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We are new beekeepers and just installed 6 packages of italian bees into top bar beehives. Phil Chandler's design, with the addition of a gabled roof. Installation seemed to go fine. On 5 of the hives, the bees began building comb quickly and after less than a week have beautiful straight comb on multiple bars. We don't have much in bloom yet here in this part of Central Texas, but they are emptying two quart jars of syrup within a few days and we can see orange/yellow spots in the cells.
However, the bees on the 6th hive have been behaving erratically. They didn't eat much at first and didn't start building comb when the other hives did. At one point about 4 days after installation, the mass of bees down at the end was mostly dispersed and there were lots of bees hanging out on top of the top bars. We figured they had swarmed or the workers had left a weak queen for one of the other hives.
Then today, 6 days after installation, the mass of bees is back in the hive, but there are also masses of bees on the inside of the gabled roof and they are building comb there! The roof overhangs the hive in such a way that the bees can definitely access the roof space easily. They have also started eating more. What should we do? Is there likely to be a queen in there somewhere? We have been unsuccessful at identifying queens because we are afraid of having the hives open long enough for us to find them. (yes we're new). What should we do? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


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New York Post columnist Linda Stasi's first novel "The Sixth Station" is a suspense story about one journalist's exploration into a man who is either the Second Coming or Revelation's anti-Christ.
Chapter 1
New York City, N.Y., USA
Thirty-three Years Later
It wasn't my beat, it wasn't my assignment, and it wasn't my intention to alter reality that morning when my cell phone rang at 7:15 after a night highlighted by too many martinis with Donald, the ex.
Oh, God. Why didn't we stay away from each other? Again.
We had no future and the past was a decade-old fantasy.
Baghdad, October 5, 2005
Kick-ass war correspondent and bad-boy photojournalist married by army chaplain amidst horrors of war in the lounge of the Palestine Hotel. Many drunken colleagues in attendance.
Or something like that.
Two days after the terribly romantic nuptials and drunken party that followed, the retreating Iraqis gave Donald and me an unforgettable wedding present: A bomb hidden inside a cement-mixer truck was detonated outside the hotel, taking out the lobby. Gucci bags and Fendi fur coats from the high-end lobby shops were blown out of the stores and lay among broken glass and giant hunks of falling plaster.
When the blast hit (we were in bed, of course), Donald jumped up, threw on jeans, and grabbed his cameras. He wasn't worried about our (my) safety; he was worried about missing the action, i.e., the photos.
Instead of thinking he was a big horse's ass, I jumped into a tracksuit and we both took the partially collapsed stairs four steps at a time. I too was probably more terrified of missing the action (i.e., the story) than I was about the danger. I should have realized it was a defining moment.
We weren't allowed back into our hotel to collect our things, so we bunked down with three other journos in the apartment of a friend of a friend.
Donald left early one morning — he was imbedding with the Second Battalion of the Fourth Infantry Regiment. He gave me a perfunctory kiss, but I grabbed him tight and pulled him close. "Be careful," I said.
He put his big hands around my face and kissed me as though we were alone. "I'm too mean to get hurt," he said.
About two hours later Donald was riding shotgun in a jeep when another roadside bomb exploded, throwing him thirty feet, breaking his femur and a few ribs.
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When I finally got to him in the makeshift army hospital, I kissed his head and said, "Time to get outta Dodge, baby," trying for sardonic and missing completely.
I made arrangements for us to get back to NYC, where I nursed his cranky self back to health and got my first and only Pulitzer nomination from the New York Post, who'd employed me at the time.
Our crazy wartime marriage was hot and dangerous. We couldn't get enough of each other — and even though he was a giant pain in the ass when he was busted up, the broken-femur sex was sensational. Who knew?
I — we — were very happy, happy enough, in fact, for me to start thinking about maybe having a baby. Yikes.
Donald said he didn't think a baby was a great idea, because a family would keep me tied at home when he knew I'd be desperate to get to the next war/murder/scandal/whatever. I pouted for three months straight.
Finally, one night when he was well enough to hit the road again — he was off to cover the wildfires in Texas — he turned to me with a dopey grin and said, "Okay, whatever you want."
"You're acting like I want to get a dog," I said.
"Not a bad idea — maybe test-drive the mother thing with a nice German shepherd for a few years first?" he teased, and we fell onto the bed laughing.
Somehow, though, it — a pregnancy — never happened. Great sex doesn't always lead to greater things.
Two years later we ended as abruptly as we had started, although not as dramatically.
It was a fast and clean break to a messy marriage, which involved much sex and even more fighting. Kiss-and-make-up is only fun in the movies.
One Monday morning Donald and I were off to cover different assignments — he back to Iraq, me to cover the presidential campaigns.
As I got out of the cab at JFK, he kissed me hard and simply said, "Time to get outta Dodge, baby." I knew he wasn't talking about leaving the country. He was talking about leaving the marriage.
And that was that.
I knew he was right. He liked gambling on sports, staying up all night, and hanging out in strip clubs in disease-riddled cities with names that weren't composed of letters in the English alphabet. He was a horrible dancer who made duck lips when he was really feeling it.
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I like sports that I play myself, getting into bed early with a good book or, better yet, a bad boy, and going dancing with my gay men friends who never make duck lips no matter how much they're feeling the music.
Donald and I had nothing in common other than that we were both agnostics, preferred fast stick shifts to fancy SUVs, and would risk everything for a story.
He was resentful that I'd been nominated for a Pulitzer for covering the same war at the same time, while his newsweekly, U.S. News, hadn't nominated him. And he'd taken one for the Gipper, while I'd come home in one piece.
Me? I was jealous that I never got sent back to a war zone again. Weird? Sure.
But I took his leaving me like a bullet to my heart anyway. I cried for a month straight, drank too much with my friend Dona and my hairdresser pals, hardened my heart, and threw myself into my work.
A decade after we'd said "I do," however, we still couldn't say "I won't."
And so I found myself — all those years later — faced with a ringing phone. Since it is for reporters a genetic impossibility to ignore a ringing phone, I reached for it.
I sincerely wished he wouldn't call the morning after the night before. (Big lie.) Better yet, I wished we wouldn't ever have a night before again. (Truth.)
Be careful what you wish for.
I picked it up without bothering to look at the caller ID. "Go away, Donald," I said.
"Alessandra?" I heard a copy kid at the other end say. Oops.
"It's the City Desk. Can you hold for Dickie Smalls?" As if holding for Dickie Smalls were an option. I knew it would take about fourteen seconds for the whole newsroom to know I'd slept with Donald. Damn!
Mildly surprised, I held on, of course, knowing that it was usually not good when a call came through from Dickie early in the morning: It always meant something unexpected — an assignment that would send me to the Bronx or Queens or, worse, complaints about a story I'd filed the night before.
Bleary and hung over, I nonetheless held on for Managing Editor Dickie Smalls, a man who devoted his life to overcoming his name. His job was second only to that of editor in chief — the only one to whom Smalls ever spoke with any respect.
"Russo? Dickie," Dickie yelled into my headache. Dickie, who usually didn't have his first drink until at least 11:00 A.M, was probably still sober, I realized.
"You got the TV on? Put on New York One," he continued yelling without expecting an answer.
I obliged by reaching for the remote on the nightstand, and flicked to NY1. They were showing a helicopter view of my neighborhood, the United Nations area of Manhattan, while the voice of Simon Franks, one of their top reporters, clearly trying to keep his voice controlled, was announcing, "I'm looking down on this massive sea of humanity, the likes of which I certainly have never seen! The crowd, the mob — whatever you can call such a thing — stretches along the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza park over onto Forty-seventh Street and First Avenue, up and down First Avenue from Forty-second Street to Fifty-seventh Street, and the cross streets from Forty-fourth through Forty-seventh as far west as Madison Avenue!
"Seriously folks, this city has never experienced a sight like this before!"
And he was right about that. Today was the start of the terror trial — tribunal, actually — of terrorist Demiel ben Yusef.
While a tribunal like this one would normally have been held at The Hague, the World Court building had sustained huge damage in a terrorist bombing several months earlier and was still uninhabitable. The perpetrators had never been caught. So, no, while most New Yorkers were not happy to have this mess of a security risk in our town, we reporters were thrilled.
You could hear it in Franks's voice:
"And I venture to say," he continued, not missing a beat, "that every person down there is desperate to catch even the tiniest glimpse of Demiel ben Yusef, who goes on trial today — perhaps as soon as a couple of hours from now!"
I am a jaded reporter. I have reported on everything from 9/11 to war to Hurricanes Katrina and Anthony, the earthquake in Haiti, and many of the increasingly now-commonplace natural disasters of incalculable suffering around the planet.
This was different. Something, indeed something I didn't really understand — maybe it was blind faith or deep hatred — had driven hundreds of thousands of folks out of their homes, jobs, and schools. They'd wheeled, walked, and traveled from their apartments, condos, houses, hospitals, nursing homes, churches, synagogues, mosques, banks, and government offices to protest, to ogle, to see in person the most vicious criminal of our time.
Even I was shocked by the size of the crowds.
"You watching? You understand what's going on here?" Dickie said.
"Of course I do," I said, trying not to let my excitement show.
My heart started pounding. What did Dickie really want?
Please let this be the break I need. I swear this time I'll do it their way. Please tell me something good. Tell me I'm gonna cover …
All Dickie would give me, though, was, "Un-freakin'-believable!"
The man all these people had come to see was Demiel ben Yusef, a known terrorist who was believed by most of the reasonable people on the planet, as well as a worldwide coalition of governments who'd hunted him and finally captured him, to be the one responsible for terrorist bombings around the world. These terrorist acts had left death and mayhem from capital cities to historic and religious sites — with thousands of people dead or maimed not just from the bombings themselves but from the violence and turmoil that too often followed.
Today would mark the opening day of the trial of the millennium, the ben Yusef terrorist tribunal.
On the other side of the law (and not necessarily the world any longer, since his believers were multiplying) were those who had been burning up the Internet with bullshit about how ben Yusef was actually a great prophet, a man they believed was — yes — the second Son of God.
Or maybe even the Second Coming of Jesus Christ himself. The U.S. government, the CIA, MI5, the Russian FSB, Mossad, the UN, the Vatican, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, the oil companies, al-Qaeda — you name it and they were the ones who had really committed the atrocities.
Everyone but Demiel ben Yusef was responsible for the massive death and destruction. Sure.
Conspiracy-theory Web sites posted daily warnings and updates. None of them, however, ever explained how all of these governments and all of these people — who hadn't gotten along for thousands of years — were suddenly all allied for the sole purpose of destroying one ragtag prophet/alleged terrorist.
The conspiracy theorists postulated that all the terrorist attacks were carefully planned (pick any of the above) simply to generate hatred of Demiel ben Yusef.
Yes, they said that this international cabal backed by the United Nations was actually responsible for blowing up buildings, marketplaces, houses of worship, nightclubs, passenger planes, and even cruise ships filled with innocent people — simply to make one man look bad.
Thousands of videos and postings portrayed ben Yusef as a prince of peace. They'd show him preaching to the masses, very Jesus-like. If you watched the videos as carefully as I had, and as many times as I had, you could, of course, begin to have your doubts.
Yes, he was a very compelling speaker, and no, he never preached violence. His voice was at once soothing and fiery, if that makes sense. His accent was universal — not American, not European, not Middle Eastern.
"Everyone is the Son of God," he famously said in his "Perfect Order" sermon given on a hill to thousands of followers somewhere in Israel two years earlier. All that was missing were some loaves and fishes.
The universe is in perfect order. Everything, everyone, is simply a part of God's whole. The moon directs the tides; the earthworms in the Amazon aerate the ground so that we all have oxygen. Every creature is as important as every other to that perfect order. The only time the order is disrupted, upended, thrown into chaos is when human beings — the only creatures on earth with free will — step in. Other creatures do not kill just for the bloodlust love of killing.
But every religion that preaches that they are the only ones who know the true words of God, demands just this of their followers: "Kill in His name," they say. I say, "Do not kill in God's name. Or my name. Or anyone's name. Defy those leaders who urge you to kill to preserve what you have." What they mean is "Kill to preserve what I have." They are false prophets, false leaders.
Ben Yusef was, if you watched often enough, incredibly charismatic — for an unattractive, skinny guy, that is; for someone who preached peace and practiced terrorism, that is.
Ben Yusef had become the rock star of terrorists.
Second Coming, my ass.
"This is some mess," Dickie yelled, pulling me out of my reverie. Without waiting for my response he blared, "You got credentialed in case — right?"
I, along with half the staff at The New York Standard, had indeed been "credentialed" by the United Nations Press Office earlier in the week, by submitting birth certificates, passports, and NYPD press credentials in person. We were fingerprinted and interviewed. No electronic applications were accepted because of the volatility of the situation.
"Yeah, a week ago," I answered. I had already been assigned backup in case the first string — the macho male columnists who were treated like gods by guys like little Dickie Smalls — couldn't for some reason (which never happened) show up. I knew, or believed at any rate, that there would be no screwups today, because, after all, this was nothing less than the most important trial of the millennium. The current millennium, that is.
"Good," he screeched. "Frankie, that putz, is stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. It's at a standstill." So the impossible had happened after all.
"Get your ass outta bed, Russo.…"
"I'm not in bed," I lied, my heart racing like I'd been shot up with adrenaline. I was back in the game!
"Whatever. Get your ass outta bed, and get over to the UN. It's right outside your door, so make it fast. You caught the winning lotto number."
You mean the one dropped by Frankie, that putz, I wanted to say, but didn't. Frankie was golden, and I was still — what? — tarnished. At forty-two, I was, yes, a known front-page-breaking reporter, but one who had a real talent for running afoul of the powers-that-be wherever I worked. Rebel or maybe just too bullheaded to play the boys' game, I always bucked whenever they wanted to saddle me, tame me, and teach me to behave.
I'd been given a second chance at The Standard when they hired me following nine long months of unemployment. I'd been "laid off" at my last job — a political Web site — after uncovering the fact that the editor's best pal, a supermarket mogul slash movie producer, had a penchant for Filipino midget hookers. The mogul, in addition to supping once a month at Rao's with the publisher, had also been, up to that point, the Web site's biggest advertiser. Oops.
Editorial differences, they called it.
Bottom line: I wouldn't protect the editor's friends when it came to voicing my opinion, and they didn't protect me when I stood my ground.
So when I was offered the gig at The Standard, I grabbed it in hopes of one day getting a column again. I was back to general assignment reporting, and I'd been behaving.
"The kid whazzizname is already at the UN Press Office making the switch," Dickie continued.
"We want you to file throughout the day and final copy half hour after the close. Got it? Good."
"Do I get to column on it?" I asked.
"Depends on what you get," he said, and with that he hung up — and I found myself out of bed and under a hot shower in less than sixty seconds.
A column possibility on the biggest story of the decade? Oh, baby! I said a quick prayer to whatever god might be listening at that moment that I'd somehow score an exclusive "get" despite being a pool reporter heading into a venue that was as tightly orchestrated as any in recorded history.
I had been out of work two years earlier when taxicab bombs had detonated simultaneously outside St. Pat's, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, the Synagogue Adath Israel in Riverdale, the Light of God Tabernacle on Staten Island, and the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center Benevolent Foundation in Jamaica, Queens. The terrorist attacks, dubbed the "Unholy Day Bombings," killed almost two hundred innocent people. I started a blog, but it was just one of thousands, perhaps millions of blogs out there. It wasn't the same; it was too crowded.
Cyberspace had evolved into a worldwide public-announcement system for ill-informed windbags with too little knowledge and too much time on their hands.
And now? If I had believed in God I would have prayed for a break like this — a chance to not just cover but possibly voice my opinion on the ben Yusef tribunal for a mainstream news outlet. Yes, I was unprepared, bleary-eyed, and retaining water. But still …
I hadn't done serious prep work, because I'd been told earlier in the week that I was to cover "color" only — getting reactions from local parish priests, imams, and rabbis.
But I was never better than when I was under pressure.
I picked up the same white T-shirt that had looked so good when it was still clean the night before. I sniffed it. Clean enough. I pulled on a pair of black jeans, my beat-up brown leather jacket, and Frye boots. Then I looked down. Damn! Dead center on the T was a moderate-to-terrible chicken-scarpiello stain from the night before. With no time to change, I grabbed the white gauze Gap scarf hanging on my doorknob, looped it long around my neck, and — voilà — instant stain repair. Good enough.
I hauled my red leather satchel that held my iPad holographic tablet, cell phone, four reporter's pads (I still take notes the old-fashioned way), pens, wallet, keys, lipstick, and under-eye concealer, which I buy by the kilo, onto my shoulder and started out of my apartment.
A quick look in the mirror revealed that my formerly chic bob had frizzed and I now looked like I'd stolen Eleanor Roosevelt's head.
I hung my press credentials — three plastic cards with my photo — on a cheap hardware-store drain chain around my neck and checked that my passport was in the zipper compartment of my bag for backup ID just in case. Then I took the elevator down the twenty-four flights and walked out of my apartment building into the gorgeous spring day and into the end of my life as I knew it.
Excerpted from the book "The Sixth Station." Copyright © 2013 by Linda Stasi. Published by Forge.
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The Doors: The Doors of Perception
It's the rock legend everyone can recite by heart, but no one can agree on. This is the story of Jim Morrison, as told by his bandmates and close associates.
I got a phone call saying Jim was dead," recalls Doors guitarist Robby Krieger. "I didn't believe it because we used to hear stuff like that all the time. I thought he'd outlive everybody." Krieger thought wrong: Jim Morrison, self-styled poet, psychosexual provocateur and rock rebel, thwarted his friend's expectations one last time by dying, apparently of heart failure, in a Paris bathtub on July 3, 1971. He was 27.
And while dead men tell no tales, live ones certainly do. In the years since Morrison's death, the facts of his troubled life have fueled dozens of books, scores of web sites, an acclaimed biopic by Oliver Stone and even a comic book or two. The story is as familiar to rock fans as that of Icarus was to the ancient Greeks: In 1967 Elektra released the debut album by the Doors, a Los Angeles quartet. Fronted by former UCLA film student Jim Morrison, the band challenged good vibrations of the prevalent hippie culture with brooding, trance-inducing songs that celebrated madness, chaos and fucking your mother. It's a stance for which they have never made any apologies, societal disapproval notwithstanding.
"To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being," says keyboardist Ray Manzarek. "But we had both sides. The Doors were a balancing act between the light and the dark. I mean, the solos in 'Light My Fire' are as joyous as life gets."
In fact, it was the hit single "Light My Fire" that catapulted the band into the limelight and helped the Doors become one of the biggest—and certainly most unexpected— hits of 1967, demonstrating that a band could be dark, weird and commercially successful.
From there, the Doors entered an exhaustingly accelerated life cycle, touring endlessly while also managing to record five more studio albums in just four years. But as the band's popularity grew, Morrison himself began to disintegrate, mutating from pin-up visionary to dissolute, overweight rock star. The singer hit rock-bottom on March 1, 1969, when he was arrested for allegedly screaming obscenities and committing indecent exposure while onstage in Miami. After the bust, Morrison recorded two more albums with the Doors, then fled to Paris for some "rest and relaxation." He never returned.
The story may be familiar, but the more the yarn is told, the taller the tales grow. Some more exotic accounts, for example, have Jim faking his death and escaping to the Bahamas, where he currently tends bar.
With the recent release of a newly remastered Doors box set and a star-studded Doors tribute album near completion, the time was right to try and set the record straight. To do so, we spoke with those who knew Jim best: the three surviving members of the Doors— Manzarek, Krieger and drummer John Densmore— as well as Danny Sugerman, who began his association with the band as a teenaged errand boy and ended up as their manager, and engineer/producer Bruce Botnick, who was in the studio for every Doors session.


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Pair of Cast Iron Double Acorn Hooks, c1865 Item # F3212
Perhaps the most common and popular cast iron hook from the Victorian era well into the 20th century, this classic double coat hook design with its acorn-shaped tips can still be found in countless old classrooms, churches, storefronts, cloak rooms, and homes across the country.
While these actual examples probably date to the turn of the century, Russell & Erwin were manufacturing this design as early as 1865, so who knows how old these particular ones are.
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Entertainment Earth confirms that the wave 4 cases are different than previously planned. When the wave was first shown boxed, it included ROTS Anakin, AOTC Clone Trooper, Chewbacca, and ROTS Obi-Wan as a carry-forward. There were rumors that Chewie would be delayed so he could fit into the new, taller boxes – though, really, I'm not sure why they even showed him on the orange-accented box when they were pretty clear that he'd be coming on the taller blue-accented box when he was announced at Toy Fair. So I'm guessing this wave will still have the standard orange-accented boxes and the blue-accented ones will debut with the next wave.
Anyway, the wave now includes ROTS Anakin and the AOTC Clone, but includes the two most sought-after figures as carry-forwards: Boba Fett and the Stormtrooper! I still don't have a Stormtrooper, and Boba is still pretty rare, so these are much more welcome than an Obi-Wan repack.
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Things are hopping along here after this past week's huge toy release and the forums are alive with people discussing every aspect of each and every figure.
This poll is the 4th one to result from Midnight Madness and is intended to be more of an overall general survey of the you guys, the fans' reactions, to all the new action figures we just saw released.
Continue discussing the very specific aspects of each character you would love to commend or critique in the Hasbro Toys Saga Section, but vote here so we can get an overall "guesstimate" of the sentiment out there.
Keep in mind that our final poll will ask you to choose just ONE specific favorite figure, so save that discussion for tomorrow.
Hopefully we will then have covered every aspect of the Great 2002 Movie Year's Toy Release, because the focus of our poll topics will need to move on with the Celebration II festivities starting this week, and the movie's release just around the corner (17 days from the time of this posting!)
So let's enjoy talking about our big toy shopping experience while we can - and it's fresh in our heads.
This is the first time that "action features" like the magnetic Force and the quick-draw or really-firing weapons have been used on Star Wars figures, as well as the add-on blast effects / lightsaber deflections. - and now you have them at your retailers or already loose in your collections!
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The Soft Boys have turned out to be one of the most influential bands in shaping contemporary alternative music, though few are completely familiar with the quirky band's legacy. Formed in Cambridge, England in 1976 on the heels of the punk revolution, the Soft Boys eschewed the three-chord nihilism of punk and opted for a crude version of psychedelic/folk-rock that was well on its way out of fashion, but oddly, just on the cusp of a resurgence. Robyn Hitchcock recruited Cambridge musicians Morris Windsor on drums, Andy Metcalfe on bass, and guitarist Alan Davies, and recorded Give It to the Soft Boys in Hitchcock's living room in 1976. Davies was soon replaced by guitarist Kimberley Rew. The band released a single, "(I Want to Be An) Anglepoise Lamp," followed by the Can of Bees album in 1979. While recording the follow-up, Metcalfe left the band and was replaced by Matthew Seligman. The new lineup started fresh and recorded Underwater Moonlight, the album that found the band trading psychedelic jams for a more straight-ahead jangle pop-guitar rock sound. The LP has become extremely influential in the guitar rock canon -- the Replacements, R.E.M., and the L.A. Paisley Underground scene all claimed it as a prime influence. The album launched a thousand bands, but it turned out to be the Soft Boys' swan song. Two more recordings were released posthumously: the 2 Halfs for the Price of One EP in 1981, and some early sessions compiled on Invisible Hits in 1983. The first EP was re-released in 1984 as Wading Through a Ventilator. Windsor and Metcalfe began to collaborate with Hitchcock again in 1984 as the Egyptians, while Seligman became an in-demand session musician and Rew went on to form Katrina & the Waves. Hitchcock has had a prolific post-Soft Boys recording career, sticking to the unusual style he's forged and finessed since 1976, with 15 albums to his credit. ~ Denise Sullivan
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Thorkelin, in the essay on the Berserkir, appended to his edition of the Krisini Saga, tells that an old name of the Berserk frenzy was hamremmi, i.e., strength acquired from another strange body, because it was anciently believed that the persons who were liable to this frenzy were mysteriously endowed, during its accesses, with a strange body of unearthly strength. If, however, the Berserk was called on by his own name, he lost his mysterious form, and his ordinary strength alone remained. ["Notes and Queries," Dec. 28, 1850]
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"Comedy Masterpiece"
The most hilarious book I have ever read.
The comedy is silent ,it catches you by surprise
so that you have to go back to read it again.
Serge is hilarious and his sidekick.
If you don't have a sense of humor you may miss a lot.
George wilson is the very best narrator out there.
Bar None especially in torpedo Juice.
I will read this again and again which is not
my usual.
"What a funny book - laugh out loud hysterical"
This is the first audiobook I Purchased written by Tim Dorsey. Now I am hooked!!! Since listening to Torpedo Juice I have read or listened to all Tim Dorsey's books, but being my first - this audiobook will alway before extra special to me ... SOOOO funny.
"Enjoy it"
This is a chance to take a mental vacation into a world of complicated characters. I enjoyed the book.
José M. Batista
"Walk the dog"
We all have a little (or a lot) of Serge in us or at least we know someone who could trigger us up to that level. This is a very funny book - read it while walking the dog!
"Great story, choppy download"
The chapter headings run into the word before them and make it feel like parts are missing, but the story is so bizarre that without the book to compare to it's impossible to tell.
I always enjoy Serge's antics. He's insane in a fun way and combines genius with murder.
George Wilson keeps the characters alive. He does remarkably well with such a complex narrative.
If the chapters didn't run into one another and if I didn't have the sinking suspicion I was missing the last paragraph or so of some of the chapters, I would have no complaints.
"Coleman's back?"
This may be the best "Serge" book of them all
While Serge is my favorite, Coleman ranks right up there, too
This time, he was part of it, too funny
Serge, his mind is amazing!
A must read, or, as in this case, listen!!
"Insanity in the Keys"
The story was set in and around places that I have been to on vacations.
Tim Dorsey's books do not compare with any other authors that I have listened to. If I had to pick, I would say Christopher Moore in Lamb, The Stupidest Angel, or the Lust Lizard of Meloncholy Cove. The comparisons are mainly because of the off beat sense of humor.
Coleman in the No Name Pub taking dollar bills from the wall.
No Name Insanity.
Pretty good story in retrospect because you don't find out who the bad guy was until the end.
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"I'll stick to Hiassen"
My problem from the get go is that the book sounded like a Hiassen novel because I have George Wilson's voice stuck in my head as the voice of Hiassen. This did not help me at all because it made it hard for me to get past constantly comparing the two. All I heard was what sounded like a bad Hiassen novel. The similarities in style, satire, setting liberally sprinkled with screw-loose characters made it even harder to get away from constantly comparing the two authors.
"Eh, not so much"
This book was a tough listen. I suspect it reads better then it is audible. The broken writing style doesn't translate particularly well into audible, even though he may be writing in a way to emulate the spoken word and thought progression.
Plus the recording itself was not very good; lots of breathing and other noises in the quiet spaces. Very distracting.
I couldn't even finish this book so I can't say much about the storyline. The narration was irritating and I found the first few chapters so muddled that I couldn't be bothered continuing. I can't recommend it.
"A storming good book"
Just love this series - can not get enough of Serge's madness.I have read and now picking up on Audio.
The Narrator brings life to the characters in such a brilliant way I often find myself laughing out loud and giggling insanely while listening.
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Had a mostly productive week thus far. Got a lot of things cleared up. Work now knows about Red Hat, so we're taking steps to ensure a quick transition if I were to leave. They're being very very cool about the whole thing. I think if I do leave I'll really miss working with these people.
The FC2 bug w/ some dual Xeon systems and ps/2 not working is getting really really annoying. We should get a fix for this if possible, or a proper workaround.
Fedora Legacy
A community member showed me what went wrong w/ cvs. A missing buildreq of tcsh caused problems, so I've added it in and everything is cool now. New packages are building and will be uploaded. When I get back from RH I'll officially announce that 7.2/8.0 support has been dropped and update / push tickets accordingly.
Went out with my wife last night, had dinner and then watched Shrek 2. Very very funny, I concur with Jeremy, highly recommended.
Picked up a new XBox game, Rally Sport Challenge 2, on the recommendation of a bunch of friends. Haven't played it yet, having some people over tonight to help me 'break it in'. I hope it's good!


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I'm starting with this stuff now, and we'll see how it goes.
I am not currently working in a medical clinic as a system administrator of a VMS system. I've been playing with Cygwin on WinNT, but nothing too serious. I really have to start working on something or my coding ability will wither and die.


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Dir. Roger Corman
When she returns to her family home after their engagement, Madeline Usher is visited by her fiancée Philip Winthorpe, who wants her to return to Boston with him. Her brother, the severely depressed Roderick opposes this suggestion with every inch of his brittle body. Philip discovers that the Usher lineage has been afflicted by an all consuming malady and that the siblings, the last of the Ushers, believe they are cursed to descend into insanity like their ancestors did before them. A series of morbid incidents unfold over the coming days as events seem set to reach a horrific climax bringing an end to the Usher bloodline, once and for all…
It suddenly occured to me, as such things usually do, that it's been several months since I last watched anything featuring Vincent Price. Disgraceful. So, after I severely reprimanded myself, I poured a glass of Russell's Cellar's finest cheap red and settled down to watch Roger Corman's first Poe adaptation, The Fall of the House of Usher.
Setting the standard for all his other Poe adaptations, Corman weaves a delightfully morose tapestry of gloomy sets, swirling dry ice and matte-painting back-drops that were no doubt used in many of his other shoe-string budget productions. Influenced by the likes of Mario Bava's Black Sunday and much of Hammer's output at the time, Corman's Poe films pertain to literature and high-art, whilst still providing the requisite chills and spills you'd expect from such a highly regarded and prolific schlock-meister. The opening images depicting Philip (Mark Damon) as he makes his way to the Usher's house through twisted fairytale trees, wizened foliage and a grotesquely parched landscape, set a prescient that will continue to float wraith-like throughout the rest of the film, wrapping everything in a dank and unshakable melancholy. Corman actually filmed the opening scene after a brush fire in the Hollywood hills had been extinguished; the charred and still smouldering earth instantly evokes a mood of desolation and despair. The house itself when we see it, is oppressive and dark, steeped in a faded grandeur of long past decadence.
Price is as striking and resplendent as you'd expect. His portrayal of Roderick Usher went some way to map out similar mentally tortured and anguished individuals the actor would portray in Corman's Poe cycle; from Nicolas Medina in Pit and the Pendulum to Verden Fell in The Tomb of Ligeia. These are but a few of the roles that Price will forever be remembered for – tragic, morose and utterly doomed men who are as much a danger to themselves as they are to others. We soon learn that he has 'an affliction of the hearing' and that sounds of any exaggerated degree cut into his brain like knives. You can imagine then, what histrionics will ensue when his dear sister is buried alive and her petrified screams rip through the house from the family vault below, as she helplessly pounds and scratches on the inside of her sealed coffin lid…
The film is rounded out by a small but solid cast. Mark Damon is dashing as Philip Winthorpe, suitor to Roderick's sister Madeline. As Madeline, Myrna Fahey gives a quietly assured performance – her character, while she still has it in her, delicately fights against the encroaching madness of her brother and insists that they must forget the past and get on with living their frail lives. These siblings are THE original Goth-kids – lazing around out of the sun, overly preoccupied with morbid thoughts of death and despair. In the second half of the film, when she has become utterly deranged from the experience of her premature burial, Madeline skulks crazily through the house like a creature possessed: all wide-eyed and screeching profanities.
The only other character is Bristol (Harry Ellerbe), a faithful manservant to the Ushers and has been at the family's beck and call for generations. Bristol's character, or rather the function of his character (to gradually shed more light on the dark secrets of the family he works for) reappears throughout Corman's other Poe films in the form of Kenrick in The Tomb of Ligeia, Bartolome in Pit and the Pendulum and, whilst not part of Corman's Poe cycle, though it was certainly cut from the same cloth – The Terror's Stefan. Each of these faithful servants is condemned to die because of their unyielding loyalty to the various unconventional family-units they serve. Some thanks for a lifetime of servitude, eh?
Much talk of the physical decay, rotting psyches, ill health and malignant obsession that has plagued the family for generations peppers the script. The screenplay by Richard Matheson richly enhances and indeed fills out the short story it's based upon, without ever feeling like desperate attempts were made to pad it out to feature length. The language he uses feels appropriately ornate and formal.
The concepts of decay and moral desolation within the family bleed out into the very building that provides them with a home; the house seems steeped in the same gloominess that shrouds their family history and is rotten to the core. As the story progresses the house becomes more and more unstable, with various parts of it disintegrating and crumbling away into the dank moat that surrounds it, wonderfully showcasing the instability and rapidly fracturing mindsets of the Usher's themselves. Roderick and Madeline are the last in a line of tainted individuals bearing the Usher name. Heavily reclining in a state of perpetual and stifling melancholy, they are a fragile and brittle pair and despite Philip's best efforts – they are ultimately doomed.
Giving Philip a tour of the house (and Corman the opportunity to fully utilise and show off his exquisite production design courtesy of Daniel Haller) Roderick shows him a room full of portraits of the motley Usher clan. 'The history of the Usher's' rasps Roderick, 'Is a history of savage degradation.' The sordid and fiendish family portraits are a revelation and Corman commissioned painter Burt Shonberg to provide the lurid depictions of past Usher family members in all their morose glory.
This scene also features a debate between Philip and Roderick that wouldn't be out of place in any Poe story – the subscription to the belief that the sins of the parents and of the past hang over and dictate the lives of the children. This idea that individuals can never escape their past, or indeed their gloomy destiny, is typical of Poe and further entrenches the film in a mood of hopelessness and despair. It's enough to drive anyone to drink. Hic.
As with the bulk of Corman's Poe films, The Fall of the House of Usher is largely made up of scenes in which the 'outsider' protagonist wanders around vast and imposing sets, furnished lavishly with heavy drapes and chaise-lounges, usually in the middle of the night, candelabrum in hand, investigating strange noises or half-glimpsed shadows. The look of the film belies its low budget and hasty shooting schedule and is testament to Corman's flair and ability to wring the most out of his limited resources to tell a compelling story in a stylish way.
Aside from all the highly evocative dialogue trimmings waxing lyrical about death and melancholia, the film also contains a couple of highly unsettling scenes, such as the nasty shock in the crypt when Madeline shows Philip her coffin (what a tease) and her mother's body comes tumbling out of the dark for a impromptu reunion from beyond the grave. Another distressing scene unfolds as Roderick and Philip are mourning the 'death' of Madeline in the family chapel. Her open coffin is positioned at the forefront of the shot as the two men sit on the pews behind it. Madeline, clearing suffering from some form of catalepsy, begins to move her fingers. On noticing this, Roderick stands and closes the lid of the coffin, instantly sealing the doom of his family forever.
As in Pit and the Pendulum and Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher features a tripped-out dream sequence where Philip is accosted by Roderick when he tries to free Madeline from her premature internment, and boasts all manner of disturbing imagery unfurling beneath garish colour filters and dry ice.
A highly atmospheric and Gothic melodrama that Poe himself would be proud of. Beneath the gloomy opulence and resplendent foreboding, lurks a nasty subtext including incest and hereditary insanity. This film kicked off Corman's love affair with Poe adaptations and is certainly one of the best of these.
A severely melancholic Vincent Price, catalepsy, creepy mansions, enough dry ice to chill a nice Sauvignon Blanc and premature burials. What's not to love?


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Because young people are more sensitive and delicate than adults, many parents wish to spare their children treatment with potentially harsh medications, so they turn to natural medicine. However, this desire meets an opposing impulse: the fact that parents are worried about their children's health and are less willing to experiment with treatments that may or may not help. The net effect for the parents is often increased anxiety about which course to take.
Other complications arise as well. For example, some treatments favored by natural medicine are particularly difficult for children to tolerate (such as restrictive diets) and use of them runs the risk of causing emotional harm. Furthermore, many alternative practitioners believe that immunizations are harmful for children and actively crusade against them, while conventional practitioners present vaccines as a matter of necessity.
Common sense, fortunately, suggests a way through this confusing situation: alternative medicine (especially in its gentler, more child-friendly forms) may be appropriate for relatively mild conditions, where there is not much risk of serious harm. Whenever there is risk of serious illness, however, medical diagnosis and treatment is preferable to the more speculative approaches of alternative medicine.
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I don't know who the guitar picker Stan references is, (although I wish it were the guy referenced in the question above) but I'm hoping for Kip Kemp. I hear he's darn good on the axe.
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West Virginia's political establishment has been unwavering in its support for the coal industry. The close relationship is on display every year at the annual West Virginia Coal Symposium, where politicians and industry insiders mingle. This past year, Gov. Joe Manchin and Senator Jay Rockefeller addressed the gathering, advocating ways to turn climate-change legislation to the industry's advantage and reduce its regulatory burdens. "Government should be your ally, not your adversary," Manchin told coal-industry representatives.
Without such backing, mountaintop removal would not be possible, because federal environmental laws would prohibit it, says Jack Spadaro, a former federal mining regulator and a critic of the industry. "There is not a legal mountaintop mining operation in Appalachia," he says. "There literally is not one in full compliance with the law."
Since 1990, U.S. policy under the Clean Water Act has been "no net loss of wetlands." To "fill" a wetland, one needs a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is supposed to evaluate the environmental effects and require mitigation by creating new wetlands elsewhere. If the potential impact is serious enough, the National Environmental Policy Act kicks in and a detailed study must be done. But the coal-mining industry has often obtained the necessary dumping permits without due consideration of possible environmental impacts.
The Corps has admitted as much in response to lawsuits. In one case, the Corps said it probably shouldn't even be overseeing such permits because the dumped waste contained polluting chemicals regulated by the EPA. In another case, brought by West Virginia environmental groups against four Massey Energy mining projects, the Corps conceded that it routinely grants dumping permits with virtually no independent study of the possible ecological fallout, relying instead on the assessments that coal companies submit. In a 2007 decision in that case, Judge Chambers found that "the Corps has failed to take a hard look at the destruction of headwater streams and failed to evaluate their destruction as an adverse impact on aquatic resources in conformity with its own regulations and policies." But because three of the mining projects challenged in that case were already underway, Chambers allowed them to continue, pending the case's resolution. Massey has appealed the case to the Virginia-based United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which has overturned several lower court rulings that went against mining interests.
In 2002, the Bush administration rewrote the rule defining mountaintop mining waste in an attempt to work around the legal ban on valley fills. This past October, the Interior Department, pending EPA approval, did away with regulations that ban dumping mine waste within 100 feet of a stream—a rule that's already routinely ignored (though the EPA recently fined Massey Energy $20 million for violations of the Clean Water Act).
Industry critics say they're also hampered by West Virginia regulations that protect private interests. The vast majority of West Virginia acreage is owned by private landholding companies that lease it and the mineral rights to coal companies. And while industrial land-use planning is a matter of public record in most states, not so in West Virginia. As a result, critics say, mountaintop projects unfold slowly bit by bit, making it hard for outsiders to grasp a project's scale until it's well underway.
In Ansted, residents say they can't even be sure what's coming next because the coal company doesn't explain its plans. "They will seek permits on small plots, 100- to 300-acre parcels," said Mayor Hobbs. "My sense is, we should have a right to look at that long-range plan for 20,000 acres. But if we got to see the full scope of those plans, then mountaintop removal would stop," because the enormousness of the affected areas would stoke opposition.
The standoff is frustrating to Hobbs, who has been unable to reconcile the coal industry's actions with his town's ambitions. "I'm a capitalist," he said. "I worked for a major corporation. I'm not against development. It's troubling—I see tourism and economic quality of life as the only thing that will last beyond a 15- to 20-year economic cycle. And with mountaintop removal, that is at risk. And even if we dodge that bullet, the next community may not."
John McQuaid lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, and is the co-author of Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms.


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The genesis of our world-class contemporary international print collection took place in 1973, almost a decade before the National Gallery of Australia opened to the public. Following the recommendation of art critic and writer Robert Hughes to the Master Printer, Kenneth Tyler, that he approach the fledgling Gallery, great riches arrived. In a recent significant gift and purchase this initial acquisition has been augmented to form an extra-ordinary storehouse of major works by major artists of the contemporary period produced at the Tyler workshops from the 1960s to the present day. A selection is featured in the exhibition The Big Americans: Albers, Frankenthaler, Hockney, Johns, Lichtenstein, Motherwell, Rauschenberg and Stella, at the Gallery from 4 October 2002 to 27 January 2003. The Big Americans explores the different ways in which these artists each worked at the world renowned Tyler studios, and includes major works from the Gallery's rich collection of editioned original prints, screens, paperworks, illustrated books and multiples, along with rare or unique proofs and drawings.
Each artist - Josef Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella - is noted for their significant output in other media. For this reason, a selection of key related paintings, sculptures and photographs is included in the exhibition drawn from International and Australian collections.
In 1965 Ken Tyler established his print workshop Gemini Ltd in Los Angeles. This later became Gemini GEL [Graphic Editions Limited] - known as the 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer of print workshops'. Gemini GEL achieved its reputation as a result of Tyler's commitment to his artists, he said to them 'here is a workshop, there are no rules, no restrictions, do what you want to do'. Tyler explains that when it comes to printmaking, 'if you have all these "can'ts" in there you change the nature of creativity'. He continued with this philosophy at his later studios, first at Bedford and then at the purpose-built workshop at Mount Kisco - both in New York State on the East Coast of America.
From the start, Tyler wanted 'to go to the very top' and sought to collaborate with some of the postwar greats in the American art scene. He first set his sights on émigré artist, Josef Albers - an artist obsessed with form and colour since his Bauhaus days. Together they produced the seminal series White Line Squares, which became Tyler's calling card - he took the set when he visited other artists on his wish list, saying 'if I could do that for Albers, just think how far I could go for you'. For Tyler, White Line Squares were the 'first notes on the piano', and what followed a 'symphony'. It is this 'symphony' of extraordinary innovation, scale and technical virtuosity, which is the subject of The Big Americans.
Many of the great artists of the time were seduced by what was on offer to them and were pleased to spend time in an environment of unlimited possi-bilities. The consummate draughtsman David Hockney, for example, was given a 'complete palette of colour' and a 'complete palette of drawing techniques' - something Hockney had never been offered so comprehensively before.
Two other pre-eminent artists who were enticed into the studio were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Rauschenberg, according to Tyler, was not impressed by the technical facilities - for him, the printing press was 'just a device'. Instead Rauschenberg created an intimate space in the studio, focusing on the rich possibilities of Tyler's treasured lithographic stones. These surfaces, or 'skin' as the artist called them, were sensual, 'sexy' objects to draw on, to experiment with. Scale seemed limitless and Rauschenberg produced ground-breaking art, mixing different techniques and photocollage. Jasper Johns also came to work on Tyler's 'gorgeous' stones, which had been ferreted out by Tyler from an old building site and carted to his studio in an old VW with broken springs. Johns's lusciously coloured numbers such as Figure 7 1969 with its smiling Mona Lisa were created from one such favoured stone.
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein came to see the possibilities and produced such masterpieces as the print and sculpture series Peace Through Chemistry at Gemini GEL in 1970. With its deadpan, meaningless title, this was a spoof on modern art. Equally witty is Lichtenstein's Reflections series made at Tyler Graphics some 20 years later in which the artist reinterprets and refines his earlier paintings and prints drawn from cartoon, romance and war comics or from other artists' work. Included in this is Swee'-pea - the offspring of Popeye and Olive Oyl - its howling face reminiscent of the expressionist painting Scream by Edvard Munch.
After moving to Bedford, Tyler developed a close personal and working relationship with Robert Motherwell, whom he had also worked with in his Gemini days. Producing 'painterly prints' for major abstract painters such as Motherwell as well as Helen Frankenthaler was an incredible challenge. Both artists worked in an intuitive 'automatic' manner and, while their work was redolent of a whole repertoire of art imagery from the past, each maintained a 'freshness of expression' despite the rigours of technical production.
The collaboration between Tyler and the foremost American abstract artist, Frank Stella, was once described as 'part brinkmanship, engineering, and some-times theater'. Robert Hughes views it as 'one of the great partnerships in modern American art'. Over the years Stella and Tyler have refined their unique process of working from a completed collage, adopting a wide range of printing techniques for the one work, and editioning on specially made paper. 'Frank the scavenger', as Tyler calls him, creates the compositions from the 'debris d'atelier' (studio debris), which means past imagery from Tyler's 'supply center, a living inventory, a library of shapes and images' is recycled as the source material for Stella's painting and sculptures, then back into printmaking, resulting in the extraordinary, ambitious works for which he has become renowned. Examples of Stella's work in two and three dimensions feature in The Big Americans.
Complementing The Big Americans, a program of public lectures and master-class workshops with Ken Tyler and visiting artists will be held in Canberra at the National Gallery of Australia, the Australian National University, and the Canberra School of Art, and in Melbourne at the Australian Print Workshop. The master-classes will provide an important opportunity for Australian artists and students to work with master printmaker Ken Tyler.
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Craig Sword finally understands what it means to play Ole Miss, which was evident when he leaped into the student section following Mississippi State's 73-67 defeat of its arch-rival on Saturday.
"I didn't know this was a big rivalry game like this until now," said the freshman guard, who's from Alabama. "We won, and I see how everybody felt."
While it was nice for MSU to beat Ole Miss in front of the loudest crowd Humphrey Coliseum has had all season, there are other, weightier meanings attached to this win.
For one, it snapped State's 13-game losing streak, which was one shy of a school record. The Bulldogs (8-20, 3-13 SEC) hadn't won since Jan. 12 – and for a young team like this, something good needed to happen.
"I can handle the negativity of being 0-2 against Ole Miss and breaking the all-time losing streak in Mississippi State history and things like that, but I don't know if our guys, being that fragile, can handle that," first-year coach Rick Ray said. "I'm really happy for them, because they don't have to go into the offseason answering all those questions."
There will, of course, still be questions about this program in the offseason. Ray is hoping the return of some injured players, plus three signees, will help provide answers for a program that hasn't been to the NCAA tournament since 2009.
If things do improve, this win over Ole Miss could become viewed as a turning point.
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A team prone to second-half collapses seemed on the verge of one Saturday when MSU went six-plus minutes without scoring in the second half. But the Bulldogs, playing with seven scholarship players, found a second wind, using an 18-8 spurt to take a 12-point lead.
They finally finished a game strong.
"Everybody was playing as one," guard Jalen Steele said.
Players noted after the game that they were motivated by the opponent, by the chance to hurt the Rebels' NCAA hopes, and by the crowd.
That was fine for one game, but Ray said going forward, the motivation needs to come from within.
That's what will help this program grow.
"The motivation is winning," Ray said, "and that's what we've got to get to."
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By Teresa Rivas
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was falling 3.3% in afternoon trading on news that its CEO is leaving.
The bank announced that Stephen Hester will step down at the end of the year, an unexpected move that comes in the late innings of the company's restructuring. Hester took the top job in late 2008, when the bank was reeling from the global financial crisis and in debt to the U.K. government for bailout funds.
The company is already looking for Hester's successor.
Bernstein Research's Chirantan Barua writes that Hester's departure was likely a collaborative decision, and could ultimately be a "a positive for the bank and the stock."
"The UK Government (the perfect insider) wouldn't have let Hester go if there was still derisking to be done in the bank – especially given the fact that he was absolutely key in turning around the bank and that too over a prolonged period of more than five years and under extreme political duress. In a way it signals the end of the restructuring story, and it's good to know that he will be around till the end of the year."


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Conventional concentrically braced steel frames are not capable of redistributing large unbalanced vertical forces caused by brace buckling through the system. This creates many design challenges to engineers. In order to retain the advantages of providing efficient stiffness and strength to limit inter-story drifts, new concentrically braced steel frame configurations are developed. This paper will focus on the seismic evaluation of the suspended zipper frame configuration.
Unlike the conventional Chevron braced frame, the suspended zipper frame is designed to distribute the unbalanced vertical forces along its height using the zipper column, a vertical structural element connecting the gusset plates at beam mid-span points from the second to the top story of the frame. The theory and analytical simulations demonstrate that the intended force redistribution is, indeed, occurring. However the inelastic behavior of the entire frame depends strongly on the brace hysteresis and the interaction of the zipper columns. Due to the nature of the geometry, the braces provide most of the lateral stiffness until they buckle. Once the braces buckle, a large reduction in the brace stiffness will cause drastic force redistributions in the frame. Since the process is highly nonlinear, tracing the force redistribution is very complex. Thus, a hybrid simulation test has been conducted to evaluate the performance of the suspended zipper frame. The hybrid simulation method combines the analytical finite element model and the experimental element to capture the structural response under external excitation. The complex Chevron brace buckling behavior, which is difficult to model analytically, is captured using a specimen. The results presented in this paper indicate that the hybrid simulation method is an excellent tool to evaluate the seismic performance of structural systems with complex substructures, such as the suspended zipper frame.


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Moved back home from school for the break. It's great to be at home with family, eating good food and doing family activities. And in theory I've got more time to dedicate to hacking. However, today I had to drive my vehicle-less friend around as he tried to scrounge enough money to get his car back from the shop. I ended up loaning him $200. I hope this turns out well, and not like all the cases in all those "judge shows" that everyone else in the world seems to love to watch. I trust him, it's just what everyone else I've mentioned loaning money to has brought up. Finished off the day watching my sister at her baton performance, though, which is always fun.
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