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Independent Women Pages: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
We round up the best indie mag covers that push the envelope and leave us wanting more.
The Notebook's Top 10 Quotable Quotes
The sweeping love story celebrates a decade.
A First Look at Downton Abbey's New Season
Queen Elizabeth Visits the Set of Game of Thrones
Abigail Spencer on Motherhood and Rectifys Sophomore Season
Sundances southern gothic drama Rectify returns for its second season and we caught up with actress Abigail Spencer, who was nominated for the Critics Choice Television Award for Best Drama Supporting Actress for her role.
Summer Beach Reads for Smart Girls Pages: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The staff from Hudson, New Yorks Spotty Dog Books & Ale curates a unique and unexpected summer reading list. These are our top 10 beach reads.
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Meet Brooke Candy: Queen of Opulence
Bazaar spoke with the rising artist and current muse to Nicola Formichetti about fashion, surrealism, pop culture and more.
Listen: White Girl Problems' Daddy Issues Playlist
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Meet Austyn Weiner's Cover, Girl
Austyn Weiner's Cover, Girl premieres in NYC.
Emma Stone is Wild-Eyed in First Trailer for "Birdman"
The Big Book of the Hamptons
Old meets new in Assoulines stunning new tome dedicated to the Hamptons.
Watch This Space: Avery Nejam Pages: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
From screen printing student to a budding modern-day Andy Warhol, Mississippi native Nejam captures the zeitgeist with her socially viral works and genuine interpretation of what's right now. Click through to see her notable pieces thus far and follo
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A Zenith Of Music, Fashion, & Film
Josephine de La Baume Collaborates With SSENSE, Reaching Zenith Of Music, Fashion, & Film
Sleigh Bells: Monarchs Of Summer Music Festivals
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Chinese Video Art Debuts in New York
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A Sneak Peek at Cara Delevingne's First Starring Role
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Lana Del Rey's Maleficent Track Gets the Remix Treatment
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#TBT: When Mango Met Gwyneth
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Preview: Photographer Victor Skrebneski's New Tome Pages: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Photographer Victor Skrebneski shares photographs of himself with Iman, Isabella Rosellini, Jerry Hall, and Carolina Herrera.
3 Major Brit It Girls, One Film
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Broadway's Leading Ladies: Actress Kelli O'Hara
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What Lies Beneath: The History of Lingerie
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Taylor Kitsch Talks The Normal Heart
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John Baldessari created intervention art pieces from the Fall 2014 runways. His works include Miu Miu's front row, Kendall Jenner walking for Marc Jacobs, the Saint Laurent show, and Karl Lagerfeld pushing a grocery cart at Chanel.
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Andrew Saffir's Top 10 Summer Films Pages: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Old-fashioned Fourth of July fun Strawbery Banke visitors go back in time
Saturday, July 5, 2014
PORTSMOUTH — Following a U.S. naturalization ceremony Friday morning, Strawbery Banke Museum hosted the 13th annual American Celebration. The day was filled with old-fashioned Fourth of July fun and games for children and adults alike.
Many children aged six and older participated in the Liberty Treasure Hunt. They received a list of historical items to locate during the day. Once they completed their tasks they presented the form at a prize tent in Goodwin Garden.
In the Victorian Children's Garden, little ones made lavender wands and secret messages in a posey. They were also allowed to visit garden fairy houses and smell fairy perfume.
A little good old-fashioned competition was available for those who were interested in potato sack races, colonial costume relay, bubble gum blowing and jump rope contests. The winners earned patriotic prizes.
Under a large white tent, The Serfs, Dick Kaplan's Jazz Band and the Patriot Fife and Drum performed live music.
The Bondar family, originally from Ukraine and now living in Rye, visit Strawbery Banke every year on July 4. This year all four family members braved the weather and came prepared with umbrellas.
The family-friendly day was a quiet one with Hurricane Arthur looming. Many visitors scurried inside houses for shelter during rain showers, but also commented that they appreciated the extra-personalized attention they received.


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With the holidays approaching, expectations of peace, love, giving, receiving, and forgiving abound. My mind and heart naturally wander to thoughts of compassion and self-compassion and where these very critical values stand in our consciousness. Especially at this time of year when many feel they are supposed to be joyful yet are not.
Perhaps nowhere is the importance of kids developing compassion more keenly felt than in the opening scene of this year's documentary Bully. A dazed father talks about the suicide of his son, a victim of bullying. Later, another boy deadpans his own experience. "They punch me, they strangle me, they take things from me, they sit on me."
One wonders how could anyone be so cold-hearted, so without compassion, that they have no awareness of, or care about, how their actions effect others. The fact that 13 million children are affected by bullying in the U.S. each year is staggering and points to a desperate need to develop the skills of compassion.


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First NBC Bank Holding Company Announces 2013 Second Quarter Results
Noninterest income, excluding securities gains, for the second quarter of 2013 totaled $2.7 million, an increase of $0.2 million, or 9.0%, compared to first quarter of 2013 and an increase of $0.5 million, or 23.8%, compared to the second quarter of 2012. The increase in noninterest income in the second quarter of 2013 compared to the first quarter of 2013 and second quarter of 2012 resulted primarily from increases of $0.6 million and $1.0 million, respectively, in management fees from First NBC Community Development Fund, LLC related to the Fund's New Market Tax Credit investments.
The Company realized $0.3 million and $1.8 million in securities gains during the first quarter of 2013 and second quarter of 2012, respectively. The Company did not realize any securities gains during the second quarter of 2013.
Noninterest Expense
Noninterest expense for the six month period ended June 30, 2013 totaled $30.8 million, an increase of $3.2 million, or 11.6%, compared to the six month period ended June 30, 2012. The increase was due primarily to increases in tax credit amortization of $1.4 million, or 58.0%, and professional fees of $1.1 million, or 56.1%, compared to the same period of 2012.Noninterest expense for the second quarter of 2013 totaled $15.2 million, a decrease of $0.4 million, or 2.9%, compared to first quarter of 2013 and an increase of $1.3 million, or 9.5%, compared to the second quarter of 2012. The decrease in noninterest expense in the second quarter of 2013 compared to the first quarter of 2013 resulted primarily from a decrease in salaries and benefits expense of $0.6 million offset by an increase in tax credit amortization of $0.3 million. The increase in noninterest expense in the second quarter of 2013 compared to second quarter of 2012 was due primarily to increases in professional fees of $0.6 million and tax credit amortization of $0.8 million.
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Norwegian Cruise Line Sponsors Free Boingo Wi-Fi In New York City To Celebrate The Upcoming Arrival Of New York's Ship
Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ: WIFI), the Wi-Fi industry's leading provider of software and services worldwide, and Norwegian Cruise Line today announced that the line is sponsoring free Wi-Fi access at select New York subway stations and John F. Kennedy (JFK), LaGuardia and Newark Liberty International Airports during the month of February, in celebration of the line's newest ship, Norwegian Breakaway.
Complimentary Boingo Wi-Fi is immediately available for users of all Wi-Fi enabled devices at Manhattan subway stations supported by Transit Wireless' state-of-the-art network, and for laptop users at the New York airports, courtesy of Norwegian Cruise Line's newest ship, Norwegian Breakaway.
Arriving in the Big Apple in May, the 4,000-passenger Norwegian Breakaway will bring the best of NYC to sea, and will be the largest cruise ship ever to homeport year-round in New York City. The ship will feature the high caliber of dining and entertainment New York is known for, including three Broadway shows like ROCK OF AGES, restaurants from Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian and fitness classes from the ship's godmothers, the legendary Rockettes.
"The airports and subways are such iconic centers of activity for New Yorkers that sponsoring Wi-Fi in those venues seemed a natural extension to our New York City-inspired campaign for Norwegian Breakaway," said Maria Miller, senior vice president of marketing for Norwegian Cruise Line. "Boingo's ability to provide an effective tool for engaging with potential guests fits in nicely with our goals, and we're excited to offer this service free of charge to New Yorkers.""We specialize in delivering high engagement opportunities for leading advertisers in premier locations, while providing consumers with the Wi-Fi they crave," said Dawn Callahan, senior vice president of marketing and sales for Boingo Wireless. "Boingo's Cloud Nine media platform is uniquely positioned to reach on-the-go, tech-savvy consumers – especially those in New York who might be very much in need of a rejuvenating cruise."
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When a stunt double looks nothing like the actor they are filling in for.
Alice is a famous actress working on her latest movie. The time has come to film the scene where she rides a motorcycle through flaming hoops over a shark tank. But, wait, Alice is far too delicate, precious and non-expendable to put be put through that! A stunt double is needed. But Alice's usual stunt double is in the hospital, so what do they do? Hire Alice's friend Bob. Sure, he looks nothing like her, but it's not like anyone will notice. A subtrope of Paper-Thin Disguise or Special Effects Failure, depending on whether the example is in-universe or not. It often overlaps with Fight Scene Failure. The Other Darrin is something similar, where a character gets a new actor because the previous one left the show.
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Hi everyone!I'm back! I hope you all had a great summer. I can't believe it's time for another season already.As you may already know, I'm paired with Brandy this season. I'm very happy to have been partnered with her. I think there's a lot of pressure on use to do well because she's an entertainer, but just like last season, we're taking it one week at a time.So far, we've just done one rehearsal. Our first dance is the Viennese waltz and our second is going to be the cha-cha, I think. We've got three weeks until the premiere and everybody has a different strategy, of course. Mine is to get ready for the first dance. The first week is the hardest for everyone. That first Monday — it's all shock for the celebrities and they go, "Wow, now I get it." But eventually they get used to the whole process, and every week you start again from scratch. The first two weeks determine who's the worst, for the lack of a better word, and by Week four or five, people start to pull away. I think last season, we stayed under the radar and the fans carried us through. Hopefully we'll have great fans pulling for us this season.Brandy is quite a personality. She is hilarious! We get along really well and are having a lot of fun. She's very free and very willing to experiment. She's not afraid to experiment even though she appears to be a bit of scaredy-cat. She's a perfectionist, but she's a fun perfectionist. She's not one who drills herself. She can laugh at herself and . definitely has natural potential and talent. I'll be honest: When I found out I got Brandy, my immediate thought was, "Please let her have some dance experience!" Why? I felt like the off-season went by in a week! It's crazy. I've just been flying around the whole summer with a lot of projects in the works — just super busy. For me, this summer, I spent it on a plane. I still feel the aches from last season. It's crazy. To me, the show just finished. Now we're back in it, so it's kind of funny. It would help if Brandy if had been an amazing dancer. But she's not — and obviously I don't mean that in a bad way. Her strength, though, is definitely her personality. I think I just need to be able to package her and present her to the viewers and we're going to be good. I'm still trying to get myself in the right mindset. Last season was very difficult because there were weeks where, toward the end, I did nothing but Dancing with the Stars. It was literally just rehearse, eat, sleep, eat, rehearse. It gets a little crazy after a while because you feel like you're missing out on life. But then you realize this is what life is!The cast this season is very eclectic. I think there a re a lot of people who have potential. I think Jennifer Grey is a dancer at heart. I haven't seen anyone take a step, so I don't know her level of experience, but I think she's in great shape. I think Audrina is someone who can pull away. She has Tony, who's very excited to work with her. I think there are a few from the men's side who can be good. Kurt Warner and Rick Fox — they know what it's like to do something over and over again being athletes. I think Michael Bolton will know how to put on a performance. Of course, I don't know how limber he is. I think this cast is more even than in some seasons past. I don't really have a different approach this season. We've been doing this for so long that it's like second nature now. It's been four years for me. There's not much I can change about myself. I think I have become a better teacher over the seasons. There's a different side to me people see more regularly now as opposed to before because I was too much into my own head. I didn't know how to let certain emotions out. Now, I'm more comfortable in front of the cameras. Everything else is going well. I choreographed a new number for La Reve over the summer. We got a new piece of music and I knew I had to do something for it. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun as well. It's a rewarding job. It's something anybody in my position would die to do. It's an absolutely amazing atmosphere. The whole production is on a completely different level than any show, and the Wynn is incredible. It's a home away from home. It's something that I take a lot of pride in. My studios are also doing very well. We're eyeing five locations as we're trying to expand inland — maybe Viriginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. We're hoping to open some up there and slowly move west. We're working on opening one in Las Vegas.I redid my website and dancewithmeusa.com, so please check them out if you have time. I started my YouTube channel and we're uploading new videos from certain events. Keep an eye out for the next video because it's from a family barbecue and there's a lot of silliness. Speaking of family, Sleep is a big boy now! He's 50 pounds! He's adorable. I miss him a lot though because he's back home. It's too much of a hassle to fly him out to L.A. You have to fit him into the bag that he's too big for. Then when you fit him in, you can't lift the bag! Plus, I would never want to traumatize him with the flying regulations. He's home and he's happy. My parents are taking care of him. Val is here preparing for the U.S. Open this week, so he's watching him too. Everything is great. Everybody is busy. We're very grateful about the opportunities we get. If you give us a chance, the second we get the chance, we'll do it. Our motto is: We never fail. It's not an evil thing. We just don't leave room for failure. We have to do it all the way and we have to be successful at it. That's what's we're doing. We have our bar raised.One last thing I want to mention for the first and last time: romance rumors. There was a lot of stuff last season about Erin and me, and I already see stuff this season and the cast was just announced! I just want everyone to know that there's absolutely no way that anybody will get me to talk about anything about my personal life. I think our fans are amazing. I've had incredible support in the tough times and I try to give back with what I do on the dance floor. I love our extended family, but there are certain things that one must keep to themselves. I put out a lot out there — I know that — but everyone has a right to a personal life. One thing I promise is that like last season, I'm very focused on dancing, getting Brandy into the final and getting the trophy. She's very talented and very capable of winning. We're going to give our best. I just want everyone to understand that they will never get an answer from me or her or anyone else now or even in the next three years, God-willing, if we're still doing this. But I want you to know that I'm not blind and I do see the rumors, but I'm not going to address them. And I'm saying that with a smile on my face.That's all for now. Thanks for reading. See you next week!Maks
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Since the last update, Afroditi has played some tournaments. First, she played the Larissa Sports Center Open, a Greek non-ITF money tournament. She won it all, beating Danielants 6-2 6-2, Kagga 6-3 6-3, and Christopoulou 6-3 6-3
She then played the Greek National Championships, where she reached the final in singles and semis in doubles (with her BFF Antigoni Kleftouri)
. In singles, she won 6-4 7-6 over Malamou, 6-0 6-0 over Tsaoutou, 6-1 6-2 over Baka, 4-6 6-1 6-4 over I.Markesini, and then lost in the final 4-6 2-6 to Stefanou
. In doubles, Afroditi and Antigoni beat Argyriou/Gennimata 6-1 6-1, Markesini/Markesini 6-1 7-6, before losing 2-6 6-3 4-10 to eventual champions Christopoulou/Papageorgiou
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. At the 10K event in Kalamata, she shockingly beat (Q) Grammatikopoulou 6-3 6-3, before losing 0-6 6-7(6) in the second round to (5) van Riet (NED, #649, eventual semifinalist). I just hope she didn't have MPs in that one
Then she got a MDWC for the tournament in Mytilini where she lost 4-6 3-6 in R1 to (4) Daniels (GER, #579, eventual semi finalist)
And then she played the 10K in Heraklion and lost R1 3-6 7-6 1-6 to (6) Pushkareva (RUS, #753)
Overall, some promising results and she SHOULD get back in the WTA ranks list by the end of the year, as she's scheduled to play more tournaments and she only needs one more point. It's just a little discouraging that she has lost some close matches this year...
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Kelvin's contributions to science were vast, but he is perhaps best known today for the temperature scale that bears his name. It is so named in honor of his discovery of the coldest possible temperature in our universe. Thompson had played a major role in developing the Laws of Thermodynamics, and in 1848 he used them to extrapolate that the coldest temperature any matter can become, regardless of the substance, is -273.15°C (-459.67°F). We now know this boundary as zero Kelvin.
Once this absolute zero temperature was decisively identified, prominent Victorian scientists commenced multiple independent efforts to build machines to explore this physical frontier. Their equipment was primitive, and the trappings were treacherous, but they pressed on nonetheless, dangers be damned. There was science to be done.
Prior to this 19th-century cold rush, most European scientists believed that coldness itself was an actual physical substance--made up of atoms of an airborne primordial gas. This explained why water expanded upon freezing--it was taking in a large amount of these cold particles. Physicist Robert Boyle dispelled this notion in 1665 by painstakingly weighing water before and after putting it outdoors on a freezing night, demonstrating that only its volume had changed, not its mass. This helped naturalists to start hypothesizing in the right direction, but in 1783, renowned French chemist Antoine de Lavoisier undid most of this progress by popularizing his own theory that heat is an invisible, weightless, self-repellent vapor called caloric, and that coldness is merely a depletion of the same. This "dark heat" theory was also wrong, but it modeled observations so well that it remained dominant for almost a century.
This landmark discovery invited even more inquiry than it had quieted. Might it be possible to actually reach absolute zero? What would happen to molecules forced into such stillness? Would they disintegrate? Would they convert to a yet-to-be-observed phase of matter? Who goes there? What is the meaning of this?
One gentleman with the wherewithal to address these questions was Scottish scientist Sir James Dewar, an accomplished inventor and a professor at the Royal Institution in London. His history with cold was the stuff of origin stories--at the age of ten James Dewar was frolicking upon a frozen pond in Scotland when the ice cracked open beneath his feet. Young Dewar was swallowed into the dark, freezing water. His companions managed to extract him, soggy and shivering, but in his compromised condition he became bedridden by rheumatic fever. When he was well enough to walk again he required crutches and struggled with rigid limbs and digits. A kindly violin-maker took him on as an apprentice in order to help him reclaim the fine motor skills in his hands, and when Dewar later chose the path of science, this delicate workmanship experience enabled him to fabricate his own laboratory tools and instruments.
As he advanced in the scientific community, Dewar grew to adore the late Michael Faraday, a brilliant and renowned predecessor at the Royal Institute. In the early 1800s Faraday had discovered that one can persuade practically any gas to liquefy by applying high pressures and ice baths. Faraday's techniques were capable of reaching temperatures as low as -130°C, but despite his ingenuity, three of the gases he tried--oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen--persistently resisted the phase change to liquid. After many failed attempts Faraday tentatively concluded that these three must be "permanent gases."
To start the process, the valves on the first tank were opened, expanding the gas into a larger enclosure. This rapid expansion would cause the already cold gas to condense into even colder liquid. This liquid would then be used as the coolant to chill the still-compressed gas in the next tank as much as possible, such that when that gas was expanded into its own sealed vessel it would reach even colder extremes. This would then be used to cool the third gas, and so on. As experimenters pressed closer and closer to absolute zero, each degree of heat became more difficult to squeeze out than the last. All that remained to liquefy was hydrogen--an odorless, colorless gas which tends to turn into a universe if left alone for a prolonged period. Scientists at the time expected that hydrogen would not liquefy until -250°C, within spitting distance of the coldest possible temperature in the universe. It was a monumental undertaking for the time, and it would require yet-to-be-invented apparatuses, but he who would be first to liquefy the last remaining "permanent gas" was sure to be showered with scientific acclaim for advancing humanity's knowledge of the the properties of matter.
James Dewar was fond of referring to this challenge as "Mount Hydrogen." Only a few facilities in the world had the equipment and aptitude necessary to even hike the foothills of Mount Hydrogen, let alone glimpse its summit, yet a number of chemists were beginning to clamber. Dewar knew that if he could be the first, his name would be whispered in the halls of the Royal Institution alongside the great Michael Faraday's for decades--perhaps centuries. Thus in the mid-1880s Sir James Dewar decided to direct all of his considerable scientific and engineering resources into cryogenic research for the purposes of liquefying hydrogen.
Dewar and Onnes were both gradually assembling and rejiggering similar apparatuses based on the cascade method using the best available technologies. This cascade cooling theory was quite sturdy on paper, but in practice its execution was rife with peril. Sometimes liquefied gases would freeze solid in the lines, disrupting the delicate plumbing. The extreme low temperatures caused even the strongest holding tanks, tubing, valves, welds, and connectors to become fearfully brittle. Moreover, many of the most effective cooling gases were highly flammable, as was the hydrogen itself. Not to mention they were being held for long periods at very high pressures. Consequently each ever-evolving multi-ton collection of handmade and scavenged parts was a persnickety and treacherous assembly.
As the experiments progressed, James Dewar conducted a series of public lectures to demonstrate the properties of the coldest liquids he had so far managed to produce. The special "Dewar flasks" he used to handle these liquids were his own invention, a glass vessel with a gap of vacuum trapped between the inner and outer walls. The Scottish scientist dipped ordinarily flexible objects into liquid nitrogen, and then shattered them like glass. He produced a flask of bluish liquid oxygen--which boiled boisterously at room temperature--and used it to flash-freeze a vial of alcohol. Lastly he placed a lit candle in the steam of liquid oxygen vapors, which elicited a dramatic flourish of flame. He concluded these low-temperature demonstrations by explaining to the audience that science was pressing ever closer to the coldest possible temperature, whereupon the molecules would become entirely still, and the "death of matter" was likely to occur. Vigorous applause ensued.
As James Dewar recuperated from his injuries, Kamerlingh Onnes became a source of serious concern. The younger up-and-comer was rapidly and enthusiastically closing the research gap, imperiling Dewar's imminent eminence. Onnes offered to come visit the London lab, but Dewar informed him that he if he did so he would not be allowed to set eyes upon the secret cryogenic equipment. Dewar felt he was within sight of the summit, and was reluctant to lend an accidental hand. Despite his ill health and injuries, Dewar resumed his low temperature research as soon as he was able, placing himself back in the midst of what he described as "difficulties and dangers of no ordinary kind." These dangers again became evident in 1896 when a pressure gauge burst during a low-temperature experiment, flinging glass and shrapnel into the face of Dewar's loyal laboratory assistant Robert Lennox. The incident cost Lennox an eye, yet he persevered. For science.
In March 1896, just when these laboratory calamities seemed certain to steal Dewar's scientific prize, he received a letter from Kamerlingh Onnes, wherein the Dutchman confided:
I have not been able to repeat your splendid experiments for since your last letter it was impossible for me to work at low temperatures and that for a reason you will be astonished to hear. The municipality of Leiden has made objections as to my working with condensed gases and has not been content with asking that additional means of precaution are taken, but is gone so far to claim in August last that my cryogenic laboratory be removed from the city! Not withstanding that never any notable accident happened in all the years I have been working there...
The gas hissed into the larger expansion tank, with no indication of freeze-ups or clogs. The thermometer steadily fell. Once the reading indicated -252°C, a clear, colorless liquid began to slowly but steadily drip into the glass collector at the bottom of the expansion tank. This continued for five minutes, until a nozzle froze up and forced the experiment to an end. James Dewar took a small vial of the liquid oxygen and submerged it in the new fluid. The pale blue oxygen froze instantly into a pale blue solid. This proved that the twenty cubic centimeters of liquid in the collector was indeed hydrogen. Dewar had done it. Thanks to a decade of effort he had created the coldest and stillest moment in spacetime the Earth had ever seen, just 21 measly degrees above absolute zero. He had bested the upstart Dutchman, and he'd done what the great Michael Faraday had once deemed impossible. He had liquefied the final available "permanent gas," and secured his place in history.
Or, so he thought. The anticipated acclaim did not materialize.
His accomplishment, it turned out, had been eclipsed by another discovery: chemists had identified yet another elemental gas whose liquefaction temperature was even lower than that of hydrogen. This new gas, helium, had been hypothesized to exist based on known elements and spectroscopic observations of the sun, but failure to find it in nature had led scientists to believe that the element could only be found in stars and gas giants. Indeed, loose helium is so light that it escapes Earth's gravity and drifts into space, however intrepid sifters had finally begun to find some trapped in rocks, sands, and cavities. Helium became the new last permanent gas, and consequently its liquefaction became the noblest goal.
In the meantime, across the Channel, Kamerlingh Onnes had taken his laboratory closure complaint all the way to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, and emerged victorious. The Dutch scientist dusted off his liquefaction machine and began mobilizing his own resources. Adjacent to his laboratory building he established the Society for the Promotion of the Training of Instrument-Makers, and set these "blue boys" to work improving his massive cryogenic apparatus. Using Dewar's system as a guide, Onnes and his crew constructed their own high-volume hydrogen liquefaction plant with the intent to use its output as a coolant to produce liquid helium. But helium gas proved frightfully difficult to come by. Onnes learned that the great James Dewar had found that the sands surrounding Bath Springs held some trapped helium, and that Dewar had devised a process to extract it. The Dutchman wrote to propose an alliance. He offered to share his data, his calculations, his huge liquid hydrogen supply, and the cost of helium extraction all in exchange for access to the elusive gas. Dewar replied:
We both want the same material in quantity from the same place at the same time and the supply is not sufficient to meet our great demands. It is a mistake to suppose the Bath supply is so great. I have not been able so far to accumulate sufficient for my liquefaction experiments. If I could make some progress with my own work the time might come when I could give a helping hand which would give me great pleasure.
Sir James Dewar's supply was not quite as scarce as he suggested, but he had labored alone for far too long to go Dutch on the byline. Aged 62 and suffering from strained health and budget, he supervised the extraction of helium from the sand supply, a slow and tedious process which involved freezing it with liquid hydrogen and exploding it with oxygen. This would liberate a scant few helium atoms which were then trapped by a charcoal filter.
By 1903 he finally had collected enough of the gas for an attempt. The updated cryogenic system was even more complex than before, a massive sprawling cold factory festooned with valves, canisters, vents, and pipes. The scientists connected their precious compressed helium canister to its inlet and used their liquid hydrogen supply to refrigerate the container. When they opened the valve to expand the helium itself, some impurities in the gas froze solid inside the tubing and impeded the flow. An unspecified assistant with quick reflexes reversed the helium valve, but he turned it either the wrong way or too far, because instead of halting the flow of helium, he caused it all to be vented into the laboratory. Dewar's notes do not indicate whether a high-pitched apology was offered.
Coincidentally, Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay had a laboratory just next door to Dewar's, and these gentlemen had access to some helium. However they were also among the many scientists whose egos had been previously dashed upon the rocks of Dewar's scorn. His deficit of decorum left him few friends. Dewar's fortunes continued to deteriorate when his London lab was rattled by yet another minor explosion which deprived yet another lab assistant (James Heath) of yet another eye.
In the early dawn on the 10th of July 1908, Kamerlingh Onnes and his assistants gathered at their own low-temperature laboratory in Leiden. Onnes had found his own source of helium-laced sand from North Carolina, and he had patiently spent the intervening years extracting and gathering his own supply of the scarce element. Onnes and his "blue boys" filled every spare space in their vast apparatus with liquid hydrogen for insulation. They had pre-prepared their array of compressed gas canisters the evening prior. As word of the intent to liquefy helium spread through the university campus, a small crowd gathered at the laboratory to observe. Onnes's wife arrived with sandwiches in the afternoon, but he was too busy to pause for nourishment, so she followed him around the lab thrusting bite-size portions into his mouth as he shouted orders and supervised the preparation of the machine.
Onnes hastened to make observations with the small container of -271°C fluid before it all evaporated away. He found it had a lower surface tension than any previously observed liquid, and just 1/8th the density of water. The modest amount of the stuff he had been able to collect behaved very curiously in general, flowing with strange characteristics and evading easy observation as if enveloped in an SEP field. It was impossible for him to know that he had created a rare and fleeting superfluid, a previously unseen state of matter. The viscosity, or thickness, of a liquid is caused by dissipation of energy due to friction between particles, but since superfluid liquid helium is already in its lowest state it cannot dissipate energy, and it therefore must flow with zero resistance. Quantum mechanics insists.
Kamerlingh Onnes dispatched a telegram to his cryogenic colleague in London to share his exciting news. The telegram he received in reply was heartbreak couched in courtesy:
Dewar was less circumspect with his pair of one-eyed laboratory assistants. He tongue-lashed Robert Lennox for failing to find a more abundant helium source, and Lennox stormed out, vowing never to return to the Royal Institution until James Dewar's bones were cold in the ground. He proved to be a man of his word.
Despite his considerable contributions to science, Sir James Dewar was never awarded a Nobel Prize, though he received nine nominations. Instead, scientific spoils went to the people who built upon his work. For instance, Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay used Dewar's liquid hydrogen as a tool to discover the elements xenon, neon, and krypton, and they won the 1904 prize for Chemistry. Kamerlingh Onnes himself won the prize in Physics in 1913 for improving Dewar's liquefaction strategy for helium. In his Nobel lecture, Onnes credited Dewar for having been the first to liquefy hydrogen, and for having revolutionized low-temperature research with his ingenious vacuum flask. But even the Dewar flask brought its namesake some vexation--a glassblower he had hired to make some of the first such flasks became so fond of the design that he used the sincerest form of flattery to found the now-famous Thermos company. A lengthy court battle finally decreed that Dewar was entitled to credit for the invention, but not owed any damages. But most scientists today still call these flasks "Dewars" in his honor. The curmudgeonly maverick even filed a suit against the famous Nobel family, claiming that their explosive innovations were based on his earlier chemistry, but the judge dismissed the claims. Dewar never retired, and he maintained the position of Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution until his death on 27 March 1923.
Kamerlingh Onnes died in Leiden about three years later on 21 February 1926. He did so with the full awareness that he was among the last of a disappearing breed--the "classical physicists" who had the luxury of simply banging on matter until it did interesting Newtonian things. Science was thenceforth in the capable hands of quantum mechanics. His helium liquefaction apparatus remains on display to this day at Leiden University.
Researchers today are tinkering with temperatures below one kelvin at extremely high pressures in order to freeze helium into helium ice, which may ultimately reveal a never-before-seen theoretical supersolid state. If the theory turns out to be correct, supersolids may make a mockery of the very notion of solidity since they will also be governed by the uncertainty principle. A chunk of helium ice would behave as a single, solid, oversized, and stupefyingly slippery atom, which may be capable of passing ghost-like through certain materials. But that's another matter altogether.
As of this writing the coldest temperature ever reached on Earth occurred in 2003 when MIT scientists chilled a cloud of sodium atoms to 0.45 nanokelvin--about one half of one billionth of a degree above absolute zero--using lasers, evaporative cooling, and "gravito-magnetic traps." And NASA is planning to routinely reach one ten billionth of a degree above absolute zero aboard the International Space Station after installing the Cold Atom Lab in December 2015. Modern scientists are confident that absolute zero itself is an unattainable temperature, as it would require an infinite amount of time and an apparatus the size of the universe to squeeze out the last tiny fraction of heat energy. Nevertheless, there is nothing cooler than seeing humanity press up against the very boundaries of the physical laws of the universe, and to see how curiously things behave there.


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Why Bees Are Disappearing and What You Should Know
Mussen, who retired in June after 38 years of service, says "Neonics are only one of the classes of pesticide residues that we frequently find in analyses of adult bees, beeswax and stored pollens. We encounter CCD in colonies in which no neonicotinoid residues can be found, and we find colonies surviving year after year with measurable residues of neonicotinoids in the hives. Obviously, neonicotinoids do not appear to be ''the primary' cause of CCD."
Enter Matan Shelomi, a young, thoughtful and articulate entomologist who frequently answers questions on Quora. Huffington Post picked up his comments on Quora--What's the deal with the Bees?--about our bee-leagured bees. (Quora, launched by Harvard students, is a site where you can ask questions and get answers, and Shelomi answers plenty of them and quite well. A couple of years ago he tied for a first-place Shorty Award, the social media-equivalent of an Oscar.)
But first, more about Matan Shelomi. He's a Harvard graduate who received his doctorate in entomology this year from UC Davis, studying with major professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and UC Davis professor of entomology. He is presently a postdoctoral researcher at the c in Jena, Germany. It's a two-year position funded by a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. "My work is a continuation and expansion of my doctoral research at Davis: I am studying the endogenous cellulases and pectinases of the stick insects (Phasmatodea). By taking insect genes for these enzymes and expressing them in insect cell lines, we can quantitatively test the function of these genes and try to determine what role they play in the living insect and how they evolved."
Shelomi keyed in on those questions and more after hearing "a great talk by the venerable Dr. May Berenbaum, a wonderful entomologist and effectively the scientific spokesperson about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the technical term for the phenomenon of vanishing bees. So I present here for you the current state of knowledge on CCD: its history, its causes, and what we can do so stop it." Berenbaum, professor and head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois, is in line to be president of the 7000-member Entomological Society of America.
"CCD does not have one cause," Shelomi emphasized. "There is no one chemical to ban or one company to censure or one critter to eradicate. Instead, CCD is the product of several factors whose whole is deadlier than the sum of its parts: a perfect storm of biological and cultural issues that are too much for the already genetically weak honeybees to handle. However, honeybees and bees themselves are not going extinct anytime soon."
Shelomi noted that honey bees are not native to America. "European honey bees were imported to the United States a few centuries ago, where they adapted well to the local plants. Without bees, certain crops (most notably almonds) could not be produced."
"Beekeeping practice also changed remarkably in the past century. Beekeepers realized the market for pollination, and began to transport their hives around the country following the crop seasons, first by rail and then by truck. The demand for bees was higher than the supply, however. In the USA, the Almond Board successfully lobbied Congress to allow the importation of bees from Australia, which was illegal at the time to prevent the importation of foreign bee diseases. As the world changed and more wild land was converted to agricultural land, then agricultural land to urban land, the amount of food for bees decreased. The natural diet of bees is honey and bee bread, which is fermented pollen. Fewer wild flowers meant less natural food for the bees, requiring other sources. To keep their bees alive, beekeepers started feeding sugar solutions to bees, including high fructose corn syrup."
Then came CCD. "In 2006, many beekeepers across the USA began to report high losses of bees. Not deaths, but losses: the worker bees would just vanish, leaving the queen and brood behind. This is very unusual: honey bees don't leave their home and family behind like that. With the workers gone, the hive soon followed. It soon became evident that this was a nationwide problem, and one that eventually spread to Europe too. Because of the immense importance of bees in agriculture, groups from all over the US worked together, and solving the case of Colony Collapse Disorder became a priority."
In his Quora answer, Shelomi discusses research findings and new research underway. "Here is perhaps the biggest finding from the honey bee genome research: Honey bees are naturally lacking in immunity and detoxification genes. Compared to other insects, bees lack many natural defenses! Namely, they have fewer glutathione-S-transferases, carboxylesterases, and cytochrome P450's, which are the proteins animals (including humans) use to break down toxins. Bees eat pollen and honey, which are hardly toxic. In the millions of years of their evolution, they have lost many of these genes for defense, which means all honey bees are naturally weakened against diseases and chemicals."
So, bottom line? "I'll give you a hint: it's not one thing," Shelomi wrote. "No matter what you are reading, if you find any source that names only one cause for CCD -- a single chemical, a single pesticide, a single company, a single country-- then you should stop trusting that source. On anything. Ever. Science doesn't work that way, and, no, there is no one cause for CCD, nor is there one solution. Anyone who says otherwise is either pushing a certain viewpoint on you or hasn't done there research. Here's the big reveal."
When you get a chance, read his entire essay and take note of his summary: "...CCD happens because bees have a naturally poor immunity to disease and to chemicals, both of which they are exposed to at higher rates and often together, and that immunity is made worse due to poor diet and stressful conditions. There is no one cause, nor is there one solution."
What we can do to help the bees? "Two things. Plant flowers that bees like in your garden, if you have one. Help undo the damage of habitat loss by giving bees a source of food on your property. The second is to support your local beekeeper by buying local honey, if appropriate. Go to a farmers' market or otherwise get the honey from someone raising bees nearby. It will help them out, and you can ensure you are getting real honey and not laundered stuff."
Shelomi is spot on when he says that "the best thing you can do is stay informed... and that doesn't mean finding one source of information and trusting them blindly. To stay informed means you will always need new information, and are never satisfied. It means always doubting every new news story that pops up, especially if it seems too good to be true or claims to 'finally' answer a question. It means don't confuse a conspiracy theory website or an anti-agrotech blog, or even a news report, for actual scientific data. Nor should you trust one scientific paper above all others, especially if it's a single study and not a meta-analysis. Science is ever changing: look at how much our knowledge of bees changed since 2006, how many theories were tested, championed, then abandoned as new evidence came up. Even all I've posted here may one day change (though it's pretty well accepted so far). The story of the honey bees isn't over yet... but I promise it will not have a grand finale or a single climax, but rather will be complex and full of intertwining characters, and the ending, though perhaps not as spectacular, will be much more satisfying."
Excellent advice. Stay aware. Stay informed. Stay tuned.
Matan Shelomi, wearing a UC Davis entomology shirt, stands in front of the Reichstag in Berlin.
Noted entomologist May Berenbaum lectured May 20 at UC Davis on disappearing bees and then visited the Department of Entomology and Nematology's bee garden. With her (from left) are UC Davis bee authorities Robbin Thorp, Brian Johnson and Eric Mussen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Perfect Gift
You know she likes stiletto Jimmy Choo shoes and anything that begins with a "D" for designer clothes and shoes and "E" for expensive. She's seen The World's Most Expensive Stilettos and dreams of stilettos by Stuart Weitzman and Borgezie that run as high as $3 million. (They run that high, but you can't run in them.)
But apparel won't last as long as the gift that the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is dangling in front of us.
Ready for this? A stiletto fly. Genus: Agapophytus. It needs a species name. If you'd like to adopt it and own the naming rights, you can--with a sponsorship that will help the Bohart Museum's research.
Shaun Winterton of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, a Bohart associate, collected the stiletto fly (below) in western Australia and photographed it.
"'O sole mio!" Deep in the heart of our soul (sole?), we know it's better than designer shoes.
A little information on the Stiletto fly from Winterton:
Common name: Stiletto fly
Family Therevidae
Origin: Western Australia: Golden Bay beach dunes
Describer: Shaun L. Winterton
Wrote Winterton: "This new species of Agapophytus in the family Therevidae has been found in the coastal heathland and beach fore-dunes of Western Australia, north of the city of Perth. The genus is known only from Australia and Papua New Guinea and currently includes about 40 known species, with about as many still to be formally named. The stiletto fly family includes many brightly colored species in Australia, many of which are mimics of wasps or ants. This species is unusual in being relatively small in body size, with a polished black body and yellow halters. Larvae of this family are snake-like predators in the sand dunes, swimming through the loose sand using vibrations to home in on prey."
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and a UC Davis proessor of entomology, launched the Bohart's biolegacy program, which is similar to the International Star Registry. "For a sponsorship of $2500, you will be able to select a species you would like to name in honor of a loved one or in respect for a community member," she said. "For your sponsorship, we will name a species after you or someone special to you. Sponsors will also be given a high resolution photography of their namesake, framed with the title page of the naming publication."
Unlike the Star Registry Program, though, the official species name "will be published in a scientific journal read by many in the international scientific community and available to everyone in perpetuity."
So, the Bohart Museum staff and scientists need your help. They describe as many as 15 new species annually "and our associates, many more."
"We could use your help with the selection of new species names in the course of our research," said Kimsey, who can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (530) 752-0493.
The Bohart Museum, home of nearly eight million specimens collected from throughout the world, joins a number of international organizations that offer species-naming opportunities.
Sponsorships help support museum research, in addition to offering a personal permanent legacy.
Can't you just see it? At a holiday gathering, your friend who has everything is asked what she received.
"Stiletto," she says.
"Omigosh, you got stilettos! Jimmy Choo? Who? Who?"
"No, this stiletto is a fly. And it's all mine. It's named after me!"
Shaun Winterton of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, an associate of the Bohart Museum, collected this stiletto fly, genus Agapophytus, and photographed it. It now needs a name. (Shaun Winterton Photo)
This weevil, found in a Costa Rica forest, is up for adoption: it needs a name. (Photo by Andrew Richards, Bohart Museum of Entomology)
Here's another weevil, found in a Costa Rica forest, that needs a name. (Photo by Andrew Richards, Bohart Museum of Entomology)
Bohart senior museum scientist Steve Heydon collected this new species of chalcid wasp in the Algonedes Dunes. Genus: Psilochalcis. It needs a name. (Photo by Andrew Richards, Bohart Museum of Entomology)
Myths and Gifts
When the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology hosts its open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 23, the theme will be "Insect Myths." (Okay, and spider myths, too!)
You'll learn about honey bee, ladybug, butterfly and spider myths at this family-oriented event, which is free and open to the public.
The insect museum located in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building on Crocker Lane, is not only the home of nearly 8 million insect specimens, but it operates a live "pettting zoo" (Madagascar hissing cockroaches, walking sticks and tarantulas) and a year-around gift shop filled with T-shirts, jewelry, posters, books, bug-collecting equipment and insect-themed candy, including chocolate-dipped scorpions, crunchy crickets, and protein-rich lollipops.
Another popular book, published in 2013, is a 35-page children's book, The Story of the Dogface Butterfly, authored by entomologist Fran Keller, who this year received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis. She is a researcher, college instructor, mentor, artist, photographer, and author.
The book, geared for kindergarten through sixth-grade classrooms, and also a favorite of adults, tells the untold story of the California dogface butterfly (Zerene eurydice), and how a classroom successfully mounted a campaign to name it the California state insect. Illustrations by artist Laine Bauer, a UC Davis graduate, and photographs by naturalist Greg Kareofelas, a Bohart Museum volunteer, depict the life cycle of this butterfly and show the host plant, false indigo (Amorpha californica). Net proceeds from the sale of this book are earmarked for the education, outreach and research programs at the Bohart Museum.
Gift shop items are available both in the store (Monday through Thursday) and online, http://www.bohartmuseum.com/.
Among the favorites gifts at the Bohart Museum:
- T-shirts depicting images of dragonflies, butterflies, beetles and moths
- Bohart Museum coffee mug
- Insect collecting net
- Posters of butterflies of Central Californian, Dragonflies of California, and the California Dogface butterfly
- Butterfly habitat
- Jewelry depicting bees, butterflies, dragonflies and ladybugs (many of the boxes are engraved with the Bohart logo and treasured)
- Science kits
- Insect and spider books
- Insect magnets
The Bohart Museum, directed by Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology at UC Davis, is open to the public from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. It is closed to the public on Fridays and on major holidays. Admission is free. More information is available by contacting the Bohart Museum at (530) 752-0493 or Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator at email@example.com.
Robbin Thorp with two of the books he co-authored. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum Open House: Insect Myths!
Worker bees are males, right?
Butterflies and moths can't fly if you rub the scales off their wings, right?
Earwigs crawl into your ears and then into your brain, right?
Wrong. They're all widely known but falsely held beliefs.
What better place to learn about insect myths than the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology, home of nearly eight million insect specimens? An open house is scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 23, in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge building, Crocker Lane.
The Bohart folks will dispel scores of myths, including these:
- Brown recluse spiders are found in California
- Daddy long-leg spiders are very venomous, but their mouths are too small to bite us.
- We swallow/eat a significant amount of spiders/insects in our sleep.
The open house is free and open to the public, and family friendly.
Directed by Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology at UC Davis, the insect museum is also the home of the seventh largest insect collection in North America, and the California Insect Survey, a storehouse of the insect biodiversity.
Special attractions include a live "petting zoo," featuring Madagascar hissing cockroaches, walking sticks and tarantulas. Visitors are invited to hold the insects and photograph them. In addition, face painting will be among the family-oriented activities. Think bugs!
Visitors can also browse the gift shop, which includes T-shirts, sweatshirts, books, jewelry, posters, insect-collecting equipment and insect-themed candy. (Gifts can also be purchased online.)
The Bohart Museum's popular open houses are in addition to its regular weekday hours, from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. It is closed to the public on Fridays and on major holidays. Admission is free.
Here's a list of open houses through Saturday, July 18:
- Saturday, Dec. 20: "Insects and Art," 1 to 4 p.m.
- Sunday, Jan. 11: "Parasitoid Palooza," 1 to 4 p.m.
- Sunday, Feb. 8: "Biodiversity Museum Day," noon to 4 p.m.
- Saturday, March 14: "Pollination Nation," 1 to 4 p.m.
- Saturday, April 18: UC Davis Picnic Day, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Sunday, May 17: "Name That Bug! How About Bob?" 1 to 4 p.m.
- Saturday, July 18: "Moth Night," 8 to 11 p.m.
More information is available by contacting (530) 752-0493 or Tabatha Yang, education and public outreach coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com
Gulf Fritillary butterfly on Cosmos. One myth is that if you rub the scales off their wings (who would want to?), they can't fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Cellar spider wrapping a honey bee. How many myths do you know about spiders? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Male Wool Carder Bees: In-Your-Face Behavior
She described it to a "T."
That would be "T" for territorial.
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis, spotlighted the European wool carder bee in her current edition of the Bohart Museum Society newsletter.
The males are aggressive. Their territorial behavior is "in your face." They will chase away bees, butterflies and even small birds, like hummingbirds. "They will also check out humans, flying up to them and hovering," Kimsey says.
But it's not something we should be worried about. The wool carder bee is a pollinator.
"We tend to think of all exotic species of insects as being pests," Kimsey wrote. "By and large, that's true but there are exceptions. The wool carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, may be one of these exceptions."
She describes it as a species of European leafcutter bee "that has successfully colonized North America. However, North America isn't the only place these bees have invaded. They are now found in north Africa, South America, Asia, the Canary Islands and even in New Zealand. World domination is ahead."
The wool carder bee (so named because the female scrapes or cards leaf fuzz for her nest) was accidentally introduced into the U.S. from Europe in the early 1960s and was first discovered in New York State. It spread quickly across the continent. Scientists found it in Davis, Calif., in 2007.
They're about the size of a honey bee, Kimsey says "but they are brightly marked with yellow on a black background with a bright yellow face. Only honey bees in Disney movies are black and yellow. Males are considerably larger than females, and have a spine on either side of the last two abdominal segments and three spines on the last segment."
Those spines have been mistaken for stingers, but only females have stingers.
We've seen the males protect patches of lamb's ear, catmint, foxgloves, oregano, cosmos, African blue basil, and Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) in our yard. They mean bees-ness. We've seen honey bees working frantically, trying to forage as quickly as possible without getting targeted. We've also seen some of them crippled on the ground.
The female wool carder bees build their nests, Kimsey says, in rotting wood or preexisting tunnels, such as beetle burrows.
Kimsey mentioned that the Bohart Museum scientist Tom Zavortink experienced female carder bees "carding" wool from his socks!
The Bohart Museum Society newsletter is mailed to its members. The society is a campus and community support organization, and like the Bohart Museum, is dedicated to teaching, research and public service. For more information on the society, including how to join, see this page.
Male wool carder bee heads for the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wool carder bee zeroing in on catmint. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male wool carder bee attacking a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places (Hardback)
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A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. Let him be your guide and you'll firewalk across hot coals and sweat it out in Death Valley, experience intense fever and fire, learn about the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking, drink crude oil, and explore thermonuclear weapons and the hottest moment of all time-the big bang. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, forest fires, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand heat? Written in Streever's signature spare and refreshing prose, HEAT is an a compulsively readable personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience-how heat works, its history, and its complete connection to daily life.
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Not the intended government
July 2, 2013
As we celebrate the birth of our country this week, we should pause to consider how far it has come from the constitutional republic that it used to be. Today, if you're paying attention, you'll observe that our entire government has become dysfunctional and corrupted, and three strongmen are running the country and pushing the country in the directions they want to go.
The Congress is run by one man, Harry Reid, who controls his delegation with an iron hand, and who has forced ObamaCare and Immigration bills through Congress using pork and bribes. Senate Democrats vote in lockstep with Reid on every issue. On the House side, the Republican leadership has no similar voting bloc power, as it is constantly contested by Tea Party members.
The Supreme Court has transformed itself into a mini-legislature, who ignore the Constitution and vote in liberal/conservative blocks, 5-4, 4-5, 5-4, etc., as though they were elected representatives. Anthony Kennedy is the de facto Chief Justice, and he alone makes all the decisions as the so-called "swing vote", depending on how he alone feels about the issue, and regardless of the Constitution. The other justices are so predictable that they have no power.
Lastly, our president openly criticizes and ignores the Constitution. He ignores those laws he doesn't like, like DOMA, and makes up his own laws, called Executive Orders, many of which specifically flout the expressed will of Congress and the laws. There is almost no check on his power, as both Congress and the Supreme Court fail to restrain him.
In Rome, just before the Emperors took total control, the Empire was ruled by a triumvirate of three strong men. Today, history is repeating itself, with Reid, Kennedy and Obama. Anyone who reads the Declaration and the Constitution can see that this is not the government the framers designed.
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Features: The Kiyi (Coregonus kiyi kiyi) is one of the smaller deepwater ciscoes (total length 25 cm) from the Great Lakes basin. They share very similar physical characteristics with other cisco species, such as silvery sides with pink or purple iridescence, dark backs and white undersides. However, they are differentiated from other cisco species based on a unique combination of large eyes and long paired fins. They dwell in the deep waters of the Great Lakes at depths of 35-200m, but are usually found at depths of more than 100m.
Based on morphological differences and distinct, separate populations, the Kiyi was divided into two subspecies by COSEWIC in 2005. The Upper Great Lakes Kiyi (Coregonus kiyi kiyi) is distinguished from the Lake Ontario subspecies of Kiyi (Coregonus kiyi orientalis) by fewer gill-rakers, longer paired fins, and a longer head (Koelz, 1929). It was found in lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan, but was declared extirpated from Lake Huron in 1973 and Lake Michigan in 1974. The remaining population in Lake Superior appears to be stable, and supports a small, regulated fishery.
Status: Special Concern Provincially and Nationally
Range: The Kiyi was endemic to all of the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America except Lake Erie. In Ontario, Coregonus kiyi kiyi is now found only in Lake Superior.
Threats: The Upper Great Lakes Kiyi population likely declined due to intense commercial fishing. Other factors that may have contributed to this decline include competition from Rainbow Smelt, Osmerus mordax and Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, and from eutrophication of their habitat, which can result in shortage of oxygen in deep water.
Protection: The Kiyi and its habitat are protected under the federal Fisheries Act.
Text Sources: COSEWIC 2005; Todd 1997; Parker 1989; Scott and Crossman 1973
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Originally published Friday, January 3, 2014 at 11:28 AM
After near death, a winemaker finds new life
Out of Sara Gagnon's experience of surviving a small-plane wreck that killed the pilot, Harbinger Winery was born.
Special to The Seattle Times
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SARA GAGNON knew she was in trouble when the plane's windshield hit her in the face.
It was August 2004, just before wine-grape harvest was to begin, and Gagnon was riding in a Cessna 182 from her hometown of Port Angeles to Boeing Field on a cloudy, rainy night. In the plane was co-worker Tammi Hinkle, and in the pilot seat was friend Barry Koehler.
They barely made it 10 miles out of town when they came through a cloud bank and everything went wrong.
"We clipped the top of a ridge and went down into the trees at about 150 miles an hour," Gagnon remembers. "It was full speed. The plane disintegrated around us, and I was pretty sure that was it. I was unlucky enough to not lose consciousness, so I get to remember."
Koehler died in the crash, and Gagnon and Hinkle, both badly injured, were left stuck all night in a remote area of Olympic National Park, wondering if they would be found, because Koehler hadn't filed a flight plan.
"It was a pretty wild night. I was afraid to fall asleep because I didn't want to wake up dead."
They were found the next morning and hiked out of the forest.
Gagnon, who had returned to Port Angeles from Seattle four years earlier to follow her passion for winemaking, was the head winemaker at Olympic Cellars in nearby Sequim. She was having a blast in the job and also had discovered a love for kayaking that moved her to become a professional guide.
As she recovered from a fractured sternum, cracked pelvis, broken nose and concussion, Gagnon came to a hard-earned conclusion: Life is too short to not follow your dreams.
"That really shifted my perspective and made me realize that I wanted to go do my own thing. So I finished up harvest at Olympic Cellars and moved on."
Out of her near death was born Harbinger Winery.
In the decade since, Gagnon has built Harbinger into a 3,000-case winery. West of Port Angeles on Highway 101, it is the northwestern-most winery in the continental United States. She shares the winery building with Hinkle, with whom she co-owns Adventures Through Kayaking, putting both her passions under one roof.
As a result of the harrowing plane crash, Gagnon is stronger mentally and physically. Whether she's in the cellar making wine or working the tasting room, she takes on life in a gentle, Zen-like manner, living for the moment rather than for the paycheck.
Andy Perdue is a wine author, journalist and international judge. Learn more about wine at www.greatnorthwestwine.com.
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