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Rebloom Your Amaryllis Bulb Cheryl J Shenkle PSU Jefferson County Master Gardener December 2022 Getting an Amaryllis to re-bloom is dependent on the size of the bulb, how well it was fed the summer before, and if it experienced sufficient dormancy. It must also be repotted in fresh potting soil then given about 3-4 weeks at room temperature to send up the scapes which are the flowering stalks. Waxed Amaryllis are not intended to live beyond the current year because the rooting Basal Plate has been cut off before being waxed. The flower will still open but like a rose in a vase, there is no way for the bulb to grow roots again. A box store Amaryllis is fed just enough to bloom through the current season, so even with good follow up care, it may take a year or more to return the bulb to blooming weight again. In order for a purchased Amaryllis bulb to bloom the following year, once it is done blooming at Christmas, remove the faded flowers immediately at about ½ inch from the bulb. Place plant into a slightly larger pot with large drainage holes and treat like a tropical plant in a bright window with partial sun. Feed lightly and keep watered. Once the outside temperatures are about 50 degrees with no frost at night, it’s time to send it outdoors for the summer to build up the newly developing flower cells for the next winter blooms. It will need a sunny location with a little shelter from the hot afternoon sun. You can also set the entire plant with the pot into a garden bed where it will be fed and watered. It must eat like a pig all growing season. Use a quality liquid 10-10-10 fertilizer at half strength when watering from March till flowering begins or slow release 2-3 times a growing season. Once the temperatures start to drop, before a frost, bring the plant into a cool brightly lit window. It will need 8 weeks of rest in order to force the bloom, then 3-4 weeks to actually bloom. If you have followed all the care instructions and the bulb is as well fed as possible, in completely dry soil and sitting in a cold dark location, then after growing time it will be ready to bloom again. To force dormancy, take the entire plant with the root ball out of the pot and onto a newspaper. It should dry out fairly quickly. Once you are sure that the soil and bulb are completely dry, then place plant back into the pot and set in a cold dark closet, cool garage or dry basement that stays between 40-50 degrees for 8 weeks. Do not water it! This will put the bulb to sleep and preserve the life inside of the bulb without danger of rot from moisture. Do not store in a refrigerator where there are apples. Once rested properly, replant the bulb in fresh planting medium and return to a low 70s location in bright but not direct sun which could burn the new leaves. Water once but not again till you see leaves. It will begin producing flower stems which should bloom in approximately 3-4 weeks. After blooming, return to treating it like a Tropical plant. Tropical Plants with No dormancy required! My Amaryllis lovelies are planted in a large deep window box that goes out into my deck garden all summer and back into the house to the front window for the winter. Right now in early December they are developing stems and buds. Once they are done flowering, I reduce watering slightly till about March. They can remain in that container for years as long as they are not too crowded and are fed and watered properly. In a cold commercial greenhouse near me, the owner had about 50 bulbs in a very large garden pot. They automatically bloomed for years and people came from all over to photograph it. Remember that in the tropics, Amaryllis grow outdoors all year unbothered and successfully figure out when to bloom themselves with just a cool spell in which to rest. Although the stores assume you will have given up, tossed your Amaryllis and will buy another one the next December, you won’t have to because you already have a healthy bulb to spoil and fatten up all summer. If you have more questions, please submit them to the Master Gardener Garden Hotline at 814-849-7361 Ext 508 and a call will be returned to you. We will also do presentations for any group making a request. We look forward to suggestions for articles also. Master Gardener Classes will begin again in early October, so if you have ever dreamed of spending time working in Horticulture with friends, this is your chance. Certified Master Gardeners are local volunteers trained by Penn State to answer Horticulture questions with properly researched information. For a “best practices” answer to your question, call Penn State Jefferson County Extension to leave a message at 849-7361, Ext 508, e-mail cjs5618@psu.edu, or mail your question to 186 Main Street, Suite 3, Brookville, PA 15825. Penn State is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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Yes, It's stuff we already knew they were doing. Now we need to know what files James Baker deleted or tried to delete in round 1 of the Twitter Files. We're they FBI related?? We're waiting ..... THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS. 1. A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users. 2. Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected. 3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending. 4. Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (@dbongino), who at one point was slapped with a “Search Blacklist.” 5. Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) to “Do Not Amplify.” 6. Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: “We do not shadow ban.” They added: “And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.” 7. What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning. 8. “Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us. 9. “VF” refers to Twitter’s control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; to block select users’ posts from ever appearing on the “trending” page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches. 10. All without users’ knowledge. 11. “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed. 12. The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 "cases" a day. 13. But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company’s policy on paper. That is the “Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,” known as “SIP-PES.” 14. This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others. 15. This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything.” 16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was @libsoftiktok—an account that was on the “Trends Blacklist” and was designated as “Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With SIP-PES.” 17. The account—which Chaya Raichik began in November 2020 and now boasts over 1.4 million followers—was subjected to six suspensions in 2022 alone, Raichik says. Each time, Raichik was blocked from posting for as long as a week. 18. Twitter repeatedly informed Raichik that she had been suspended for violating Twitter’s policy against “hateful conduct.” 19. But in an internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that “LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy." See here: 20. The committee justified her suspensions internally by claiming her posts encouraged online harassment of “hospitals and medical providers” by insinuating “that gender-affirming healthcare is equivalent to child abuse or grooming.” 21. Compare this to what happened when Raichik herself was doxxed on November 21, 2022. A photo of her home with her address was posted in a tweet that has garnered more than 10,000 likes. 22. When Raichik told Twitter that her address had been disseminated she says Twitter Support responded with this message: "We reviewed the reported content, and didn't find it to be in violation of the Twitter rules." No action was taken. The doxxing tweet is still up. 23. In internal Slack messages, Twitter employees spoke of using technicalities to restrict the visibility of tweets and subjects. Here’s Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then Global Head of Trust & Safety, in a direct message to a colleague in early 2021: 24. Six days later, in a direct message with an employee on the Health, Misinformation, Privacy, and Identity research team, Roth requested more research to support expanding “non-removal policy interventions like disabling engagements and deamplification/visibility filtering.” 25. Roth wrote: “The hypothesis underlying much of what we’ve implemented is that if exposure to, e.g., misinformation directly causes harm, we should use remediations that reduce exposure, and limiting the spread/virality of content is a good way to do that.” 26. He added: “We got Jack on board with implementing this for civic integrity in the near term, but we’re going to need to make a more robust case to get this into our repertoire of policy remediations – especially for other policy domains.” 27. There is more to come on this story, which was reported by @AbigailShrier @ShellenbergerMD @NellieBowles @IsaacGrafstein and the team The Free Press @TheFP. Keep up with this unfolding story here and at our brand new website: thefp.com. 28. The authors have broad and expanding access to Twitter’s files. The only condition we agreed to was that the material would first be published on Twitter. 29. We're just getting started on our reporting. Documents cannot tell the whole story here. A big thank you to everyone who has spoken to us so far. If you are a current or former Twitter employee, we'd love to hear from you. Please write to: tips@thefp.com 30. Watch @mtaibbi for the next installment.
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Bruce M. Bethel, age 71 of DuBois, PA died Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at the DuBois Nursing Home. Born on August 15, 1951 in Key West, FL, he was the son of the late Robert and Evelyn (Atwell Bethel). On March 31, 1971 he married his wife of 51 years Linda (McClantoc) Bethel. She survives. Bruce and Linda and their family moved to West Liberty in 1983. He was a graduate of Key West High School, the DuBois Business College, ITEC, and Transport Tech. Bruce was a member of the Bethel Baptist Church in Sykesville, PA. He was devoted to Christ, his family, his church and his friends. Along with his wife, Bruce is survived by two children; Dawn Bethel of DuBois, PA and Robert Bethel of Beaufort, SC, four grandchildren; Kali, Jason, MaryAnn and Ella, one great grandchild Kleighton, sister-in-law Janet Boeskool and special family friend Crystal Woods. He was preceded in death by two sisters; Vera and Anita and his furry grandchild Reily. There will be no public visitation and all services will be private. The Baronick Funeral Home & Crematorium, Inc. is in charge of arrangements. Memorial donations may be made to the Bethel Baptist Church, 100 East Main Street, Sykesville, PA 15865. Online condolences can be sent to http://baronickfuneralhome.com/condolence
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Bob Welch with Christine McVie - Sentimental Lady (Live From The Roxy 1981)
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A former FBI general counsel at the center of the Twitter suppression scandal https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/breaking-elon-musk-fires-twitters-deputy-general-counsel-james-baker-light-concerns-role-suppression-hunter-biden-laptop-story/ When all is said and done, the DOJ & FBI will be a smoldering pile of ashes!
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Kari Lake vs Katie Hobbs ... plus Arizona Election News
Pompeii replied to Pompeii's topic in The True Great Awakening Blog!
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A race that close and Herschel concedes? ... (just like Oz, Masters and Mastriano did) It just doesn't make much sense. So please use your common sense God gave you and just look at all of the CRAZY, INSANE & UNTHINKABLE things going on in the world at this moment. If you know, you know .... Thank You God!
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CHEAP TRICK - AIN'T THAT A SHAME - DECATUR, IL - 7/17/22
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WHO'S IN THE NEWS: ▫️Houston police searching for Deshawn Joseph Baptiste, who's accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with a child in 2021 Deshawn Joseph Baptiste is accused of performing indecent acts with a child in the 3100 block of West Little York Road on March 15, 2021, according to police. Information may be reported by calling 713-222-TIPS (8477). https://abc13.com/man-wanted-inappropriate-sexual-contact-with-child-indecency-deshawn-joseph-baptiste/12529612/ ▫️South Carolina man and woman indicted on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges COLUMBIA, S.C. - Eric Rashun Jones, 30, of Newberry and Brittany Danielle Cromer, 33, of Greenville were indicted on 10 counts of sex trafficking, conspiracy, and witness tampering. According to the indictment, it alleges that between 2018 and 2022, Jones and Cromer recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, and sex trafficked at least five victims by force, fraud, or coercion. » https://www.wistv.com/2022/12/05/south-carolina-man-woman-indicted-sex-trafficing-conspiracy-charges/ » https://www.heraldonline.com/news/state/south-carolina/article269622961.html ▫️Man, Woman Sentenced in Disturbing Petoskey Sex Crimes Case Jeremiah Page and Kristina Sterley were sentenced on Monday morning, Dec. 5. Page was sentenced to 62-94 years on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree child abuse. Sterley was sentenced to 10-15 years on two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and second-degree child abuse. https://www.9and10news.com/2022/12/05/disturbing-new-details-revealed-in-petoskey-sex-crimes-case/ ▫️Domestic violence investigation leads to human trafficking arrest in Brentwood BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — A woman who allegedly was forced to sell her body across the United States is now safe thanks to quick-acting Brentwood cops who recognized the signs of sex trafficking and quickly intervened. This alleged sex trafficking case broke wide open Thanksgiving weekend when witnesses at a Franklin Road gas station saw what they believed to be a domestic violence incident. “A female was being dragged into a car, after being pushed down by a suspect,” said Det. Adrian Breedlove. Brentwood police stopped the suspect vehicle, a purple Dodge Challenger. The car was driven by 43-year-old Ontario Lowery, a Wisconsin native. https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/domestic-violence-investigation-leads-to-human-trafficking-arrest-in-brentwood/ ▫️Former Club Tijuana Xolos Star Raul Enriquez-Arambula Sentenced for Human Trafficking A former Mexican soccer star for Club Tijuana's team was sentenced Monday to credit for 86 days already served in custody for trying to smuggle two women across the border at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. Raul Enriquez-Arambula, 37, the top goal scorer of all time for the Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles, pleaded guilty to driving two undocumented women to the border on Sept. 11. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/former-club-tijuana-xolos-star-raul-enriquez-arambula-sentenced-for-human-trafficking/3114113/ ▫️Laredo Sector Border Patrol arrests a sex offender and a gang member https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/laredo-sector-border-patrol-arrests-sex-offender-and-gang-member ▫️CBP Officers Apprehend Fugitive Wanted for Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child at Hidalgo International Bridge https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-officers-apprehend-fugitive-wanted-aggravated-sexual-assault-0 ▫️Nassau man charged with raping kids in early 2000s NASSAU, N.Y. — In August 2021, New York State Police received a report through the Rensselaer County Child Protective Services about a past sexual abuse incident that involved children in the town of Nassau. Investigations determined that in the early 2000s, Robert R. Hilton, 63, of Nassau, had sexual contact with a child under fifteen. Hilton was arrested on Friday, December 2, on a warrant for two counts of Rape in the Second Degree. » https://wnyt.com/top-stories/nassau-man-charged-with-raping-kids-in-early-2000s/ » https://www.news10.com/news/crime/nassau-man-arrested-for-allegedly-raping-a-minor/ ▫️Lubbock man who sexually abused girls for decades sentenced to 45 years A 46-year-old man was sentenced last week to 45 years in prison without parole after admitting to a decades-long history of sexually abusing children. https://news.yahoo.com/lubbock-man-sexually-abused-girls-000707786.html ▫️73-Year-Old Walker County Man Sentenced To 5 Life Sentences For Child Sexual Abuse A 73-year-old Walker County man has been sentenced to five life prison sentences after he was convicted by a jury of rape, aggravated sexual battery, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, sexual battery against a child and child molestation. The jury deliberated only a short time before rendering their verdicts against Wesley Lebron Romine. https://www.chattanoogan.com/2022/12/5/460462/73-Year-Old-Walker-County-Man-Sentenced.aspx ______________________