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We naturally can't compete with Santa, everyone's favorite seasonal stalker, but we've just made a list of of our own for next month's Naughty & Nice Show, and all without any of the creepy watching people while they're asleep thing! We have five stories for our last show of the year at KGB on Wednesday, 5th December - featuring holiday visits with the in-laws, candy bars, workplace seductions, encounters with Mennonites, and Santa's little-known (and frankly terrifying) half-brother.
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SAINT EVEN'S DAY by Craig Calhoun
SWIMMING WITH SEALS by Melody Nixon
I'D ALWAYS BEEN A GOOD GIRL by Joan Taylor-Rowan
THE GUARD by Jeff Bender
BOXING DAY by Amanda Nowlin
Plus, a special holiday trivia contest and Naughty & Nice treats! Unless you're under the age of 18. We'll have our actors' details up on the site soon, but in the meantime, congratulations to our authors and thanks to everyone who submitted - check out our submissions page for a list of our upcoming deadlines.
And in other news...
- Our KGB Patron Denis Woychuk's new musical drama, Isaac Babel and the Gangster King - it's Fiddler on the Roof meets The Godfather - is on stage at The Kraine Theater until November 25th - tickets and more details over at the HorseTrade website
That's it for now! Look forward to seeing you on the 5th December at KGB - and have a very Happy Thanksgiving in the meantime!


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Happy Birthday Natural Bottle!
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Breastfeeding 101
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I hope someone can help me - I'm about to take the newcomer to the Humane Society and desperately do not want to but I'm at the end of my rope.
I have three cats all neutered, all indoor in a fairly large house. Six, sometimes 7 litter boxes are in the attached garage with access via pet door which they all use - no problem. Well, I adopted a new cat, a two year old neutered male. The problem is my other 3 simply will not accept him. They're all neutered, all from shelters or otherwise homeless. One, Dusty, a male is an Alpha cat++ about 5 yrs old. He and the other two - Natasha & Purrcilla all get along, sleep together, eat together, etc. Now comes Pumpkin whom I adopted from Craig's List. His picture was pathetic - he was scrawny, his coat was sparse and all the fur on his nose was gone and scabby, even a little bloody. I took him to the vet and had him checked out before I exposed him to my other (healthy) cats. It turned out he had a mosquito allergy which was treated - $450., and he's a fine healty (indoor) cat now. He and Dusty have had fights off and on - some serious. I expected that but not so intense. One was so serious that when I intervened, I noticed Dusty had some blood on his muzzle and his eye was watering - took him to the vet and he's on anti-biotics - another $150. Also Purrcilla is terrified of him and he does stalk her. She's afraid to go to the litter boxes because he'll chase her - so you know what happened - she peed on the living room carpet and of course, though I've used every cleaner, repellent, spray known to man, she is fixated on that spot. There's enzyeme cleaner and bubble wrap on it now. I really could just cry. He's very loving (to me) and I don't want to give him up but I want my happy, peaceful home back!
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I hope you find an answer to this problem. I just wanted to comment that I adopted a kitty named Pumkin thru Craigslist too. Isn't that funny? |
- Posted by pamghatten (My Page) on Tue, Dec 2, 08 at 12:50
Sorry for your troubles .. I'm not expert. But from your post it doesn't sound like you kept the new cat isolated at all to get used to a new home, and then slowly introduced him tot he new pack. Whenever I bring a new cat into the house, I put them in my spare bedroom for a day or 2 alone with the door closed. The other cats can then come up to the door and sniff underneath it. Then I put a screen door in place of the closed door, so the cats can all see and smell each other, and go nose-to-nose without being able to really touch each other. Sounds like you just let the new cat loose in an established cat family. Sorry, but I can see why you are having problems. The fact that they are fighting and one got hurt is really not good. Either you need to start the process all over again, as I mentioned above ... or find that poor new cat another new home. Read thru some of the posts on here, there are a lot of posts that talk about introducing a new cat into a family that already has pets. FYI .. I have 2 dogs and 5 cats in my home. |
- Posted by sanantoniorose (My Page) on Tue, Dec 2, 08 at 13:06
Yes, you're right Pamghatten, I should have known better. I don't have a screen door so I'm not sure how to try something else like that - but that would be ideal. I am trying to start over, so to speak. Another odd thing is, it seemed better in the beginning - occassionally, Dusty and he would sleep nearby each other (a few feet away) with no incident. Then suddenly one would attack the other and the other two would run and hide. I feel stupid not introducing them more slowly - Not sure if I can undo the "emotional" damage. To Shaun - that is a coincidence - I hope the former owner for your kitty was more honest than mine about his agressiveness towards other cats. She told me he was outside because he didn't get along with her older cat and that she was desperate to find a new home because of his mosquito allergy (which was true) and because her BF's dog was bullying him and he was scared of the dog. I still want to cry. |
- Posted by anne_marie_alb (My Page) on Tue, Dec 2, 08 at 13:16
First I want to praise you for doing soooo much for Pumpkin!! You are to be commended! and second... I am in the same situation.. after 8 LONG months. The 2 shelter cats live upstairs (litter boxes, toys, food, etc). We are keeping the resident (just over 12 year old Calico) downstairs.. However, it is our old cat who is the aggressor. So the situation is different. Things have slightly improved, as our Calico seldom now goes up to pick a fight. Fights were never to the point of needing vet's care.. though, however scary they sounded! Is there any chance you could allow Pumpkin a little more room upstairs? I think Pumpkin may still remember he was a full male just a few months ago....depending on when he was neutered. Have you tried to place a litter box just for Purcilla in a 'safe' corner , with no associations with Pumpkin? If she does not overcome her fear, then you may have to try to find a home for Pumpkin, before the shelter. By the way, have you tried Feliway (plug-in or spray)? Rescue Remedy (to calm her down)? Some people report good results! Have tried both. Not conclusive. |
- Posted by anne_marie_alb (My Page) on Tue, Dec 2, 08 at 13:33
Did not get a chance to read previous 2 messages before sending mine (was in the process of responding). Just want to add that we did a very slow introduction approach, and it did not work. Maybe because of the age difference.. New cats were just too active for our quiet lady! Or just that females have a harder time? Again, good luck, Anne-Marie |
- Posted by iloveexercise (My Page) on Tue, Dec 2, 08 at 13:35
Hi,I'am in your situation as well.Well,kind of.One of my cats has excepted the Newbie and one hasnt. The one that hasnt though,quitely frankly hates all other cats with a passion,so I'm not sure he will ever accept him.It's werid because he is good with other animals,even dogs.He just HATES cats. Anyways,the kitten attacks him and jumps on his back and there will be a ton of growling and hissing.The kitten just will not leave my seinor alone.I've gotten so I've started scolding him for it,and my seinor runs to me like I'm saving his life,LOL. It has been two to three months here,and the only thing that really helps is keeping the kitten preoccupied.If he is playing with something,it seems like he'll back off.But as soon as he gets bored,it's stalk my seinor cat time. I have also heard of the Feliway (plug-in or spray) and am thinking of trying it. |
As a foster mommie to kitties and cats, this is very frustrating. Some just will not want to adjust and others are very happy to the new friend. I can take a very long period of time. I had one baby that I could finally pet after 8 months, it's just amazing. First, basically room off the new baby. They can sniff under the door and hear each other without the fight. I do this for 2 weeks-as long as a month. I've used baby gates in the door ways, looks goofy using three of them to keep them confined, but it works. I had one cat that could leap over 3 of them and think nothing of it. Never leave them alone unattended if you are out of the home at any time (or bed time). I've gone as far as to give little room time or play time for acouple of hours during the day. It's hard and you think your being mean. But your not, it just takes time to make freinds. Think of it this way, would you like it if someone thrust you into a room of unknown claws and teeth!? Do the entire process very slowy, your baby may come around, it just takes time. |
- Posted by sanantoniorose (My Page) on Tue, Dec 2, 08 at 23:27
Thanks for the encouragement - it DOES help to not feel alone with this problem. Pumpkin was only put in the upstairs bathroom yesterday when I decided I just couldn't risk any more injuries. It's a big bathroom though, with his bed, food & water in the double vanity area and his litter box in the potty/tub area. I tried to screen off the doorway but I only had a very large window screen which he immediately jumped over, so that didn't work. I've gone in to love him and he starts purring. It's so sad. The Humane Society here only makes appointments as space is available and you can only call Monday, Wed or Friday between 8:30 and 10:30. I'll admit, I don't want them to answer but I feel I have to make the call. Regarding age, Dusty is only 5 or 5 1/2 years old, Natasha about 4 and Purrcilla is 3 years old, so they're all youngish. I still have high hopes - I know this palls in comparison to "people problems" of which this past year has held many for me and my family but I still ask for those of you who love animals, especially homeless cats and believe in prayer to add a little footnote to your prayers for us. Thanks. |
- Posted by runsnwalken (My Page) on Wed, Dec 3, 08 at 9:08
Cats never really are pack animals like dogs so its really a hit and miss if you get them to get along. Its been 4 months sense we've interduced Bindi to Monty and Monty is still being fought, he has an abcess he is healing from. |
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Illinois Rep. William Davis, D-East Hazel Crest, argues Illinois state budget legislation while on the House floor during session at the Illinois State Capitol Friday, May 31, 2013, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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State legislators in the Southland called Gov. Pat Quinn's threat to suspend their salaries a publicity gimmick Wednesday and said it was unlikely to hasten the pace of pension reform.
"What word would I use to describe my reaction?" state Rep. Will Davis (D-Hazel Crest) said, pausing for several seconds to ponder the question. "Disappointed."
"We have a chance here, a process to come up with a pension bill, called the Conference Committee," Davis said, referring to a combined committee composed of Illinois Senate and House members working on a pension reform bill in Springfield.
"He (Quinn) was invited to appear before that committee and chose not to participate in that process," Davis said.
The committee was created after Quinn called for its formation.
"Apparently, he doesn't even see value in his own process," Davis said.
Davis, a full-time legislator who, unlike many representatives, has no other job, said he would be financially hurt if he doesn't get his paycheck.
When I told him I had received some emails and phone calls from people who think lawmakers should get hurt in the pocketbook, Davis said, "They don't understand what we do.
"While we may not have passed a pension reform bill, we did pass a concealed-carry bill. We have passed a lot of other legislation.
"I am in my district office performing constituent services.
"People who say we don't deserve to be paid have probably never had a loved one who had trouble getting Medicaid, or seeking a transfer from one state-run facility to another one.
"We work with our mayors and other local government entities all the time, helping them get state services.
"How would people feel if I said I wasn't getting paid so I wouldn't perform all of those services? That wouldn't be right. And it is not right to withhold our salaries because of the pension issue."
State Rep. Al Riley (D-Olympia Fields) said the Legislature has been working hard to pass a pension bill, contrary to the governor's comments, and that the Conference Committee is close to agreeing on a compromise.
"At this point, they're trying to work out the actuarial tables on what the financial impact of these proposals might be," said Riley, an assistant majority leader in the House.
"This is a mathematical problem at this point and you can't move that forward by threatening to withhold anyone's paycheck.
"People, like myself, who are thoughtful and prudent, are not going to alter the course of the process because the governor wants something now.
"The governor is not in the Legislature and this is a legislative process. We will do our jobs and he should do his, as the executive.
"It's not like we didn't have a proposal to reform the pension system. We have two bills and the purpose of the Conference Committee is to come up with a compromise that can pass both houses of the Legislature.
"The governor saying he wants something now isn't going to move that process along any faster.
"This is a statistics problem at this point and people need to take the time to do it right."
State Sen. Bill Cunningham (D-Chicago), whose district includes suburbs from Oak Lawn to Orland Park, said his wife telephoned after hearing about Quinn's announcement.
"She basically questioned my sanity for staying in the General Assembly," said Cunningham, a full-time legislator.
"This is not a joking matter. My wife works as a teachers aide in the Chicago Public Schools and makes about $14 an hour," he said. "I need to pay the mortgage. I have a daughter at Mother McAuley and a tuition payment coming due. So, yes, it would have an impact on me financially."
Cunningham, who noted he had voted to support the governor's amendatory veto on concealed-carry legislation and supported him on several other issues, said those votes "didn't make me very popular with my colleagues."
He called the governor's threat to withhold pay "an election gimmick."
"This will be politically popular with the public and I think the governor is looking ahead to the next election," Cunningham said. "Listen, September is when you begin collecting petitions to run for office and we all have that date marked on our calendars.
"I understand the governor's frustration on the pension issue. All of us are frustrated. But I have voted for every pension reform bill that has come through and don't feel his statements are a fair reflection of the work that we have done."
State Sen. Toi Hutchinson (D-Olympia Fields) was more emphatic.
"I don't think the governor has been politically helpful at all, either on the pension issue or the concealed-carry issue," Hutchinson said.
"We passed bills in both houses of the Legislature (on pension reform). The Speaker (Michael Madigan) refused to call our bill in the House, or I believe it would have passed.
"What the public doesn't understand is that there are a lot of moving parts to these bills. It is not as simple as some editorial writers make it sound.
"There's a state constitutional bar this bill has to pass and a federal bar, that could result in Social Security payments having to be made if it is not done right.
"We're talking about people's lives here, and although we have to pass pension reform, we have to be aware of the impact on people."
Hutchinson said she is not a lawyer, nor independently wealthy, and a salary cut would have serious consequences for her family.
State Rep. Robert Rita (D-Blue Island) was one of the few to offer support for the governor, issuing a statement that read in part, "We need a solution as soon as possible, even if it takes the governor cutting our salaries to get us there, We've got to get the job done."
State Rep. Renee Kosel (R-New Lenox) also expressed the hope that the governor's threat would move the process forward.
State Sen. Napoleon Harris (D-Flossmoor) noted that as a former football player, he sometimes had bad games, "but I still got paid," he said.
"I think you need to promote dialogue in a situation like this and all this will do is promote hostilities," Harris said.


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Presiding judge of Seattle Municipal Court targeted for defeat
Judicial races often go unnoticed, but a contest for Seattle Municipal Court has erupted into controversy.
Seattle Times staff reporter
Ed McKenna
Age: 52
Occupation: Prosecutor in Seattle City Attorney's office, 1990-present; hearing examiner, Washington State Board of Tax Appeals, 1995-2001; associate, Holland & Scales, 1989-1990
Education: University of Puget Sound School of Law, 1986; University of Washington, Bachelor of Arts in psychology, 1983
Endorsement/ratings: King County Bar Association rating of "exceptionally well qualified"; Washington Women Lawyers rating of "exceptionally well qualified"; endorsed, Seattle Police Officers' Guild
Bio: Since 2003, McKenna has worked as a "community-based prosecutor" in North Seattle, working with community groups and trying to resolve problems before people get arrested. He led an effort to shut down problem motels on Aurora Avenue North and says he helped change the way auto thieves are prosecuted.
Edsonya Charles
Age: 48
Occupation: Seattle Municipal Court judge, 2005-present (presiding judge, 2008-present); senior adviser to Mayor Greg Nickels, 2002-2005; special assistant U.S. attorney, 1997-2002
Education: University of Washington School of Law, 1995; Vanderbilt University, Bachelor of Arts in communications, 1985
Endorsements: Former U.S. Attorney Kate Pflaumer, Washington State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madsen, Washington State Court of Appeals Judge C. Kenneth Grosse
Bio: Charles says she is proud of her work in Seattle Mental Health Court, working with attorneys and probation counselors to get treatment for mentally ill defendants. In the U.S. Attorney's Office, she said, most of her work involved white-collar crime. She says she once helped end a Social Security scam that targeted Cambodian refugees. Charles moved to Seattle from Tennessee in 1990 and took a job as executive director of the Seattle Human Services Coalition.
Judicial races often go unnoticed, but a contest for Seattle Municipal Court has erupted into controversy as six City Council members, the city attorney and a group of DUI lawyers all are seeking to oust the presiding judge.
Presiding Judge Edsonya Charles came from City Hall, where she was a top adviser to former Mayor Greg Nickels before he appointed her to the court in 2004. But now her relationships with other officials are so strained that many of them have endorsed her opponent, longtime city prosecutor Ed McKenna, in the Nov. 2 election.
Municipal Court judges, who handle drunken-driving cases, assault charges, drug offenses and other minor crimes, don't often face challengers. After being appointed in 2004, Charles ran unopposed in 2006.
Judicial campaigns don't draw many donations, but a political-action committee of DUI defense attorneys has contributed $1,600 to McKenna's campaign and is prepared to spend thousands more to defeat Charles.
Stephen Hayne, vice president of Citizens for Judicial Excellence, wrote in a recent letter to The Stranger that Charles is "consistently and unnecessarily confrontational, unpleasant, and unwilling to listen — to virtually everyone in her courtroom."
Charles' supporters say the attorneys are trying to intimidate judges into ruling their way. They question whether McKenna would be able to make fair judgments in the courtroom after getting so much support from attorneys who would appear before him.
The DUI attorneys are engaged in "character assassination," said attorney James Tupper, who sits on Charles' campaign committee.
Tupper has filed a complaint with the state Public Disclosure Commission alleging that the PAC's involvement is illegal, and he and 15 other local lawyers condemned the effort at a news conference Tuesday. They called on McKenna to return their donations.
None of those who signed the letter practice in Municipal Court, according to Tupper.
Charles' opponents in City Hall say they are fed up with what they see as an uncooperative approach.
When City Council members seeking budget cuts ordered an audit to see how many judges the court needs, judges refused to cooperate.
Charles said only the state Supreme Court can study judicial workload. She later asked the state Supreme Court to do such a study, and she said that it confirmed the municipal court had the right number of judicial officers.
When the City Council decided to cut a judge, Charles fought it and used city money to hire a private law firm to represent the court.
"Our original proposal was to eliminate two judges, and I think our analysis would have justified that," said City Councilmember Tim Burgess, who chairs the council's public-safety committee and has endorsed McKenna. "It was not helpful to be told that we were ... going to be sued or that we were acting outside of our authority."
The council ultimately cut a retiring judge's position without removing any of the three state-mandated judicial departments. Charles said she didn't oppose eliminating a judge, but their approach to cutting a Municipal Court department and a retiring judge violated state law.
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City Attorney Pete Holmes said that after he supported the council's move, Charles cut back on meetings with his office to schedule cases. His attorneys, he said, were "verbally abused" in open session by Municipal Court judges. He offered Charles a staff lawyer, but she insisted on hiring someone from Perkins Coie, he said.
So when Holmes got a call from McKenna asking which judge he should challenge, Holmes said he told McKenna to run against Charles.
Charles says criticisms of her from City Hall are politically motivated and unfair. She is willing to make cuts to her budget, she said — she just cooperated with Mayor Mike McGinn to propose an 8.5 percent cut in 2011 — but she has to be able to protect the mandated duties of the court.
Charles said the DUI attorneys who oppose her think she is too hard on their clients.
PAC Secretary Patricia Fulton dismisses that.
"She treats DUI cases no differently than any of the other judges," Fulton said. "... We are not looking for judges who will be soft on DUIs."
Charles called the PAC's involvement in the race "a threat to the justice system."
"It's an organizational and systemic effort really to control the system in a way that I think is inappropriate," she said, adding that she is a fair judge, and not "beholden to special interests."
McKenna said that as a "tough but fair" prosecutor in the City Attorney's Office, he has been the opponent of DUI attorneys and spent 20 years making their lives "miserable." And he has rarely appeared in Charles' courtroom, so he didn't have a personal beef with her.
"She had a reputation, at least among prosecutors, and I had heard that she wasn't particularly well-liked by the City Council," McKenna said.
Tupper's complaint to the state says McKenna talked with a consultant for the PAC and that the PAC promised him money if he ran against Charles.
"It is a bright line ... We don't want our judges beholden to anyone in terms of how they conduct their jobs," he said. "Frankly, it's disgusting. It's disgusting that Ed McKenna crossed that line before he ever filed against Judge Charles in this race."
Both Fulton and McKenna say the allegations are false.
Citizens for Judicial Excellence has raised more than $200,000. The PAC has endorsed five candidates. PAC leader Fulton wouldn't say how much money the group intends to spend on McKenna's race.
Asked specifically what PAC members dislike about Charles, Fulton cited a King County Bar Association survey that ranked Charles lowest among district and municipal court judges in King County.
The 56 attorneys who responded to the survey rated Charles low on courtroom demeanor and understanding of the law. They gave her low marks on maintaining control of the courtroom and being attentive and prepared, among other things.
Charles dismisses the survey as an "Internet poll" with low turnout. She said the DUI attorneys who politically oppose her influenced the timing of the poll so they would have an advantage in responding to it.
The attorneys "made up a story about me," she said, "and then viewed me through a lens to make it true."
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Makes a scant quart
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45 minutes
This sweet corn ice cream came from the latter impulse. The original dessert, sampled in a small Mexican restaurant, sounded unusual and intriguing, but turned out to be riddled with distracting icy bits of corn kernels. Still, I love the corn, and was taken with the idea of doing my own, perfectly smooth and silky corn ice cream.
This is the result. It is creamy-textured and luscious, with a subtle corn taste. Since the flavor of the ice cream is wholly dependent on the sweetness of the corn, make this ice cream with the freshest corn you can find.
- 4 ears fresh corn, shucked
- 2 cups milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 9 large egg yolks
1. Using a large knife, slice the kernels off the corn cobs and place in a large saucepan. Break the cobs into thirds and add them to the pot along with the milk, cream, and 1/2 cup of the sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring, then turn off the heat. Using an immersion mixer or a blender, puree the corn kernels (not the cobs). Infuse for 1 hour.
2. Bring the mixture back to a simmer, then turn off the heat. In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolks and remaining 1/4 cup of sugar. Add a cup of the hot cream to the yolks, stirring constantly so they don't curdle. Add the yolk mixture to the saucepan, stirring. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the custard thickens enough to coat the spoon, about 10 minutes.
3. Pass the custard through a fine sieve, pressing down hard on the solids, discard solids. Let the custard cool, then cover and chill for at least 4 hours. Freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's directions.
my notes
- Calories584
- Carbohydrates50 g (17%)
- Fat40 g (62%)
- Protein11 g (23%)
- Saturated Fat23 g (113%)
- Sodium92 mg (4%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber2 g (8%)
- Monounsaturated Fat13 g
- Cholesterol393 mg (131%)
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type: Frozen Dessert
main ingredients: Corn, Egg, Milk/Cream
cuisine: Mexican
dietary considerations: Vegetarian


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I'm not sure Billy Joel knew just how true his songwriting would ring years later, but his '77 hit "Only the Good Die Young" seems to play over and over in my head when tragedy strikes.
I've been around young death ever since I can remember, and I'll never stop being completely shocked and saddened when it happens. So when I first heard about my high school friend Dana (Fogarty) Mitchell being diagnosed with Stage III Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Tongue in April of last year, I just couldn't believe it. How could someone so young, so nice, be deserving of such a thing?
Dana and I lost touch after high school but reconnected while going through mutual health scares. She knew she had oral cancer and underwent aggressive treatment including chemotherapy, radiation and a total glossectomy (tongue removal) over the course of last year. I was in awe of how brave she was and we chatted about our conditions for a short time. Below is one of the encouraging messages she sent me…
After a long fight, Dana passed away September 7, 2013. Her strength, determination, prayers and thoughtful words will stay with me as long as I live. Dana didn't let her illness stop her from being happy. She married this summer, and I always saw pictures of her with a smile on her face. And that's Dana. I wish we wouldn't have lost touch after high school. Her kindness and strength will forever be etched in my memory as a reminder of how I should live my life. Her quote in the high school yearbook (above) really says a lot about who she was…wise beyond her years.


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Çalkışla Location: Erzincan Operator: IC-EN Elektrik Uretim ve Tic AS Configuration: 1 X 5.94 MW, 1 X 1.88 MW spiral Operation: 2008 T/G supplier: Kossler EPC: Ismail Celik Photograph courtesy of Ismail Çelik |
Çaygören Location: Balikesir Operator: Su Enerji A.Ş. Configuration: 1 X 2.8 MW, 1 X 1.8 MW Operation: 2006 T/G supplier: VA TECH EPC: Dynelec-Sas Quick facts: Enda Energy holds a 90% share in this IPP project and the other shareholder is Gönen HPP Electricity Generation Plc with 10%. The plant is near Sindirgi and went commercial in Jun 2006. Annual production is about 21 GWh. Photograph courtesy of Enda Enerji Holding AŞ |
Gönen Location: Bursa Operator: Enda Enerji Holding AŞ Configuration: 2 X 5.5 MW Francis Operation: 1998 T/G supplier: Kossler EPC: Limak Quick facts: This is a 70m earthfill and rockfill dam. Construction on the multipurpose project started in 1986. The plant has a BOT contract with EUAS guaranteed by the Turkish Treasury. Photograph courtesy of Enda Enerji Holding AŞ |
Kilickaya Location: Sivas Operator: Elektrik Uretim AS Configuration: 2 x 62.5 MW Francis Operation: 1990 T/G supplier: Resita EPC: Romenergo, Su Yapi, Biltek Quick facts: The Kilickaya Dam and HES was orginally built for DSI. The construction contract was signed in Oct 1980 and the project completed in May 1990. It cost $237mn. The main dam is 135m tall and has a crest length of 405m. Photograph courtesy of Biltek |
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Most kids get between 50% and 80% of their lifetime sun exposure before age 18, so it's important that parents teach their kids how to soak up sunshine safely. The American Academy of Pediatrics says on both sunny and cloudy days, for kids older than 6 months, use a sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or greater that protects against UVB and UVA rays.
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Corsair has been able to produce the most impressive DDR-2 module to come into our labs in terms of raw performance attainable. OCZ FlexXLC memory did have the bling factor of running water cooling to keep the RAM operating icy cool as well as aid in extended life. Although, if you don't have some RAM cooling setup, you are forced to run passive cooling, which will obviously mean the modules are probably operating hotter than desirable. Corsair has done something about this and rather than going with water cooling like OCZ, Dominator PC2-10000 gives you a nifty cooling system to keep the modules nice and cool when pushing things to the limit.
One thing that doesn't sit well with us is the extreme price of Corsair's latest memory. These are some of the most expensive memory modules available on the market and easily the most expensive DDR-2 modules that we have ever tested. At least in Australia, the OCZ FlexXLC modules come in at around $125 AUD (or about $97 USD) cheaper than that of the latest Dominator modules sitting at the very top of the price range. They are clearly not for the average Joe consumer, that doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out.
Even though an extra $100 bucks or thereabouts may sound like a lot, when you are already willing to spend over $650 USD on a 2GB DDR-2 memory kit (such as the OCZ FlexXLC), the extra money spent probably isn't going to hurt you all that much, to be honest. At the end of the day, there is not a huge difference in overall performance between the fastest memory from OCZ and Corsair but for enthusiasts, every last little drop of it counts.
Although, for the speed and great features on offer, it's up to you to decide if this is the memory you're after if you are super serious enough about your overclocking or 3DMark world record breaking hobby. If that's what you're into, Corsair's XMS2 Dominator PC2-10000 memory is the very best money can buy, at least for now.
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MoD kills 288 dogs in three years
The Sun calls for action on retired military dogs
The Sun today calls on the MoD to review its policy towards retired military dogs after 288 were destroyed in just three years.
The figure emerged after we told how Belgian Shepherd Brus and a German Shepherd named Blade, used to protect Prince William at his Welsh base, were "euthanised" just days after he left.
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Album review
Roots - Phrenology
Any new Roots album comes with a three-part guarantee: sublime, R&B-guested crossover ("Break You Off" with Musiq, "Complexity" featuring Jill Scott), muso indulgence (the hideous epilogue muddying the otherwise sparkling "Water") and, crucially, a willingness to push the envelope of their organic jazz-rap that leaves the competition standing. The latter is best exhibited on the riffy "The Seed 2.0" and stripped-bare squiggles of "Rolling With Heat", less successfully on the electroclash-influenced "Something In The Way Of Things". Thankfully, though, Phrenology is more therapy than quack science.
Rating: 3 / 10


text: It arrived in a white nondescript cardboard box, with just a flash of color, and one word on the lid: Google. Inside was a Chromebook. Chromebooks are dull. Chrome OS is quaint. They're like generic granola bars, they get the job done, but they're no Clif Bar. Right? Google's product team didn't set-out to build a Chromebook, their mission was to design the most covetous and capable machine they could. And there's no denying that it's a looker. But is it enough to draw users away from their Retina MacBooks and Ultrabooks? Or is it just a browser in a nice suit?


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Posts Tagged: Apis mellifera
Just one word--stems.
Bees forage on the lavender in our bee yard, but sometimes you'll see them on the stems.
Male longhorned bees, Melissodes agilis, sleep together on the stems and it's fascinating to watch them stir in the early morning, wiggle around, and then buzz off--usually to dive-bomb any critter that's foraging on "their" flowers that they're saving for the females of their species.
But every once in a while, an early riser, a honey bee, will pause on a lavender stem to soak in the warmth of the sun. Got to get those flight muscles warmed up! Busy day ahead for Apis mellifera.
A longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis, awakens on a lavender stem. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee warming herself on a lavender stem. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Digging the Flowering Artichokes
What's better than a bee threading through a flowering artichoke? Two bees, a honey bee and a long-horned sunflower bee.
Flowering 'chokes are big draws for bees. Plant 'em, let 'em flower, and they will come. Sometimes in droves. Sometimes in diversity. Always amazing.
A male sunflower bee, Svastra obliqua expurgata, aka the long-horned sunflower bee, stopped foraging to look at us with his big green eyes.
An Italian honey bee, Apis mellifera, buzzing low and packing white pollen, ignored us.
From their missions they did not stray.
Honey bee packing white pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male long-horned sunflower bee, Svastra obliqua expurgata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Kissin' Cousins
What's that? A honey bee and a male yellowjacket on the same blossom?
That's exactly what we saw Nov. 14 at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, located next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis.
Honey bees and yellowjackets belong to the same order, Hymenoptera, but different families. The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is in the Apidae family, while the yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica, belongs to the family, Vespidae.
When beekeepers open the hives at the adjacent Laidlaw facility, trouble can start between the honey bees and the yellowjackets. It's no secret that female yellowjackets establish their nests near apiaries to prey upon honey bees and their brood. They need the protein for their offspring.
But here they were--the honey bee and the yellowjacket--together.
The first occupant: the honey bee. She began foraging on a rose blossom when suddenly a male western yellowjacket approached her. Seemingly unaware of his presence, she kept foraging. He poked her with his antennae. She ignored him. He crawled up next to her and took a close look at her. She kept foraging.
A few seconds later, he left.
Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, later commented: "I can't help but wonder why the male yellowjacket was visiting a rose flower--no nectar there, so no reward for him."
"Maybe he was just checking out the other occupant 'while searching for love in all the wrong places.' "
Indeed, the male yellowjacket may have been looking for a suitable mate.
This one? Definitely not suitable!
Male yellowjacket heads toward a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Male yellowjacket checks out the honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee continues to forage, while the male yellowjacket crawls away. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sharing a Sunflower
You often see a single solitary bee on a sunflower.
Perhaps it's a sunflower bee (Svastra) or a honey bee (Apis mellifera).
But four on one? Sharing a sunflower?
If you look closely at the photo below, you'll see Svasta, Apis and a sweat bee, Halictus ligatus on the sunflower head, plus another sweat bee, Halictus triparitus, "coming in for a landing," says native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis.
If you're curious about the sunflower bee, "Our Svastra obliqua expurgata is a native bee and exhibits a preference for sunflowers which are also native and other relatives of sunflower," Thorp said. "The genus Svastra has over 20, all occurring in North and South America. All are ground nesting solitary bees. Some other species of Svastra exhibit preferences for pollen from evening-primrose or cactus.'
We captured this image at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis.
The garden is open from dawn to dusk, with free admission. You can do self-guided tours. Soon, probably next spring, the UC Davis Department of Entomology will offer guided tours.
Bee friendly garden? Indeed. In fact, Thorp has found 75 different species of bees--and counting--since he began monitoring the plot in October 2009, a year before it was planted.
If you wander through the garden, be sure to bring your camera, especially if you love insects and flowers.
You may find five species of bees sharing a sunflower!
This photo shows a honey bee (bottom left), a sunflower bee, Svastra, (center) and a sweat bee, Halictus ligatus, with another sweat bee, Halictus tripartus, coming in for a landing. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Monarch and the Bee
The mighty Monarch butterfly and the industrious honey bee.
How rare we see them together on the same flower.
But that was the case last Friday at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden planted next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis.
The butterfly touched down on a brilliant orange Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) and began nectaring. A honey bee crawled up the petals. So there they were, sharing nectar. They saw one another. They acknowledged one another. And they ignored one another.
Finally, the bee buzzed off to forage on her very own Mexican sunflower.
It was a butterfly-bee moment. Or more technically, a Danaus plexippus/Apis mellifera moment.
Two may be company, but sometimes it's best to get your own flower.
Monarch butterfly watches as a honey bee crawls up a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bottoms up! A honey bee makes herself at home. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two's company--a Monarch butterfly and a honey bee share nectar from the same flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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When I arrived in New York City fresh out of graduate school in 1977, the city's food scene couldn't have been more different than it is today. Even calling it a scene would have been absurd: the farmers-market movement had barely begun, few liquor stores sold anything like an international selection of wines, and only a handful of restaurants had names widely recognizable to the general public—and those were mainly French. Indeed, during the late 1970s, fine dining at such places as Lutece and La Grenouille was generally acknowledged to be the exclusive province of businessmen with expense accounts and the idle rich. There would be no published Zagat guide for six more years, and the only chef whose name my friends and I recognized was Chef Boyardee.
Most of the verbiage devoted to food in local newspapers concerned easy-to-make recipes, human interest stories, food travel writing, kitchen advice to housewives, and the occasional piece that sought to get you interested in wine. Every Friday, there would be a restaurant review in The New York Times. The Times restaurant critic was Craig Claiborne, who did the job intermittently during a tenure of nearly three decades. He was also the food editor, the recipe developer, and the author—along with longtime collaborator Pierre Franey—of cookbooks that bore the Times imprint. Claiborne was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, where he grew up in a boardinghouse run by his mother. Upon moving to New York after two stints in the Navy and a cooking-school education in Switzerland, he began his career inauspiciously as a receptionist at Gourmet magazine. In 1957, he became the food editor at the Times, thought to be the first male to hold that position, in a section that was officially known as "Food Fashions Family Furnishings" but colloquially referred to as the Women's Section. In that capacity, he's generally credited with being the inventor of the modern restaurant review.
Prior to Claiborne's tenure at the Times, reviews in newspapers and elsewhere had often been looked upon suspiciously by the dining public, seen more as a reflection of a publication's advertising aspirations than a straightforward analysis of a restaurant's virtues. Published regularly from 1935 through the mid-1950s, the Duncan Hines guides, known as Adventures in Good Eating, had been something of a national standard. They were at least partly the work of Hines, a traveling salesman of printing paper and ink, who undertook to tell other travelers where to eat, using prose that verged on puffery. Of the Oregon Caves Chateau in Oregon Caves, Oregon, the guide reads, in its 1944 edition, "Without the hospitality of the Sabins, this place would still be nice indeed. When you add their personalities, it makes it 'tops.' The Chateau is lovely, and unusual." This is the totality of the review, and quite typical. One can only imagine how the hosts had fawned over the reviewer.
Hines's guide incorporated recommendations from other travelers, so that you had no idea who wrote each individual entry. Other contemporary dining guides were also many-hands productions. Early in the 1970s, Forbes Magazine's Restaurant Guide established itself as a major reference for New York diners. Though it was carefully superintended by Malcolm Forbes himself, the actual writing was the work of the magazine's staff, and displayed no consistency of perspective. One of its stranger features is an almost dyspeptic distaste for dining. In the introduction, Forbes describes his experience of compiling the volume as "more ulcerous than enjoyable."
Enter Claiborne, who, approaching the task with evident enthusiasm, established an ethical and procedural framework for restaurant reviewing: reviews would be done by a single individual. The reviewer would set his own name to the work. He'd visit a restaurant at least three times, and each visit would involve a table of at least three or four diners, with an eye to covering the menu as completely as possible, eating some dishes more than once to test for consistency. The publication would pay for the meals, and no free meals would be accepted. Most important, perhaps, was the stricture that the restaurant critic remain anonymous. Thus, the reservation would be made under a false name, and the critic and his party would do nothing to call attention to the fact that a review was in progress.


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I was very upset to read that bee colonies have very real problems with disease. Apart from killing the bees outright by mismanagement, bees suffer from a variety of health problems. In fact, almost 40% of all bee colonies die during the year. Many of them die over the winter, but disease, mismanagement and pests can threaten a beehive all year round.
Here are the things to watch for.
Probably the one problem that is bothering all beekeepers is Varroa mites. These mites attach themselves to bees, larva and pupa and weaken them. It is not an issue of whether or not you have these pests, but if they are enough to threaten the colony. Just about all hives have Varroa mite.
From the University of Kentucky Entomology web page:
Early detection of low levels of mite infestations is key to its successful management. While they can be spotted during colony inspection if present in high numbers, this tends to only identify larger infestations. There is a product available, Apistan, that will kill the mites and cause the mites to drop from the bees. Two strips should be hung in the brood nest area of the colony for approximately 4 weeks. This is to be used with sticky paper and a fine-mesh screen on the bottom board of a colony to capture any mites that may have been present. A considerable amount of cell cappings and other debris will also collect on the sticky paper, so it is best to inspect the sticky paper carefully for mites after removal. This method is able to detect low level infestations. Apistan strips are available from most of the large beekeeping suppliers and can be used both for detection and treatment of varroa infestations.
If a colony is found to be infested, all colonies at the site should be treated for mites with Apistan strips in the same manner. These strips contain the miticide fluvalinate and are not to be used during honey flow, or when there is surplus honey present in the colony that may be removed for human consumption at a later date. Therefore, late fall, after removal of surplus honey, or early spring, prior to honey flow, are the best times to treat for varroa mites.
Tracheal mites get into the throat of bees and choke them to death. This pretty much killed every bee in England, and it took a while before the British beekeepers could recover. The mite entered the U.S. in 1984 and is still spreading. Brother Adam at the Buckfast Abbey create a hybrid called the Buckfast Bee that is resistant to these deadly mites.
The mites are hard to detect without a microscope, but is treatable with a special grease patty made of vegetable oil and sugar. Sometimes menthol is added to the patty and it disrupts the mites.
Nosema is bee parasite that causes dysentery. It affects stressed bees, I am told, so it is important to treat bees that have been shipped to you as Bee Packages. It sometimes affects bees that are feeding on sugar water instead of honey.
The treatment is a shot of Fumigilin-B when you get the bees and once more in the fall to help the bees make it through the winter. A bottle with enough medicine to make 6 gallons is about $25.
The small hive beetle is a pest that gets into the hive and grows in the comb, killing the young brrod and eating the honey. They will drive the bees out of the hive in search of clean living quarters.
The treatment is to put barriers around the hive to prevent it from entering. Pesticides can be used in a device that lets the small beetles get at the poison, but does not let in the bees.
Wax moths don't attack the bees, but eat the honeycombs. They like wax. This disrupts the honey and kills larva and pupa. The bees themselves usually kill the moths, but a sick colony may not be able to. Lots of wax moths is an indication that there is something wrong with the hive.
There are lots of treatments for Wax moths. Since they usually attack in the winter on parts of the comb where there are no bees, one thing is to remove the infected frame and let it freeze, exposed to the weather for 24 hours. The moths live in the warn hive, but die if frozen.
American foulbrood (AFB)
AFB is a nasty disease caused by a bacteria. It is one of the most common colony killers. The bacteria is present in most hives, but it usually only affects a weakened colony. Beekepers can smell the disease and there is a test you can do with a toothpick on dead larva – they have a ropey appearance.
There are some antibiotics that beekeepers can use as a prophylactic such as oxytetracyclene, but it is not recommended that the colony be treated until the beekeeper is sure that the hive is infected.
The treatment is to burn the hive and frames. The disease is known to stay in an unused hive for 40 years.
European foulbrood (EFB)
EFB is less deadly than AFB and is associated with a stressed hive. The hive usually recovers. Antibiotics can be used on a sick hive, but the antibiotics get into the honey so it can't be used.
Chalkbrood is fungal disease that cause the brood to starve. The larva die and appear chalky white. It is a problem where humidity is high and the cure is to ventilate the hive.
Stonebrood is another fungal disease. It causes mummification of the brood. It is also deadly to humans and other mammals.
Luckily a good hive will clean out the victims quickly and control the spread of the disease.
Bee viruses
There are a number of bee viruses including Acute bee paralysis virus (ABPV) or (APV) that are associated with Colony Collapse Disorder. These Dicistroviridae viruses have many forms. The actual connection to Colony Collapse disorder is not quite confirmed at this time although there is some evidence that there is a connection.
There's not much you can do about a virus. Either colony dies or it doesn't.
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
Colony Collapse Disorder is a mysterious disorder. It is not classified as disease because the causal nature of the disorder is not proven, yet. It is a reference to the drastic increase in the number of colonies that just disappear. In a matter of weeks, sometimes a few days, the entire hive just wanders off and is presumed dead. The queen and some brood remain, but not enough to support the hive. The colony dies. There are no dead bees around the colony so it is hard to say what happened.
The disorder is associate with Varroa Mites, Nosema and other diseases, and is especially associated with a Dicistroviridae viruses. There have been some rumors that CCD is caused by a Dicistroviridae virus, but the final decision has not been verified, at least not officially.
Bee colonies are at a tremendous risk, especially to CCD. This is one reason why it is important for novice beekeepers like myself get into this on a hobby basis. The world needs its beehives. Professional beekeepers need all the backup they can get. Being an amateur pours money into the bee industry as the demand for bees goes up. We are helping to keep the bee infrastructure going while increasing the number of colonies.
I just hope my bees make it through the first months and I have something to be proud of this time next year.


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