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jardineriausa · 4 months ago

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Cómo elegir la trituradora eléctrica de ramas perfecta para tu jardín en Houston

Cómo elegir la trituradora eléctrica de ramas y hojas perfecta para tu jardín en Houston

Elegir la trituradora eléctrica adecuada para tu jardín es fundamental si deseas mantener tu espacio exterior limpio y ordenado.En Houston, donde las hojas y ramas pueden acumularse rápidamente, contar con una herramienta eficiente puede ahorrarte tiempo y esfuerzo.No solo facilitará la limpieza de tu jardín, sino que también te permitirá reciclar los desechos orgánicos en un abono útil para tus plantas.A continuación, te presentamos algunas opciones destacadas que podrían ser perfectas para tus necesidades. Contenido...

Selecciones Destacadas

- Mejor en General: Worx WG430 13 Amp Electric Leaf Mulcher - $139.99 - Mejor Valor: PROYAMA 15 - Amp Electric Wood Chipper - $149.00 - Mejor para Compostaje: Earthwise GS70015 15-Amp Garden Corded Electric Chipper - $202.55 - La máquina es muy fácil de armar, la conectas y está lista para trabajar. Pulveriza las hojas secas muy rápido. Lo que antes eran dos bolsas de basura cupo perfecto en una.- Salma Varela - Rápido y eficiente en la pulverización de hojas. - Fácil de ensamblar y usar. - Compacto y ligero para almacenamiento. - Los 'blades' de plástico pueden desgastarse rápidamente si se usan con ramas más grandes. - Mulcha hasta 53 galones de hojas por minuto. - Diseño ligero y fácil de mover. - Fácil de ensamblar y desensamblar para almacenamiento. - He estado usando esta trituradora durante un mes y ha sido una gran ayuda. Es fácil de usar y hace un excelente trabajo triturando ramas. La caja de recolección es muy práctica y evita que el desecho se esparza por todas partes.- Jeffrey B. Johnson - Eficiente en la trituración de ramas y desechos. - Fácil de mover gracias a su diseño con ruedas. - La caja de recolección facilita la limpieza. - Puede atascarse si se alimenta con material demasiado húmedo. - Motor potente de 15 amperios que tritura ramas de hasta 1.75" de grosor. - Diseño compacto con ruedas para fácil transporte. - Caja de recolección de 1.2 bushels para una limpieza sencilla. - La trituradora PROYAMA ha sido una gran adición a mis herramientas de jardinería. Es sorprendentemente potente y ha triturado ramas de hasta 1.5" sin esfuerzo. Además, el hecho de que venga con un juego extra de cuchillas es un gran plus.- Marty Fuller - Eficiente en la trituración de ramas y desechos. - Fácil de mover gracias a su diseño con ruedas. - La caja de recolección facilita la limpieza. - Puede atascarse si se alimenta con material demasiado húmedo. - Motor potente de 15 amperios que tritura ramas de hasta 1.7" de grosor. - Diseño compacto con ruedas para fácil transporte. - Caja de recolección de 12 galones para una limpieza sencilla.Beneficios Económicos a Largo PlazoA largo plazo, esta trituradora puede ahorrarte dinero al reducir la cantidad de desechos que necesitas llevar al vertedero. Además, el material triturado puede ser reutilizado como mulch en tu jardín, lo que es una opción ecológica y económica.Precio Actual: $149.00Calificación: 4.5 (total: 29+)>> Comprar en Amazon Comprar en Amazon> Comprar en Amazon Read the full article

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fanboys-anonymous · 1 year ago

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sashayed · 7 years ago

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The Church of Michael Jordan

The hoop is not metal, but a pair of outstretched arms, God’s arms, joined at the fingers. And God is saying

throw it to me. It’s not a ball anymore. It’s an orange prayer I’m offering with all four chambers. And the other players—

the Pollack of limbs, flashing hands and teeth— are just temptations, obstacles between me and the Lord’s light.

Once during an interview I slipped, I didn’t pray well tonight, and the reporter looked at me, the same one who’d called me

a baller of destiny, and said you mean play, right? Of course, I nodded. Don’t misunderstand—I’m no reverend

of the flesh. Priests embarrass me. A real priest wouldn’t put on that robe, wouldn’t need the public

affirmation. A real priest works in disguise, leads by example, preaches with his feet. Yes, Jesus walked on water,

but how about a staircase of air? And when the clock is down to its final ticks, I rise up and over the palms

of a nonbeliever—the whole world watching, thinking it can’t be done—I let the faith roll off my fingertips, the ball

drunk with backspin, a whole stadium of people holding the same breath simultaneously, the net flying up like a curtain,

the lord’s truth visible for an instant, converting nonbelievers by the bushel, who will swear for years they’ve witnessed a miracle.

Jeffrey McDaniel 2015

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juudgeblog · 8 years ago

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Morning Docket: 11.30.17

* “On the surface it looks like you covered this up,” is never the most encouraging message to hear from the federal judge on your case. [The Recorder]

* Jeffrey Wertkin, the former Akin Gump partner who sold whistleblower complaints to targeted companies, pleaded guilty. [Reuters]

* Juror dismissed from FIFA corruption trial for falling asleep, proving a trial about soccer is just as thrilling as a game of soccer. [Law360]

* The highest paid GCs in America. [Corporate Counsel]

* Jones Day continues its drive to scoop up SCOTUS clerks by the bushel. [American Lawyer]

* Neal Katyal has passed Thurgood Marshall as the minority lawyer with the most Supreme Court arguments. [Litigation Daily]

* It looks like justices from both ends of the philosophical spectrum will come together to rule that the DOJ still needs to get warrants. Glad we can all come together to agree on this very, very low bar. [National Law Journal] Morning Docket: 11.30.17 syndicated from http://ift.tt/2vKNZDn

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biofunmy · 6 years ago

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Flooded farmers face growing dilemma in warming world

CRESCENT, Iowa — Frogs, carp and bugs thrived all summer in murky floodwaters where Gene Walter should have planted corn and soybeans. Last year’s ruined crop spilled from metal storage bins that burst nine months ago when the Missouri River surged through two levees near his southwest Iowa farm.

Like many in the water-weary Midwest, Walter doesn’t know if climate change was responsible for the second major flood in nine years. Or the increasingly frequent torrential rains that dump more water in an hour than he used to see in days.

Even so, “we kind of feel like it’s the new normal,” said Walter, who lost 46,000 bushels of corn and soybeans. “You can’t rely on anything. You can’t build anything. You can’t do future planning … the uncertainty is the thing that is really bad.”

This year’s devastating losses are forcing tough decisions about the future of farming in America’s flood plains, even among those skeptical of climate change and humans’ role in it.

Farmers who lost billions of dollars in grain, livestock, equipment, structures and unplanted crops are wondering whether they should — or can — return to the fertile bottomlands next year.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must determine how many damaged levees can be rebuilt but says it won’t be all of them. More than 50 levees were breached on the Missouri River alone, taking thousands of acres out of production.

And with the ground still soggy heading into winter, experts say the stage is set for more flooding next spring.

“A lot of this ground won’t be put back into production,” said Brett Adams, a Peru, Nebraska, farmer who saw 2,000 acres (809 hectares) — 80% of his land — submerged in up to 12 feet (3.7 meters) of water. “I’ve seen it first-hand up and down the river — land is so tore up from flooding that some of it is completely ruined.”

Adams lost over 100,000 bushels of corn and a half-million dollars in potential income after six storage bins burst. But he bristles when people ask why he farms in an area that could flood.

“Because it never flooded before,” Adams tells them, noting that a levee built in 1950 kept his farm dry during major floods in 1993 and 2011.

It’s very difficult to directly tie this year’s flooding — or any single weather event — to climate change. But the flooding comes as “we’re seeing big rain and even bigger snows that are consistent with what we will see in a warming world,” because a warmer atmosphere delivers more water to storm systems, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate monitoring chief Deke Arndt.

The number of heavy rain events has increased throughout much of the U.S., including the Midwest, where the days with at least one inch of rain averaged 13% higher from 2009 to 2018 than the long-term average dating to 1950, according to NOAA.

In Missouri, the number of annual 4-inch (10.2-centimeter) or greater rainfalls was 58% higher than the long-term average. In Iowa, the increase was 31% and in Nebraska it was 23%.

There also will be more severe droughts, experts say, while rains will be more intense, with more water falling in a shorter period. What’s more, the greatest increase in rainfall is occurring in the fall, when farmers are trying to harvest.

The unpredictability “ends up being really bad news for farms,” said Jeffrey S. Dukes, an ecologist who directs the Climate Change Research Center at Purdue University.

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Heavy rains and flooding kept farmers from their fields in more than a dozen states this year, the wettest on record through October in the contiguous U.S., and breached levees along major waterways that included the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers.

On the Missouri, the disaster unfolded after a blizzard was followed by heavy rain that fell on the snow and frozen ground. Most of the runoff came from tributaries without levees or dams, so the Army Corps had no way to slow the surge and little time to warn farmers.

“It just completely overwhelmed the levees downstream,” said Matthew Krajewski, chief of the readiness branch in the Corps’ Omaha District.

Experts say heavy rain in 2018 set the stage for the floods because the soil was saturated as winter started.

Now the situation is worse than this time last year because heavy rain fell all summer and into the fall, preventing the soil from drying out, said Kevin Low, a hydrologist at the Missouri Basin River Forecast Center.

“The setup is extremely bad,” he said, noting most levees have not been repaired. “There is nothing we can do but watch and wait.”

Some areas along the Missouri were above flood stage more than 270 consecutive days, according to hydrologist David Pearson at the National Weather Service’s Missouri Basin River Forecast Center.

Julius Schaaf believes it’s the Army Corps’ job to protect farmland like his, though he concedes there is a legitimate question whether farmers should remove structures from flood plains.

“The levees and dams … kind of gave us a false sense of security,” said Schaaf, whose farms near Randolph, Iowa were flooded this year. “We went ahead and made an investment because the government said, ‘We’ve got this river tamed and you folks are good.’”

But the Corps says its priority is to protect people and infrastructure such as highways, railroads and towns — not agricultural land.

The agency is conducting cost-benefit assessments to determine which levees can and should be rebuilt. “There is a good chance” that it won’t be all of them, said the Corps’ Krajewski, noting that funding is limited.

Some farmland along the Missouri could be flooded for years awaiting repairs and would have to be cleared of silt and debris before being planted again.

The decision to abandon farmland is complicated by the fact that catastrophic floods are unpredictable, said Ken Kunkel, a NOAA researcher.

”But it seems to me, like in lot of situations when you’re in a flood plain, expecting to be completely protected by anything probably is unwise and becoming unwiser as time goes on,” Kunkel said.

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Some experts say U.S. agriculture policy discourages farmers from adopting practices that could help reduce losses to extreme weather.

Conservation programs that pay farmers to set aside land, including in flood plains, are underfunded, experts say. The taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance program effectively discourages farmers from planting more than a couple of crops and gives them an incentive to plant on risky land because some losses would be recouped.

It’s also easier to obtain loans for certain crops, such as corn, wheat and soybeans in the Midwest, said Ben Lilliston, rural strategies and climate change director at the Minnesota-based Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy. That makes it difficult for farmers to rotate several crops, which preserves soil health and helps weather floods and drought.

After a crippling year, many farmers will need to return to low-lying fields if they can.

Walter, the Iowa farmer, considered abandoning 750 acres (304 hectares) of bottomlands, but it was a huge chunk of the 1,200 acres (486 hectares) he farms with his son.

So they’ll continue farming it once the levees are repaired, he said.

But farmers need to ask themselves if the risk of farming in flood plains is worth the reward, said Dukes, the Purdue ecologist.

“Is it worth the great yields you might get in great years versus the total loss in other years?” he said. “Do taxpayers want to be subsidizing the losses?”

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Webber reported from Chicago.

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feminineoddities · 7 years ago

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From @scumbagthemovie - This Saturday, Nov.3rd, 2018, Mars Roberge the director for "Scumbag" will be showing his first feature film "The Little House That Could" at 7pm at Beach Dancer Films (3401 Pacific Ave, 2A & 2B, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292). It is a showcase featuring upcoming projects and films from other directors including a sneak preview of "Late Late Later Show With Garry Bushell" by Sandie West which interviews Mars about Scumbag as well as featuring Scumbag's lead actress Debra Haden. Plus, Jeffrey Wengrofsky, who is another actor in Scumbag, will be in town from NYC to show 2 short films he made as well as a sneak preview for his upcoming feature doc "The Song of Hiwatha". Come out to our fun-filled night this Saturday. More info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beach-dancer-films-industry-film-showcase-tickets-51499160375 - #debrahaden #debrathegreat #scumbagthemovie #scumbagmovie #film #filmmaker #indiefilm #punkfilm #telemarketingmovie #original #movie #afilmbymars #actress #actresslife #debrahadenactress #thelatelatelatershow #garrybushell #beachdancerfilms https://www.instagram.com/p/BpiBmOhgARk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1c9d3odc7ekn1

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to-thoughts-of-mother-earth · 7 years ago

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Breakfast

I tend to eat small meals throughout the day, usually three or even five meals. However, I always start my day with the exact same breakfast: a sixteen ounce cup of oatmeal along with almonds and almond milk. I chose this meal instead of the others because I recently heard that almond trees consume large amounts of water in order to grow, thereby I’ve taken this opportunity to either confirm or refute what I was told. It is also important to note that my family is big on organic foods. This is something that I’ve become deeply conflicted about. Not because it might be unhealthy for my body, but rather because it still operates within the power machine of destroy and profit.

Oats

According to the Canadian government, Canada is the world’s largest oat exporter and supplies about 70% of the oats exported to the U.S. In 2012, the U.S. average oat production was only 76 million bushels, which is small compared to the same years average corn production of 12 billion bushels. The primary states to grow oats are Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin (Canada). The North American Millers’ Association states that oats are good for the environment since they are valuable to sustainable crop rotation systems, which helps ensure soil conservation. They also reduce the needs for herbicides, do not extract as many nutrients from the soil and do not require as much water as other crops do(Oat Sustainability). Perhaps, the U.S. should get more into the oats business instead of hoarding the corn industry. U.S. corn, especially if we want to use it to make tortillas, is a running joke in my family. “Not even our dogs in Mexico would eat their corn.”

Almonds

Almonds are my favorite part of my breakfast and I happily ate a handful in my oatmeal or even alone as a light snack, until my sister told me they were not so great for the environment. Growing almonds requires a large amount of water, specifically one gallon per almond. Now let’s take a look at California, a state that grows 80% of the world’s almonds (Brown). California seems of a bit of a hellish state; it’s constantly in a drought and it catches on fire every year. It’s latest major drought, 2011 to 2015, was the most severe since record keeping history began in 1895 (Chappelle). This did not deter the agriculture industry; 2012-2014 saw record revenues due to soaring nut and dairy prices (Boxall).

This is all very upsetting but I must not get too hasty. I do not believe the answer to this problem is to halt almond growth completely. As Boxall argues, we should look into developing ever advancing water efficiency techniques, dismantle the almond monopoly, and reduce acreage to other crops like wheat and corn. I saw ‘we’ because it is apparent that the California agriculture industry is most interested in maximizing crop production in cheap ways in whatever means possible, never mind the environmental implication this may have.

Almond milk

My family and I started experimenting with different types non-dairy milk after we realized half the family is lactose intolerant. It made more sense for all of us to convert to the alternative. At first we tried soy milk, then rice milk, and finally we all agreed on almond milk. Once again, due to this milk substitute being made of almond, it takes a toll on the environment. 23,000 acres of natural land have been converted into almond farms and the ground in the San Joaquin Valley, where the most almonds are grown, is sinking due to groundwater depletion. In addition, large almond farms use pesticides, which are contaminating the remaining water supplies. The drinking water of California’s farming communities is becoming toxic (Fleischer).

What food then?

It is difficult to find suitable food or substitutes for foods. It seems to be nearly guaranteed that no matter what we purchase someone or something will get hurt. Vegans for example, are able to steer clear of animal cruelty by not purchasing or eating animal based foods. However, many will purchase all other types of foods without realizing or speaking out against the exploitation of undocumented migrant workers. You save the animals but you enslave the workers. The power to change this lies within our hands, does it not?

Benjamin, who is nearly 80 years old, hard at work / This section of the field had a lot of missing leafy greens due to excessive rain. There is a slight dip in that particular part of the field and the water tends to stagnate if storms are continuous, as a consequence plants (but not weeds) die. The trees behind Benjamin have the most delicious blackberries I have ever had the pleasure of eating. No store bought blackberry has ever come close.

Celia tending to the leafy greens / This was taken in a section that had become nearly completely overrun by weeds. The field is big and workers are few; three including myself to be exact. Although at one point in history our boss employed over 50 workers, some of which slept in a small cabin next to the fields. Herbicides had never been used in the ten years that I’ve known of this farm, until this year. Nevertheless, weeds somehow beat us anyway.

Works Cited

Boxall, Bettina. “Gov. Brown declares California drought emergency is over.” Los Angeles Times, 07 April 2017. www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-brown-drought-20170407-story.html.

Brown, Sally. “California Almonds.” BioCycle, June 2015, pp. 53. tinyurl.com/ycq7ew6q.

Canada, Ministry, Agriculture and Forestry, Agriculture. “US Crops - Where Are They grown?” www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sis5219.

Chappelle, Caitrin; Hanak, Ellen; Mount, Jeffrey. “California’s Latest Drought.” PPIC, July 2016. www.ppic.org/publication/californias-latest-drought/.

Fleischer, Deborah. “Almond Milk is Taking a Toll on the Environment.” UCSF Office of Sustainability, Jan. 2018. sustainability.ucsf.edu/1.713.

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benrleeusa · 7 years ago

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Marijuana, mandatory minimums and jury nullification, oh my: split Ninth Circuit affirms panel federal convictions, though remands to address DOJ spending rider

A big, long and split decision by a panel of the Ninth Circuit yesterday in US v. Lynch, No. 10-50219 (9th Cir, Sept. 13, 2018) (available here), prompted the weak "Wizard of Oz" reference in the title of this post. There is so much of interest in Lynch for sentencing fans and others, I cannot cover it all in this post. The majority's introduction provides a sense of the case's coverage:

Charles Lynch ran a marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, California, in violation of federal law. He was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess, and distribute marijuana, as well as other charges related to his ownership of the dispensary. In this appeal, Lynch contends that the district court made various errors regarding Lynch’s defense of entrapment by estoppel, improperly warned jurors against nullification, and allowed the prosecutors to introduce various evidence tying Lynch to the dispensary’s activities, while excluding allegedly exculpatory evidence offered by Lynch. However, Lynch suffered no wrongful impairment of his entrapment by estoppel defense, the anti-nullification warning was not coercive, and the district court’s evidentiary rulings were correct in light of the purposes for which the evidence was tendered. A remand for resentencing is required, though, on the government’s cross-appeal of the district court’s refusal to apply a five-year mandatory minimum sentence, which unavoidably applies to Lynch.

Following the filing of this appeal and after the submission of the government’s brief, the United States Congress enacted an appropriations provision, which this court has interpreted to prohibit the federal prosecution of persons for activities compliant with state medical marijuana laws. Lynch contends that this provision therefore prohibits the United States from continuing to defend Lynch’s conviction. We need not reach the question of whether the provision operates to annul a properly obtained conviction, however, because a genuine dispute exists as to whether Lynch’s activities were actually legal under California state law. Remand will permit the district court to make findings regarding whether Lynch complied with state law.

Judge Watford dissented from the panel majority in Lynch, and his dissent starts this way:

I would reverse and remand for a new trial. In my view, the district court went too far in trying to dissuade the jury from engaging in nullification. The court’s actions violated Charles Lynch’s constitutional right to trial by jury, and the government can’t show that this error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

By its very nature, a case of this sort touches a sensitive nerve from a federalism standpoint. At the time of Lynch’s trial in 2008, the citizens of California had legalized the sale and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes; the federal government nonetheless sought to prosecute a California citizen for conduct that arguably was authorized under state law. Because federal law takes precedence under the Supremacy Clause, the government could certainly bring such a prosecution, notwithstanding the resulting intrusion upon state sovereignty interests. See Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1, 29 (2005). But the Framers of the Constitution included two provisions that act as a check on the national government’s exercise of power in this realm: one stating that “[t]he Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury”; the other requiring that “such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed.” U.S. Const., Art. III, § 2, cl. 3. The Sixth Amendment further mandates that in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to trial “by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” Thus, to send Lynch to prison, the government had to persuade a jury composed of his fellow Californians to convict.

One of the fundamental attributes of trial by jury in our legal system is the power of the jury to engage in nullification — to return a verdict of not guilty “in the teeth of both law and facts.” Horning v. District of Columbia, 254 U.S. 135, 138 (1920). The jury’s power to nullify has ancient roots, dating back to pre-colonial England. See Thomas Andrew Green, Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200–1800, at 236–49 (1985) (discussing Bushell’s Case, 124 Eng. Rep. 1006 (C.P. 1670)). It became a well-established fixture of jury trials in colonial America, perhaps most famously in the case of John Peter Zenger, a publisher in New York acquitted of charges of seditious libel. See Albert W. Alschuler & Andrew G. Deiss, A Brief History of the Criminal Jury in the United States, 61 U. Chi. L. Rev. 867, 871–74 (1994). From ratification of the Constitution to the present, the right to trial by jury has been regarded as “essential for preventing miscarriages of justice,” Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145, 158 (1968), in part because the jury’s power to nullify allows it to act as “the conscience of the community,” Jeffrey Abramson, We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy 87 (1994).

Cross-posted at Marijuana Law, Policy and Reform.

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