffeine and theobromine — that he consumed with the mulch.

“He was like Ricochet Rabbit,” Cencebaugh said, “bouncing off the wall.” First, she called poison control. Then she shut him in the bathroom for his own protection. “The next day he was fine,” Cencebaugh said.

Outside, the mulch disappeared for good. But Oscar Wild never knew it was gone. Oscar was back inside, on the softest part of the bed, where a dog naturally belongs.

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Where did the word philately come from?

The word philately is Greek in origin. Philately means the study of postage Stamps. A philatelist is someone who studies stamps and a philatelomaniac is a person who takes Stamp Collecting to a mania. Before stamps, receivers of mail would pay the price of the mail given to them. Most people would not accept the mail because of the high prices.

Who was the first man to use the word philately?

George Herpin was a French stamp collector who wrote “The Collection of Postage Stamps”  in November in 1864. He was the first president of the French Philatelic Society and the first man to use philately.

The first US Stamp

On July 1, 1847, the first stamps to be issued in the United States were sent to New York City. From there, the stamps were issued to other states. During the Civil War in 1861, many stamps were recalled in the Union.  Meanwhile, the Confederate states issued new stamps.

Candles are used to determine stamp postage.

In 1693, to figure out how much money was needed for the postage rate, the envelope was help up to the candle light. If the candle light was seen through the envelope, then the postage rate was less than if the light could not be seen.

What are Cinderella stamps?

A Cinderella stamp is a version of the stamps that could not be used to send a mail. An example of a Cinderella stamp would be an Easter seal. Cinderella stamps resemble miniature posters. Most Cinderella stamps had no currency written on it.

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London, England, Aug 31, 2010 / 03:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The post office of the Isle of Man, a small independently-governed island near the U.K., issued a set of  commemorative stamps this month honoring Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, along with Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope will officially beatify the English cardinal at the end of his visit to England and Scotland from September 16 to 19.

The stamps were part of a miniature sheet issued on August 11, the 120th anniversary of Cardinal Newman’s death. Since then, the Isle of Man’s department for stamps and coins has been working with the Vatican Post Office to produce additional commemorative materials for the September 19 beatification.

Since Newman’s beatification was originally scheduled to take place at Coventry Airport, the stamps give the original location for the announced ceremony rather than the new site at Cofton Park in Birmingham. Stamp collectors, however, often increase the level of an artifacts’ value to apparent discrepancies of this kind.

Newman is depicted in two photographs, one taken in his residence at the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in 1883, when the cardinal was 82. The other was taken around 1866, just over two decades after his conversion from Anglicanism and reception into the Catholic Church. The photograph of Pope Benedict XVI was taken during a General Audience in St. Peter’s Square on June 10, 2009.

Among the materials to be produced jointly by the Isle of Man Post Office and the Vatican, will be a special welcome message to the Pope from Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland and Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster.

Announcing the stamps in a press conference earlier this summer, Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham said that they highlight the importance of the first time a Pope has been welcomed to the United Kingdom on a State Visit. A prior visit by Pope John Paul II in 1982, which was the first ever visit by a Pope to the U.K., was a pastoral visit and not undertaken in his capacity as the head of the Vatican City State. 

Describing Cardinal Newman as an example of holiness as well as a figure of international significance, Archbishop Longley hoped the stamps would introduce Cardinal Newman and his witness to goodness and truth, to many people throughout the world who may not yet know him.”

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Making the rounds on Facebook (similar to a chain letter) is an angry, yet funny list that some mother wrote about kids going back to school. The list has been passed around so much that the author’s name is no longer attached. (If the author is out there let me know and I’ll gladly give you credit!)

I think it’s an angry, funny and pretty truthful piece. So read it and see what you think.

From Facebook, author unknown:

10 Misconceptions of Moms and Back-to-School

Misconception Number 1: Moms miss their kids when they go back to schoolSeriously. I’ve had enough of you by now. Every morning with the “what are we going to do today, Mom?” is finally over. I’ve had looked at your face twenty-four seven for the last 77 days. It’s time to go learn something. No more asking me about the pool, when is the next snack or if you can stay up late and watch a movie. It’s over….You’re going back to Hogwarts and I get to have a life again. There is a Christmas morning for parents and it’s called “back to school”.

Misconception Number 2: Moms like to go school shopping.Are you freaking kidding me? Why do I pay taxes?…so I can rack up a 200 dollar bill at Staples for crap that we have laying around my house in junk drawers. Why does it have to be new pencils? What’s wrong with the chewed up, broken strawberry shortcake pencils sitting in the bottom of the toy box for the last 6 months? And how many subject books can you possibly need? What happened to reading, writing and arithmetic. If they added a couple of things for parents to that list I wouldn’t mind so much….why not pencils, erasers and vodka …..or some Nyquil.

Misconception Number 3: Moms like back to school night. Why must we do this every year? I got it already. You’re the teacher…I’m the parent. My kid is either going to be smart or dumb. If he gets a certain number or colored dot on his discipline chart, he can’t get a prize from the prize box. Pretty simple stuff. Listen, I’m pretty old school. If he doesn’t listen to you…you can throw something at him. I don’t care. But I got a lot of work to do at home and I’m paying a babysitter right now. Plus, I’m pretty sure you are going to assign some project on wigwams made by some Indian tribe I’ve never heard of, so I need to get home and start my research. So, I got it. We’re all here for the betterment of the kids. Blah Blah Blah. Can I leave now?

Misconception Number 4: Moms like school paperwork.How many trees are you planning on killing to tell me the same stuff I had to pay a babysitter to listen to the other night? You know our name, where we live and our emergency phone numbers. He doesn’t have a nickname….call him “stinkbutt” for all I care. We don’t have any “special circumstances” that you need to know about. He lives in a home with two parents who may or may not like each other at any given time and they will fight. If that qualifies as a reason he can’t get his homework done on time then he won’t be able to function as an adult and have a real job so you may want to “educate” him on that life lesson.

Misconception Number 5: Moms like covering books in that annoying sticky paper.What exactly will you be doing with these books that I have to cover them in a plastic laminate? Do you often teach in the rain? Or while the children are drinking soda and eating soup? Do you know how long that takes? Has any parent in the history of education been able to do it without any air bubbles in it? From now on I’m covering it the old way…brown paper bags. That way I can cover the books and pack their lunches at that same time. Who says moms can’t multitask?

PS. Please tell my son if he can’t find his lunch to look in his science book.

Misconception Number 6: Moms like helping you with your homework. What? I am scared out of my mind. I’m pretty sure that I forgot everything I learned in fifth grade by the time I was in sixth grade. I have no idea what you are talking about most days. I don’t really know my 12 times tables, I read the cliff notes to all your summer reading and I don’t know how to conjugate anything but I do know that song “conjuction junction what’s your function” if that helps at all. And please don’t even say the words “new math” to me. What the heck was wrong the old one?

Misconception Number 7: Moms can’t wait to pack your lunch every day until we die.I hate doing laundry. Making dinner every night is the bane of my existence, so making your lunch every day for an entire year, in terms of “mom fun”, lies somewhere between brushing plaque off the dogs teeth and scheduling my annual pap smear. Listen, as a child I hated what my mom packed me for lunch. But, like every kid before me, and every generation to come you will find a kid to trade with…I’m sure someone likes sardines.

Misconception Number 8: Moms love after school activities.I don’t know who made up this idea of organized clubs and sports but they should be the ones in charge of carting your ass around. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against all after school programs. I just wish they would offer it during hours that would work best for me so that dinner wasn’t at 8:30 at night followed by 4 hours of homework. Why not do it on the weekends and call it “after-hours activities” so mommy and daddy could actually go out one night and pretend that we have a life of our own. Don’t worry about us though I’m sure that me and “what’s his name” will be married a very long time.

Misconception Number 9: Moms don’t mind taking you to school if you miss the busYour bus comes at 7:10 am….which means that you should be standing by the door at 7:05 am. Not eating breakfast , chasing the dog around the house or in the bathroom, asking me to check your homework while I’m taking a shower. Get it together! I don’t like running down the street in my jammies at 7:12 screaming “Please wait” or “If you stop I’ll show you my boobies.”

Misconception Number 10: Moms cry on your first day of schoolWe do cry but they are tears of joy. I have done my job. I have successfully kept a human child alive for at least 5 years without doing any major damage. Motherhood is the hardest job in the world!! Sure, doctors save lives and CEO’s run million dollar businesses but…you teach a kid not to poop their pants and then you can say you’ve made the world a better place.”

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Panasonic TA-1 HD Pocket Camcorder SpecificationAugust 26, 2010 – 1:23 pm

Panasonic TA-1: Upload your favored motion pictures. It is a snap!
Simple Internet Uploading. (High definition Compose PE 1.0 Embedded Computer software)
Upload your motion pictures onto YouTube, Facebook or everywhere you desire. The moment you plug the TA1’s built-in USB terminal into a Computer system, the embedded High definition Writer PE 1.0 application launches automatically. With operation this easy, it is possible to immediately share your motion pictures while using world.
Suitable for Mac and Computer system Users.
iFrame Mode
The TA1 lets you record motion pictures with iFrame. When employing iMovie, the iFrame video info inside your camera may be the similar format as the a single you may be employing to edit, so importing is rapid and file sizes are modest. You are going to be able to edit and upload motion pictures to the internet and portable devices correct away. Iframe is determined by standards, so it works with compatible Computer system andMac apps, such as Apple iMovie and Computer system apps.

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Once musicians understand the principles behind the header, or the lines preceding a tune, they’re ready to dig into the tune’s actual notation. It may look like a jumble at first, but the text is fairly straightforward. With just a few pointers, musicians can read the notation without filtering it through a computer. They can tweak existing tunes, transcribe their own music, or use the shorthand to jot down their favorite tunes at a jam.

How to Represent Notes With ABC Notation

Beginning with middle C, an ascending octave is represented with capital letters C, D, E, F, G, A, B. The octave higher is represented with lower case letters.

The octave bellow middle C is notated by letters followed by a comma. To go an octave lower, the letters can be followed by two commas. If transcribers need to go higher than the two octaves above middle C, they can place an apostrophe after letters.

The tune’s key which was designated in the last line of the header is important, because, as in standard notation, sharps and flats belonging to a particular key are not noted as they appear each time. For example, the letter Fs appearing in a tune in the key of G are assumed to be F#.

Spaces between letters won’t effect the way a tune plays as a midi, but do change the appearance when viewed as sheet music. Letters without spacing between will be translated on sheet music as notes connected by beams.

How to Understand Note Lengths in ABC Notation

Note lengths are designated by numbers or slashes and numbers directly following the letters. The number is simply a multiplier to either increase or decrease the note’s length. For example, if a letter is followed by 2, the note’s length is increased two times. If a letter is followed by a /2, the note’s length is divided in half. For shortened notation, a slash following a note means the same as a /2, and // can mean /4.

In songs with swing or syncopated rhythms, the < and > symbols will show up often. Basically, the > means the note before it is extended by half it’s length and the note following is that much shorter. The < is exactly the opposite.

Special Notation

The letter Z indicates a rest. Rests are lengthened or shortened in the same way notes are.

Measures are broken by the vertical bar symbol which looks like this, |. Two of these bars || end a tune. If another tune follows, there must be a blank line between the two but there cannot be blank lines within the tune’s notation.

To represent accidental sharps or flats, a musician can insert a ^ or a _ before the notes. If a note is already considered sharp or flat because of the tunes key, it can be made natural by placing an = before it.

A repeat sign opens with a vertical bar and colon like this |: . It closes in the opposite order like this . If two repeated sections are next to each other, it can be written |: or :: for short.

Quotes around a letter indicate the chord to accompany the notes which follow. The chords will be heard in the midi translation of the tune as well as appearing above the staff in the standard notation. Parenthesis around a group of letters indicate that the notes are to be slurred.

Several short cuts and specialized notation remains, but musicians certainly know enough now to start experimenting with tunes in ABC notation. One fun way to get going is to copy and paste a favorite tune into the Tune-O-Tron Converter and then make changes to the rhythm, key, or melody. Musicians can also open a text editor, type out a simple composition of their own, and paste it into ABC’s Converter to hear their work spring to life as a midi.

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Learn how to start taking advantage of ABC notation by searching the web for tunes and translating those tunes into either printable sheet music or midi sound files.

• Read about the basics of ABC notation beginning with a tune’s header.
• Learn about the history of ABC notation.
• And peruse the multitude of online resources available to modern musicians.

Information obtained from the official web site for ABC music notation.

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When you talk to people about bronzes, they usually envision large 2? or more figurines that may sell for over $100,000. But, they often miss the smaller pieces that can be special in their own right.

I’ve been buying, what are called “cold painted bronzes” for many years, most of them being dogs. These little treasures are bronze figures that are painted to look life like, and most of these pieces will have a foundry mark.

Since I was a canine collector, these very life-like Vienna bronze sculptures appealed to me, and they were also easy to sell for better than average profits. These were small pieces that were less than 4 inches long, and I’d buy them for $2 to $10.

I attended a sale and found five of these on a table, and if my memory serves me right, I think it cost me under $30. Once I was out of hearing range, I let out a huge howl. You see, I may have just bought 5 of these pieces knowing each one would return me at least $500.

Here’s a few examples of the prices of these special treasures: Braye Bull 11 ¾ inches $3450, Bergman Arabs 8 inches $1540. Fredericks bronzes can sell for over $50,000. Mene 13 inch dog $$3500 and Wien animals from $500 up. The prices for these bronzes are usually very friendly when you find them at garage sales or estate sales.

Figurines marked by Bergman bring in thousands of dollars in today’s market, and are a real find. If you find one of these, and it’s real, you can be assured you have found treasure. But, all of this is not the real secret I had in mind for you today.

What do you do with a piece you find marked NAM GREB? You grab it and don’t let it go. Why?

The Secret of NAM GREB:

Most of us who do something that is a little naughty want to hide it. Often times, this hold true in art as well. You see the Bergman Company was a well established company who made quality bronzes, but they also wanted to step out and make some erotic pieces for their customers. So, not to smear their image, they marked these erotic pieces with the name of Bergman spelled backwards: NAM GREB.

Often these erotic pieces were hinged, but when you looked at them they looked very conventional. However, when you opened them up, there was usually a nude woman standing there in front of you. One is a mummy opening to a nude lady. This little beauty is worth close to $5,000. I once found one of these priced at about $800. I purchased it and then sold it for close to $5,000. Now you know the secret, and may good fortune smile upon you.

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If you were wondering which flagship Nintendo franchise would anchor the Thanksgiving shopping spree, cease that prattle and clear out your Black Friday schedule for Donkey Kong Country Returns. DK’s hopefully-triumphant return begins November 21.

The rest of your key dated Wii lineup is as follows:
Metroid: Other M, Aug. 31
New Carnival Game, Sept. 21
Samurai Warriors 3, Sept. 27
Wii Party, Oct. 3
NBA Jam, Oct. 5
Just Dance 2, Oct. 12
Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Oct. 17
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure, Nov. 1
FlingSmash, Nov. 7
Sonic Colors, Nov. 16

GoldenEye 007 is booked for November and Epic Mickey is still “holiday season” at this time. DS and ‘Ware lists are coming up after the jump.

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, Sept. 12
Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs, Oct. 4
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, Oct. 5
Art Academy, Oct. 25
Rock Band 3 DS, Oct. 29
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem, Nov. 14

Super Scribblenauts is booked for an undefined date in October.

For WiiWare, the only games Nintendo is willing to commit to timetables are And Yet It Moves on Aug. 23, BIT.TRIP FATE this fall and Super Meat Boy during the holidays. On DSiWare, there’s Need For Speed™ Nitro-X on Sept. 20 and Shantae: Risky’s Revenge during the holidays.

What’s on your holiday meal plate for Wii and DS?

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